Jonathan DiBartolo 001201920
One Centralized Police Force The number of law enforcement agencies that we have in our government is so great that they cant help but over-lap when it comes to their jurisdiction. With anywhere from 20,000 to 25,000 different agencies that they bump head to head when it comes to cases. All the agencies come from different levels: local, county, state, federal and tribal agencies. It is a problem because if the agencies are fighting over who has control of the crime scene and all their different techniques when it comes to solving crime, they will be inefficient when it comes to solving the crime. There should be a single law enforcement agency within all fifty states. “A centralized organization
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The efficiency comes from the resources that are split up to every law enforcement organization in America. Some agencies receive more resources and money than others, which result in a more efficient organization, but the law enforcement organizations that don’t receive that much money and resources, they are not as efficient. Decentralization is causing a great difference between rich and poor regions, and this occurs more vividly when it is a time of crisis. Another disadvantage of a decentralized police force is it allows for the possibility of a corrupt police force to rise. Officials can take the opportunity of a small local organization and just allocate more and more power to him or …show more content…
Than it should branch off to one person in charge of different general divisions of law enforcement. As it gets more specialized as you go down in the ranks, there will be more and more officers and other agents. No division would have its own policy and everyone reports back to their hierarchies. The man or woman in charge would be able to send out general instruction to the men and women below him to do certain tasks. To prevent one man or woman from having to much control of the centralized law enforcement agency, the leader should be elected in by the people but the person running for the role must meet a set of requirements that the organization CALEA would set forth for the person to be in charge. A centralized law enforcement agency would be the best choice to go with for crime prevention and keeping or country and citezens safe. The efficiency of the organization would be a lot better than with the 20,000 law enforcement agencies we currently have in our government at the moment. Jurisdiction, conflicting policies and discrimination in fundings would no longer be a problem. Criminals will have no where to hide when the agencies can work together more easily to find them and prosecute them to the fullest extent of the
Given the tremendous variation in size and location of law enforcement agencies across the country, is the National Incident Management System feasible or is it simply a model to be adapted to local circumstances?
...nt to work together has increased. It has become more common place for federal law enforcement to work with local law enforcement. The monetary influence from programs administered by the Executive Branch with such programs as COPS, helps bring new technologies to local police agencies, thus impacting policing. Moreover, the federal law enforcement’s creation of new crime fighting technologies, eventually make their way into the state and local police departments. This supports the idea that both the Legislative and Executive Branches influence law enforcement; however, the Executive Branch provides a more direct and active influence.
There are several ways police departments can take to reduce police corruption. The three areas I think should change are the training officers in how to diminish abuse, improving the personal character of officers, and incentives program. The Los Angeles Sheriff Department is the largest law enforcement agency in the United States under the leadership of Chief Leroy D. Baca, now retired. The Sheriff Department has about 18,050 employees with an annual budget of $2.5 billion, according to http://sheriff.lacounty.gov. The Sheriff’s Department serves the Superior Court of Los Angeles County and also manages the county jails.
Reformers wanted to stray away from political influences and believed that policing should be in the control of police executives (Peak, 2015). While the Political era’s goal was social services, the Reform Era began to shift policing to controlling crime. In addition, the police organizations were reorganized through the study of scientific theory of administration advocated by Fredrick Taylor, which led to the development of maximizing police efficiency (Peak, 2015). To improve professionalism within police departments, O.W. Wilson began emulating what J. Edgar Hoover did with the FBI. In 1924, the FBI director began to raise eligibility standards to develop an incorruptible force. As a result, it had a direct influence on local police agencies by placing emphasis on education, training, honesty and professionalism. Professionalism in police departments came about in the form of new Technological advances and a focus on crime fighting. During this period there were three major advances in technology: two-way radio, police cars and the telephone. Unlike the problems faced during the political era, the advent of these technologies changed everything. With two-way radios, supervisors now had the capability to notify patrol officers of calls and maintain accountability. Patrol cars allowed for greater mobility, which led to officers responding to calls more efficiently. Then telephones allowed for citizens to have a direct line to the police and were encouraged to call for any problem. However, while the advances in technology greatly increased police efficiency, it had unexpected consequences. In contrast, during the political era, officers patrolled on foot, which allowed them to engage citizens and develop a relationship within the community. With the use of police cars, officers no
That society laws were invented to protect them from those who would choose not to behave in a manner that society deems fit. As time has passed our law enforcement officers have changed and evolved to adapt to our society as it has changed and evolved. In this paper we will take a look into problems that could arise from traditional thinking officers and supervisors still working in the organization from the case study. We will use the seven elements of police organizational structure described in our chapter, and answer where it appears that this would be needed to reorganize an agency, and especially to accommodate COPPS. We will try to anticipate that the officers’ workload would be reduced or increased under the new COPPS strategy. We
The professionalization of law enforcement gained prominence from the 1940’s through the 1970’s. It came out of a necessity to improve the capabilities of police. It was believed that the improvement of organizations through better quality personnel, upgraded equipment, and standardized procedures would lead to better departments and that would lead to safer cities. Numerous research studies showed that the move to professionalize law enforcement through a higher standard of efficiency led to a detachment of police from the communities they served. Many departments began to focus on response times and quantities of arrests, etc. This led to a diminished effectiveness of police in meeting the expectations of the communities they
Policy agencies go "hand in hand" with the chain of command structure and nearly all of the law enforcement agencies today are set up that way. In my opinion, the chain of command is important as it designs a hierarchy of who is running and responsible for the department. Furthermore, without a chain of command, it would not make much sense to place a new police officer in charge when he or she does not have any experience. Thus, the chain of command is designed to grow patrol officers in a way to gradually give them more and more responsibility and build experience before they are placed in a supervisory position.
More police officers doesn’t mean less crime because many of the crimes committed such as burglary, robbery, auto theft, larceny and vandalism which are preventable cannot be prevented if the response time is too slow. Even though more officers were on the job, even the fasted response had little influence of crime since the crime reports made came a significant time after the actually occurrence ,therefore flawing even the fastest police response.
As a newly elected sheriff of my county I would structure a narcotics unit that is sufficient for the jurisdiction, as well as, accommodates the two major Interstate roads and the other country that borders the county. The United States is limited by national boundaries to what can be done about drug trafficking (Abadinsky, 2014).
The federal law enforcement agencies has sixty-five federal agencies and twenty-seven offices of inspectors that employ full time jobs that are able to arrest and carry firearms. The largest employers of the federal agencies are U.S. Custom and Border Protection, FBI, and the U.S. Immigration and Customs, with over 15,000 full-time law enforcement. State and Local law enforcement agencies have more than 17,000 agencies in the United States. The local law enforcement would be Local police who cover your local town and city limits. They only have the responsibility for your jurisdiction, patrol, local crimes in city limits. The Deputy Sheriffs are granted the authority by the state to enforce the local and state laws. When enforcing the laws they are taking the state laws and enforcing them at a local level. Deputies run the local jail, courtrooms, serve warrants, and responds to calls that are outside of the local police limits. Deputies also have many parts of serving in the courtroom as bailiff, and the officer that served the warrant. The State Highway Patrol are able to perform with your local police and any statewide investigations. State Highway Patrol cover highway patrol and statewide investigation and anything that happens within the state limits. Highway Patrol are also the main law enforcement officers that will be at the scene of an accident to report
It is necessary for different ranking levels to resolve issues. For example, the “Chief” of an organization does not always have time to answer all of the little questions or deal with every issue. When there is a chain of command, the lower level employees can utilize the chain of command to help resolve issues in a timely manner. Without this structure, employees would “flood” the “chief” with all of the issues, and the supervisors will be kept out of the loop of what’s going on. Nevertheless, I believe the paramilitary structure will work in policing for the reasons, information flows up the chain of command from the street officer to the police administration and orders and commands flow down the chain to the street officer. The chain of command and the paramilitary structure have been retained, regardless to the complexity of the police bureaucracy. Therefore, no matter how defined the hierarchy is or how flat the structure is, the goal was to be more consistent with community-oriented policing (Travis,
In our times, the police have become the criminals. Some police are using their power to do bad things, and society has come to fear police. The law enforcement system needs change. The courts have failed the police, and the police have turn to other means of justice. We must stop the corruption in the police force.
...epend on them to find the individual or to crack down on the group. A great example of this is in Israel, with fighting militant groups like Hamas. Groups like this receive funds from other countries all around the world that support terrorism. An international police force could more easily gather information on the group and also serve as a barrier between the Israelis and Palestinians. This organization would be much like the United Nations, but instead of politics and an army it would be a world police force that could actually go in and arrest individuals and put them on trial in front of the world.
The way that people can see if police work is really being enforced and working efficiently is when there is an absence of crime in the community. People believe that seeing police working on a cine after the matter, and solving that crime that was committed is the way to measure the efficiency of the police, when the fact of the matter is that being able to deteriorate crime and not have to respond to criminal activity is when you know that the police are doing what is necessary to maintain order en establish the peace to the
Community policing is a policy and a strategy aimed at achieving more effective and efficient crime control, reduced fear of crime, improved quality of life, improved police services and police legitimacy, through a proactive reliance on community resources that seeks to change crime causing conditions. This assumes a need for greater accountability of police, greater public share in decision-making and greater concern for civil rights and liberties.