Week 1 - 8/21 & 23: Policing history
Slide show
Readings: Text chps. 1 & 2
Other: Early history of British police (first 9:15)   August Vollmer

Week 2 - 8/28 & 30: Police role and subculture
Slide show
Readings: Text chps. 5, 7, 8; What is Patrol Work? 
Police Issues: Oakland: How Could it Happen?  Kicking a Suspect  When Hard Heads Collide  Who Deserves a Break?
Other: A day in the life of a police officer  Gulfport police shift keeps busy  One police shift  This is what being a Seattle cop is like

Week 3 - 9/4: No class, campus closed

Week 3 - 9/6: Recruitment, selection and training
Slide show
Reading:"Law Enforcement Training: Changes and Challenges" (provided as a .pdf) 
Other:L.A. County OIR & Inspector General reports  LASD Academy OIR Report  LASD Hiring Standards OIR Report

Week 4 - 9/11: Recruitment, selection and training (cont'd)

Week 4 - 9/13: Student presentations 1-4
Police Issues: (1) L.A.'s Thin Blue Line  (2) Police Academy  (3) What Should it Take to be Hired?
(4) Teaching Police Departments?

Week 5 - 9/18: EXAM 1 (weeks 1-4)

Week 5 - 9/20: Police organizations
Slide show
Oversight of police agencies: Calif. law about supervision of Sheriff Depts.  L.A. City supervision of LAPD  L.A. County supervision of LASD  Orange County and OCSD  Selecting a police chief

Week 6 - 9/25: Police organizations (cont'd)

Week 6 - 9/27: Student presentations 5-7
Police Issues: (5) Mission Not Accomplished
(6) Ex-Commish leaves Carona in the Dust
(7) Are Civilians Too Easy on the Police?

Week 7 - 10/2 & 4: Policing strategies
Slide show
Readings: Text chps. 25, 26, 27, 28
Other: Chicago PD 10-year COPS evaluation
Center for POP  POP/Pulling levers
Hot-spot policing  NY City and "broken windows"

Week 8 - 10/9: Student presentations 8-12
Police Issues: (8) RIP Community Policing?
(9) What Can Cops Really Do?  (10) Too Much of a Good Thing?  (11) Slapping Lipstick I
(12) Slapping Lipstick II

Week 8 - 10/11: Student presentations 13-17
Police Issues: (13) Hot-spot policing
(14) First, Do no Harm  (15) Having Your Cake
(16) Forty Years After Kansas City
(17) An Illusion of Control

Week 9 - 10/16 & 18: Special problems
Slide show
Readings: Text chp. 15; NIJ: Radicalization and Violent Extremism; NIJ: Lone Wolf terrorists;
NIJ: Police Response to Gangs study (focus on conclusions); Police Foundation: Policing Terrorism
Other: NIJ search results: terrorism  NIJ publicatons search: terrorism & radicalization  Managing Mass Demonstrations  Murder and Extremism in the U.S.  COINTELPRO - Extract  Wikipedia  Rodney King riot video

Week 10 - 10/23: Student presentations 18-21
Police Issues: (18) Doing Nothing  (19) Flying Under the Radar  (20) Sometimes There is no Second Chance  (21) After the Fact

Week 10 - 10/25: Student presentations 22-25
Police Issues: (22) TakingBombs From Strangers  (23) The Gangs of L.A.  (24) Location, Location, Location  (25) Getting Out of Dodge

Week 11 - 10/30: EXAM 2 (weeks 5-10). Includes all slide shows during this period plus text chapters 15, 25, 26, 27 and 28.

Week 11 - 11/1: Use of force
Slide show
Readings: Text chps. 29, 30, 31, 32
Other: LAPD Use of Force Policy  LAPD Pursuit policy

Week 12 - 11/6 & 8: Use of force (cont'd)

Week 13 - 11/13: Student presentations 26-30
Police Issues: (26) WhenCops Kill (Part I) and PartII  (27) To Err is Human  (28) Making Time
(29) Sometimes a Drunk  (30) Homeless, Mentally Ill, Dead

Week 13 - 11/15: Student presentations 31-35
Police Issues: (31) Does Race Matter? (Part I) and Part II (32) De-escalation  (33) More Rules, Less Force?  (34) Good Guy/Bad Guy/Black Guy (Part I)
(35) Good Guy/Bad Guy/Black Guy (Part II)

Week 14 - 11/20 & 22: Fall break - campus closed

Week 15 - 11/27 & 29: Conduct and ethics
Slide show
Readings: Text chps. 10 & 12

Week 16 - 12/4: Quantity and quality
Other: The Craft of Policing  Production and Craftsmanship in Police Narcotics Enforcement

Week 16 - 12/6: Student presentations 36-40
Police Issues: (36) Liars Figure  (37) Meltdown in SoCal  (38) The Numbers Game  (39) Orange is the New Brown  (40) Why do Cops Succeed?

Week 17 - Dec. 13, 5:00-6:50 pm: FINAL EXAM (weeks 11-16)

Week 1 - 8/25: Criminology as a science
Slide show
Text chapter: 1
Online: Research process Research designs

Week 2 - 9/1: Biological theories
Slide show
Text chapter: 4
Online: NAS effects of marijuana  NIH/NIDA effects of marijuana  NIH/NIDA effects of cocaine  News article effects of cocaine

Week 3 - 9/8: Psychological theories
Slide show
Text chapter: 5
Online: Prisoner mental health problems

Week 4 - 9/15 - First half: "Deliver Us From Evil"
Second half: Panels 1 (Bio) & 2 (Psych) present
Online: IMDB  Oliver O'Grady Oliver O'Grady's confession
(Film shown in class. Can be rented on YouTube and Amazon Video and purchased on DVD.)

Week 5 - 9/22 - First half: "Stevie"
Second half: Panels 3 (Bio) & 4 (Psych) present
Online: IMDB  Kartemquin films
(Film shown in class. Available on Netflix DVD. Can be rented on YouTube and Amazon Video and purchased on DVD.)

Week 6 - 9/29 - First half: EXAM 1 (weeks 1-5)
Second half: Strain theories
Slide show
Text chapter: 8

Week 7 - 10/6: Neighborhoods and crime
Slide show
Text chapter: 7
Online: "Location, Location, Location" "Getting out of Dodge"

Week 8 - 10/13: Control theories
Slide show
Text chapter: 10

Week 9 - 10/20 - First half: "I Am a Promise"
Second half: Panels 5 (Strain), 6 (Neigh.) & 7 (Control) present
Online: Docurama
(Film shown in class. Can be streamed at Sundance Now)

Week 10 - 10/27 - First half: "Hood 2 Hood: The Blockumentary"
Second half: Panels 8 (Strain), 9 (Neigh) & 10 (Control) present
Online: Wikipedia  PBS on Crips and Bloods  "Crips and Bloods: Made in America" on YouTube
(Film shown in class. Available from online sources for purchase on DVD)

Week 11 - 11/3 - First half: EXAM 2 (weeks 6-10)
Second half: Labeling theories & conflict criminology
Labeling slide show Conflict crim. slide show
Text chapter: 11

Week 12 - 11/10: No class (Veteran's Day)

Week 13 - 11/17 - First half: Conflict crim (cont'd)
Second half: Learning theories
Slide show
Text chapter: 9

Week 14 - 11/24: Fall recess - no class

Week 15 - 12/1 - First half: "Latin Kings: A Street Gang Story"
Second half: Panels 11 (Labeling), 12 (Learning) & 13 (Conflict) present
Online: Wikipedia
(Film shown in class. Available free on You Tube)

Week 16 - 12/8 - First half: "The Weather Underground"
Second half: Panels 14 (Learning) & 15 (Conflict) present
Online: PBS film website
(Film shown in class. Available free on YouTube and to rent on Amazon video and YouTube)

Week 17 - 12/15 - 2:30-4:20 pm: Final exam (Weeks 11-16)