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Calling the Police: The Evaluation of Police Service

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 2024

Frank F. Furstenberg Jr.  and
Charles F. Wellford
Frank F. Furstenberg Jr.
Affiliation:
University of Pennsylvania
Charles F. Wellford
Affiliation:
Florida State University
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In the rapidly expanding literature on the police, one question has been treated with increasing frequency in the past few years: How can the police be encouraged to become more responsive to the publics they serve? Many writers contend that in order for change to take place, it will be necessary to alter those conditions which affect the type of individual who becomes a policeman, either by modifying recruitment procedures, the training process, or the schedule of compensation (President's Commission, 1967a: 20). Others have questioned whether such strategies will work unless they are accompanied by basic social and organizational changes, redefining the role of the police officer and his relationship to the community (President's Commission, 1967a: 149).

Type
Research Article
Information
Law & Society Review , Volume 7 , Issue 3 , Spring 1973 , pp. 393 - 406
Copyright
Copyright © The Law and Society Association, 1972.

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Footnotes

AUTHOR'S NOTE: This research was supported by the National Institute of Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice.

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