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Autore: | Lasley James R |
Titolo: | Los Angeles Police Department meltdown [[electronic resource] ] : the fall of the professional-reform model of policing / / James Lasley |
Pubblicazione: | Boca Raton, Fla., : CRC Press, c2012 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (xix, 271 p. ) : ill |
Disciplina: | 363.209764/94 |
Soggetto topico: | Police administration - California - Los Angeles |
Police - California - Los Angeles | |
Police corruption - California - Los Angeles | |
Note generali: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references. |
Nota di contenuto: | Parker's thin blue line: the professional/reform model of policing (PRM) -- The study: a qualitative analysis of LAPD's organizational dying declarations -- Assessing the meltdown -- The Rodney King incident -- Politicians, special interest groups, and community influences -- Hiring, promotions & affirmative action -- Management and administration -- Quantitative analyses -- Conclusions and policy recommendations. |
Sommario/riassunto: | This volume presents a chronicle of the LAPD's fall from grace following the beating of Rodney King and the Los Angeles Riots of 1992. It provides information from a special inside study performed by the author under authority of the LAPD Chief of Police to investigate why the LAPD was disintegrating as an organization. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Los Angeles Police Department meltdown |
ISBN: | 1-4665-7587-5 |
0-429-25257-9 | |
1-4398-9930-4 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910779375803321 |
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