How to use: We offer this list so that you can enrich your studies in the supervisory leadership course. The sequence of topics more or less follows your syllabus outline. Professor O'Hara developed this initial list, in consultation with Professor Haberfeld and other faculty. The editorial comments for the links, however, are Professor O'Hara's. Blame him, not the faculty or the college, if a site does not, in your opinion, live up to its billing.

The Internet puts a world of information at your fingertips. This information bonanza also imposes responsibility on students. The multiple links in these sites lead mostly to balanced material but also to items glorifying or condemning police practice. Use your judgement to determine what rings true or not, and to think through the various points of view. Remember that better understanding the position of your critics makes your responses to them more effective.

Students should expect some "broken links" that lead nowhere. The web is very dynamic. The site that worked yesterday is today's "no such page found." You will get broken links, especially when you go from "table of contents" sites to other linked sites. Rather than discard a "table of contents" page with a broken link or two, we have used the page because we think that students will benefit from the functioning links. As always, learn, and have fun.

The web version of this document is at: http://web.jjay.cuny.edu/~phara/LinksPoliceSup.htm

Let's start with two "How Not To . . ." examples. The first story below is about the Ramparts Division in the LAPD, which suffered from, among other things, a breakdown in supervision and commanders without direction, according to the department's own report. The second Ramparts link describes what happens to community support in the aftermath of a major scandal such as Ramparts. The second story is from Philadelphia and is essentially a status report on a department trying to dig its way out of nearly twenty years of poor supervision and poor police practice in the rape investigations unit, and a general tendency (PHILLY III) towards generating statistics with little integrity,

RAMPARTS BASICS: http://www.abcnews.go.com/sections/us/DailyNews/lapd000301.html

RAMPARTS AFTERMATH: http://www.latimes.com/news/local/timespoll/socal/la-000409lapoll.story

PHILLY: http://www.philly.com/packages/crime/html/sch101799.asp

PHILLY II: http://inq.philly.com/content/inquirer/2000/12/13/city/PRAPE13.htm

PHILLY III: http://www.philly.com/packages/crime/html/110298.asp

POLICE/COMMUNITY: http://www.findarticles.com/m2185/4_12/75249289/p1/article.jhtml

TECHNOLOGY: http://www.findarticles.com/cf_0/m0COW/2001_May_31/75452247/p1/article.jhtml

SUBURBAN CRIME: http://www.findarticles.com/cf_0/m2185/4_12/75249286/p1/article.jhtml

Two wide ranging sites, including extensive bibliographies. The first site's British focus detracts little from its relevance to U.S. policing. The second site, maintained by a Canadian police officer pursuing his Ph.D, has an academic flavor while reviewing developments in the US as well as in Canada.

ETHICS: http://www.freedomtocare.org/police.htm

PHILOSOPY OF ETHICS AND POLICING: http://www.police-ethics.com/

AT THE TOP: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/local/longterm/library/dc/dcpolice/soulsbyindex.htm

NYPD MISSION: http://nyc.gov/html/nypd/html/mission.html

NEW ORLEANS POLICE DEPARTMENT MISSION: http://www.nopdonline.com/mission.htm

NYPD DETECTIVE'S MISSION: http://nyc.gov/html/nypd/html/db/mission.html

LA SHERIFF, HOME PAGE, MISSION LOWER RIGHT: http://la-sheriff.org/

COMMUNITY POLICING VALUES: http://www.communitypolicing.org/pf/integrity/sec3.html

COMMUNICATING BETTER: http://www.coopcomm.org/w7a1toc.htm

ALL ABOUT COMMUNICATING: http://www.mapnp.org/library/commskls/gen_rcmd/gen_rcmd.htm

AN OFFICER'S TAKE ON BODY LANGUAGE: http://www.hodrw.com/cop2.htm

TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT: http://home.t-online.de/home/kfmaas/q_tqm.html

TEAM-BUILDING BASICS: http://www.nwlink.com/~donclark/leader/leadtem.html

TEAM BUILDING PITFALLS: http://www.siop.org/tip/backissues/tipoct96/church.htm

MANAGING AND LEADING: http://www.findarticles.com/cf_dls/m1038/n4_v41/21015189/p1/article.jhtml

LEADERSHIP BASICS: http://www.nwlink.com/~donclark/leader/leader.html

DELEGATION: http://www.work911.com/articles/timetips.htm

FOR UNIVERSITY STUDENTS (YOU!): http://www.yorku.ca/cdc/lsp/tm/time.htm

FOR ANYONE: http://www.mindtools.com/page5.html

PERFORMANCE AND INNOVATION: http://www.ssc.msu.edu/~cj/cp/humres.html

ROOT CAUSES OF PERFORMANCE: http://www.nwlink.com/~donclark/perform/coach.html

POLICE STRESS MEGA-SITE: http://www.heavybadge.com/

MANAGING POLICE STRESS: http://www.faculty.ncwc.edu/toconnor/417/417lect09.htm

ALCOHOL AND FELLOW OFFICERS: http://www.geocities.com/stressline_com//bogshrink8.html

HIGH INTENSITY POLICING:  http://www.apbweb.com/articles2.htm#The hot issue of police pursuits

A CHIEF'S GUIDEBOOK FOR COMMUNITY POLICING: http://www.concentric.net/~dwoods/guide.htm

THE CHICAGO APROACH: http://www.ci.chi.il.us/CommunityPolicing/AboutCAPS/CAPS.html

CRIME MAPPING LABORATORY: http://www.policefoundation.org/ (Hit link on left side of page.)

NEW ORLEANS CRIME MAPPING: http://www.new-orleans.la.us/cnoweb/nopd/maps/basecrimemap.html

13. THE POLITICS OF GOVERNANCE, POLICING AND POLICE ORGANIZATIONS

THE CONSTITUTION: http://faculty.ncwc.edu/toconnor/current.htm (Hit the "amendment" links.)

PROLIFERATING POLICE AGENCIES: http://faculty.ncwc.edu/toconnor/polstruct.htm

INTERAGENCY: http://www.apbnews.com/cjprofessionals/behindthebadge/2000/03/15/lacops0315_01.html

EMPLOYEE ORGANIZATIONS: http://www.lvrj.com/lvrj_home/1999/Oct-01-Fri-1999/news/12045287.html

 

14. LABORING IN THE RANKS: PROFESSIONALISM, FRATERNALISM OR BOTH

HISTORY OF POLICE UNIONISM: http://www.neosoft.com/~cleat/ppp/0996.html

POLICE PROFESSIONALISM: http://www.faculty.ncwc.edu/toconnor/417/417lect08.htm

A FINAL WORD: http://www.hno.harvard.edu/specials/policing/kelling.html

A GENERAL INTEREST SITE WITH CAREER DEVELOPMENT LINKS: http://www.police1.com

AND, FINALLY, ANOTHER: http://www.officer.com/