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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"Police-community relations"”.
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Exploring Police-Community Relations Through Homicide.
… worldwide. This thesis investigates how police-community relations influence the homicide clearance rate and cold case homicide investigations. Using a mixed-methods approach, it draws on two studies: in-depth interviews with stakeholders (police officers, victims’ families, and victim …
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Social media and police-community relations: A case study of the Namibian police force's Facebook page
… page found the page useful from the purview of police-community relations; to determine if there is a difference in perception of police-community relations between those who have “liked” the page and those who have not liked the page; to determine if demographic variables impacted respondents' …
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‘Over, under and through the walls’: The dynamics of public security, police-community relations and the limits of managerialism in crime control in Recife, Brazil
… few studies have examined this programme, the relations between urban marginalised communities and the public security system in Recife, or how the daily experiences of the urban poor in Recife are affected by violence and public security provision. This dissertation addresses this gap in the …
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Culture clash: Making the case for a new paradigm in police cultural training
Hiring standards in most police agencies result in most officer candidates having little, if any, meaningful exposure to the "oppositional" culture of the urban, minority poor. Given the current popularity of the Community Oriented Policing paradigm---with its emphasis on positive police/community …
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Qualitative Exploration of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) and Creation of Informed Police Officer Training in Canada
… with the criminal justice system (CJS) and police officers as victims, witnesses, and suspects/accused parties (McLachlan et al., 2019). Within the Ontario, Canada, context, my overarching interdisciplinary research question asks: How can the experiences of justice-involved individuals with …
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Building bridges and solving crimes? A critical examination of how police use the new aged technology of social media - Specifically facebook
… many law enforcement officials -- specifically police -- have taken notice. Recently, this has translated into police departments nationwide adopting Facebook in their daily efforts to improve police performance. Extensive reports from news media outlets have documented the assortment of uses …
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Barriers to Trust Between Police and Disadvantaged Communities: A Comparative Analysis of Officers' and Residents' Perspectives in San Antonio, Texas
Trust between police officers and residents of disadvantaged communities remains a critical issue in contemporary policing. This study explores the barriers preventing trust between law enforcement officers and residents in San Antonio, Texas, using a qualitative comparative analysis of …
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COP TOPICS: TOPIC MODELING-ASSISTED DISCOVERIES OF POLICE-RELATED THEMES IN AFRICAN-AMERICAN JOURNALISTIC TEXTS
… killings of African-American men by police officers during the past several years have highlighted longstanding strained police-community relations. As part of its role as both a reflection of, and an advocate for, the African-American community, African-American journalistic texts …
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Battle of the Corner: Urban Policing and Rioting in the United States, 1943-1971
… States, 1943-1971 provides a national history of police reform and police-citizen conflicts in marginalized urban neighborhoods in the three decades after World War II. Examining more than a dozen cities, the dissertation shows how big-city police brass and downtown-friendly municipal elites in …
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Crisis public relations : how law enforcement agencies responded to the sniper attacks of 2002
… of the media, the public, and the criminal community. How did law enforcement use public relations to help in its case? What crisis plan did Montgomery County, Maryland, the lead investigating department, implement? The goal of this research was to examine the crisis management plan of law …
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Community perceptions of South African Police Service responses to substance use and the impacts on health and well-being of community leaders and substance users in a peri-urban community in Cape Town.
… substance use and a history of violent police interventions in communities, reflect ineffective policing. Reports frequently highlight corrupt policing and police involvement in crime syndicates within communities, particularly in low-income areas. These challenges and dynamics …
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Analysis of administrative feasibility of the appointment of community service officers
Thesis (M.S.)--Michigan State University, 1969
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An analysis of innovation programmes in Wales along a ‘hard – soft’ policy continuum : a case study approach
The thesis context is a Welsh innovation policy continuum. The research is primarily located in three innovation programmes representative of innovation policy in Wales. The representative programmes are: the Technium network; Innovation Network Partnership; and Communities First project. The …
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University student perceptions of body-worn cameras
… were measured for to determine their relationship with student perceptions. Findings indicated that respondents held positive attitudes of body-worn cameras. Perceived inequality in the use of force and major emerged as significant predictors of the level of support for body-worn …
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Environmental determinism and the existence of citizen oversight of the police
Developments in citizen oversight of the police have not gone unnoticed by policing scholars. Though the concept has been controversial and heavily debated, noticeable increases in these mechanisms are evident on both national and international levels, especially in the most populated metropolitan …
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Leadership in community oriented policing
Police and the community--COP program.
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Overcoming communications barriers in local government: Establishing networks through the public management forum
… between civilian government agencies and police departments -- Community-policing.
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Overcoming communications barriers in local government: Establishing networks through the public management forum
… between civilian government agencies and police departments -- Community-policing.
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