Why Law Enforcement Organizations Fail: Mapping the Organizational Fault Lines in Policing

O'Hara (public administration, John Jay College of Criminal Justice and academic director of the NYPD Certificate Program) argues that the very nature of law enforcement organizations makes some of their problems inevitable. By analyzing a variety of cases, he shows how crises occur regularly along common structural and cultural fault lines in police agencies at every level of government. He also provides a pragmatic guide for handling crises, preventing their recurrence and restoring the l...