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A contemporary public affairs approach to changing and improving police services in Puerto Rico: the administration, organisation, and community triumvirate

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  • Jeffrey W. Goltz

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In 2011, the Civil Rights Division within the US Department of Justice published a report that summarised an investigation of the Puerto Rico Police Department (PRPD). The report states that the PRPD is broken in a number of critical and fundamental respects. Moreover, Puerto Rico has experienced a significant increase in violent crime over the past few years. To create a new public safety paradigm in Puerto Rico, this complex, extraordinary public issue requires a comprehensive public affairs framework. This article presents a multi-dimensional approach that discusses police services management research and a public affairs triumvirate that includes administrative, organisational, and community sciences. The concepts and theories of social control, the public administrative integrative and boundary-exchange process, governance, rational and open systems, contingency, institutional theory and isomorphic forces, social construction, community policing, organisational reframing, and a confirmatory model are presented in an effort to create a social architecture to guide and influence public safety policy and practice in Puerto Rico.

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  • Jeffrey W. Goltz, 2014. "A contemporary public affairs approach to changing and improving police services in Puerto Rico: the administration, organisation, and community triumvirate," International Journal of Public Policy, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 10(4/5), pages 257-278.
    • Handle: RePEc:ids:ijpubp:v:10:y:2014:i:4/5:p:257-278
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