How can we enhance police integrity? The authors surveyed over 3000 police officers from 30 U.S. police departments on how they would respond to typical scenarios where integrity is challenged. The authors conclude that enhancing police integrity goes well beyond culling out "bad apple" police officers.
The Idea of Police Integrity.- Measuring Police Integrity.- Profiles of Integrity.- The Charleston, South Carolina, Police Department.- The Charlotte-Mecklenburg, North Carolina, Police Department.- The St. Petersburg, Florida, Police Department.- The Second Survey.- Recruitment, Selection, and Training.- Processing Citizen Complaints.- Meting out the Discipline.- Circumscribing the Code of Silence.- Enhancing Police Integrity.
Sanja Kutnjak Ivkovich, John Hagan, Michigan State University School of Law) Kutnjak Ivkovich, Sanja (Professor of Law, Professor of Law, Northwestern University School of Law) Hagan, John (John D. MacArthur Professor of Sociology and Law and Senior Research Fellow, John D. MacArthur Professor of Sociology and Law and Senior Research Fellow, IVKOVIC, Ivkovic