offers a summary of community policing together with the crucial function that community policing contribute to counter violent extremism. The next part, "Highlighting the Threat," fine points some of the vicious extremist threats that face communities nationally and described radicalization to aggression. Part three, "Key Principles," describes the five major community policing standards or principles, and finally the conclusion restates the significance of community policing in the prevention of…
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Evidence Base Policing In summarizing evidence based policing we come to the conclusion that many cases were justified by a scientific research and not by reasoning or proven evidence. Also practicing one’s and not what’s factorial has been the outcome procedure to everyday field training. Some advantages and disadvantages of evidence base policing are as followed: When law enforcement makes a decision, we come to the conclusion that is not based off of experience. Police agencies use the tools…
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Magaña Professor Horiuchi CJ2221 20 February 2011 Community Policing For a long time there has been a love-hate relationship involving the public and the police. When called upon to assist, the police can be something heaven sent, but when the police are writing tickets, or taking a friend to jail, the view changes from a knight in shining armor to a presence that is unnecessary and often hated. An effort to improve the public view of law enforcement is being attempted by many departments in the United…
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Agencies CJA/204 August 8, 2011 Abstract Historically, policing in America mimicked that of the English. American ideas expanded on the English way of policing, to start an era of ever evolving police agencies. In the beginning policing was considered the civic duty of members of a community. These “drafted” officers were not paid or trained. Appointed Sheriff’s were motivated by money, and lost focus on enforcing the law. Policing was considered reactive in nature. This began to change as…
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Community Policing Abstract Community policing is a police strategy implemented into Law Enforcement to create a better relationship between the police and the community. Community policing is defined as “a collaborative effort between the police and the community that identifies problems of crime and disorder and involves all elements of the community in the search for solutions to these problems”. This theory on the belief that people deserve to input there comments and concerns into the police…
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During early history of policing, citizens were usually responsible for taking the law into their own hands. Citizens who served in the early policing era would not get paid for their services. In the late 1700s and early 1800s riots, and civil arrest was common and the United States believed they needed law enforcement to keep and carry official authority of the government. The Impact Sir Robert Peel had on American policing been very important and is used in policing today. “Sir Robert Peel served…
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Tolerance Policing strategy, is the reliance on formal control mechanisms totally at odds with the philosophy of community policing?” Zero Tolerance Policing involves the police strictly enforcing every facet of law, including paying particular attention to littering, begging, graffiti and other forms of antisocial behavior. It also gives the police less freedom to use discretion on certain situations, and the police are required to hand out strict penalties for criminal activity. While community policing…
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legalistic policing style that created deep rooted community distrust. This was caused by an antagonistic social atmosphere that included racial profiling, and unfairly targeting citizens in poverty stricken areas with burdensome fines created by predatory citation practices. An unbalanced social dynamic was fostered that could be described in terms of conflict, strain and subculture sociological theories. As a result, Ferguson County had to re-evaluate existing operational and policing styles in…
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against the community rather than serving it. There is also the Code of Silence in which one police officer will not come forward about bad behavior that another officer is involved in to protect their brother in blue. Some members of the public can view the police as a necessary evil, and the media can have a big impact on public opinion by only reporting the negatives of the police department of the community. References Hess, K. M., Orthmann, C. M., & Miller, L. (2011). Community Policing: Partnerships…
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Challenges for the Future of Law Enforcement Dangers in policing are especially real considering that every year nearly 100 officers are either injured or killed from situations or actions taken during the course of their daily duties ("Preliminary 2012 Fatality Statistics", 2012).Unfortunately, this cannot be completely avoided. The inherent nature of the occupation puts officers at risk. In part, this is due to their extreme interactions during the course of their duties, protecting the lives…
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