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Patrick W. Manz
Bio: Patrick W. Manz is an academic researcher from Florida Department of Law Enforcement. The author has contributed to research in topics: Poison control & Organizational structure. The author has an hindex of 2, co-authored 2 publications receiving 163 citations.
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TL;DR: The authors analyzed data from three years of official use-of-force reports in the Miami-Dade Police Department (MDPD) and found that the relative amount of force used by the police was greatest in the less threatening types of offenses.
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TL;DR: This paper examined the influence of organizational characteristics associated with these styles on individual officers' arrest rates using nationally representative data from large police agencies and found that police officer arrest decisions are partially explained by variations in police organizational structures.
Abstract: A limited amount of research has examined the relationship between characteristics of police organizations and policing styles. In particular, few studies have examined the link between organizational structures and police officer arrest decisions. Wilson’s (1968) pioneering case study of police organizations suggested that individual police behavior is a function of departmental goals that occur within the broader political climate of a community. Wilson suggested that agencies could be classified into three typologies: the watchman style, the legalistic style, and the service style. The present study examines the influence of organizational characteristics associated with these styles on individual officers’ arrest rates using nationally representative data from large police agencies. Findings suggest that police officer arrest decisions are partially explained by variations in police organizational structures. The implications of these findings for contemporary organizational explanations of police beh...
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TL;DR: Examination of the most recently available data from both Los Angeles, CA, and Indianapolis, IN, shows that social distancing has had a statistically significant impact on a few specific crime types, however, the overall effect is notably less than might be expected given the scale of the disruption to social and economic life.
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TL;DR: A conceptual model of police response to persons with mental illness is presented that accounts for officer, organizational, mental health system and community level factors likely to influence implementation and effectiveness of CIT and other approaches.
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09 Aug 2004TL;DR: In this article, a conceptual framework is proposed for examining and assessing police use of force, based on the Authority Maintenance Theory (AMT), and the authors also examine police use-of-force from the suspect's perspective.
Abstract: Whenever police officers come into contact with citizens there is a chance that the encounter will digress to one in which force is used on a suspect. Fortunately, most police activities do not involve the use of force. But those that do reflect important patterns of interaction between the officer and the citizen. This book examines those patterns. It begins with a brief survey of prior research, and then goes on to present data and findings. Among the data are the force factor applied - that is, the level of force used relative to suspect resistance - and data on the sequential order of incidents of force. The authors also examine police use of force from the suspect's perspective. In analyzing this data they put forward a conceptual framework, the Authority Maintenance Theory, for examining and assessing police use of force.
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TL;DR: This investigation seeks to fill the gap in the literature by exploring the factors that influence use of force in encounters involving people with mental illness and evaluating whether CIT can reduce the likelihood of its use.
Abstract: The Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) program was first developed to reduce violence in encounters between the police and people with mental illness as well as provide improved access to mental health services. Although there is overwhelming popular support for this intervention, scant empirical evidence of its effectiveness is available—particularly whether the program can reduce the use of force. This investigation seeks to fill this gap in the literature by exploring the factors that influence use of force in encounters involving people with mental illness and evaluating whether CIT can reduce the likelihood of its use.
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