Author: Lawrence E. Burgin
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Category : Police
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
The purpose of this study is to determine community atitudes toward the police. Policemen are either ignorant of, or tend to misinterpret, public attitudes toward them as represented by various elements of the community, and police relations with certain segments of the community are a matter of the utmost social and political importance. Yet there has been little effort to collect attitude data from those people within the community who might be able to help in changing the relationship between the police and the community. In response to this the researcher determined a need for research into the attitudes of community leaders toward the police. On the basis of the analysis and findings for this research, it is concluded that: Attitudes of community leaders toward the police are affected by certain aspects of their personal and/or socio-economic status, and attitudes of community leaders toward the police are affect by their personal contacts with a policeman.