Police Departments

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In order to examine the structures and operations of police departments in the United States, this paper distinguishes metropolitan areas, such as New York, with crowded conditions and skyscrapers and tenements fighting for space, with Los Angeles, which is an area of hundreds of square miles covered by cops in cars, helicopters and speed boats. The paper examines the similarities and differences between the LAPD and the NYPD. It also provides a numbered point-by-point summary of these comparisons.

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"Bratton, first appointed by then-newly elected Mayor, Rudolph Giuliani, also was aware of the old saying "don't stick your neck out". As he said, "It's the first principle in running a police department." However, he did stick his neck out in favor of a highly centralized police department, just the opposite of LA's plan for the future. Centralization seemed important for rapid response units and their growth throughout the city. In New York, Centralization also meant (and in some areas still does) that the best cops were in the neighborhoods they knew, where they were respected, and were on call for emergencies, as well as for routine assignments".

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