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11 Police Prac. & Res. 1 (2010)

handle is hein.journals/gppr11 and id is 1 raw text is: Police Practice and Research a Routledge Vol. 11, No. 1, February 2010, 1-2 Taylor& Francis Group EDITORIAL From the Editor-in-Chief This first issue of the 11th volume of PPR contains articles which deal primarily with pragmatic concerns. In the first article, Gavan R. M. Palk, Jeremy D. Davey and James E. Freeman of the Centre for Accident Research and Road Safety - Queensland (CARRS-Q), within the School of Psychology and Counselling, Queensland University of Technology, Australia, report on the 'Impact of a lockout policy on levels of alcohol-related incidents in and around licensed premises'. They find that 'alcohol-related offences' were significantly reduced while those related to 'property, stealing and assault experienced a reduced trend'. In the next article, 'The international implications of quality-of-life policing as practiced in New York City', Bruce D. Johnson and Andrew Golub (National Development and Research Institutes, New York) and James McCabe (Sacred Heart University) report that one of the larg- est cities in the world (NYC) 'experienced a renaissance in orderliness, cleanliness, tourism, real estate value, and crime reduction' as a result of an aggressive strategy of enforcement of laws 'against disorder and quality-of-life offenses'. In the third article, 'Racial bias in police use of lethal force in Brazil', Ignacio Cano of the State University of Rio de Janeiro echoes what seems to happen universally that there is 'racial bias in the use of lethal force by police' and Brazil is no exception. Cano also argues that this bias on the part of the police reflects the social reality in this racially diverse country. He opens the article saying that 'Black and indigenous populations have traditionally occu- pied the lowest strata of the social pyramid'. He adds that 'there is a growing amount of empirical research that shows that blacks earn less than whites' although their education and experience may be equal and 'their chances of social mobility are lower'. The next article, 'Paying attention to minor offenses: order maintenance policing in prac- tice' (William H. Sousa, University of Nevada-Las Vegas) deals with an identical police tactic that was also discussed in the second article. Sousa uses his research to 'inform the discussion over the extent to which order maintenance policing - as demonstrated by NYPD during the 1990s - limits officer discretion and creates an atmosphere of zero tolerance'. He argues that 'policy guidelines are essential regarding the proper use of discretion in the enforcement of minor offenses'. He is optimistic that 'If implemented properly, therefore, order maintenance can offer police and citizens an option within a larger problem-solving framework for addressing disorder and minor offenses.' In the final article, 'How important is it to experience how a line officer feels for police supervisors? Outcomes of an uncommon two-track promotion system in the Turkish National Police', Hasan Buker (Turkish Institute of Police Studies) studies the impact of the promotion system of the Turkish National Police. The system provides for direct promotion of college- educated young graduates as well as promotion of officers who come through the ranks. He documents 'differences in the ways these two types of supervisors and their respective subor- dinates view police policies, operations, and supervisory performance'. There are three book reviews. In the first review, Crucibles ofLeadership: How to Learn from Experience to Become a Great Leader, Chief Todd Wuestewald (Broken Arrow Police Department, Oklahoma) applies the lessons from the book under review to the practical realities ISSN 1561-4263 print/ISSN 1477-271X online c 2010 Taylor & Francis DOI: 10.1080/15614261003640301 http://www.informaworld.com

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