Police Reform: An Analysis of Organizational Change and Political Control of a Bureaucracy
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Authors
Overdier, Frederick C.
Issue Date
1984
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Thesis
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en_US
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Since this project was done here in Kalamazoo, I wanted to
put particular emphasis on the Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety
and other local police agencies. Along with the research, I did an
internship in the Witness Unit of the Kalamazoo County Prosecutor's
Office, which compromised nearly 300 hours. From that work I was
able to observe the close working relationship between the prosecutors
and the police. I also attended a session at the police academy
where James Gregart, the Prosecuting Attorney, was lecturing, and
I interviewed a number of other individuals who are involved locally
in criminal justice or police work.
I have collected information from a wide variety of sources -
academic works, media and journalism, and from books written by
recognized chiefs of police. The issues of police reform are very
broad so I could not be as comprehensive in my analysis as I would
have liked. Instead, I have advocated a particular point of view.
It is my hope that this paper is an accurate and helpful summation
of the subject for its readers.
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