California: Police Organization And Trends

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...been under considerable scrutiny of late with regard to how its police organization operates from a perspective of responsibility and accountability. For counties up and down the Golden State, issues of brutality, excessive force and unwarranted shootings have caused citizens to rally and demand change. With such incidents as the Rodney King beating in Los Angeles and several questionable gunfire-related confrontations in Fresno, the state's law enforcement operations have been called to the carpet for answers.

"The special trouble stems from our unique ordeal with race and religion that recurringly has erupted into violence" (Levin et al, 1998, p. 24).

II. PROBLEMS AND TRENDS
Law enforcement chain of command is the single-most important element of California's police organization that serves to maintain a semblance of ethics and appropriate decision-making across the force. One of the places where the chain of command is most often broken, however, is near the bottom where those with little input to policy and procedure fail to uphold established conventions as they relate to hierarchy. Recent history...

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