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Law En'lorcement Bulletin JUNE 1975 Law Enforcement Bulleti!. CONTENTS MESSAGE FROM THE DIRECTOR Choosing a career in law enforcement. PLANNING: THE DYNAMICS OF POLICE ADMINIS• TRATION" by James J. Zurawski, Director, and JUNE 1975 Sgt. Edward C. Brooks, Research and Develop• ment Division, Police Department, Chicago, 'III. 2 VOL. 44, NO. 6 A VIEW OF POLICE PRODUCTIIVITY, by Hon. Clarence M. Kelley, Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Washington, D.C. 7 THE EFFECTIVENESS OF SNUB-NOSE 'REVOLVERS AND SMALL AUTOMATIC PISTOLS, by Vincent J. M. DiMaio, M.D., J. Allan Jones, W. W. Caruth In, Louie L. Anderson, and Charles S. Petty, M.D., Southwestern Institute of Forensic Sciences, Dallas, Tex. 10 COMPUTER CATCHES KIDNAPER, by Sadatoshi Suzuki, Director, Criminal Investigation Division, Metropolitan Police Department, Tokyo, Japan 14 PROFESSIONALISM: LEGACY OF THE 100TH SESSION ". • I am sure you will show the people of America that they may trust in the law and in yoli." 19 THE SILENT WITNESS, by Insp. Charles A. Donelan, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Washington, D.C. 22 WANTED BY THE FBI 28 Published by the FEDERAL BUREAU of INVESTIGATION UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT of JUSTICE THE COVER This month's cover photo dramatizes the immense scope and Impact pollee Washington, D.C. 20535 planning and research operations can have on a city-in this case, Chicago, III . Inset are Superintendent of Police James M. Rochford (standing at ex• treme leftl and members of his depart• ment's Research and Development staff. See article beginning page 2. JUNE WILL BE A MONTH of great decision for a If we look far ahead, as youth certainly must, large number of graduating youths. They will these two qualities-challenge and accomplish• face the frequently hard prospect, for most ment-take on huge dimensions for the future. persons, of choosing and pursuing a career. To There are, for example, few greater long-range many, this decision may be the most important threats to our society than the looming specter of their lives. of crime. And there is no more worthwhile goal I am often asked for career advice and have than the just, orderly, secure, and creative no hesitancy in recommending to any interested society that respect for the law can inspire. young person a career as a law enforcement officer. The profession has given me a great sense Young people should put aside the derring-do of personal satisfaction. Although it is both a television, cinema, and novelist's image of the livelihood and an adventure, law enforcement is law enforcement officer. While there is plenty in much more than just these. For me, it has been a police work to reinforce this stereotype, the law rewarding opportunity to do something special enforcement mission is too profound for just with my life. Law enforcement has done some• courageous, decisive, and dynamic individuals. thing special for the lives of many others and It also needs persons with intelligence, com• can do it for many more. passion, and vision. The law enforcement profession offers two For those young people who earnestly want a great qualities in life which have captured the imagination of ambitious and perceptive youth better tomorrow for themselves and their country, during all periods in our history. These are the there are few greater opportunities to work for excitement of challenge and the satisfaction of it than by enlisting their talents in the law meaningful accomplishment. There is rarely a enforcement effort. Of the priorities facing our day when a law enforcement officer does not find Nation, the search for a more lawful society is both. surely one of the most vexing. CLARENCE M. KELLEY JUNE 1, 1975 Director "The police aclministrator can no longer allorcl to question whether he shoulcl have a specializecl planning unit, but rather, he must ask if he can allorcl not to have one." PLANNING: THE DYNAMICS OF POLICE ADMINISTRATION By JAMES J. ZURAWSKI Director and SGT. EDWARD C. BROOKS Research and Development Division Police Department Chicago, III. ... Flanked by Director Zurawski on his right and Sgt. Brooks on his left. Chicago Police Superintendent James M. Rochford (second from rightl discusses planning study with the Research and Development staff. ..~ 2 FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin ,I Therefore, every police administrator and detailing in advance action to be In 1967, after considerable research has an obligation to his local govern- taken toward implementing desired and effort, the President's Commis- mental administration and the com- change." 4 By these definitions alone, sion on Law Enforcement and Admin- munity he serves to deploy all the it becomes obvious that all police istration of Justice reported with em- resources of his department in the agencies, regardless of size, need and .. phasis that: most efficient way possible without utilize the planning process. Planning sacrificing effectiveness. The police in large departments is usually han- "A police force cannot be effec- administrator can no longer afford to dled by a specialized group of well- tive if it is administered on a day- question whether he should have a trained individuals, but in small de- to­day crisis basis. It needs specialized planning unit, but rather, partments it may be handled by the plans: contingency plans, for ex- he must ask if he can afford not to chief of police or his deputy. The fact ample, about how to handle a have one. remains, however, that the need for visit by the President or how to For the benefit of these adminis- planning is present in all size depart- capture an armed desperado trators, it might be well to review ments, differing only in volume and holed up in an apartment; op- some of the critical elements of the form. Any police department that is erational plans about how to de- police planning and resea~ch function well administered and successful in- ploy men in various neighbor- and expose them to practical situa- variably has a planning and research hoods at various times of day or tions. An examination of some of the unit.5 Unfortunately, however, there how to deal with the problem of many books and articles devoted to still are police administrators who apartment burglaries; Ion g- police planning reveals a very definite allow operational personnel to deal range plans about improving the consensus regarding the purpose, with highly sensitive department prob. quality of personnel, installing methodology, and overall nature of lems and dispose of them by utilizing new equipment or controlling the planning process_ It also becomes individual judgment. Morale, budget, widespread vic e, budgetary obvious that a number of questions efficiency, and public confidence in the p I a n s, community­relations which arise in the minds of police ad- organization are apt to be severely plans, technological plans, and ministrators require definitive an- damaged as a consequence. plans of many other kinds. It swers before they can be convinced of Specifically, planning and research needs not only to develop new ., the utility of a planning unit. units should do many of those things plans but to review continually Let us examine some of these ques- for the chief that he does not have the the operation of plans already in tions in order. time to do himself. Depending upon effect and to amend or discard the size of the department, this may them if necessary. To do this What Is Planning and include a wide range of responsibili- kind of planning to best advan- What Does a Planning ties. While there are no standard func- tage, a department must first and Research Unit Do? tions for planning units, the focus of engage in research and anal- their efforts will be to examine, in ysis_" 1 The concept of planning has been minute detail, every aspect of police • It is unfortunate that even after the defined in many ways by authorities organization, operation, and manage- ~ publication of this report more than on the subject. O. W_ Wilson defines ment; and by analysis and contempla- 1 8 years ago and the many subsequent it as a process of finding facts and tion will attempt to increase the effec- statements and articles supporting its analyzing them to determine present tiveness of police efforts as well as findings­not the least of which is the and future needs and then developing improve the economy of their opera- "Report on Police" by the National procedures and resources to meet these tions at every level. 6 2 'I Advisory Commission on Criminal needs. William H. Newman charac- Justice Standards and Goals­there terizes it simply as "deciding in ad- What Can Planning Do are still many police department ad- vance what is to be done; that is, a for Management? ministrators who do not perceive an projected course of action." 3 Accord- advantage jn using a formal planning ing to comprehensive research con- Even in the smallest departments process. More and more, during this ducted by Michigan State University's such concerns as manpower needs, • period of inAation, traditional sources School of Police Administration, plan- operating costs, workload, crime rate, .. of revenue are becoming overbur- ning involves the "marshalling of facts and citizens' calls for service are con- dened, and new sources of revenue are relevant to solving particular prob- stantly changing. The demography of becoming harder and harder to find. lems, evaluating alternate solutions, cities and communities is dynamic June 1975 3 with respect to size and composition. "If any planning unit is to off. The space program is perhaps the All of these changing situations should be effective, it must be dedi• most vivid example. The potential continually be evaluated and reviewed cated to change; and if it is which planning holds for a police during the process of planning and going to improve things, it department is endless.

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