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organizational system wherein odrers are developed at upper levels and handed down the hierarchy to be followed by lower-level functionaries

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chains of commands

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collegial problem solving

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professional mode of solving problems wherein peers come together and find solutions in an equitable and democratic fashion

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experience officers who train and mentor rookie officers out on street

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FTO- field training officers

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understanding that it is morally acceptable to use coercion in the name of accomplishing good ends

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integrated passion

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internal affairs

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police internal sub-organization in charge of investigating allegations of misconduct

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first uniformed and organized police department in the western world

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metropolitan police of london

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state-level commission that develops professional standards for police officer education and certification

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Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST)

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Prime minister of England who sponsored the legislation creating the Metropolitan Police in 1829

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Sir Robert Peel

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The first ear of American policing, wherein the police were controlled directly by machine politics

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political era

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Time frame when the American police were reorganized and paramilitarism was exhcanged for the older, politically controlled was organization

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reform era

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Refers to professionals having power to sanction the misconduct of their own peers

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self-discipline

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Occupation-specific information gleaned by professionals in their academic experience

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systematized body of knowledge

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Muir’s ideal for the professional police officer, includes the ideas of unitary experience of humankind, complex causal patterns and necessity of human interdependence

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tragic perspective

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English Parliament created the first English police force in 1829, Metropolitan Police of London.

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Sir Robert Peel

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Metropolitan Police of London replaced what?

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a semi-voluntary system of night watchmen and constables

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Historical Eras of American Policing

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Political era: 1837-1910-tied to machine politics. Hired due to their loyalty to local politicos, corruption rampant, no training
Reform era: 1910-1980- paramilitaristic policing developed, civil service created, academies established, accountability
Professional era:present- COP drives ,

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first era in the Anglo-American history of policing, begun by

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Peels London police, usually referred to as the political era, later replaced by the reform era.

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To begin, there is certainly a ______________________ that must be obtained from high school, college, the police academy and service training exp, to operate as a modern-day police officer

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systematized body of knowledge

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What is a professional? Professionals possess

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knowledge
Education
Regulation
Discipline
Problem solving 
Ethics
20
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In self regulation, police to become genuine professionals, they must themselves, as a group, take seriously the disciplining of peers who are guilty of

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misconduct

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One of the most important books ever written about the police, Police: Streetcorner Politicians,
by professor

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William k Muir.

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Muirs Professional officer: the professional officer possesses

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  • Passion- resorting to violence or threats can be morally acceptable
  • Perspective- an inner understanding of the motives of people, senses of lifes causes and effects, knowledge of the tragedy of life- that all people suffer sometimes, that everyone yearns for dignity and no individual is worthless
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integrated passion

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to use coercive power, officer has to be comfortable using what amounts to extortion to achieve good, desirable end.

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an important tool in the police officers arsenal is

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intimidation, when used in the best interest of justice.

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tragic perspective

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a certain perspective of life, the capacity to understand how tragedy explains a great deal about deviant human behavior

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cynical perspective

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officers should not divide people into camps, into thegood people and the bad people, into us and them.

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For a cynical perspective to be applied on the streets by police

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making citizens into the enemy i a real sense is to create a situation under which people and police are mutally suspicious of each other

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steps left to take toward professionalism

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besides the critically important devel of COP
extension of academic experience
expansion of collegial problem solving
development of self discipling with the subculture
acceptance of tragic perspective
internalization of a professional ethic

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Muir tells us that a professioanl officer needs to have integrated into his personal character both

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passion to use coercive power

tragic perspective on life that mitigates against cynicism and jadedness

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The absence of ________ is also a problem that stands in the way of the development of professionalism.

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collegial problem solving