Research Catalog

Title

The impact of police unions : summary report / by Hervey A. Juris, Peter Feuille.

Author

Juris, Hervey A.

Publication

[Washington, D.C.] : U.S. Dept. of Justice, Law Enforcement Assistance Administration, National Institute of Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice : For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. G.P.O., 1973.

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Additional Authors

• Feuille, Peter.
• United States. Law Enforcement Assistance Administration.
• National Institute of Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice.

Description

v, 21 p.; 28 cm.

Summary

This is a summary report of a two-year study of police unions and their effect on policing and law enforcement. The growth of police unionism in the united states during the 1960's has been a phenomenon of major importance in police management. Police unions in twenty-two urban areas were the target of this field study, during which interviews were conducted with police chiefs or their representatives, city labor relations representatives, police union leaders, and black officer organization leaders. The study explains the influences resulting in the recent rise of militancy in police unions and describes the present nature of these organizations. The effect of the lack of a single employer-figure on the form and conduct of collecting bargaining is discussed, as well as the impact of unions on labor-management relations. The study examines the dimensions of police union bargaining power and the use labor leaders make of this power in varying situations. The relationship between unionization and professionalization is analyzed, as is the impact of police labor organizing on the chief's ability to manage and on the formulation of law enforcement policy. The nature of black officer organizations, and the factors which led to their formation, are compared with similar characteristics of police unions, and the divergence of purpose is examined in relation to intra-departmental racial unrest. Appended is a bibliography on police unions and labor organizations.

Series Statement

Monograph

Uniform Title

Monograph (National Institute of Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice)

Subject

• Police > United States > Labor unions
• Police administration > United States

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 17-21).

Contents

Foreword / Gerald M. Caplan -- The scope and method of the study -- Police employee organizations -- The structure, scope and process of labor relations -- Union impact on the potential for professionalism -- The impact on the chief's ability to manage -- Impact on the formulation of law enforcement policy -- Black officer organizations -- Some concluding observations -- References.

OCLC

• ocm13874287
• SCSB-1468438

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library