BIBLIOGRAPHY FOR SUPERVISORY LEADERSHIP IN POLICE SERVICES

Bibliographies sometime end up in the trash, or would if they weren't stapled to the rest of the syllabus. We've given you this bibliography separately but NOT so it will be easier to throw away. This bibliography is separate because it applies to a whole host of courses you might take here at John Jay or in other places. And it also applies to the job that you do and the government that you work for. So this bibliography is about you and things you might read at any time to make yourself more effective at work, in school or in your life. So keep this and use it--if not in this course, in another. Almost all books here are available now in CUNY libraries.

The books and articles listed have been recommended by the faculty teaching this course. Professor O'Hara collected the recommendations and created this document. So, if you have a question, he is the person to see. Internet links ("http://…") are included with most titles. Read this bibliography on the web and those links will let you to learn more about a book quickly. Trying to type these web addresses in a browser is NOT recommended for reasons of sanity. The books are organized more or less in terms of our course topics, except at the end where Professor O'Hara has included some "general category" books that can stimulate your thinking. (This bibliography's web address is: http://web.jjay.cuny.edu/~phara/PoliceBiblio.htm)

STRESS (See also Prof. Fox's list at http://web.jjay.cuny.edu/~phara/StressBiblioWeb.htm)

Wayne Anderson, David Swenson, Daniel Clay. Stress Management for Law Enforcement Officers. Prentice Hall, 1995. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0131469452/qid=916896951/sr=1-11/002-5090961-6362828

Joan C. Barker. Danger, Duty & Disillusion : The Worldview of Los Angeles Police Officers. Waveland Press, 1998. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1577660412/ref=sim_books/102-1983695-6296951

 

COMMUNICATION

Brian Stanfield (Editor). The Art of Focused Conversation: 100 Ways to Access Group Wisdom in the Workplace. New Society, 2000. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0865714169/qid=990985337/sr=1-5/ref=sc_b_5/102-1983695-6296951

Sandra Seagal and David Horne. Human Dynamics: A New Framework for Understanding People and Realizing the Potential in Our Organizations. Pegasus Communications, 2000. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1883823072/qid=990920619/br=1-25/ref=b_br_lf/102-1983695-6296951

TEAM-BUILDING

Robert D. Sherer. Fear-the Corporate ‘F’ Word: How to Drive Out the Fear That Kills Productivity and Profits. Criterion House, 1997. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1884162037/qid=916898630/sr=1-10/002-5090961-6362828

Stephen R. Rayner. Team Traps: Survival Stories and Lessons from Team Disasters, Near-Misses, Mishaps, and Other Near-Death Experiences. Wiley, 1996. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0471132853/qid=916893984/sr=1-15/002-5090961-6362828

 

EMPLOYEE DISCIPLINE (Annotations by Professor Culp, who keynotes in Week 3)

Raterman, T., Max. (2000). Progressive discipline as a police management tool. Police Department Disciplinary Bulletin, 9, 2-4.

This journal discusses the "art" of applying progressive discipline. Applying progressive discipline can reform a good officer's conduct and can lead to the dismissal of a bad one. The concept of progressive discipline is rooted in basic notions of fairness, as well as in the realization that repeated minor disciplinary offenses deserve increasingly serious, or progressive, discipline.

The concept of progressive discipline is rooted in basic notions of fairness, as well as in the realization that repeated minor disciplinary offenses deserve increasingly serious, or progressive, discipline. By observing the concepts of progressive discipline and taking into consideration what is appropriate in a given situation, police disciplinary practitioners can help mold individuals and organizations, encouraging ethical and professional policing. Examples are provided of different situations in which officers are disciplined. The basic understanding the author tries to relay is that there are different methods of disciplining and each must be applied accordingly.

 

Birzer, M.(1996). Police supervision in the 21st century. FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin, 6, 6.

This article discusses a community oriented policing (COP) program similar to community policing. If COP is to be successful, law enforcement agencies must reevaluate the way in which administrators supervise line-level personnel. The changes ushered in by community-oriented policing require agency executives to examine not only the new external environment created by COP but also the new internal environment. To do so, executives must take a close look at their organizations and become responsive to initiating change within them. Community oriented policing requires such change and evaluation in order for agencies to predict and control their futures effectively.

Some of the problems of the program are also discussed. Many have argued that this rigid top-down organizational structure precipitated the downfall of the team-policing concept of the 1970s. In many ways a precursor to today's community policing efforts, team policing called for the aggressive decentralization of police operations. Almost from the beginning, the movement encountered a host of problems-perhaps none more formidable than the reluctance of administrators in central headquarters to relinquish control to station and precinct commanders.

 

LEADERSHIP

Noel Tichy with Eli Cohen, The Leadership Engine: How Winning Companies Build Leaders at Every Level. Harper Business, 1997. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0887307930/o/qid=966618071/sr=2-1/103-5646095-2698247 A book about leadership that speaks in plain language and packs a punch. 

 

HIGH INTENSITY POLICING

 Lou Cannon. Official Negligence: How Rodney King and the Riots Changed Los Angeles and the LAPD. Westview, 1999. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0813337259/o/qid=967212728/sr=8-1/ref=aps_sr_b_1_3/102-5551230-7180125 A primer on how inadequate training, poor supervision and stereotyped perceptions in high intensity situations help things get out of hand.

Jerome H. Skolnick, James J. Fyfe. Above the Law: Police and the Excessive Use of Force. Free Press, 1994. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0029291534/qid=990921244/sr=1-2/ref=sc_b_2/102-1983695-6296951

 

PROGRAM MANAGEMENT

George L. Kelling, Catherine M. Coles (Contributor), James Q. Wilson. Fixing Broken Windows : Restoring Order and Reducing Crime in Our Communities. Free Press, 1998. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0684837382/ref=sim_books/102-1983695-6296951 An expanded version, replete with NYPD examples, of the 1982 article that set forth a view of crime and policing that has greatly affected how police services are delivered today.

Elizabeth Reuss-Ianni. Two Cultures of Policing: Street Cops and Management Cops. Transaction, 1993. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1560006544/qid=916897262/sr=1-74/002-5090961-6362828

 Skogan, Wesley G, and Susan Hartnett. Community Policing, Chicago Style. Oxford University Press, 2000. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0195136330/ref=sim_books/102-1983695-6296951

 Lurigio, A., & Rosenbaum , D. (1994). An inside look at community policing reform: Definitions, organizational changes, and evaluation findings. Crime and Delinquency, 40, 299.

This journal is an overview of community policing and its applications. The author deals with the issue of community policing being difficult to evaluate. Issues such as foot patrol and team policing are discussed as methods of community policing. The journal also makes attempts to define community policing. This becomes difficult because community policing is different in different communities.

Existing evaluations suggest that community policing can have a favorable impact on the perceptions of police officers and neighborhood residents. Some of the basic issues surrounding community policing are discussed.

COMPSTAT CASE STUDY

Silverman, Eli. NYPD Battles Crime : Innovative Strategies in Policing. Northeastern Univeristy Press, 1999. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1555534015/qid=990918978/sr=1-1/ref=sc_b_1/102-1983695-6296951

 

 INTEGRITY AND YOUR CAREER

John Kleining. The Ethics of Policing. Cambridge Univeristy Press, 1996. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0521484332/qid=990983177/sr=1-1/ref=sc_b_1/102-1983695-6296951

Larry F. Jetmore. The Path of the Warrior: An Ethical Guide to Personal and Professional Development in the Field of Criminal Justice. Looseleaf Law Publishing, 1997. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1889031054/ref=sim_books/102-1983695-6296951

GENERAL BIBLIOGRAPHY

Bureaucratic Form And Reform

David Osborne and Peter Plastrik. Banishing Bureaucracy: The Five Strategies for Reinventing Government. New York: Plume, 1998 (Paperback).

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0452279801/qid=966617820/sr=1-2/103-5646095-2698247. All about the quantum ideas that are behind a lot of the management reforms that we are experiencing at our jobs today.

James Q. Wilson. Bureaucracy: What Government Agencies Do and Why They Do It. Basic Books, 1991. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0465007856/qid=916898272/sr=1-13/002-5090961-6362828 Wilson, who ranges far and wide, is also the co-developer of the "broken windows" theory that has had such an impact on police strategy and tactics. This book explains why our seemingly straightforward jobs as public employees can get very complicated, with many masters and all sorts of landmines strewn about.

 

Police Management

Lawrence Schiller. Perfect Murder, Perfect Town: The Uncensored Story of the JonBenet Murder and the Grand Jury's Search for the Final Truth. Harper Paperbacks, 1999 http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0061096962/qid=967215629/sr=1-3/102-5551230-7180125 Believe it or not this book is mostly about poor police supervision, not to mention poor police-prosecutor relations.

 Charles W. Bowser. Let the Bunker Burn : The Final Battle With Move. Camino Press, 1989. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0940159082/qid=916892536/sr=1-2/002-5090961-6362828 Out of print but available in the John Jay library. This is also a study in lack of coordination, supervision, command and control in a police department and city government confronting a politically-charged crisis.

Thomas Reppetto, James Lardner. NYPD: A City and Its Police. Holt & Co., 2000.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0805055789/qid=991234800/sr=1-1/ref=sc_b_1/002-2806661-1983216 This up-to-date history of the NYPD helps us understand what is going on today by helping us understand what went on yesterday.

A.V. Bouza. The Police Mystique: An Insider's Look at Cops, Crime and the Criminal Justice System. Plenum Press, 1990. This and all the books that follow in this section are by ex-NYPD executives, who discuss police management in general with specific reference to the NYPD as well as PD's in other cities such as Boston, Syracuse, New Orleans and Minneapolis.. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0306434644/qid=991232592/sr=1-10/ref=sc_b_10/002-2806661-1983216

Anthony V. Bouza. Police Unbound: Corruption, Abuse, and Heroism by the Boys in Blue. Prometheus Books, 2001. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1573928771/qid=991234412/sr=1-1/ref=sc_b_1/002-2806661-1983216

Patrick V. Murphy. Commissioner: A View from the Top of American Law Enforcement. Simon and Schuster, 1977.

Jack Maple, Chris Mitchell. The Crime Fighter: How You Can Make Your Community Crime-Free. Bantam Books, 2000. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0767905547/qid=991233829/sr=1-1/ref=sc_b_1/002-2806661-1983216

William Bratton with Peter Knobler, Turnaround. New York: Random House, 1998

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0679452516/o/qid=966617971/sr=2-3/103-5646095-2698247

 

Organizational Culture

James Adams. Sellout: Aldrich Ames and the Corruption of the CIA. Viking, 1995. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0670862363/qid=917501231/sr=1-1/002-5090961-6362828 This book is about a "go along, get along" culture that for decades accepted this drunken, inept agent. What his protectors didn't know was that Ames was also engaged in treasonous behavior that killed a dozen or so U.S. operatives and eventually brought shame on the agency and his fellow agents. The general message here is that an organizational culture that protects seriously flawed fellow employees is in grave danger. Serious flaws ignored are like fuses on bombs--they just might ignite, blowing up everyone nearby. Any time bombs work with you?

James B. Stewart. Blind Eye: How the Medical Establishment Let a Doctor Get Away With Murder. Simon and Schuster, 1999. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0684865637/o/qid=967215388/sr=2-1/102-5551230-7180125 This story is a lot like the Ames story, except that the doctor, already convicted for killing some of his patients, may have had a body count several times as large.

 

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