This brief pamphlet outlines a minimum number of basic steps school and police officials should take in developing a joint approach to problems of school disruption. It is also designed to be used as a checklist in preparing a memorandum of agreement relating to school disruption. The pamphlet has two sections: preventing disruptions and…

STUDENTS MAY USE THIS MANUAL IN A TRAINING PROGRAM FOR INSERVICE LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS AND RECRUITS. IT WAS DEVELOPED BY A STATEWIDE COMMITTEE OF STATE LAW ENFORCEMENT TRAINING CONSULTANTS, SPECIALISTS, AND AN ADVISORY COMMITTEE AND WAS TESTED BY A SUBJECT-MATTER SPECIALIST IN A PILOT-CLASS STUDY. THE TRAINING PROGRAM IS DESIGNED TO PROVIDE LAW…

INSTRUCTORS MAY USE THIS MANUAL IN CONDUCTING A LAW ENFORCEMENT TRAINING PROGRAM FOR INSERVICE LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS AND RECRUITS. IT WAS DEVELOPED BY A STATEWIDE COMMITTEE OF STATE LAW ENFORCEMENT CONSULTANTS, SPECIALISTS, AND AN ADVISORY COMMITTE AND WAS TESTED BY A SUBJECT-MATTER SPECIALIST IN A PILOT-CLASS STUDY. THE TRAINING PROGRAM IS…

STUDENTS MAY USE THIS MANUAL IN A LAW ENFORCEMENT TRAINING PROGRAM FOR INSERVICE LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS AND RECRUITS. IT WAS DEVELOPED BY A STATEWIDE COMMITTEE OF LAW ENFORCEMENT TRAINING CONSULTANTS, SPECIALISTS, AND AN ADVISORY COMMITTEE AND WAS TESTED BY A SUBJECT MATTER SPECIALIST IN A PILOT-CLASS STUDY. THE PROGRAM IS DESIGNED TO PROVIDE…

INSTRUCTORS MAY USE THIS MANUAL IN CONDUCTING A TRAINING PROGRAM FOR INSERVICE LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS AND RECRUITS. IT WAS DEVELOPED BY A STATEWIDE COMMITTEE OF STATE LAW ENFORCEMENT CONSULTANTS, SPECIALISTS, AND AN ADVISORY COMMITTEE AND WAS TESTED BY A SUBJECT-MATTER SPECIALIST IN PILOT-CLASS STUDY. THE TRAINING PROGRAM IS DESIGNED TO PROVIDE…

This report reviews and describes issues relating to the police response to the Dade County, Florida, disorders of May 1980. Recent changes in the social environment and several incidents leading up to the disorders are described. The preparation, planning, mobilization, and tactical response of the Dade County Department of Public Safety and the…

The primary goal of research performed in Oakland, California was decision models for four felony classes--robbery, assault, with a deadly weapon, car theft, and rape--to determine cases having sufficient probability of clearance to warrant intensive investigation. A secondary objective, determination of personal-appearance and crime-event…

An officer on the Youth Detail of the Vancouver Police Department has been actively participating since April 1972, in activities at the Killarney Secondary School and six of its feeder elementary schools. The purpose of the involvement of the officer was to bring about more positive attitudes toward authority and the police and to contribute to…

Part of the Omaha police in-service training program was devoted to innovative approaches to solving police department problems and improving community relations. The sessions were an attempt to use the brainstorming technique to elicit new solutions to everyday problems faced by the rank-and-file members of the police department. The report…

This document is both a survey of inservice training practices for police officers in the State of Texas and a manual for use in the training and education of police officers. The survey indicates that continuous training for Texas peace officers is far from sufficient while the manual provides information on developing and improving inservice…

Describes findings on the use of police services by 300 women residing in a shelter, specifically those relating to victim-abuser characteristics, variables that significantly correlate with the victims' contacting the police, and general patterns of police service use by spousal abuse victims. Draws practice implications for police, social…

This study demonstrates that criminal justice education is interdisciplinary only to the limited extent it integrates the law, the social sciences, and its vocational and technical aspects. In order to integrate the humanities in criminal justice education, the educators must be educated. (Author/LMO)

This guide addresses school vandalism and break-ins, describing the problem and reviewing the risk factors. It also discusses the associated problems of school burglaries and arson. The guide then identifies a series of questions to help analyze each local problem. Finally, it reviews responses to the problem, and what is known about them from…

The story of the Houston (Texas) Police Department is a study of times and changes in the fourth largest city in the United States. This history of the Houston Police Department (HPD) examines the Department's beginnings in 1837. The HPD hired its first black officers in 1873. The Department purchased its first patrol car in 1910. In 1930 the…

The research reported the attitudes of Detroit ghetto residents concerning both riot control issues and police conduct before, during, and after the 1967 riot. Subjects were residents of the Twelth Street neighborhood, center of that riot. (DB)