The Effects of Stratified Policing on Key Organizational Change Components

The Effects of Stratified Policing on Key Organizational Change Components
Author: Andrew M. Friedman
Publisher:
Total Pages: 124
Release: 2020
Genre: Crime analysis
ISBN:

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This study examined the effects of stratified policing on four key organizational change components, leadership, communication, transparency, accountability, as well as satisfaction with proactive crime reduction within one large police agency, the Delaware State Police (DSP). Stratified policing is an organizational framework that aids police departments in systematizing the use of evidence-based policing strategies into their daily operations. It accomplishes this through the use of crime analysis, implementation of evidence-based strategies, and clear accountability structure and mechanisms. The same anonymous survey was administered to DSP personnel in 2016 and 2019 after the implementation of stratified policing, obtaining perceptions of leadership, accountability, communication, transparency, and satisfaction with the agency’s proactive crime reduction. The analysis examined changes in each of the four key organizational change components individually as well as which were the best predictors of satisfaction with crime reduction efforts both pre-implementation and post-implementation. Using a one-group pretest-posttest research design, independent t-tests showed that all four key organizational change components, as well as satisfaction with proactive crime reduction, significantly improved following the implementation of stratified policing with some variation by rank. The multiple regression analyses showed that while most of the organizational change components were significant for both waves, there were some notable differences in their importance and the significance of rank and division. The study’s findings suggest that stratified policing may be the necessary bridge for translating “what works” in policing and “making it work” within a police department. It accomplishes this by facilitating successful organizational change through its ability to improve the key organizational change components.

Stratified Policing

Stratified Policing
Author: Roberto Santos
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 171
Release: 2020-12-11
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1538126575

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Implementing effective crime reduction requires deliberate thought and effort to integrate processes into the police organization, its culture, and the day-to-day work. Stratified Policing: An Organizational Model for Proactive Crime Reduction and Accountability provides police leaders a clear path for institutionalization of crime reduction modeled after current police processes. It sets up an organization to more easily incorporate evidence-based strategies into everyday operations with the goal of changing a police organization from reactive to proactive. Stratified Policing incorporates what works for crime reduction and how to realistically make it work in police practice. The book details the specific and adaptable framework that infuses small changes by rank and division into daily activities that build on each other resulting in a comprehensive and focused approach for crime reduction. It also lays out a multifaceted accountability process that is fair and transparent. Importantly, the book dedicates entire chapters to methods for developing crime reduction goals, addressing immediate, short-term, and long-term crime and disorder problems, and implementing a stratified accountability meeting structure. Chapters include specific recommendations supported by research and grounded in what is realistic in police practice for application of evidence-based strategies, assignment of responsibility and accountability, crime analysis products, and assessment measures for impact on crime and disorder. The book is a culmination of the authors' 15 years of work and will synthesize their research, other publications on stratified policing, and provide new material for police leaders and professionals who are seeking an organizational structure to institutionalize crime reduction strategies into their day to day operations.

Crime Analysis with Crime Mapping

Crime Analysis with Crime Mapping
Author: Rachel Boba Santos
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Total Pages: 505
Release: 2022-02-06
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1071831437

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Crime Analysis With Crime Mapping introduces crime analysis, both the practice and profession, and supports the understanding of it all through discussing concepts, theories, practices, data, analysis techniques, and the relationship with policing.

A Police Organizational Model for Crime Reduction

A Police Organizational Model for Crime Reduction
Author: Ph D Rachel Boba
Publisher: CreateSpace
Total Pages: 56
Release: 2012-06-16
Genre:
ISBN: 9781477674987

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This guidebook presents a new and comprehensive organizational model for the institutionalization of effective crime reduction strategies into police agencies, called the Stratified Model of Problem Solving, Analysis, and Accountability (i.e., "Stratified Model"), along with the specific mechanisms, practices, and products necessary to carry out the approach in any police agency, no matter the size or the crime and disorder levels. Consequently, the purpose of the guidebook is to present the Stratified Model in a succinct and practical way in order to provide direction for institutionalizing effective crime reduction strategies and accountability. The goal is to discuss the applicability of the problem solving process and accountability procedures as well as present relevant analytical products that can immediately be used to systematically implement crime reduction strategies. Although any police leader will find this guide informative, it is mainly written for police managers and commanders who are seeking to improve the efficiency, effectiveness, and accountability of their agency's crime reduction efforts. It will also be most useful to those with an understanding of basic organizational change and leadership principles and methods. This guidebook is not a primer to police leadership nor does it provide instruction on how to enact organizational change in a police agency. It simply presents an effective model that can be used as a template for systematizing crime reduction strategies, analysis products, and accountability processes. A model based on the assumptions that problem solving is an effective process for addressing simple and complex problems, that crime reduction strategies can and should be guided by analysis, and that an accountability structure is imperative for enacting and sustaining change in a police agency. The guidebook first presents the foundations and elements of the Stratified Model, then provides guidelines for implementing crime reduction strategies at different levels and evaluation of these efforts, as well as an organizational structure of accountability. Although the objective is to implement all aspects of the Stratified Model, an agency may choose to implement parts of the model as appropriate or to implement the model in phases. As a result, the guidebook provides a separate discussion of how problem solving, analysis, and accountability occur at each level of crime reduction-immediate, short-term, and long-term-that is followed by a discussion of evaluation and an organizational structure of accountability that would be used if all levels of crime reduction are implemented simultaneously. At the end of the guide, the information is synthesized into a table illustrating a framework that can be easily adapted for agencies that seek to tailor the model and implement it into their own organizational structure.

Planned Change in a Law Enforcement Organization

Planned Change in a Law Enforcement Organization
Author: Ilker Pekgozlu
Publisher:
Total Pages: 386
Release: 2008
Genre: Law enforcement
ISBN:

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The purpose of this study is to examine implementation of an organizational change in the public sector. It explores the change process of problem-oriented policing implemented by the senior and middle managers as the change agents in the Plano Police Department, Texas. Four research questions focused on: 1.starting the change process, 2. making the change process happen, 3. consolidating the change, and 4.applying problem-oriented policing as the change process. This research consists of two main research components, a qualitative methodology and a case study. The eight-step change management model (Kotter 1995) and problem-oriented policing model (Goldstein 1979) primarily guided this research. The study has provided information from interviews with ten police employees of the Plano Police Department, existing documentation, and field observations. It concludes that not only leaders in private sector but also executives and managers of public organizations may benefit from application of planned change theories during organizational changes.

A Police Organizational Model for Crime Reduction

A Police Organizational Model for Crime Reduction
Author: Rachel Boba
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2011-10-03
Genre:
ISBN: 9781935676324

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A Police Organizational Model for Crime Reduction: Institutionalizing Problem Solving, Analysis, and Accountability presents a new and comprehensive organizational model for the institutionalization of effective crime reduction strategies into police agencies, called the Stratified Model of Problem Solving, Analysis, and Accountability. It describes all the components of the Stratified Model in a succinct and practical way to provide police managers and commanders with a template for improving the efficiency, effectiveness, and accountability of their agency's crime reduction efforts. Although the objective is to implement all aspects of the Stratified Model, an agency may choose to implement parts of the model as needed or to implement the model in phases.

Global Environment of Policing

Global Environment of Policing
Author: Darren Palmer
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 363
Release: 2012-06-05
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1466567929

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Police organizations across the globe are experiencing major changes. Many nations cope with funding constraints as pressures within their societies, terrorism and transnational crime, and social and political transformations necessitate a more democratic form of policing. Drawn from the proceedings at the International Police Executive Symposium i

Proactive Policing

Proactive Policing
Author: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Publisher: National Academies Press
Total Pages: 409
Release: 2018-03-23
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0309467136

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Proactive policing, as a strategic approach used by police agencies to prevent crime, is a relatively new phenomenon in the United States. It developed from a crisis in confidence in policing that began to emerge in the 1960s because of social unrest, rising crime rates, and growing skepticism regarding the effectiveness of standard approaches to policing. In response, beginning in the 1980s and 1990s, innovative police practices and policies that took a more proactive approach began to develop. This report uses the term "proactive policing" to refer to all policing strategies that have as one of their goals the prevention or reduction of crime and disorder and that are not reactive in terms of focusing primarily on uncovering ongoing crime or on investigating or responding to crimes once they have occurred. Proactive policing is distinguished from the everyday decisions of police officers to be proactive in specific situations and instead refers to a strategic decision by police agencies to use proactive police responses in a programmatic way to reduce crime. Today, proactive policing strategies are used widely in the United States. They are not isolated programs used by a select group of agencies but rather a set of ideas that have spread across the landscape of policing. Proactive Policing reviews the evidence and discusses the data and methodological gaps on: (1) the effects of different forms of proactive policing on crime; (2) whether they are applied in a discriminatory manner; (3) whether they are being used in a legal fashion; and (4) community reaction. This report offers a comprehensive evaluation of proactive policing that includes not only its crime prevention impacts but also its broader implications for justice and U.S. communities.

Fairness and Effectiveness in Policing

Fairness and Effectiveness in Policing
Author: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
Total Pages: 431
Release: 2004-04-06
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0309084334

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Because police are the most visible face of government power for most citizens, they are expected to deal effectively with crime and disorder and to be impartial. Producing justice through the fair, and restrained use of their authority. The standards by which the public judges police success have become more exacting and challenging. Fairness and Effectiveness in Policing explores police work in the new century. It replaces myths with research findings and provides recommendations for updated policy and practices to guide it. The book provides answers to the most basic questions: What do police do? It reviews how police work is organized, explores the expanding responsibilities of police, examines the increasing diversity among police employees, and discusses the complex interactions between officers and citizens. It also addresses such topics as community policing, use of force, racial profiling, and evaluates the success of common police techniques, such as focusing on crime "hot spots." It goes on to look at the issue of legitimacyâ€"how the public gets information about police work, and how police are viewed by different groups, and how police can gain community trust. Fairness and Effectiveness in Policing will be important to anyone concerned about police work: policy makers, administrators, educators, police supervisors and officers, journalists, and interested citizens.