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- Title
FACTORS INFLUENCING THE FUTURE DEVELOPMENT OF STATE POLICE.
- Authors
Smith, Bruce
- Abstract
The article focuses on the factors influencing the future development of state police. There is a pronounced tendency for the minor police forces to develop into regular state police departments, with the result that there are always a few borderline cases which defy accurate classification. For the older and more highly developed state police departments, the past twenty-five years have seen the difficulties, first experienced in Pennsylvania, repeated in one commonwealth after another. Thus the opposition of organized labor has been fairly continuous; sometimes open and strenuous. So while labor opposition has not destroyed the state police, it has prevented their establishment in a few commonwealths, and in others has succeeded in controlling the direction of their development. Another problem which has repeatedly appeared, arises from the fact that the state forces are superimposed upon a wide variety of local police agencies such as municipal police departments, sheriffs, constables and town marshals.
- Subjects
PENNSYLVANIA; STATE police; RURAL police; POLICE; ORGANIZATIONAL structure; LABOR unions
- Publication
Journal of Criminal Law & Criminology (08852731), 1932, Vol 23, Issue 4, p713
- ISSN
0885-2731
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/1135228