Virtuous Policing - Bridging America''s Gulf Between Police and Populace

This casebook is intended to support professionals who are working in a variety of contexts to use classroom-based assessment more effectively to support teacher learning and teaching change, and to enhance the opportunities for all students to develop mathematical power. It grows out of a collaboration of mathematics teachers and teacher educators, and mathematicians, to better understand the role of assessment as an ongoing activity to help teachers reshape their own teaching practices. At the heart of each case is using assessment to make sense of what students understand and what they are confused about, deciding what counts as evidence of that understanding, and using the analysis to consider what the teacher's next instructional moves might be. All of the cases in this volume are built around actual episodes from mathematics classrooms. Intended as decision-making exercises, they present the raw data of classroom events in a straightforward way and are designed to stimulate analysis and reflection; provoke various and sometimes conflicting interpretations of an event; bring to the fore deeply held beliefs of beginning and experienced teachers so they can be reconsidered; and engage professionals in pedagogical problem solving in the context of complex classroom settings. This volume reflects the growing interest in cases as a pedagogical tool in teacher professional development. The cases are organized to take up key themes of the NCTM Professional Teaching Standards in ways that will assist and support teachers, teacher educators, and curriculum and staff development specialists in learning to assess and in linking assessment with curriculum, teaching, and learning. Although each case contains many ideas for linking assessment with curriculum and instruction, the most powerful use of these materials resides in their design intended to foster conversations among groups of professional colleagues. The editors' field-testing of the cases--in

List of contents

Foreword, Preface, Acknowledgments, About the Authors, Chapter 1 Introduction , Chapter 2 Human Operating System 1.0, Chapter 3 How America Treats Her Warriors and the Cults of Tribalism and Victimology, Chapter 4 Virtuous Leadership for Law Enforcement, Chapter 5 Virtuous Policing and Maryland's Own NSA, Chapter 6 In Defense of Self and Others in the Ghetto: Loss of Right, Chapter 7 Murder in Southern California (or Cops Emulating the TV Show Cops), Chapter 8 Officer Ray Bunn and Atlanta's Injustice System, Chapter 9 The Overutilization of SWAT and the Militarization of Our Police Departments, Chapter 10 Being Poor Is Not a Crime, Chapter 11 Peace Officers Versus Professional Law Enforcement Officers, Chapter 12 When Society Embraces the Bad Guys: The Sad Song of Sergeant Johnnie Riley, Chapter 13 Redefining the Role of State: Back to a True Liberalism, Chapter 14 Police in Our School Systems, Chapter 15 On Notice and the Presumption of Innocence, Chapter 16 How the Lack of Virtue Undermines Society Itself, Chapter 17 The Power of Link Analysis, Chapter 18 The Ugly and the Good in Police Reformation, Chapter 19 Some Solutions

About the author

L. Morgan Banks III, David G. Bolgiano, James M. Patterson

Summary

"It pulls no punches, shuns no controversial topic, and glosses over no issues or problems that beset America‘s law enforcement community in our day. For those who may be prone to suspect the motives of these self-confessed lovers of cops and warriors, the title of this book‘should be sufficient to allay such concerns." John C. Hall, Supervisory Special Agent, FBI (Retd.), from the Foreword
Virtuous Policing: Bridging America‘s Gulf Between Police and Populace is a vigorous assessment and commentary on governmental uses of force, whether by civilian law enforcement officers in the United States or by military service members overseas. In the wake of recent controversies such as events in Ferguson, Missouri, and Baltimore, Maryland, this book presents strategies to ease rising tensions in citizen law enforcement relations.
The book particularly addresses the growing division between members of the police and citizenry due to a number of factors, including the effects of some press members who are more interested in cultivating sensational stories of "rogue" cops than in discovering and disseminating facts. Also, with the abundance of information true and false available on the Internet and the increasing utilization of social media, technology contributes to the rising friction between citizens and police. Rather than make unrealistic arguments for curtailing media and technology, it suggests solutions that are reasonable, practical, and, most importantly, peaceful.
The authors examine law enforcement policies, procedures, and leadership methods in relation to four cardinal virtues: self-control, justice, competency, and moral courage. Case studies illustrate ethical, legal, psychological, and tactical issues that law enforcement and the military have to address in establishing and maintaining good and peaceable governance.
With an eye toward minimizing or avoiding future violent confrontations between citizens and those

Product details

• Authors: L. Morgan Banks III, David G. Bolgiano, David G. Banks Bolgiano, David G. Banks III Bolgiano, David G. Patterson Bolgiano, Bolgiano David G., James M. Patterson, Patterson James M.
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2017
• EAN: 9781138458505
• ISBN: 978-1-138-45850-5
• No. of pages: 258
• Series: 500 Tips
• Subjects: Guides; Social sciences, law, business > Law > Criminal law, criminal procedural law, criminology; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, COMPUTERS / Security / General, Crime and criminology, Crime & criminology, Computer security