Sheriffs' and police chiefs' leadership and management decisions in the local law enforcement budgetary process: an exploration

Improving Mandatory Firearms Training For Law Enforcement: An Autoethnographic Analysis of Illinois Law Enforcement Training

“…Nevertheless, the ideas that I present below are worthy of consideration for training programs which have not yet incorporated them. Before presenting these revisions, it is important to note that police reform in the United States is a decidedly uphill battle, given the relatively sacred status of law enforcement agencies that citizens and policymakers often ascribe to them (Coe & Wiesel, 2001;LaFrance & Placide, 2010).…”

The County Sheriff's Leadership and Management Decisions in the Local Budget Process Revisited

“…Some scholars have suggested that the military model of policing, in which managers operate in a relatively closed system, is not an accurate depiction of real-world police leadership (Cowper, 2000;Falcone & Wells, 1995). That is, police leadership seems to require awareness of, and cooperation with, a variety of groups and actors outside one's agency (LaFrance & Placide, 2010). The crux of LaFrance and Placide's study is that the cooperative tendencies they observed in a small sample of sheriffs are indicative of these sheriffs' leadership capacity.…”

“…Even if social desirability is not responsible for the majority of sheriffs claiming leadership as their primary role in their respective organisations, the term is certainly open to a broad array of interpretations. LaFrance and Placide (2010) fail to address the fact that leadership can be manifested in many forms. Instead, they rely only on the work of scholars such as Behn (1991), Drodge and Murphy (2002), Kotter (2001) and Murphy and Drodge (2004) to identify leadership behaviours.…”

“…These competing perspectives on the sheriff became the basis of LaFrance and Placide's (2010) research question, as they explored whether electoral selection is likely to result in an obstinate, unaccountable politician or a cooperative, transformational leader occupying the sheriff 's office. LaFrance and Placide (2010) found that a substantial majority of county sheriffs (10/12, or 83 per cent) are likely to cooperate with the county legislative body during a budget crisis. However, their study is plagued by a small sample size that does not allow for generalisability of their findings.…”

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LaFrance and Placide found that a substantial majority of county sheriffs (10/12, or 83 per cent) are likely to cooperate with the county legislative body during a budget crisis (LaFrance, T. C., & Placide, M. (2010).

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