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Police Leadership and tbe Community
emergencies, inlich more effectively. When a tragedy or
national disaster hits suddenly, like a Ion of bricks, it is no
time to ask to be briefed on the reasons why it happened.
Willi awareness comes a certain level of confidence.
That awareness involves a great deal, including a feel for—
or bellcr still, an understanding of- the human and cultural
environment in which a leader must work. Il includes knowing
both the people whom the leader serves and the people who
work for him. Cultivating that awareness and an education lo
go wilh it are pivotal elements in the development of potential
leaders.
COMMUNITY AWARENESS
Before a community in America can effectively be served,
a basic fact must be understood—that each community is
unique. There are no two communities (hat arc exactly alike,
just as there are no two human beings exactly alike. Iiach
one of us is different from any one of the billions of people
who have been bom on the face of the earth. Just look around,
and you will see (hat no two people are exactly alike, liven
identical twins, who may fool us on rare occasions, aie not
truly identical. If people are that different, (hen communities
arc certainly different. The people of Los Angeles aie totally
different from the people in San Diego. And as Ihe distance
between places increases, the differences grow. An understanding of the people who make up a community, and of
their culture, including the history or that culluic, is absolutely
vital.
The Ethnic Makeup of the Community
If some cncigclic student would complete a Master's
thesis, or if someone would write a book on a particular
city- Los Angeles, Honolulu, whatever--for the sole purpose
of identifying and describing the various cultural mixes
62
Police I eadoiship and tbe Community
within il in lei ins of the problems that police should be per
ccptivc of, that person would make a significant contribution
lo public peace. Such a work would be a tremendous resource
to police professionals. Besides being a very useful tool foi a
gieat many special community programs, il would assist the
police leader with personnel decisions within his agency.
Lot example, over 60 ycais ago, hundreds of thousands
of Armenians died at the hands of their Turkish conquerors,
and lo this day Ihcic is tremendous hostility towaid the
links by the Ainienians. Nol loo long ago, a murder occuncd
in Santa Baibaia, California, because of thai hostility over
the 60 year-old massacre. Troin a policing standpoint, it is a
very sensitive thing when (here arc organized meetings of
Americans of Turkish and Armenian descent at the same time
and the same place. The Croatians and the Scibs have a similar
problem. Many people in oiu haibor area of San Pedro arc
of Serbian ami Cioatian origins; Ihey arc ready to go to war
at any lime ovci things thai happened back in the old count!y,
possibly decades and even hundreds of years ago. Being
sensitive to those conditions and understanding them are
extremely inipoilant leadership trails.
Recently, Los Angeles has experienced a giowth in Ihe
nuinbci of Koreans settling in our city. We had a Korean
population of aboul 8,(MK) ten ycais ago; by 1975, that
population had increased to 80,000, and it is still glowing
very rapidly. We found that a number of our Korean people
weic being victimized by other ethnic groups but were not
rcpoiting these crimes. Because my people could see the
pioblcm, liaison was established with the leaders of the Korean
community, and (hey were asked to conic in and talk to us
aboul the problem of victimization. We learned from Ihcin
about a special tension among themselves thai my department
had not know of before. "There were two factions withi i our
Koican community; one identified with the government of
South Koiea, and the olhci was an anti Park force. The two
groups were sliongly at odds with one another even though
they weic now in America and shared many of the same prob-
63
Object Description
| Title | Staff one, 1978 |
| Description | Edward M. Davis. Staff one: a perspective on effective police management. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1978. Accompanied by memo indicating the photocopy of the book was provided by the author. PART OF: Commission meetings (6 of 6). PART OF A SERIES: Materials in the series fall into one of several categories related to the Independent Commission's work product: (1) Commission meeting materials, which include meeting agendas, work plans, memoranda, and articles about police misconduct that were circulated and reviewed during the Commission's internal meetings; (2) public correspondence, which includes citizen complaints against the LAPD in the form of written testimony, articles, and an audio cassette tape, as well as letters drafted by citizens in support of the LAPD; (3) summaries of interviews held with LAPD officers regarding Departmental procedures and relations; (4) public meeting materials, which include transcripts, supplementary documents, and witness statements that were reviewed at the Commission's public meetings; (5) press releases related to the formation and work product of the Commission; and (6) miscellaneous materials reviewed by the Commission during its study, including LAPD personnel and training manuals, a memorandum of understanding, and messages from the LAPD's Mobile Digital Terminal (MDT) system. |
| Creator | Davis, Edward M. |
| Publisher (of the original version) | Prentice-Hall, Inc. |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, USA |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California |
| Date issued | 1978 |
| Type |
texts images |
| Format | 130 p. |
| Format (aat) | books |
| Format (imt) | application/pdf |
| Language | English |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Part of collection | Independent Commission on the Los Angeles Police Department, 1991 |
| Series | Independent Commission file list |
| File | Commission meetings |
| Box and folder | box 22, folder 9, item 2 |
| Provenance | The collection was given to the University of Southern California on July 31, 1991. |
| Rights | This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Manuscripts Librarian. Permission for publication is given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained. |
| Physical access | Contact: Special Collections, Doheny Memorial Library, Libraries, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189; specol@dots.usc.edu |
| Repository name | USC Libraries Special Collections |
| Repository address | Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189 |
| Repository email | specol@dots.usc.edu |
| Filename | indep-box22-09-02 |
Description
| Title | Staff one, 1978, p. 38 |
| Format (imt) | image/tiff |
| Physical access | Contact: Special Collections, Doheny Memorial Library, Libraries, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189; specol@dots.usc.edu |
| Full text | Police Leadership and tbe Community emergencies, inlich more effectively. When a tragedy or national disaster hits suddenly, like a Ion of bricks, it is no time to ask to be briefed on the reasons why it happened. Willi awareness comes a certain level of confidence. That awareness involves a great deal, including a feel for— or bellcr still, an understanding of- the human and cultural environment in which a leader must work. Il includes knowing both the people whom the leader serves and the people who work for him. Cultivating that awareness and an education lo go wilh it are pivotal elements in the development of potential leaders. COMMUNITY AWARENESS Before a community in America can effectively be served, a basic fact must be understood—that each community is unique. There are no two communities (hat arc exactly alike, just as there are no two human beings exactly alike. Iiach one of us is different from any one of the billions of people who have been bom on the face of the earth. Just look around, and you will see (hat no two people are exactly alike, liven identical twins, who may fool us on rare occasions, aie not truly identical. If people are that different, (hen communities arc certainly different. The people of Los Angeles aie totally different from the people in San Diego. And as Ihe distance between places increases, the differences grow. An understanding of the people who make up a community, and of their culture, including the history or that culluic, is absolutely vital. The Ethnic Makeup of the Community If some cncigclic student would complete a Master's thesis, or if someone would write a book on a particular city- Los Angeles, Honolulu, whatever--for the sole purpose of identifying and describing the various cultural mixes 62 Police I eadoiship and tbe Community within il in lei ins of the problems that police should be per ccptivc of, that person would make a significant contribution lo public peace. Such a work would be a tremendous resource to police professionals. Besides being a very useful tool foi a gieat many special community programs, il would assist the police leader with personnel decisions within his agency. Lot example, over 60 ycais ago, hundreds of thousands of Armenians died at the hands of their Turkish conquerors, and lo this day Ihcic is tremendous hostility towaid the links by the Ainienians. Nol loo long ago, a murder occuncd in Santa Baibaia, California, because of thai hostility over the 60 year-old massacre. Troin a policing standpoint, it is a very sensitive thing when (here arc organized meetings of Americans of Turkish and Armenian descent at the same time and the same place. The Croatians and the Scibs have a similar problem. Many people in oiu haibor area of San Pedro arc of Serbian ami Cioatian origins; Ihey arc ready to go to war at any lime ovci things thai happened back in the old count!y, possibly decades and even hundreds of years ago. Being sensitive to those conditions and understanding them are extremely inipoilant leadership trails. Recently, Los Angeles has experienced a giowth in Ihe nuinbci of Koreans settling in our city. We had a Korean population of aboul 8,(MK) ten ycais ago; by 1975, that population had increased to 80,000, and it is still glowing very rapidly. We found that a number of our Korean people weic being victimized by other ethnic groups but were not rcpoiting these crimes. Because my people could see the pioblcm, liaison was established with the leaders of the Korean community, and (hey were asked to conic in and talk to us aboul the problem of victimization. We learned from Ihcin about a special tension among themselves thai my department had not know of before. "There were two factions withi i our Koican community; one identified with the government of South Koiea, and the olhci was an anti Park force. The two groups were sliongly at odds with one another even though they weic now in America and shared many of the same prob- 63 |
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