Police Management
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| management | directing individuals to achieve organizational goals in an efficient and effective manner.
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| organizing | the process of arranging personnel and physical resources to carry out plans and accomplish goals and objectives
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| planning | the process of preparing for the future by settings goals and objectives and developing courses of action for accomplishing them.
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| controlling | the process by which managers determine how the quality and the quantity of departmental systems and services can be improved.
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| chain of command | the higher the position, the greater the power, authority and influence.
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| paramilitary model | emphasized a legalistic approach and authoritarian managerial practices intended to control officers' behavior to improve crime control and lessen corrupt practices.
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| systems theory | all parts of a system (organization) are interrelated and dependent on one another
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| contingency theory | recognizes that there are many internal and external factors that influence organizational behavior.
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| Total quality management | a management system focusing on product quality
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| organizational design | the formal pattern of arrangement and relationship developed by police management to link people together to accomplish organizational goals.
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| centralization | authority and decision making are retained by the top organizational levels.
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| decentralization | authority and decision making are delegated to lower organizational levels as a mechanism to control their activities.
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| generalists | the greater number of tasks performed leads to a lower level of specialization
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| police paramilitary units (PPU) |
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| broken-windows theory | a hypothesis that when low levels of disorder and deviance are not held in check, then more serious types of crime are likely to follow.
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| zero-tolerance policing | a strategy in which officers "aggressively" target minor crime to send a signal that such behavior will not be tolerated.
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| Compstat (compare statistics) | a process that utilizes current crime data to analyze crime patterns and to respond quickly with "appropriate" resources and crime strategies
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