Police

Police

Special government unit empowered to enforce the law.

Contributors in Police

Police

Elected on a countywide basis in all but two states, an official serving all three components of the criminal justice system: law enforcement, courts, and corrections. Usually is directly involved ...

Physical disorder

Law enforcement; Police

A form of societal neglect resulting from physical decay within a neighborhood; examples include vandalism, dilapidation and abandonment of buildings, and trash buildup.

Blue-ribbon commissions

Law enforcement; Police

Commissions serving as a form of external accountability for police conduct that address a full range of police issues and bring together leading experts to help improve local departments.

Streetwalker

Law enforcement; Police

One who represents the lower end of the social and economic scale of prostitution by soliciting on the streets, thus being highly visible to both the police and the general public.

Collective bargaining

Law enforcement; Police

A method of determining conditions of employment through bilateral negotiations according to the following principles: Employees have a legal right to form unions; employers must recognise employee ...

Organisational culture

Law enforcement; Police

Values and traditions, communicated informally, that influence the organisational style of policing within a police department.

Community policing

Law enforcement; Police

A model of policing that stresses a two-way working relationship between the community and the police, in which the police become more integrated into the local community and citizens assume an ...