Proactive Approach Analysis

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Proactive approach to deal with police misconduct is to create or control a situation. For example, EMS was created to monitor police behavior and to give them an intervention to prevent future police misconduct. This could be seen as “hearing” citizens’ complaints, the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights wanted to take a “heads on approach”; by listening to citizens’ points of view on police officers’ behavior. Reactive approach is to response to a situation rather than to create or control a situation. For example, “Efforts to deal effectively with police misconduct have been reactive, as opposed to proactive, in the past” (Hughes & Andre, 2007, Implementation of EWSs and Stakeholders, Para 4). According to this quote, in the past police officers