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Huston Police Department
Innovation
To change the relationship police had with minorities, he initiated community policing, a strategy Brown became well-known for across the country.
Community policing -is a strategy of policing that focuses on police building ties and working closely with members of the communities.
Understanding the Problem
Trying to understand what guides their mission statement:
Four key points: (1) Intimate relations with the community being policed, (2) Understanding that Fear is a problem, (3) Citizens want to call the police for other non-crime problems, and (4) Incidents are often underlying problems...
Lee Brown
- First African American police chief and mayor of Houston
When he assumed the position he inherited a serious of additional problems....
- Situation became worse, crime double
- High Turnover Rate
Background/Problem
Previous Leaders of the HPD
- Increased population -> Which lead to the increase of rioting and looting
- Riots and civil disturbances erupted in the late sixties.
- Houston was dubbed the nation's murder capital. the nations murder capital
- Conflict between the police department and the minorities.
- HPD became know as the "cowboy" department
Caldwell: tried to synthesize the demands from apparently the new and the old
B.K. Johnson -had problems with the
minority groups
both were within the ranks of the HPD