Law & Order

Management

Preventing and Responding to Police Sexual Misconduct

By implementing clear policies and effective practices, and repeatedly communicating a message of zero tolerance from the highest ranks, police executives can go a long way toward ensuring that their officers perform to their highest potential and avoid all forms of sexual misconduct. Here, Lonsway discusses how to help police executives better understand officer sexual misconduct and to provide guidance to prevent and effectively respond to the problem.

Corrective Interaction

Johnson believes that there are approaches that supervisors could employ in correcting errant behavior of subordinates without undergoing through the formal disciplinary process. Here, he discusses several probable mistakes that supervisors must avoid as well as constructive strategies that they need to utilize in order to establish an interactional style that engenders respect while achieving compliance.

Administration

Budget Cuts

Whiteheads discusses the budget cuts in US law enforcement, which resulted to many layoffs of officers in some departments. He utters that dealing with budget cuts is hard for any department, especially when the cuts directly affect jobs and that with more budget cuts likely in the future, cutting personnel may become an issue for more and more departments across the country.

Investigation

Dna Profiling

Through the initiative of Alec Jeffreys who had initiated the first use of DNA testing in a criminal investigation, advancements in molecular biology and computer technology have forged DNA analysis into an essential tool of law enforcement. Here, Jones discusses the investigation process through DNA profiling, which includes analyzing the nucleotides and storing the bits.

Corrections

Inmate Health Care

Scott discusses the drastic increase of health care costs in US prisons, which according to the Labor Research Association are rising to as high as 15% this year. He cites several reasons why health care costs have continued to rise, where one of which is that the medical program has been clinically underdeveloped and never had strong medical administrative leadership. He mentions though that one way to deal with this rising cost is turning to private contract providers of health care, which ...