The Police and Problem Solving

Skogan, Wesley G.; Hartnett, Susan M.; DuBois, Jill; Comey, Jennifer; Kaiser, Marianne; Lovig, Justine H.

doi:10.4324/9780429300585-7

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“…Key features of a community policing approach are departmental orientations toward problem-solving, collaboration with local community members in defining problems to be addressed by law enforcement, and active relationship cultivation with business and neighborhood leaders. In an ideal community policing environment, departments are organizationally decentralized and patrols are oriented to respond to citizen demands, thus creating two-way communication between police and the public (Skogan et al 1999).…”

Section: Community Policingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Mano Suave–Mano Dura: Legitimacy Policing and Latino Stop-and-Frisk

2020

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Stop-and-frisk and other punitive policing practices disproportionately affect marginalized communities of color. In response to calls for reform, police departments have implemented community policing programs aimed at improving relations with racialized communities. This study examines how a police unit used courtesy and respect in its engagement with a criminalized population, gang-associated Latinos, while relying on the stop-and-frisk practice. Our study reveals contextual and situational contradictions between modern police departments’ attempts to establish legitimacy and the hegemonic practice of investigatory stops. Drawing on observations and interviews conducted during a ride-along study, we find that stop-and-frisk, simultaneously used with reform practices like courtesy policing, yield a paradoxical policing approach, “the legitimacy policing continuum.” Officers regularly articulate a goal of respectfully interacting with courtesy to build community and trust—what we term “the mano suave”—while practicing a dominant logic of crime prevention through punitive measures—what we term “the mano dura.” We argue that community and courtesy policing are drawn on strategically in interaction and ultimately intertwined with and constrained by the racial bias at the heart of punitive policing practices like stop-and-frisk.

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Section: Community Policingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Mano Suave–Mano Dura: Legitimacy Policing and Latino Stop-and-Frisk

2020

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“…In the policing context specifically, this growing emphasis represents a deliberate move away from an older focus on instrumental approaches in which the police worked to foster public belief in their ability to control crime, largely through a fear of punishment. Increasingly, however, experts recognize that police are reliant on a truly engaged public that not only passively but actively consents to its ability to hold and wield power (Ramsey & Robinson, 2015; Skogan et al, 1999; Tyler, 2009). Indeed, it has become almost painfully clear that the coercive and aggressive tactics that previously dominated policing in the United States actually hinder public cooperation and often foster resentment and counterproductive behavior (Meares & Neyroud, 2015; Schulhofer, Tyler, & Huq, 2011).…”

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Fair Process, Trust, and Cooperation: Moving Toward an Integrated Framework of Police Legitimacy

Hamm

Trinkner

Carr

2017

Criminal Justice and Behavior

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Positive public perceptions are a critical pillar of the criminal justice system, but the literature addressing them often fails to offer clear advice regarding the important constructs or the relationships among them. The research reported here sought to take an important step toward this clarity by recruiting a national convenience sample to complete an online survey about the police in the respondent’s community, which included measures of the process-based model of legitimacy and the classic model of trust. Our results suggest that although both are predictive, the models can be integrated in a way that allows the strengths of each model to address the weaknesses of the other. We therefore present this model as a first step toward an Integrated Framework of Police Legitimacy that can meaningfully incorporate much of the existing scholarship and provide clearer guidance for those who seek to address these constructs in research and practice.

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“…The current study suggests that, similar to other criminal justice innovations (Feeley 1983, Rosenbaum 1986, Skogan and Hartnett 1997, Skogan et al 1999 Specifically, there was a need to create shared understanding of the purpose of the incident reviews, the dependency on preparation and participation by various actors involved in the reviews, and for sustaining this shared understanding in light of inevitable turnover.…”

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Gun crime incident reviews as a strategy for enhancing problem solving and information sharing

Hipple¹,

McGarrell²,

O’Brien³

et al. 2019

Contemporary Research on Police Organizations

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Over the last several decades, police departments and other criminal justice agencies have seen a shift toward a proactive problem-solving response to crime problems. This problem solving orientation has often included an emphasis on expanded partnerships across criminal justice agencies as well as with a variety of community stakeholders, including researchers. This manuscript uses the issue of gun violence as a lens through which to examine the organizational and inter-organizational changes necessary to apply a data-driven, proactive, and strategic policing-led response to gun homicides and non-fatal shootings in four Midwestern sites. Each site adapted a unique data collection process and incident review. The data collection, incident reviews, and the varying models developed across the four cities, provide a reflection on corresponding organizational and inter-organizational changes that illuminate the movement toward this proactive, data-driven, problem solving model of criminal justice. Fulfilling the promise of the incident reviews, however, requires internal organizational and cross-agency inter-organizational collaboration to align people, systems, and resources with this proactive, problem-solving model. Additionally, effectively implementing these organizational and interorganizational changes appears dependent on commitment and leadership, collaboration and partnerships, data quality and availability, and training and communication within and across organizational boundaries.

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The Police and Problem Solving

Cited by 13 publications

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Mano Suave–Mano Dura: Legitimacy Policing and Latino Stop-and-Frisk

Mano Suave–Mano Dura: Legitimacy Policing and Latino Stop-and-Frisk

Fair Process, Trust, and Cooperation: Moving Toward an Integrated Framework of Police Legitimacy

Gun crime incident reviews as a strategy for enhancing problem solving and information sharing

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