Los Angeles Police Department meltdown : the fall of the professional-reform model of policing /

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Once considered among the most respected police departments in the world, the LAPD suffered a devastating fall from grace following the 1991 police officer beating of Rodney King and the Los Angeles riots stemming from the officers' acquittal in 1992. Unique to the literature of policing, manag...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Lasley, James R.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Boca Raton, FL : CRC Press, 2012.
Series:Advances in police theory and practice series ; 14.
Subjects:
Los Angeles (Calif.). > Police Department.
Los Angeles (Calif.). > Police Department
Police administration > California > Los Angeles.
Police > California > Los Angeles.
Police corruption > California > Los Angeles.
Corruption policière > Californie > Los Angeles.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Law Enforcement.
Police
Police administration
Police corruption
California > Los Angeles
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Parker's thin blue line: the professional/reform model of policing (PRM)
  • The study: a qualitative analysis of LAPD's organizational dying declarations
  • Assessing the meltdown
  • The Rodney King incident
  • Politicians, special interest groups, and community influences
  • Hiring, promotions & affirmative action
  • Management and administration
  • Quantitative analyses
  • Conclusions and policy recommendations.

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