Current Issues In Law Enforcement

Building and maintaining relations with community members and government agencies can be a difficult task to keep and restore. According to IACP (2015), law enforcement leaders across the U.S. strive daily to build strong, trusting community-police relationships (p. ix). Hence, the priority for law enforcement personnel or any branch of government is to protect, educate, and advocate with community members. Also, to implement changes or make recommendations for a positive change. There are any challenges and processes that go hand to hand when implementing new goals or ways to change the public perspectives. As public servants, it is imperative that law enforcement personnel “educate the community about police practices” and “create an environment

For instance, reducing crime, reporting crime, and how to be safe. As for the future of policing, according to IACP (2015), they have suggested that “now is the time to reevaluate, reinvigorate, renew, re-instate, rebuild, and restart departmental efforts to build meaningful community-police relationships… and to start the process of institutionalizing strategies that will build cultures of trust and inclusion” (p. 12). Nonetheless, every place in the United States and or outside the country, law enforcement personnel, leaders, and other branches of government have a lot to adjust. The primary focus for today’s law enforcement, internal, external, private and non-private government agencies are to educate the public, collaborate, trust, participate, and adapt/ adopt new changes for the

The IACP (2015) stated, “genuine partnership and collaboration are cornerstones of a strong relationship with the community” (p. 15). Why? Without maintaining an honest relationship, the more the officer’s will lack of support. Therefore, we must collaborate with the community and have open dialogue because IACP (2015), illustrated that “in the times of crisis or critical incident, communication must happen quickly, frequently, and honestly” (p. 15). Without honesty or trust from the community will or can have suspicion to think that their leaders are hide something. IACP (2015) stated, “open communication tells the community that there is nothing to hide” (p. 15). Once law enforcement leaders establish open communication, trust, and respect; here is were everyone can learn from one to another, share experiences, and clear any miscommunication that possible was thrown out to the public. However, the challenges lie when officer’s experiences a rapid change in diversity, nationality, culture, and religion (IACP, 2015, p. 12). For example, let’s just say that the community members and law enforcement personnel are regaining back their trust and new gang comes into that territory and destroys what the agency has built. Not only is this a problem, however, budgeting is a huge issue in law enforcement (IACP, 2015, p. 12). For instance, a quick solution is to send out