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November 1986 LawEnforcement Bulletin A Special Report November 1986, Volume 55, Number 11 00®@@@[j'@l}u 1 The Police Foundation: A Special Report By Thomas J. Deakin ll:,&:~w ~IJU g® U'©® [)i]i) @(]\) ~ 12 Fighting Fear in Baltimore County: 00® 0@ The COPE Project By Cornelius J . Behan lMJ@[ii)@@@[)i]i)@[ii)~ 16 The Nature of Police Authority By Donald C. Witham and Stephen D. Gladis lMJ®[ii)@@@uuu@OD~ 21 Law Enforcement Career Management: Planning for Promotion By Thomas Mahoney ll:,®@®O ©o@®@~ 25 Urinalysis Drug Testing Programs for Law Enforcement (Part II) By Jeffrey Higginbotham 31 Wanted by the FBI TheCover: ~ With the Police Foundation vertical logo, the cover DO symbolizes the foundation "Crime File" v i d eo project. Law Enforcement Bulletin United States Department of Justice Published by the Office of Federal Bureau of Investigation Congressional and Public Affairs, Washington, DC 20535 William M . Baker. Ass1stant Director Wi lliam H. Webster, Director Editor-Thomas J. Deaki n Assistant Editor- Kath ryn E. Sulewski The Attorney General has determined that the Art Director-Kevin J. Mulholland publlcatron of thrs periodrcat is necessary in the Production Manager-Marlethra S . Black transacti on of the public busine ss required by law Reprints- Beth Corb in of the Department of Justice . Use of funds for printrng this periodical has been approved by the Orrector of the Office of Management and Budget through June 6 , 1988. ISS N 0014-5688 USPS 383-3 10 The Police Foundation A Special Report The dramatic opening moments of are important to the public, the public's By the Police Foundation 's series of elected policymakers, and to the police THOMAS J . DEAKIN "Crime File" videos are remin iscent of themselves . The newly appoi nted Special Agent/Ed itor, President of the Police Foundation, the popular "Hill Street Blues " televi FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin sion series: Scenes of officers at role Hubert Williams, wants to increase the call , on patrol , in raids , end ing with a foundation 's support of law enforce courtroom scene. More realistic than ment agencies seeking to adopt more commercial television , these videos, effective means to accomplish their produced by the Police Foundation un missions. Generating public and der a grant from the National Institute policymaker support of innovation, a of Justice, contain thoughtful, balanced purpose of these "Crime File" televi analyses of issues affecting police sion productions, is one way of helping work today. law enforcement to achieve this goal. These half-hour programs , a new medium for dissemination of research results and debate in criminal justice, November 1986 I 1 The Pol ice Foundation was ini thus police must be close to the citi tially best known for its year-long zens they serve . This belief is now a Kansas City Preventive Patrol Experi tenet of police practice that has helped ment, conducted with the cooperation to foster today 's neighborhood policing of Clarence M . Kelley, then Chief of programs and a variety of other pro the Kansas City, MO, Police Depart grams designed to bring police and the ment. Completed in 1973, this study citize nry closer together. showed that the leve l of preventive po Other Police Foundation operating lice patrol did not affect the crime rate assumptions include : or citizens ' fear of crime. ·,'That t he police must be willing to Thi s conclusion caused a re examine their practices and question Special Agent Deakin examination of one of policing's basic and experiment with the ways they tenets, that crime is prevented by ran use their resources; That the police dom police patrol. Perhaps as impor must be prudent and civil in the tant, the study opened policing's door ways they use their discretion , espe to experimentation by showing that ex cially in the use of force ; That to be periments could be conducted while a effective in controlling crime and police department carried out its re maintaining orde r in the diverse sponsibilities to life and property. This communities of the nation's cities, was one of the goals of the Police police departments should actively Foundation : To overcome natural po hire and promote members of minor lice objections to experimentation , ob ities and women ; That, because of jections based on fear the process cutbacks in local funding for many would interfere with normal operations pol ice departments the police must and obl igations. do more with less."2 What is the Police Foundation and In many ways, especially the last, what is it trying to accomplish? What these as sumpti ons are today gov has been its impact on policing? How erning the ways police do their job. Ex will the foundation 's work affect the fu periments with ways of using re ture of policing? sources, prudence in the use of force ''The mission of the Police Founda (also as mandated recently by the Su tion is to foster improvement and in preme Court), and hiring and novation in American policing and, promoting minorities (the number of thus, to help the police in their mis black chiefs of polic e has greatly in sion of reducing crime and disorder creased in recent years) are ways in in America's cities."1 which the police are seeking to do Beyond this basic miss ion state more w ith les s, as evidenced in the ment, underlying assumptions about pages of this Bulletin . police work guide the foundation ; over the last 16 years, these assumptions Ford Foundation Origins have become guiding standards for On Ju ly 1 , 1970, McGeorge much of American policing . Th e foun Bundy, President of the Ford Founda dation believes that the control of tion, met with then FB I Director cri me and the maintenance of order J. Edgar Hoover and outlined the Ford depend on the cooperation of citizens, Foundation 's plan to begin a Police Development Fund , which would have $30 million to spend over the next 5 years. Three weeks later, on July 22, 2 I FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin "'The mission of the Police Foundation is to foster improvement and innovation in American policing ...."' Bundy held a press conference in New The report noted that America had periments and demonstrations aimed York City to announce the fund, which real ized in recent years that there was at improving operations, and to sup would make grants to police depart a "se riously high incidence of crime" port special education and training ments to bring about major reforms. and the "system of criminal justice is projects." The fund would join with At the press conference, Bundy inadequate for its prevention or the ap Federal, State, and local agencies in introduced Ivan Allen, Jr., former prehension of criminals." The 1965 order to increase its impact. Mayor of Atlanta, GA, who would be Presidential Commission report, "The James Q. Wilson, today's Chair the chairman of the board of the new Challenge of Crime in a Free Society," man of the Board of Directors of the organization. The board would include re commended far-reaching improve Police Foundation and a Professor of members of the legal, academic, and ments, and later reports from the Com Government at Harvard University, told police communities, including Quinn mission on Civil Disorders (the Kerner the Bulletin that the Police Foundation Tamm , Executive Director of the Inter Commission) and the Commission of took its present name immediately af national Association of Chiefs of Police the Causes and Prevention of Violence ter the Ford Foundation announce (IACP) and a former FBI executive. (the Eisenhower Commission) added ment of the formati on of a Police De Executive Director of the fund would significant observations on the need velopment Fund , to avoid any be Charles H. Rogovin, former head of for more effective policing. connotation that the ''fund" was to im the Law Enforcement Assistance Ad These commission reports ob prove policing in the manner of improv ministration and previously an Assist served that a fundamental attack on ing underdeveloped countries. ant Attorney General of Massachu crime would require a national effort to Wilson, an original member of the setts. lessen poverty, slums, ill health, and il board of directors, said that a differ Other members of the board with literacy, but the Ford Foundation said ence in po licy priorities between the police backgrounds included Michael remedies to the criminal j ustice system board and the Police Foundation's first Canlis, then President of the National "cannot wait for action on the full range President, Charles H. Rogovin, led to Sheriff's Association; Hubert Locke , of our social ills." Noting that Federal the selection of Patrick Murphy as the former Deputy Police Commissioner of funds would be available in the 1970's new chief executive officer of the foun Detroit and a professor at Wayne State to assist local police for the first time dation in 1973. The board wanted a re University; David McCandless, Direc (the Law Enforcement Assistance Ad search focus for the foundation while tor of the Southern Police Institute in ministration) , the foundation expressed Rogovin, the board felt, was more in Lou isvil le, KY; Lawrence Pierce, a concern whether our society would terested in an emphasis on po l ice former Deputy Commissioner of the end up with more of the same system leadership development and training. 6 New York City Police Department; and or with "something new and signifi Another membe r of the Police Stanley Schrotel, former Chief of Po cantly different" in policing , because: Foundation's Board of Directors noted lice in Cincinnati.3 "We leave to the police many of so that the board is self-perpetuating; A report on the newly established ciety's problems, whether or not they members elect new members as va police development fund was issued at are equipped to handle them.