Jammed Up: Bad Cops, Police Misconduct, and the New York City Police Department
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Overview
there are many opportunities for cops to act like criminals. Jammed Up is the definitive study of the nature and causes of police misconduct. While police departments are notoriously protective of their own—especially personnel and disciplinary information—Michael White and Robert Kane gained unprecedented, complete access to the confidential files of NYPD officers who committed serious offenses, examining the cases of more than 1,500 NYPD officers over a twenty year period that includes a fairly complete cycle of scandal and reform, in the largest, most visible police department in the United States. They explore both the factors that predict officer misconduct, and the police department’s responses
to that misconduct, providing a comprehensive framework for understanding the issues. The conclusions they draw are important not just for what they can tell us about the NYPD but for how we are to understand the very nature of police misconduct.
ACTUAL MISCONDUCT CASES
»» An off-duty officer driving his private vehicle stops at a convenience store on Long Island, after having just worked a 10 hour shift in Brooklyn, to steal a six pack of beer at gun point. Is this police misconduct?
»» A police officer is disciplined no less than six times in three years for failing to comply with administrative standards and is finally dismissed from employment for losing his NYPD shield (badge). Is this police misconduct?
»» An officer was fired for abusing his sick time, but then further investigation showed that the officer was found not guilty in a criminal trial during which he was accused of using his position as a police officer to protect drug and prostitution enterprises. Which is the example of police misconduct?
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780814748411 |
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| Publisher: | New York University Press |
| Publication date: | 11/19/2012 |
| Pages: | 239 |
| Product dimensions: | 5.90(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.90(d) |
About the Author
Robert J. Kane is Associate Professor in the School of Criminal Justice at the University of Baltimore.
Michael D. White (Author)
Michael D. White is Professor in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Arizona State Universityand the Associate Director of ASU’s Center for Violence Prevention and Community Safety. He is co-author of Cops, Cameras, and Crisis: The Potential and the Perils of Police Body-Worn Cameras (2020); Stop and Frisk: The Use and Abuse of a Controversial Policing Tactic (2016); and Jammed Up: Bad Cops, Police Misconduct, and the New York City Police Department (2013).
Table of Contents
Preface: What Bad Cops Tell Us about Good Policing Candace McCoy ix
Acknowledgments xiii
Prologue xv
1 Jammed Up: An Introduction 1
2 What We Know and Don't Know about Police Misconduct 19
3 Setting the Stage: An Historical Look at the New York Police Department 39
4 Exploring Career-Ending Misconduct in the NYPD: Who, What, and How Often 65
5 Predicting Police Misconduct: How to Recognize the Bad Cops 87
6 The Department, the City, and Police Misconduct: Looking beyond the Bad Cop 107
7 Explaining Bad Behavior: Can Criminology Help Us Understand Police Misconduct? 123
8 What We Know about Being Jammed Up, and Transitioning to a Discourse on Good Policing 157
Appendix: Analyses from Chapter 5 173
Notes 177
References 195
Index 213
About the Authors 222
What People are Saying About This
“Jammed Up is a must-read for police scholars and practitioners who want to understand police misconduct and how it impacts officers and organizations. Robert Kane and Michael White brilliantly weave their analysis of bad policing into layers of information that help us understand good policing. This comprehensive volume helps us understand how to investigate police misconduct and how to understand it. It is a complex book that uncovers the dark side of policing but keeps it in its proper context.” -Geoffrey P. Alpert,co-author of co-author of Policing: Continuity and Change
“Jammed Up provides a lively empirical study of career-ending misconduct in the NYPD from the late 1970s through the 1990s. Interpreted through the lens of criminological theories of deviance and enriched by sketches of police officer miscreants, Jammed Up will be of interest to students, scholars and members of the general public who are curious about the causes of police delinquency.”-Jennifer Hunt,author of Seven Shots: An NYPD Raid on a Terrorist Cell and Its Aftermath
“In this book, Kane and White deeply examine the conditions under which cops become criminals, or at least get ‘jammed up.’ They go further, analyzing whether those conditions are primarily attributable to the personal characteristics of the police officers themselves or to the organizational characteristics (and political environment) which define their employer, the New York City Police Department. Not surprisingly, the authors find that both individual and organizational variables significantly account for police misconduct. . . .Kane and White add to existing knowledge about police misconduct by showing that organizational policy and practices, not simply individual ‘bad apples,’ can be a source of bad policing through no fault of individuals. In other words, sometimes the barrel itself is rotten and induces good apples to do bad things. . . .”-from the Preface by Candace McCoy,Professor of Criminal Justice, John Jay College of Criminal Justice