The inchoate nature of community policing: Differences between community policing and traditional police officers

Pelfrey, William V.

doi:10.1080/07418820400095911

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“…One of the problems police administrators note in recruiting community police officers is that community policing is not seen as real policing. These findings suggested that these officers were engaged in a number of activities, which was consistent with other studies showing that community policing officers conduct regular police work (e.g., Pelfrey, 2004;Zhao, Thurman, & He, 1999). What this suggests is that administrators can ensure future community police officers that they will continue to perform traditional police functions along with their new duties as community police officers.…”

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confidence: 85%

The impact of situational factors, officer characteristics, and neighborhood context on police behavior: A multilevel analysis

Sun

Payne

2008

Journal of Criminal Justice

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 85%

The impact of situational factors, officer characteristics, and neighborhood context on police behavior: A multilevel analysis

Sun

Payne

2008

Journal of Criminal Justice

109

121

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“…Similarly, Skogan and Hartnett (1997) found in their study of Chicago's Alternative Policing Strategy (CAPS) that officers assigned to community policing districts had higher levels of satisfaction with their work than those assigned to districts with less community policing emphasis. Pelfrey's (2004) study on the Philadelphia Police Department's COPS AHEAD program (a community policing program) also found that community policing officers were more likely to perceive a positive impact of their work on the community and had higher levels of satisfaction with their work than police officers assigned to motorized patrol. Research by Zhao, Thurman, and He (1999) found that the principal source of police officer job satisfaction is the level of perceived autonomy, skill variety, and importance of the work.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Job satisfaction research in policing, however, is less voluminous than work on other occupations (see Greene, 1989;Zhao, Thurman, and He, 1999;Pelfrey, 2004). There are several reasons for this.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Police-Community Relations in Cincinnati

Riley¹,

Turner²,

MacDonald³

et al. 2005

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The RAND Corporation is a nonprofit research organization providing objective analysis and effective solutions that address the challenges facing the public and private sectors around the world. RAND's publications do not necessarily reflect the opinions of its research clients and sponsors. R ® is a registered trademark. © Copyright 2005 City of CincinnatiAll rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form by any electronic or mechanical means (including photocopying, recording, or information storage and retrieval) without permission in writing from the City of Cincinnati. The research described in this report was conducted within RAND Infrastructure, Safety, and Environment (ISE), a division of the RAND Corporation, for the City of Cincinnati.iii PrefaceIn 2002, the Cincinnati Police Department entered into a collaborative agreement with other parties in Cincinnati. The collaborative agreement binds the signatories (referred to as "the parties") to a series of reforms and initiatives intended to reduce social strife in the city. This report is the result of a section in the decree that pledges the parties to evaluate whether the agreement is achieving its goals. The RAND Corporation will conduct this evaluation over a five-year period, from June 2004 to the latter part of 2008. This is the first annual report required under the collaborative evaluation. This study will interest Cincinnati residents and public officials. This report may also prove useful to residents and officials in other jurisdictions where similar reform efforts are underway. The City of Cincinnati funded this project on behalf of the parties to the collaborative agreement. Recent RAND works that may be of interest to readers of this report include the following:• Oakland, California (Ridgeway and Riley, 2004). The RAND Safety and Justice ProgramThis research was conducted under the auspices of the Safety and Justice Program within RAND's Infrastructure, Safety, and Environment Division. The mission of Infrastructure, Safety, and Environment is to improve the development, operation, use, and protection of society's essential man-made and natural assets and to enhance the related social assets of safety and security of individuals in transit and in their workplaces and community. Safety and Justice Program research addresses occupational safety, transportation safety, food safety, and public safety-including violence, policing, corrections, substance abuse, and public integrity.Questions or comments about this report should be sent to the project leader, Jack Riley (Jack_Riley@rand.org). Information about the Safety and Justice Program is available online (www.rand.org/ise/safety). Inquiries about research projects should be made to Andrew Morral, Director (Andrew_Morral@rand.org). Summary IntroductionIn 2002, the Cincinnati Police Department (CPD), the Fraternal Order of Police, and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) entered into a collaborative agreement. This agreement pledges the signatories to ...

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“…Studying the possible correlates of job satisfaction is important because they have been linked to many desirable outcomes for the field of policing (Buker and Dolu, 2010). For instance, Pelfrey (2004) found job satisfaction was strongly associated with task engagement and endorsement of innovative police styles. In a study of South Korean police officers, Lee and Moon (2011) reported job satisfaction to be significantly associated with support for civilian oversight.…”

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Organisational justice’s relationship with job satisfaction and organisational commitment among Indian police

Qureshi¹,

Frank

Lambert

et al. 2016

The Police Journal: Theory, Practice and Principles

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The concept of justice plays an important role in shaping the attitudes of citizens towards criminal justice agencies. Additionally, research indicates that police officers' perceptions of justice within their own organisation can affect their attitudes towards it. Most of the research to date has focused on police officers in Western nations; however, the effects of organisational justice could be universal (i.e. cut across different police agencies and nations) or contextual (i.e. vary between cultures). The current study examined the association between perceptions of two dimensions of organisational justice, distributive (fairness in outcomes) and procedural (fairness in procedures/processes), with job satisfaction and organisational commitment among Indian police officers. Ordinary least squares (OLS) regression analysis of survey data collected from 827 officers stationed in the Sonepat and Rohtak districts in the north Indian state of Haryana indicated that perceptions of distributive justice and procedural justice (in terms of promotions and evaluations) had significant positive relationships with both job satisfaction and affective organisational commitment. The findings support the contention that perceptions of organisational justice have important effects on Indian police officers.

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The inchoate nature of community policing: Differences between community policing and traditional police officers

Cited by 52 publications

References 27 publications

The impact of situational factors, officer characteristics, and neighborhood context on police behavior: A multilevel analysis

The impact of situational factors, officer characteristics, and neighborhood context on police behavior: A multilevel analysis

Police-Community Relations in Cincinnati

Organisational justice’s relationship with job satisfaction and organisational commitment among Indian police

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