Rixton Facts
Based on the Rixton case, Cordner (2016) pointed out some facts about the community and the police department:
A small population with a police organization of about 36 officers and a Police Chief who is a likeable man, who lacks organizational capability;
outstanding officer who conduct themselves in a typical fashion; and
has two cliques, minority subculture of a small number of six who makes up of about 17 percent of the police department and the dominant police culture who is accepted by most of the officers in Rixton.
“The fact that the dominant police culture in Rixton was service-oriented and not militaristic was a fortunate quirk of fate” (Cordner, 2016, p 481).
Rixton Issues
Cordner (2016) made some issues clear within the Rixton Police Department that affected the way the officers carry out the on the job duties. This issues are:
an inexperienced Police Chief who came up through ranks of the department the chief broadcasts all the organizations policy and procedure on an announcement board with other outdated materials;
there is no chief to subordinate communication which lead to poor leadership;
two cliques, dominant culture and minority subculture, within the department who conflict with each other; and
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The officers were operating or controlling the department by their own authority. Chief Eager may have come up in the department through rank and landed the position by the likes of community, however, he lacks the organizational skills which put the department in at risk. “Every police chief executive immediately should establish written policies in those areas of operations in which guidance is needed to direct agency employees toward the attainment of agency goals and objectives” (Cordner, 2016, p 125). The chief did not enforce the policies, procedures, and rules and regulations within the department, leaving it up to the officers to read for
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“For many early Victorians, policing was a new and low-status occupation. Few men became policeman for positive reasons" (Taylor 49).
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confront smaller jurisdiction with limited police resources, a fractured neighborhood or a single residential streets where neighbors do not know each other and rarely communicate” (qtd. in Dean 1).
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...ce of petty crimes will lead to the increment in the number of serious crimes. Just like other authors, Bratton believes that the examination of crime statistics by time, place and other factors is very effective in discovering how to organize police resources. However, all these readings fail to integrate Kauffman's ‘Theology of Consensus’ which would have enabled readers to understand and appreciate least splendid but vital aspects of the police department.
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