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A description of a graduate seminar course in police-community relations conducted at Southern Illinois U with a group of Memphis (Tenn) criminal justice employees. One course requirement was to complete a study of a Memphis neighborhood's history & economy, its relation to the city's political structure, & how these factors affected police-community relations. In addition, students were asked to draft a "fantastic community" plan in which they were to assume that unlimited resources were at their disposal to solve problems between the police & the community. The special object of the research was to discover in their neighborhood those historical & economic factors that predominate in determining the present problems or lack of problems in police-community relations. The project allowed the police to look deeply into the historical, economic, political, & social underpinnings of the neighborhood, to connect these to national trends, & thus to create links to current neighborhood problems. Interacting with neighborhood residents, showing them that the police are interested & actually producing something of value to themselves & to the neighborhood (ie, a community study), had a positive effect of improving relations between the two groups. 14 References. AA

Describes a project which attempted to use community history to unite police with the communities they policed and probation officers with their clients. (PAS)

Considering the long-lasting and complicated history of U.S. race and ethnic relations, the multiple array of issues currently confronting both ethnic and racial communities, and the shifting trends in the ethnic/racial landscape, this book seeks to provide a comprehensive account of the simultaneous interaction of pressing historical and contemporary forces shaping the Latino experience as well as police-minority relations to better understand the current state of policing and gain further insight into the future role of Latino police in American law enforcement across the country. Delineatin

"U.S. Government Printing Office: 1992-622-195/60059"--p. 39. ; "May 1992." ; Includes bibliographical references. ; Mode of access: Internet.

Utilizing survey data from officers in a mid-sized city police department in the United States and the London Metropolitan Police, Pizio seeks to understand the breadth of behaviors that officers find disrespectful, to discover how often officers perceive that they are experiencing disrespectful citizens, and to make cross-national comparisons. When assessing officer-based, occupation-based, and country-based characteristics, findings reveal few differences between officers in each country, supporting the notion that police in different countries are more alike than not. Additionally, education and experience were found to be positively related to disrespect in both countries, and in the U.K. unarmed officers anticipated disrespect more often than armed officers.