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If, as Shakespeare (1597) wrote in “Henry IV,” it is true that “Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown,” then certainly the nature of policing in general has never allowed police leaders the luxury of being able to “lie easy.” The police profession, like the rest of the nation, is undergoing radical changes in leadership and supervision.
Furthermore, practices that worked for police managers of the past will no longer suffice today. The autocratic, control oriented police leadership methods of the past are changing to the empowerment and participative management styles; the paramilitary command and control operations used even a few years ago do not work well with today’s officers, who respond instead to intellectual challenges, stimulation, and motivation. More specifically, past expectations and measures of the police function were quite different, often requiring that officers essentially perform like human pinballs – reactively hurrying from call to call, exiting the...
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Peak, K.J. (2014). Role and Function of the Police Manager. In: Bruinsma, G., Weisburd, D. (eds) Encyclopedia of Criminology and Criminal Justice. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-5690-2_384
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