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Book SynopsisThere is not a single place in America where police and the community they serve do not exist side by side. America has always been the gold standard of democracy and freedom in the world. It has also been valued as that place where equal justice under the law is the rule and not the exception. While the nation is great in so many ways, it is not perfect. “We the people” continue to be challenged in two significant areas of development. One is in matters of “race” and the other is in the matters of “policing.” The issues of “race and policing” continue to lie at the center of our nation’s struggle to “form a more perfect union.” This book, Constitutional Policing: Striving for a More Perfect Union, examines the issues of policing in America and the pathways to achieve a level of constitutional policing that begins to address how our diverse nation and the communities we live in can become safer, more equitable, more respectful of our differences. The chapters in this book detail the legal challenges that will have to be engaged in if there is any hope of our communities becoming places where we truly are engaging the possibilities of government “of people, by the people, for the people.”Table of ContentsTable of Contents:Part I: Foundations1. Qualified Immunity, Wylie Stecklow2. Administrative Complaints Against Police, Rita McNeil Danish3. Accountability of Police as Public Employees, James Hanks4. Constitutional Policing, Royce RussellPart II: Effecting Positive Changes Toward a More Perfect Union5. Contemporary Civilian Oversight of Law Enforcement, Sharon R. Fairley6. Pattern or Practice Investigations and Consent Decrees, Michael A. Hardy7. Litigating Police-Civilian Encounters, William Harmening8. Transforming Policing: Lessons from New York City, Donna LiebermanAfterword: The Most Perfect Union Protects and Serves Us All, Jelani Jefferson ExumIndex

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Book SynopsisThis volume of Opinions Throughout History takes a look at the history and philosophy of policing in America from the vigilante slave catchers of the American South, to the first modern police departments of the Northeast, to the drug war of the 1980s and 1990s.

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Book SynopsisGathering and analyzing of information is a responsibility that police intelligence units are thought to do in relative isolation. Intelligence work in the United States and Europe, however, has been significantly transformed in recent years into a more collaborative process that melds the police with a mix of outsiders to make the practice of acquiring and assessing information more democratic. This volume examines how this partnership paradigm has transformed the ways in which participants gather, analyze and use intelligence for security problems ranging from petty nuisances and violent crimes to urban riots, organized crime and terrorism.The book's expert contributors provide a comparative look at police intelligence by exploring how emerging collaborative ventures have reshaped the way police define and prioritize public safety concerns. The book compares local security partnerships in both centralized and decentralized systems, presenting an unparalleled discussion of police intelligence not only in the English-speaking world, but also in countries like Germany and France, whose adoption of this collaborative paradigm has seldom been studied. Ultimately, this book provides a timely debate about the effectiveness of intelligence gathering tactics and the legitimacy of police tactics and related procedural justice concerns. Because this book situates itself at the intersection of several disciplines, it will find an audience in multiple fields. Its diverse readership includes scholars and students of policing and security studies in law schools, criminal justice programs and political science and sociology departments. Other significant audiences will include professionals and researchers in comparative law, comparative criminal procedure and the study of law and society.Contributors include: H. Aden, A. Barker, A. Crawford, J. de Maillard, T. Delpeuch, R. Epstein, J.A. Fagan, J. Gauthier, F. Lemieux, P. Manning, T.T. Meares, C. Mouhanna, C. Perras, J.E. Ross, S.J. Schulhofer, W.G. Skogan, N. Tilley, T. TyleTable of ContentsContents: I. INTRODUCTION 1. Introduction: The Collaborative Analysis of Intelligence Thierry Delpeuch and Jacqueline E. Ross PART II NETWORKS OPEN TO PARTICIPANTS OUTSIDE OF LAW ENFORCEMENT: THE INFLUENCE OF LOCAL SECURITY PARTNERSHIPS ON INTELLIGENCE ANALYSIS 2. Beat Meetings, Responsiveness to the Community, and Police Effectiveness in Chicago Wesley G. Skogan 3. The Joint Production of Intelligence in Local Security Partnerships: French Initiatives in Local Risk Management Thierry Delpeuch, Renaud Epstein and Jacqueline Ross 4. Information as a Form of Democratic Participation in Policing: Some Critical Reflections on the Role and Use of Online Crime Maps in the United Kingdom Anna Barker 5. The English and Welsh Experiment in Democratic Governance of Policing through Police and Crime Commissioners: a Misconceived Venture or a Good Idea, Badly Implemented? Adam Crawford 6. Intelligence-led Policing and the Disruption of Organized Crime: Motifs, Methods and Morals Nick Tilley 7. Democratic Policing: Case Working and Intelligence Peter Manning PART III POLICE TACTICS, LEGITIMACY, AND INTELLIGENCE 8. Street Stops and Police Legitimacy in New York Jeffrey Fagan, Tom R. Tyler and Tracy T. Meares 9. Enhancing Effectiveness in Counterterrorism Policing Stephen J. Schulhofer 10. Cultural Profiling? Police Prevention and Minorities in Berlin Jérémie Gauthier 11. Governing the Police by Numbers: The French Experience Jacques de Maillard and Christian Mouhanna PART IV “CLOSED” PARTNERSHIPS OPEN ONLY TO LAW ENFORCEMENT PROFESSIONALS: INTERNATIONAL SECURITY NETWORKS 12. Within Transnational Policing Systems: integration and adaptation mechanisms used by foreign liaison officers deployed in Washington DC Frederic Lemieux and Chantal Perras 13. The Role of Trust in the Exchange of Police Information in the European Multilevel System Hartmut Aden PART V CONCLUSION 14. A Pluralist Perspective on Intelligence Regimes Thierry Delpeuch and Jacqueline E. Ross Index

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Book SynopsisPublic police forces are a regular phenomenon in most jurisdictions around the world, yet their highly divergent legal context draws surprisingly little attention. Bringing together a wide range of police experts from all around the world, this book provides an overview of traditional and emerging fields of public policing.In this handbook, academics and practitioners explore the relationship between policing and the law and focus on case material and human rights issues. The book concludes that public policing is far from self-evident, particularly in an era where more emphasis is placed upon private security, anti-terrorism and modern technology. As digital and global societies demand new solutions to rapidly changing social challenges, public police will undergo a transformation.New material and findings are presented with an international-comparative perspective. It is a must-read for students of policing, security and law and professionals in related fields. Contributors include: F. Allum, P. de Hert, W. de Lint, M. den Boer, M. Egan, E. Ferreira, N.R. Fyfe, S. Gilmour, S. Gomes, C. Harfield, M. Hassan, M. Head, V. Herrington, S. Hufnagel, A. James, T. Mankkinen, P.K. Manning, R. Mawby, T. Munk, M. O'Neill, S. Perez, A. Pocrnic, J. Saifert, J.A. Schafer, C. Shearing, P. Stenning, M. van der Woude, S. Virta, T. Xu, N. YangTrade Review'This is a superb collection. Edited by one of the leading lights of applied research on policing, it brings together many of the top police comparativists of the past 30 years. From multi-agency to undercover policing, via data collection and terrorism, the widest range of topics is expertly assessed from the perspective of comparative police regulation. A 'must read' in the first truly global era of police research.' --Neil Walker, University of Edinburgh, UK'This impressive collection of essays is valuable for both scholars and practitioners alike, lawyers and non-lawyers - the well qualified contributors range over the whole complex and problematic field of police cooperation. The clear synthesis of the issues by Monica Den Boer in the introduction is a tour de force.' --Malcolm Anderson, The University of Edinburgh, UKTable of ContentsContents: Foreword Monica den Boer Introduction Monica den Boer Part I: Models of Policing from a Legal-Comparative Perspective 1. A Comparative Legal History of International Policing Saskia Hufnagel 2. Governing Plural Policing Provision: Legal Perspectives, Challenges and Ideas Philip C. Stenning and Clifford Shearing 3. An International Comparison of Police Systems in a Legal Context Rob Mawby 4. Living Law in Public Order: Trust, Risk, Dominion and Universality Willem de Lint and Adam Pocrnic 5. Modern Criminal Investigation from a Legal Comparative Perspective Martin O’Neill 6. Intelligence-Led Policing: Comparing National Approaches to its Regulation and Control Adrian James 7. Undercover Policing – A Legal Comparative Perspective Clive Harfield Part II: A Comparative Overview of New Issues in Policing 8. Policing Terrorism, Extremism and Radicalization: A Legal-Comparative Perspective Monica den Boer, Tarja Mankkinen and Sirpa Virta 9. Policing Organized Crime: Legal Norms in the National and International Context Felia Allum and Stan Gilmour 10. Policing Illicit Financial Flows: Multi-Agency Co-operation and Legal Developments Mo Egan 11. Policing Virtual Spaces: Public and Private Online Challenges in a Legal Perspective Tine Munk 12. Border Policing in Europe and Beyond: Legal and International Issues Maartje van der Woude 13. A Legal Perspective on Extraterritorial Policing Maira Hassan 14. Technology, Law and Policing Peter K. Manning 15. Police, Privacy and Data Protection from a Comparative Legal Perspective Paul de Hert and Juraj Saifert Part III: Police Organizations from a Comparative Perspective 16. Legal Perspectives on the Growing Militarization of Domestic Security and Policing Michael Head 17. Policing and Society: a Legal Perspective on Gender in Police Organizations Monica den Boer and Saskia Hufnagel 18. Chinese Policing: Its History from a Legal Perspective Tao Xu and Nan Yang 19. Police Recruitment and Training in Democratic Societies: A Socio-Legal Comparative Perspective Eduardo Ferreira, Silia Gomes and Sandra Perez 20. Police research, evidence-based policing and police-academic partnerships in national jurisdictions Nicholas R. Fyfe 21. Police Leadership: A Comparative Consideration of Legislative Imperatives in the United Kingdom, Australia, and the United States Victoria Herrington and Joseph A. Schafer 22. Police Oversight and Accountability in a Comparative Perspective Monica den BoerPage Index

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Book SynopsisThis volume in the series Sociology of Crime, Law, and Deviance edited by Mathieu Deflem addresses contemporary issues of policing with a focus on the characteristics of police power as a coercive force in society and its continued need for legitimacy in a democratic social order. The book brings scholars together to discuss a variety of important topics concerning police and policing. Developments and problems associated with police power are at the very front of current public debate. In the broader constellation of the culture of modern crime control, police institutions enjoy a privileged status. Continued developments in technology and surveillance have affected policing as have continued and new crime problems. Not least of all, of course, the legitimacy of policing has recently been questioned because of several highly-publicized incidents involving police violence. The chapters in this book provide clarification on these and related aspects of police and policing in society. This collection is valuable for students and scholars in sociology, criminology, law, political science, and public policy.Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Perpetual Politics of Policing PART I: THEORIES AND PRACTICES OF POLICE LEGITIMACY Fair Policing from the Inside Out - Maarten Van Craen Enhancing Police Legitimacy by Promoting Safety Culture - Jordan C. Pickering and David A. Klinger Policing Through Third Parties: Increasing Coercion or Improving Legitimacy? - Janet Ransley Three Pillars of Police Legitimacy: Procedural Justice, Use of Force, and Occupational Culture - William Terrill, Eugene A. Paoline Iii and Jacinta M. Gau PART II: POLICE LEGITIMACY ACROSS THE GLOBE Conservatives and the Constabulary in Great Britain: Cross-Dressing Conundrums - Robert Reiner Investigations on the Legitimacy of the Swiss Police: Actual Debates and Empirical Evidence - Silvia Staubli Politicization and Legitimacy of Police in India - Arvind Verma Explaining Police Attitudes Toward the Use of Force: the Case of Buenos Aires - Nicole E. Haas Improving Police Legitimacy by Measuring All That Matters: Reflections from the United States and France - Jack R. Greene, Christian Mouhanna, Sema A. Taheri and David Squier Jones PART III: THE CASE OF RACE Mental Illness, Race, and Policing - Melissa Thompson, Kimberly Barsamian Kahn, Jean Mcmahon and Madeline O’Neil Police Shootings in Black and White: Exploring Newspaper Coverage of Officer-Involved Shootings - Charles F. Klahm Iv, Jordan Papp and Laura Rubino Paradise Lost: White Flight and the Construction of a Criminogenic Origin Myth - Aaron Roussell and Jason Dunbar PART IV: POLICE TECHNOLOGY AND ORGANIZATION Citizen Journalism and Police Legitimacy: Does Recording the Police Make a Difference? - Ashley K. Farmer and Ivan Y. Sun Watching the Watchers: Theorizing Cops, Cameras, and Police Legitimacy in the 21st Century - Kirk Miller The Politics of Private Policing: No Force and No Legitimacy? - Massimiliano Mulone The Triangle of Recruitment, Selection, and Training in 21st Century Policing - Maria Haberfeld

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Book SynopsisNeed cheering up? How about a nostalgic trip back to the 1970s with a different perspective? Follow the true story of two young yet disparate Brits as they venture east to Hong Kong to join the colonial police out there. Initially bought-in to the adventure, bright lights and the hedonistic pleasures of the Exotic East, Alan and Bob are thrown into a world somewhat divergent to the picture painted whilst under training. They begin to butt heads with corruption, colonial excess, privilege and protectionism and run into connivers, skivers and survivors. The story follows the two young, relatively naive men along their journey from their eight-month police training to their posts as policemen. It is filled with colourful incidents and exotic tales, with liberal doses of tongue in cheek humour and literary licence thrown in, you'll scarcely believe what they encountered.

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Book SynopsisThe police force in Ireland - known as the Gardai - are required to combine technical and legal proficiency in the prevention and detection of crime. Expected to intervene in every kind of emergency, Gardai investigate a diverse array of offenses, combining skills in crowd control, crime scene management, intelligence-gathering, and the collection and analysis of forensic evidence. In order to fulfil their various functions, the Gardai are vested with an extraordinary array of powers - powers which facilitate surveillance; the taking of forensic samples; photographs and fingerprints; stopping, searching, and arresting individuals; as well as searching homes and vehicles. Suspects are detained and questioned, children are taken into emergency care, mentally ill persons are taken into custody. Each situation is not only complicated on a human level, but on a legal level as well, as the powers exercised intersect with constitutional and legal rights to liberty, privacy, bodily integrity, freedom of association, and expression. In England and Wales, the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 is accompanied by extensive PACE Codes of Conduct. There is a core framework of police powers and safeguards - clearly laid out - around stop and search, arrest, detention, investigation, identification, and interviewing detainees. However, in Ireland, an unwieldy array of legislation and case-law must be sifted through to decipher the applicable principles. The pace of legislative change in Irish criminal justice, combined with the practice of amending Acts piecemeal rather than by consolidation, makes identification of the extent and scope of the powers of the Gardai a challenge which is grappled with by Gardai and legal practitioners alike. This book examines Garda powers and the legal issues which arise in their exercise, with an emphasis on the practicalities of policing. The law is distilled to determine the origin of key powers and the pre-requisites and practical aspects of their lawful exercise. The approaches of the courts and police forces of other common-law jurisdictions to particular policing questions are considered. Best practice guidance has been incorporated, grounded in human rights principles and international standards.

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Book SynopsisThis is one of Scandinavia's top crime writers in the tradition of Henning Mankell. It was one of those days in February of which there are far too many, despite its being the shortest month of the year. February is the year's parenthesis. The tax forms have already been sent in and the tourist season has not yet started: there is nothing on the schedule. Greyish-brown slush lay in the gutters and the hills around the city were barely visible through the fog. Like the golden buttons on the waistcoat of a forgotten snowman, you could just make out the lights of the funicular up the hillside and the street lamps were lit even in the middle of the day...In this crime drama detective Varg Veum's adventures lead him into a dark world of privileged teenage girls who have been drawn into drugs and prostitution. The situation worsens when the local judge is discovered in a luxury hotel, dead and clad only in women's lingerie. Called in by anxious parents to look for a missing daughter and explain the judge's death, Varg finds clues that lead him only deeper into Bergen's criminal underworld.Trade Review"'An intriguing reworking of an old idea' Time Out"

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Book SynopsisPolicing is at a crossroads. At a time of unprecedented cuts and increasing levels of demand, the British police service (like many others) faces enormous challenges. Under the most radical reforms the service has ever experienced, its leadership is looking for new approaches that can maintain levels of service delivery and secure efficiency, accountability and public confidence. Recent history shows that applying private sector business models to the public sector often generates hidden costs and unintended consequences that damage productivity and morale. In spite of this evidence, reform programmes and prevailing management practices still seek to enforce approaches that have demonstrably failed. In Intelligent Policing, Simon Guilfoyle proposes a simple and elegant solution that refocuses organisational activity on the service user. Drawing on his own experience as a police officer, he uses a range of evidence to explore the possibilities that systems thinking offers. He clearly outlines how a systems-based approach can bring greater efficiency, improved service delivery, enhanced morale and reduced cost. He shows that the practices and models proposed in the book can be implemented immediately and insists that senior police leaders and policy makers have an ideal opportunity to make lasting improvements today that will resonate throughout policing and leave a positive legacy for the future.. Intelligent Policing is a rich resource for those - in the UK and around the world - who care about delivering an effective policing service in the 21st Century. It will also interest systems theorists for its practical approach to policing and inform academic debate in the fields of management and human behaviour.Trade ReviewThis book could be game changing for the police service. Systems thinking theory can be viewed as complex and challenging, but not for Simon Guilfoyle. In this book he provides a comprehensive and cohesive explanation of the theory based on years of research and his practical experience of applying systems thinking in a policing context. This book provides you with everything you need to know to introduce systems thinking in your workplace, and to convince others to do so too!" Irene Curtis,(President of the Police Superintendents Association of England & Wales) "Traditionally, policing has been 'managed by default': officers are deployed with little heed paid to what they should do and how they should do it. They are usually just left to 'just get on with it'! However, there is much that the police do that they share with other organisations. Suspects need to be admitted into custody, interviewed, fingerprinted, whilst elsewhere witnesses may need to be identified and interviewed. This may entail a more or less complex array of officers and civil staff performing different, but interlocking activities. How can such routine activities be organised and managed better than they are? Simon Guilfoyle thinks he has the answer. This comes not just from a theoretical approach developed far from the streets where real officers must work, but from a fusion of theory and practical (but reflective and thoughtful) experience of policing. Simon Guilfoyle is both an academic and a practitioner, holding the rank of Inspector in the West Midlands Police in which he has served for 18 years. Written in an accessible and engaging style this book will provoke as well as inspire its readers. Those readers should not only be other police officers, but anyone with a professional interest in policing." P.A.J. Waddington, Professor of Social Policy, Hon. Director, Central Institute for the Study of Public Protection, The University of Wolverhampton "Simon Guilfoyle's book is the ultimate antidote to the tick-box culture that has spread through our public services like a computer virus in recent decades. However, whereas others merely point out the absurdities and distortions that may derive from unthinking application of performance targets but have no credible alternative, Guilfoyle has shown that the problem is targets not measurement. To demonstrate this, Guilfoyle takes the reader on a fascinating journey through the various techniques of managing quality from Deming onwards, showing how statistical process control can, through analysis of variations, tell us far more than targets which distort whatever they are intended to measure. What makes Guilfoyle's book different is that these concepts and theories are not only presented with a wealth of practical examples from policing and other fields, but the author's approach is itself developed from experience gained over many years as an operational police officer working and managing in one of the UK's most challenging urban environments. The book is thus no armchair polemic or technocratic discourse, but a set of principles, theories and techniques that have been tried and tested over years. What it shows is that there is no substitute for applying intelligence to the problem of quality in public service delivery, and that the shortcut that performance indicators appear to offer is an illusion that can have devastating consequences. Guilfoyle's book presents complex theories and techniques in a clear and engaging style that is accessible without being simplistic and is ideally suited to use on training courses as well as being an ideal textbook for public sector management. Although the book is primarily concerned with policing, its message and methods will be both relevant and revelatory for students of any field of public service and for public managers at any stage of their career." Dr Adrian Campbell, Head of Masters in Public Administration (MPA) programme,School of Government and Society, University of Birmingham "Simon is a 21st century police officer. He really cares about improving how the police perform their duties. His insights into Systems Thinking and Performance Measurement within UK Policing has developed a cult following within most of the national forces. This book distils and makes accessible Simon's acumen, expertise, empathy and mass of experience and conveys it humorously and articulately to show police officers, both frontline and commanding, that by applying these principles they can make the world a better place." Dr. Mark Johnson,Associate Professor of Operations Management, Assistant Dean (Executive Education). Systems Editor, International Journal of Physical Distribution and Logistics Management, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick "Simon Guilfoyle's Intelligent Policing will rightly attract the attention of police leaders and the policed public throughout the country. By describing his own experience, the lessons he draws should inspire every public service manager. Management is a simple activity that with the best of intentions most managers constantly make more difficult. But by thinking of organisations as systems, and focusing on purpose, demand and capacity, they give themselves the means of keeping it simple (not easy!). The good news is that using these principles managers can transform performance, morale and public perception by doing less of the bad stuff and more of the good. And not just at the top - at every level in the organisation. He did it - so can you." Simon Caulkin,Writer and Management commentator "Targets, MBO, cost-cutting and other misguided management behaviour is demotivating officers, destroying performance and eroding public confidence. In his book, Guilfoyle offers a comprehensive and compelling alternative that should be on every Senior Officer's agenda." Hazel J Cannon, Director of The Deming Forum "This book tears the faltering heart out of the way things have always been done and replaces it with a super-sleek, ultra refined approach that will leave many senior management chilled to their very bones! Inspector Simon Guilfoyle encourages managers, most of whom are stuck in a world of performance targets and knee-jerk priorities, to ditch their current belief systems and adopt a 'systems thinking' approach to their work. A proportionate, measured response will always reap far greater rewards than one born from uninformed management interference based on insufficient and inappropriate data. A real eye-opener for those who currently seek to prove their worth through the presentation of skewed statistics and re-invention of old policy. Bin the targets, acknowledge that there are some acceptable risks and empower your staff - just a few of the changes that might actually make a difference. I just hope that there are some out there who are brave enough to take up the challenge - " Minimum Cover, The Police Officer Blog http://minimumcover.wordpress.com/

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Book SynopsisPolice Misconduct is a comprehensive yet highly practical guide for practitioners and advisers covering the two major routes to remedying police misconduct: police complaints and civil actions in the courts. It equips the reader with the essentials for advising on the full range of procedures, strategies and tactics available and provides thorough procedural advice and step-by-step guidance from pre-issue considerations through to jury trial and appeal. There is detailed guidance on the most common torts - false imprisonment, malicious prosecution and misfeasance and clear analysis of developing causes of actions against the police such as negligence, privacy, discrimination and claims under the Human Rights Act 1998. Contents include: *The constitutional and organisational position of the police *Police complaints: overview, structure, initial stages, investigation and outcomes *Police disciplinary system *False imprisonment and deprivation of liberty *Personal injury, trespass to the person, and failure to protect from harm *Malicious prosecution and misuse of power *Land and property *Protest and freedom of speech *Information *Discrimination and vulnerable groups *Prosecutorial decisions *Bringing a claim against the police *Issue of proceedings to exchange of witness statements *The trial and appeals *Damages

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