By Carl B. Klockars
How will we improve police integrity? The authors surveyed over 3000 cops from 30 U.S. police departments on how they'd reply to regular situations the place integrity is challenged. They studied 3 police enterprises which scored hugely at the integrity scale: Charlotte-Mecklenburg, North Carolina; Charleston, South Carolina; and St. Petersburg, Florida.
The authors finish that improving police integrity is going way past culling out "bad apple" law enforcement officials. Police directors should still concentrate on 4 facets: organizational rulemaking; detecting, investigating and disciplining rule violations; circumscribing the casual "code of silence" that prohibits police from reporting the misconduct in their colleagues; and knowing the impact of public expectancies and enterprise history.
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The second is that it advises police administrators what to do, depending on the answers they receive. 1. They form the general theoretical outline of this book. They are not only what we think police chiefs ought to know and do about police integrity; they are also what an organizational theory of police integrity advises us to learn and 18 Although this understanding is the tacit assumption of virtually all historical studies of police, it received, to our knowledge, its first systematic exploration by A.
In one instance we completed a survey of an agency, but before the questionnaires could be returned to us a union official came into the office of the liaison that had collected them and demanded that they be destroyed immediately and before his eyes. Our assumption is that many if not all of these agencies refused to participate because they believed they had something to hide. Fear of revealing something untoward was a serious concern to these agencies despite the fact that we assured them we would keep their participation confidential, assured all individual respondents of anonymity, and asked only about opinions and nothing about actual conduct or misconduct.
Petersburg only in terms of the severity of discipline that officers in each agency expect and find appropriate. Overall, with respect to severity of discipline officers believed they would receive in their agency for the behavior described in the scenarios Charleston ranked in 1st place out of the thirty agencies surveyed, Charlotte-Mecklenburg ranked in a twoway tie for 11th place, and St. Petersburg in a three-way tie for 4th place. On the discipline officers thought should be given for the behavior described in the scenarios Charleston again ranked in 1st place out of the thirty agencies surveyed, CharlotteMecklenburg ranked in a four way tie for 8th place, and St.
