POLS 3600 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Difficult People, High School Diploma, Job Security

• School: University of Georgia
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLS 3600
• Professor: Ethan Boldt

Document Summary

Current era: community policing: emphasis on good police-community relationships. Increased police-citizen contact: establish working rapport with neighborhoods, solve social problems, federal assistance for building a community focused department, more foot patrols, more interactive presence, more inclined to let smaller offenses go, deals with larger issues. Investigate crimes defined by congress: executive branch, handle few crimes compared to state and local agencies, but high profile in nature, fbi, dea, atf, usms, tsa, cbp, ice, uss, fws, nps, epa, fda, usda, usps. State agencies: ex: georgia state patrol, gbi, responsible for, highway safety, statewide investigations, emergency management - hurricanes/weather, assistance to local agencies, state crime labs - does sophisticated testing for state/local evidence. County agencies - sheriff: serve police function in rural areas, small towns, unincorporated areas, run detention facilities, court services and protection, serve civil papers/other municipal duties. Municipal police agencies: general le authority, mostly city departments (nypd has 35,000 officers, nearly of municipal pds employ fewer than 25 officers, decentralized/fragmented.