Author: Renford Reese
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781594600203
Category : Police administration
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The most successful public sector leaders today are ones that have the capacity to lead internally and externally. They are able to see and understand the inherent contradictions in their multiple roles. For instance, appeasing the community with a more humanistic approach to policing, while getting tough on crime; giving the community a greater role in police affairs, but maintaining the autonomy to make unilateral decisions; supporting tough actions against bad cops to appease the community while steadfastly defending the rank and file. These are scenarios that are difficult for police chiefs to reconcile. This book examines how chiefs of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) have attempted to reconcile contradictory objectives. It explores the history of leadership in this famed police department, analyzing the leadership styles of its contemporary chiefs. This book explores the leader's capacity to walk the public leadership tightrope. This exercise is the most important task of any public sector leader. As one of the most highly profiled public agencies in the U.S., the LAPD has embraced many contradictions. The department has been a model of professionalism and misconduct. The LAPD has been at the center of many of the nation's most racially explosive experiences: the 1965 Watts riots, the Rodney King beating and subsequent 1992 riots, and the O.J. Simpson case. Additionally, the Rampart Scandal was one of the biggest police corruption scandals in the nation. Because of its proximity to Hollywood, the contradictory culture of the LAPD has been exposed in television and film. Indeed, America has become familiar with the LAPD through its periodic scandals and by its media and popular culture profile. Specifically written for students of criminal justice and public administration, this book examines the ways in which the LAPD's leaders have attempted to navigate crisis after crisis. The author uses interviews with thirty LAPD officers of various rankings and several Los Angeles residents to tell the LAPD story.
Leadership in the LAPD
Author: Renford Reese
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781594600203
Category : Police administration
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The most successful public sector leaders today are ones that have the capacity to lead internally and externally. They are able to see and understand the inherent contradictions in their multiple roles. For instance, appeasing the community with a more humanistic approach to policing, while getting tough on crime; giving the community a greater role in police affairs, but maintaining the autonomy to make unilateral decisions; supporting tough actions against bad cops to appease the community while steadfastly defending the rank and file. These are scenarios that are difficult for police chiefs to reconcile. This book examines how chiefs of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) have attempted to reconcile contradictory objectives. It explores the history of leadership in this famed police department, analyzing the leadership styles of its contemporary chiefs. This book explores the leader's capacity to walk the public leadership tightrope. This exercise is the most important task of any public sector leader. As one of the most highly profiled public agencies in the U.S., the LAPD has embraced many contradictions. The department has been a model of professionalism and misconduct. The LAPD has been at the center of many of the nation's most racially explosive experiences: the 1965 Watts riots, the Rodney King beating and subsequent 1992 riots, and the O.J. Simpson case. Additionally, the Rampart Scandal was one of the biggest police corruption scandals in the nation. Because of its proximity to Hollywood, the contradictory culture of the LAPD has been exposed in television and film. Indeed, America has become familiar with the LAPD through its periodic scandals and by its media and popular culture profile. Specifically written for students of criminal justice and public administration, this book examines the ways in which the LAPD's leaders have attempted to navigate crisis after crisis. The author uses interviews with thirty LAPD officers of various rankings and several Los Angeles residents to tell the LAPD story.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781594600203
Category : Police administration
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The most successful public sector leaders today are ones that have the capacity to lead internally and externally. They are able to see and understand the inherent contradictions in their multiple roles. For instance, appeasing the community with a more humanistic approach to policing, while getting tough on crime; giving the community a greater role in police affairs, but maintaining the autonomy to make unilateral decisions; supporting tough actions against bad cops to appease the community while steadfastly defending the rank and file. These are scenarios that are difficult for police chiefs to reconcile. This book examines how chiefs of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) have attempted to reconcile contradictory objectives. It explores the history of leadership in this famed police department, analyzing the leadership styles of its contemporary chiefs. This book explores the leader's capacity to walk the public leadership tightrope. This exercise is the most important task of any public sector leader. As one of the most highly profiled public agencies in the U.S., the LAPD has embraced many contradictions. The department has been a model of professionalism and misconduct. The LAPD has been at the center of many of the nation's most racially explosive experiences: the 1965 Watts riots, the Rodney King beating and subsequent 1992 riots, and the O.J. Simpson case. Additionally, the Rampart Scandal was one of the biggest police corruption scandals in the nation. Because of its proximity to Hollywood, the contradictory culture of the LAPD has been exposed in television and film. Indeed, America has become familiar with the LAPD through its periodic scandals and by its media and popular culture profile. Specifically written for students of criminal justice and public administration, this book examines the ways in which the LAPD's leaders have attempted to navigate crisis after crisis. The author uses interviews with thirty LAPD officers of various rankings and several Los Angeles residents to tell the LAPD story.
Training the 21st Century Police Officer
Author: Russell W. Glenn
Publisher: Rand Corporation
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Restructure the LAPD Training Group to allow the centralization of planning; instructor qualification, evaluation, and retention; and more efficient use of resources.
Publisher: Rand Corporation
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Restructure the LAPD Training Group to allow the centralization of planning; instructor qualification, evaluation, and retention; and more efficient use of resources.
Blue
Author: Joe Domanick
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1451641109
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
American policing is in crisis. Here, award-winning investigative journalist Joe Domanick reveals the troubled history of American policing over the past quarter century. He begins in the early 1990s with the beating of Rodney King and the L.A. riots, when the Los Angeles Police Department was caught between a corrupt and racist past and the demands of a rapidly changing urban population. Across the country, American cities faced similar challenges to law and order. In New York, William J. Bratton was spearheading the reorganization of the New York City Transit Police and later the 35,000-strong New York Police Department. His efforts resulted in a dramatic decrease in crime, yet introduced highly controversial policing strategies. In 2002, when Bratton was named the LAPD's new chief, he implemented the lessons learned in New York to change a department that previously had been impervious to reform. Blue ends in 2015 with the LAPD on its unfinished road to reform, as events in Los Angeles, New York, Baltimore, and Ferguson, Missouri, raise alarms about the very strategies Bratton pioneered, and about aggressive racial profiling and the militarization of police departments throughout the United States. Domanick tells his story through the lives of the people who lived it. Along with Bratton, he introduces William Parker, the legendary LAPD police chief; Tom Bradley, the first black mayor of Los Angeles; and Charlie Beck, the hard-nosed ex-gang cop who replaced Bratton as LAPD chief. The result is both intimate and expansive: a gripping narrative that asks big questions about what constitutes good and bad policing and how best to prevent crime, control police abuse, and ease tensions between the police and the powerless. Blue is not only a page-turning read but an essential addition to our scholarship.--Adapted from book jacket.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1451641109
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
American policing is in crisis. Here, award-winning investigative journalist Joe Domanick reveals the troubled history of American policing over the past quarter century. He begins in the early 1990s with the beating of Rodney King and the L.A. riots, when the Los Angeles Police Department was caught between a corrupt and racist past and the demands of a rapidly changing urban population. Across the country, American cities faced similar challenges to law and order. In New York, William J. Bratton was spearheading the reorganization of the New York City Transit Police and later the 35,000-strong New York Police Department. His efforts resulted in a dramatic decrease in crime, yet introduced highly controversial policing strategies. In 2002, when Bratton was named the LAPD's new chief, he implemented the lessons learned in New York to change a department that previously had been impervious to reform. Blue ends in 2015 with the LAPD on its unfinished road to reform, as events in Los Angeles, New York, Baltimore, and Ferguson, Missouri, raise alarms about the very strategies Bratton pioneered, and about aggressive racial profiling and the militarization of police departments throughout the United States. Domanick tells his story through the lives of the people who lived it. Along with Bratton, he introduces William Parker, the legendary LAPD police chief; Tom Bradley, the first black mayor of Los Angeles; and Charlie Beck, the hard-nosed ex-gang cop who replaced Bratton as LAPD chief. The result is both intimate and expansive: a gripping narrative that asks big questions about what constitutes good and bad policing and how best to prevent crime, control police abuse, and ease tensions between the police and the powerless. Blue is not only a page-turning read but an essential addition to our scholarship.--Adapted from book jacket.
Seven Highly Effective Police Leaders
Author: Brandon Kooi
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000465241
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 561
Book Description
This book provides a valuable addition to the policing literature by detailing the backgrounds and histories of seven important police leaders: Teddy Roosevelt, August Vollmer, O.W. Wilson, Penny Harrington, Bill Bratton, Chuck Ramsey, and Chris Magnus. Seven Highly Effective Police Leaders teaches important history, highlighting the impact on the evolution of American policing by academia and social science. Each historical biography demonstrates the importance of each leader’s decision-making and how it continues to shape the future of U.S. law enforcement. Readers are informed about each police leader’s background and how their leadership was shaped by the political and historical environments in which they led. The book is useful for educational courses in policing, American history, leadership, and strategic planning. Additionally, the general public will find this book insightful regarding contemporary mass social justice protests linked to the unique history of the United States.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000465241
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 561
Book Description
This book provides a valuable addition to the policing literature by detailing the backgrounds and histories of seven important police leaders: Teddy Roosevelt, August Vollmer, O.W. Wilson, Penny Harrington, Bill Bratton, Chuck Ramsey, and Chris Magnus. Seven Highly Effective Police Leaders teaches important history, highlighting the impact on the evolution of American policing by academia and social science. Each historical biography demonstrates the importance of each leader’s decision-making and how it continues to shape the future of U.S. law enforcement. Readers are informed about each police leader’s background and how their leadership was shaped by the political and historical environments in which they led. The book is useful for educational courses in policing, American history, leadership, and strategic planning. Additionally, the general public will find this book insightful regarding contemporary mass social justice protests linked to the unique history of the United States.
The Blue Morale Project
Author: Ronald Cohen
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781687620675
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
The product of a collaboration between a career police psychologist and a consulting psychologist, The Blue Morale Project: A Program to Cultivate High Morale in Law Enforcement Professionals is a book designed to shed much needed light on the nationwide crisis of morale currently being experienced by police officers and law enforcement personnel. The authors explore the factors underlying the problem from a socio-psychological perspective and outline a program that law enforcement agencies can implement to facilitate input on morale-related matters from all personnel. Advance copies of the manuscript were distributed for review to a sampling of police chiefs as well as current and former members of related agencies (ranging from the FBI to the District Attorney's office), and the reaction to this book and its promise of addressing morale-related issues has been very enthusiastic. Additionally, the morale-building program outlined in the book is complemented by a companion website (bluemorale.com) wherein registered members of the site can participate in online discussion forums dedicated to identifying concerns related to blue morale, and the brainstorming of viable strategies and solutions.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781687620675
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
The product of a collaboration between a career police psychologist and a consulting psychologist, The Blue Morale Project: A Program to Cultivate High Morale in Law Enforcement Professionals is a book designed to shed much needed light on the nationwide crisis of morale currently being experienced by police officers and law enforcement personnel. The authors explore the factors underlying the problem from a socio-psychological perspective and outline a program that law enforcement agencies can implement to facilitate input on morale-related matters from all personnel. Advance copies of the manuscript were distributed for review to a sampling of police chiefs as well as current and former members of related agencies (ranging from the FBI to the District Attorney's office), and the reaction to this book and its promise of addressing morale-related issues has been very enthusiastic. Additionally, the morale-building program outlined in the book is complemented by a companion website (bluemorale.com) wherein registered members of the site can participate in online discussion forums dedicated to identifying concerns related to blue morale, and the brainstorming of viable strategies and solutions.
Chief
Author: Daryl F. Gates
Publisher: Bantam
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 514
Book Description
The explosive New York Times bestseller by the tough, controversial former LAPD chief, whose career with the force spans such infamous cases as the Hillside Strangler, the Black Panthers, the Patty Hearst kidnapping, and the Robert Kennedy assassination. Includes a new chapter on the Rodney King beating and the recent L.A. riots. "A brisk, anecdotal story of a hot-tempered, stubborn, intelligent and unbelievably egotistical cop".--LA Times. Photos.
Publisher: Bantam
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 514
Book Description
The explosive New York Times bestseller by the tough, controversial former LAPD chief, whose career with the force spans such infamous cases as the Hillside Strangler, the Black Panthers, the Patty Hearst kidnapping, and the Robert Kennedy assassination. Includes a new chapter on the Rodney King beating and the recent L.A. riots. "A brisk, anecdotal story of a hot-tempered, stubborn, intelligent and unbelievably egotistical cop".--LA Times. Photos.
Leadership-as-Practice
Author: Joseph A. Raelin
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317408233
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
This book develops a new paradigm in the field of leadership studies, referred to as the "leadership-as-practice" (L-A-P) movement. Its essence is its conception of leadership as occurring as a practice rather than residing in the traits or behaviours of particular individuals. A practice is a coordinative effort among participants who choose through their own rules to achieve a distinctive outcome. It also tends to encompass routines as well as problem-solving or coping skills, often tacit, that are shared by a community. Accordingly, leadership-as-practice is less about what one person thinks or does and more about what people may accomplish together. It is thus concerned with how leadership emerges and unfolds through day-to-day experience. The social and material contingencies impacting the leadership constellation – the people who are effecting leadership at any given time – do not reside outside of leadership but are very much embedded within it. To find leadership, then, we must look to the practice within which it is occurring. The leadership-as-practice approach resonates with a number of closely related traditions, such as collective, shared, distributed, and relational leadership, that converge on leadership processes. These approaches share a line of inquiry that acknowledges leadership as a social phenomenon. The new focus opens up a plethora of research opportunities encouraging the study of social processes beyond influence, such as intersubjective agency, shared sense-making, dialogue, and co-construction of responsibilities.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317408233
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
This book develops a new paradigm in the field of leadership studies, referred to as the "leadership-as-practice" (L-A-P) movement. Its essence is its conception of leadership as occurring as a practice rather than residing in the traits or behaviours of particular individuals. A practice is a coordinative effort among participants who choose through their own rules to achieve a distinctive outcome. It also tends to encompass routines as well as problem-solving or coping skills, often tacit, that are shared by a community. Accordingly, leadership-as-practice is less about what one person thinks or does and more about what people may accomplish together. It is thus concerned with how leadership emerges and unfolds through day-to-day experience. The social and material contingencies impacting the leadership constellation – the people who are effecting leadership at any given time – do not reside outside of leadership but are very much embedded within it. To find leadership, then, we must look to the practice within which it is occurring. The leadership-as-practice approach resonates with a number of closely related traditions, such as collective, shared, distributed, and relational leadership, that converge on leadership processes. These approaches share a line of inquiry that acknowledges leadership as a social phenomenon. The new focus opens up a plethora of research opportunities encouraging the study of social processes beyond influence, such as intersubjective agency, shared sense-making, dialogue, and co-construction of responsibilities.
Official Negligence
Author: Lou Cannon
Publisher: Crown
ISBN:
Category : Current Events
Languages : en
Pages : 744
Book Description
How Rodney King and the riots changed Los Angeles and the LAPD.
Publisher: Crown
ISBN:
Category : Current Events
Languages : en
Pages : 744
Book Description
How Rodney King and the riots changed Los Angeles and the LAPD.
Guardians of Angels
Author: James A Bultema
Publisher: P.D. Publishing
ISBN: 9780997425147
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
For 150 years, LAPD officers have pinned on a badge, holstered a gun and traveled the corridors of history, leaving behind the rich traditions that are today's LAPD. Guardians of Angels is a penetrating history of the Los Angeles Police Department since 1850. Thoroughly researched over eight years, containing scores of interviews and illustrated with hundreds of rare photographs, this book details how the department evolved from six officers administering frontier justice to today's high-tech professionals. It brings to life the accomplishments and disappointments of the men and women who unselfishly gave of themselves as the Guardians of Angels.
Publisher: P.D. Publishing
ISBN: 9780997425147
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
For 150 years, LAPD officers have pinned on a badge, holstered a gun and traveled the corridors of history, leaving behind the rich traditions that are today's LAPD. Guardians of Angels is a penetrating history of the Los Angeles Police Department since 1850. Thoroughly researched over eight years, containing scores of interviews and illustrated with hundreds of rare photographs, this book details how the department evolved from six officers administering frontier justice to today's high-tech professionals. It brings to life the accomplishments and disappointments of the men and women who unselfishly gave of themselves as the Guardians of Angels.
Leadership Matters
Author: Craig Fischer
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781934485095
Category : Leadership
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781934485095
Category : Leadership
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description