Dallas Police Efforts to increase Legitimacy The Dallas Police Department is constantly engaged in programs to increase its legitimacy and to maintain the assurance of having an approachable and trustful relation between Police Officers and the public. Also, the Dallas Police Organization is continuously implementing and enhancing programs to involve citizens of all demographic areas of the city, to bring their diverse ideas to have a better community. For those reasons, the Code of Conduct of the Dallas Police Department is designed to promote efficiency, discipline, and good public relations by setting forth policies governing the conduct of every member of the Police Department, both sworn and non-sworn, on-duty and off-duty. Researches
This creates a situation that allows police officers discretion in the way they think about what they see and how they handle those with whom they come in contact. There has been an effort by the research community to examine issues concerning how police act and respond in general and what police do specifically when they interact with citizens. A conspicuous void in the research effort has been the lack of attention paid to the process by which police officers form suspicion about a suspect whether or not a formal intervention such as a stop was made. Officers in Savannah, Georgia were observed and debriefed after they became suspicious about an individual or vehicle. Observers accompanied officers on 132, 8-hour shifts, during
Etta Hulmes Contradictory AIDS Cartoon: 1980’s Dualities of Love and Hate The AIDS epidemic of the 1980’s stands as a haunting reminder of societal fear and discrimination. The 1980’s encompassed both cultural advancement and decline. Economically, advancement in technology has surpassed what people had predicted, with the rise of companies like Apple and Microsoft. Music diversified in the 1980’s with genres like pop and punk rock, influenced by icons such as Michael Jackson and Madonna.
University of Ottawa The Blue Line or the Bottom Line of Police Services in Canada? Arresting runaway growth in costs Jarred Brundige 6077461 CRM2305 A Jeffrey Monaghan October 19, 2015 A research document, “The Blue Line or the Bottom Line of Policing in Canada? Arresting runaway growth in cost” written by professor Christian Leuprecht, provides insight into Canada’s costly policing system.
There are many views out there that favor militarization of the police and just as many that oppose it. A common reason that shows the positive side of militarization is local police are given the resources where they can handle more types of events solely by themselves, without having to call for outside help from the National Guard. It can take hours and sometimes days for the National Guard to show up when they are called upon to assist a local police force. Another popular pro is police officers are equipped with better firearms and training. Police officers would also have access to bigger, more powerful military style vehicles to use at a moments notice.
Sir Robert Peel, the founder of the Metropolitan Police in 1829, made the first decision to not routinely arm the police form in a political strategy to gain the acceptance of the highly sceptical parliament with an aversion to continental, paramilitary policing. This notion of unarmed policing has been upheld over numerous decades and British policing is still seen as an unarmed agency until comparatively recent, where the service has had access indirectly or directly to firearms and other weapons (Miller, 1977). When an authorised firearms officer makes use of a firearms weapon by deliberately pointing it or by discharging the weapon, that will constitute a use of force for which the officer is both legally and organisationally accountable.
Recommendations Recommendation #1: Dedicate more focus on Intelligence-led Policing activities. There are several underlying issues why intelligence-led policing is not working the way it should. U.S. law enforcement agencies do not understand what intelligence is or how to manage it, agencies do not work well together in preventing and responding day-to-day crime and preventing terrorism, and lack of personnel and funding (U.S. Department of Justice, 2005, p. 3). With more funding, law enforcement agency personnel will be able to attend and receive necessary training needed to conduct intelligence-led policing activities. The training will also enable law enforcement agency personnel to understand intelligence more clearly and how it will
Policing Tactics are Unjust In 2012, an African American was murdered every 28 hours by either police officers or persons of authority (Hudson). Of this amount, 43% of murders occurred as a result of racial profiling (Hudson). Police officers are tasked with the duty of protecting people across the nation; however, in a time of urgency, officers are instead harming the people. Although some believe police are behaving in a justified manner, the unnecessary brutality and racial profiling is caused by an inherent belief of white superiority and an internal fear of African Americans.
Police officers that patrol a community are more approachable. Citizens feel more comfortable getting information from a friendly face that they recognize. Community policing that involves citizens via neighborhood watch details can help to educate citizens on crime prevention and reporting.
Would defunding actually work? In recent years, the concept of defunding the police has become a major point of contention in the United States. The idea - to reallocate funds from police departments and invest in other community-based services, Has sparked debates about the impact of defunding the police on communities. The alternatives to police funding, and the pros and cons of defunding the police.
Criminology 100: Introduction to Criminology Policing and Discretion “In context to Negative aspects of discretion” Uday Partap Singh Sidhu 802397 Columbia College Date: March 22, 2017 Instructor: Josh Murphy Discretion means the freedom to take decision, freedom of judgement, in context to policing, Discretion is a major police power. Discretion here means ability to choose between multiple options, a police officer has a choice to take a decision. For instance; while encountering an overspending vehicle, a police officer has multiple options, either he can issue a speeding ticket on the spot, or else he could just warn the driver to take care next time, it totally depends on the officer, he may choose any option in regardless of his discretionary powers.
Sadly, during the last few years the relationship between the community and its police has significantly deteriorated. This has been due to the way some officers have handled certain situations in which the use of violence or deadly force could have been avoided. Because of this, some sectors of the community no longer trust their police; such distrust has gotten to the point that they rather take matters into their own hands than calling them for help. Although not all officers misbehave and abuse their power “it only takes one bad apple to spoil the bunch”. The media has also contributed in promoting the idea that most cops are bad by transmitting, over and over, videos of police officers abusing their power.
Good evening Daniel, good response. Private security and public policing are similar as well as different in many ways. Base on knowledge and training they both provide their officers skills they need to keep the public safe. When it comes down to the administrative aspect, they both are different. Like you stated in your response, private security are hired by private businesses/organization.
Since we all know that effective community policing involves trust and good relations within the community to prevent and combat crime why not have counter terrorism tactics training as a bonus for the Police. Why not right? Law Enforcement already have relationships among many communities such as Muslim communities in New York for example. The thought of having an extra task force within the department can be crucial and can be needed to prevent massive casualties such as 9/11 including an extra eye on what to look out for that involves preventing terrorism. Given the Pros of the situation, most police officers already have post military experience and skill assets such as weaponry, foreign language, hostage negotiator, undercover skills and so forth which are all prime examples of an already strong foundation that can become increasingly durable with additional
The reason why come police officers oppose community policing is because they are resistant to change. According to the course text, police administrators, supervisor and line personnel frequently resist change of any kind and prefer the status quo (Miller, Hess, & Orthmann, 2014). In my opinion, officers are opposed to community policing because they are used to doing things a certain way and community policing requires changes in management styles, vision and mission statements, and the overall departments organization structure. In addition, most police officers will find change to their culture threatening (Miller, Hess, & Orthmann, 2014).
