An Introduction to Policing

Part I: POLICE HISTORY AND ORGANIZATION. 1. Police History. 2. Organizing Public Security in the United States. 3. Organizing the Police Department. Part II: THE PERSONAL SIDE OF POLICING. 4. Becoming a Police Officer. 5. The Police Role and Police Discretion. 6. Police Culture, Personality, and Police Stress. 7. Minorities in Policing. 8. Police Ethics and Police Deviance. Part III: POLICE OPERATIONS. 9. Patrol Operations. 10. Investigations. 11. Police and Their Clients. 12. Community Policing. 13. Police and the Law. Part IV: CRITICAL ISSUES IN POLICING. 14. Computers, Technology, and Criminalistics in Policing. 15. Homeland Security.