Examines the relationship between police reporters and law enforcement officials in Tennessee. Finds that reporters are far younger than their source counterparts and less likely to have much experience or come from the local community. Finds that law enforcement officials rated reporters slightly higher than the reverse evaluation in such areas…

Extant research has found that crimes against juveniles are substantially less likely than crimes against adults to come to the attention of the police. Few studies, however, have attempted to systematically examine variation in police reporting between juvenile and adult victims. With assault and robbery data from the 1994-2001 National Crime…

In presenting a forecast of the emergence of the police profession using a sociological approach based on societal processes and relations, both the discussion of professionalization of the police in the bourgeois literature and a more general discussion of the professions by Talcott Parsons, taken as the foremost structural-functional theorist of…

If the police are to realize a greater return on the investment made in improving their operations, they must concern themselves directly with the end product of their efforts. Meeting this need requires that police develop a systematic process for examining and addressing problems that the public expects them to. (Author)

Describes some of the problems involved in police-community relations and some of the approaches used to overcome them. (AN)

A public relations programs carried out the police department of Palo Alto, California, has produced an improved atmosphere between policemen and local residents, especially students. (CK)

As law enforcement officers, you, more than anyone else in the society, represent the power and quality of the State, because many citizens learn what kind of country this is by watching you. Your action and direction bridge the gap between the government and the individual and hence your role has a wide scope and your functions are not easily…

In a community confrontation program with police and community members, group leaders face many problems dissimilar from those found in group therapy. Dealing with authority (police) was difficult when the leader held a low self-esteem. Dealing with very vocal, rebellious community members presented difficulties in accepting their reports as truth…

Shows that youth's image of TV police is not correlated with his image of actual police; television images held by delinquents and middle-class adolescents do not differ. (TO)

The University of California, Berkeley, is calm now after the riots of the 60's, due to increased police-student interaction. (PG)

As a model for reform and reorganization, the author recommends the division of the contemporary police organization into two agencies, one with law enforcement function, one with community service function. Initial steps to be taken are outlined. (JB)

Article describes the results of an urban renewal program. (Author/MM)

Examined effect a senior citizen anticrime unit had on attitudes and perceptions about police performance on older adults (n=224) who had received police service. Findings indicated those who had dealt with the special senior unit were more satisfied with the efforts of local police than those who had not received specialized services. (Author/ABL)