BACKGROUND
The person that I have chosen for my leadership case study is the current Sheriff of Floyd County, Sheriff Darrell Mills. Sheriff Mills has been my employer since 2007 when I was hired as a Corrections Officer with the department and helped me forge myself into the leader I am today. Darrell W. Mills was born in Jamestown, Kentucky and moved with his family to New Albany, Indiana when he was a young child. He attended and graduated from New Albany High School in 1973, while he did not attend college, he did start working for the CSX railroad company in Louisville, Kentucky. In 1975 he was hired at the age of 20 as a dispatcher for the Georgetown Police Department. One year later in 1976, he was hired as a reserve officer for the
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While some programs he has developed have been widely accepted and effective, others have failed to meet the mark of success. One example of this experimentation and ability to learn from the experience came when a former jail administrator had provided and idea that court officers should be on rotation in each court and interchangeable schedules. The theory of the idea was good, but the implantation was poor. There was no communication to the judges that their normal court officers would be changing and little input from the supervisor on how the new scheduling would work for the rotation. Sheriff Mills was involved in the decision to complete this transition to the rotating court officers program, but quickly receive negative feedback from the direct supervision and court staff who had become accustom to a certain officer and trained them in the way they wanted to conduct court proceedings. Sheriff Mills actively listened to the input, made adjustments and realized that why officers needed to be cross trained in the different courtrooms judges. While this project was risk and had both positive and negative results, Sheriff Mills had the ability to learn from the mistakes and examine what was learned and implement the changes. In showing this, it causes a trickledown effect that showed the staff that experimentation is a learning process and that he …show more content…
He believes that when someone makes a decision that they should evaluate the circumstances, make the decision, and stand behind it. In speaking with Sheriff Mills, this was a theory that was instilled in him as young officer and he expects it from his staff. In my personal experience with this theory, a specific example would be a decision that I had made on an emergency operations team activation that I made. During my time the emergency operations commander, I was tasked with making the determination on whether the team would be activated on information provided by the on duty supervisor. During this time, I was posed with a situation with a disorderly inmate that needed my decision on if we would active the team for response. I made the decision based on the information provided from the supervisor to send a partial team response to assist. The incident quickly escalated when officers responded and I was questioned on my partial response method. Sheriff Mills gave me the opportunity to explain that I relied on the supervisor information and made the decision based on what I knew. He communicated to me that my decision was appropriate based on what I knew, but also educated me on taking that extra minute in future conversations with supervisors to get better information. With Sheriff Mills actions in the way he handled the issue with
For my research on how the contextual themes concepts can result in criminal justice malfeasance I selected the case of State v. Steele, 138 Ohio St.3d 1, 2013-Ohio-2470. This case involved police officer Julian Steele of the Cincinnati, Ohio police department and his indictment on ten counts of police misconduct, including abduction, intimidation, extortion, rape, and sexual battery. Officer Steele abused his legal power to interrogate, arrest and detain a witness by knowingly filing a materially false complaint in order to influence or intimidate a witness; and abducting her minor child from school with the intent of charging the minor child with a robbery felony ” (State v. Steele, 138 Ohio St.3d 1, 2013-Ohio-2470). Due to the nature of this case and its involvement of the minor children involved, the court documents refer to the subjects by initials only.
While many states in the South were utterly destroyed during the Civil War, the former Union states thrived. Large businesses that once made supplies for war now sought to expand into other territories. Simultaneously, large amounts of citizens left the countryside to work in factories. This led to a rapid growth in city populations. The transcontinental railroad was completed in 1869, allowing Americans to travel across the country much faster than ever before.
1.) After reading New Jack: Guarding Sing Sing I found most interesting that half the time Conover is in danger and scared for his life. But he must learn how to deal with the inmates and survive the spine-chilling conditions. With the United States prison population reaching a record high of over two million inmates, the system was in a crisis. It was more likely for an African American in California to go to prison rather than attending a state university.
The men that built America as they are called, are in fact Captains of Industry. Without them America would not be what it is today, the jobs they created and the things they invented helped make America a world power. Carnegie gave away almost his entire fortune before he died. Which was $350 million, in today’s money that is $13.7 billion. The captains of industry helped create thousands of jobs which allowed more people to work.
On April 20 of this year I attended the drug court which is located in the Erie County Courthouse. The Drug Court is intended to promote healthy and law-abiding behavior for its participants. It acts as an alternative for jail and an individual is free to live in the community as long he or she participates in all services, along with being subject to random drug testing.
Five of prisons in Tennessee are presently over capacity with another eight currently operating over 95% of assigned capacity (Malcolm, 2014.) “When prisons become overcrowded, there is less money and manpower to provide much-needed treatment, educational, and skills-enhancement programs in prison, and inmate-to-staff ratios can grow to levels that are unsafe for prison staff and other prisoners” (Malcolm, 2014, paragraph 11.) I believe a way to fix that issue it through using different reforms to affect the overall percentage all together. These reforms include limit sentencing, more programs, more parole and probation officers, and specialized courts.
Some of these temporary officers were not interested in making corrections as a career that resulted in high turnover rates. These guards were paid at the lower end of the salary scale and a lack of advancement opportunities that brought dissatisfactions. In order to correct this structural defect, prison officials should offer higher salaries, clear and concise advancement opportunities. Using these techniques, prison official would influence guards to remain longer and have pride in their
Potent Leadership of Captain Jack Aubrey Beginning in the early 19th Century, the Napoleonic Wars revealed the ambition of the French Empire and desire for European domination, which was led by legendary military leader Napoleon I. As the French Empire invaded and conquered several countries, the opposing European coalitions scrambled to withstand and eventually defeat this rising power. While many would assume the strength of this empire too great to be resisted, one key factor gave the Coalition (primarily Britain) a ticket to victory: control of the seas. The mastery, size, and experience of this British Navy led to the defeat of the French.2 Perhaps most important in this fight was leadership and their use of unconventional tactics, which
Positive or Negative Leadership example (briefly describe
Corporal Walker makes sound and accurate decisions based upon good judgment and experience. When dealing with the public Corporal Walker takes his time to listen to the full story, asks appropriate and relevant questions to help him understand what happened. I know that when he is on a call I can count on him to make rational decisions.
The NSW Police Force (NSWPF) are expected to comply with the ideals and expectations outlined in legislation and policy documents. These documents provide ethical, moral and legal principles to shape the decision-making process of police in the execution of their duty. This essay will discuss the failures of police to comply with these principles in dealing with potential juvenile offenders in the scenario. It will do this by examining their actions with reference to NSW legislation and relevant police force policy documents, discretionary powers and their application in the scenario, and communication techniques which could have had a more positive impact while complying with the directives of the NSWPF.
Although people in favor of centralized probation argue that decentralizing probation has its flaws such as local probation following outdated practices, I believe with the proper training given to local law enforcement they will be better able to train staff with the updated procedures and possibly make a change in a person’s
Captains of Industry Who were the wealthy industrialists of the late 19th century? The wealthy industrialists were captains of industry. During the Gilded age that happened between 1877-1900 which was also known as the early part of the industrial revolution, this time included leaders, entrepreneurs,and new technologies. One reason that the wealthy industrialists are captains of industrialists are because they had great political leaders.
the injustice and cruelty that runs rampant in the world, it is unsurprising to become determined to make things better for tomorrow. A moral grey area is the only thing separating those making positive changes and playing judge, jury, and executioner. Commendable yet unreasonable, leaders’ whose sole purpose in life is to fix what they see as wrong with the world fall prey to thinking there is only ally or enemy. They harm those they are trying to liberate in the long run. This is the downfall of leaders in many works of literature, including Harrison Bergeron and The Lord of the Flies.
C. Wright Mills puts forth in Ch. 1 “The Promise” that the discipline of sociology is focused primarily on the ability to distinguish between an individuals “personal troubles” and the “public issues” of one’s social structure. In the context of a contemporary society, he argues that such issues can be applied by reappraising what are products of an individual’s milieu and what are caused by the fabric of a society. The importance of this in a contemporary society is that it establishes the dichotomy that exists between an individual’s milieu and the structure of their very society.