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Police Employee Organizations and Accountability Procedures in three Cities: Some Reflections on Police Policy-Making

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 2024

Stephen C. Halpern
Stephen C. Halpern*
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State University of New York at Buffalo
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James Q. Wilson (1971: 4-5) has observed that militant police unions may constitute the greatest obstacle to reform and innovation in contemporary American police practice. To date, most social science studies of the police have focused on the analysis and consequences of individual officer behavior and not on collective actions by policemen to influence law enforcement policy. The absence of in-depth studies of police from a group perspective is significant in view of research (Horton, 1970; Kaufman, 1969) which indicates that municipal agencies in larger cities are moving toward a joint management-labor determination of goals and administration under the prodding of activist employee associations.

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Law & Society Review , Volume 8 , Issue 4 , Summer 1974 , pp. 561 - 582
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Copyright © The Law and Society Association, 1974.

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Footnotes

AUTHOR'S NOTE: I would like to thank J. Woodford Howard, Jr. and David Goodwin for their comments on an earlier draft of the paper.

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