Cruisers
Merchants at a shopping center have turned in repeated complaints against teenagers cruising the mall parking lot, having said it creates overwhelming traffic on weekends. The City Merchants’ Association pressured city council to pass an ordinance against cruising, however, the definition of cruising is vague and open-ended. Police officers issued warnings before giving citations, but the situation has declined further due to rising hostilities between the teenagers and patrol officers. A workable solution must be found and presented to Captain Adams in three days.
The Rights of Each Group
The merchants at the shopping mall have a right to a safe, comfortable shopping area and being able to sell their merchandise without bored teenagers driving away business. Shoppers are entitled to go shopping without being harassed my teenagers or being caught in unnecessary traffic created by teenage traffic. They’re also entitled to visit the mall without feeling uncomfortable or threatened by teenagers cruising the parking lot. The parents of these teenagers have the right to look after their children’s well-being and safety. It’s the right of a parent to defend their child against unnecessary roughness or harassment at the hands of police officers. As for the teenagers, they’re entitled to have fun and go to the mall, however, there 're multiple areas within the mall the kids can hang out in, such as food courts or small chain stores.
The most ethical group in this situation would be the city judge. The judge should have been consulted before the passing of this new ordinance because the judge will have to hand down the punishments. The city judge is unwilling to back this new ordinance due to concerns about t...
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...rom and hear the perspective of an officer. My meeting with these kids would be modeled around how Sgt. Ericson of Elgin PD handled the situation of loitering kids (https://youtu.be/ao8mz_hDVvQ). He talked to the teenagers in a relaxed, one-on-one manner and treated the kids with respect. By doing this, Officer Ericson was showing them that he cared about what they had to say. I would try and do the same because I felt like Ericson did a great job in getting his message across to the kids. Listening to the cruising teenagers and explaining the situation may prove to be a very beneficial course of action. I’d show the kids that I do care about them and understand wanting to have fun, but their actions create problems for my officers as well as myself. If talking face-to-face doesn’t solve the issue then I’d be forced to issue citations to the cruising teenagers.
In society we will always faces ethical and unethical choices. There are time when we cannot always chose the ethical approach. Other decisions primarily only affect us as individuals. However, when you are in the public eye such as police officer your decisions affect others. In this paper the discussion will be based on the Kansas City case study.
Policing is a very difficult, complex and dynamic field of endeavor that is always evolves as hard lessons teach us what we need to know about what works and what don’t work. There are three different Era’s in America’s policing: The Political Era, The Reform Era, and The Community Problem Solving Era. A lot has changed in the way that policing works over the years in the United States.
During the seventies in New Jersey created a program that could change life in society. This program occurred only in twenty-eight cities. Government and public officials were excited about this concept. Police officials were not so much. Foot patrol made officers walk in sleet and snow. Assigned foot patrol was a way of punishment for officers. State funding of foot patrol shut the mouths of some people. Silence stopped after the “Police Foundation”(Kelling) put foot patrol to the actual test. To contrary belief this rattled some arguments in the community an...
Areas such as skid-row are filled with people that are without the ability to function in normal society, and simply the fact that they exist is offensive to those that do operate within the normal realms of a community (Bittner, 1967). Due to the primitive nature of those individuals living in these chaotic areas, most officers feel it is necessary to enclose the area in which the behaviors occur to keep it from assimilating with “normal” society. The necessity to contain the areas similar to skid-row is the responsibility of the police, and with few governing superiors to mandate guidelines and the large amount of discretion allotted to police, they assume the peace keeping role and abandon the role of enforcer (Bittner, 1967). Maintaining peace is a difficult task in itself because of the uncontrolled way of life in skid-row. Therefore, it is by focusing on maintaining order and protecting the outside normalcy from skid-row inhabitants (Bittner, 1967) that officers use tactics where they choose non-enforcement, or make a decision to ignore a violation (Brown, 1981). According to Brown (1981), ignoring offenses brings with it a bartering situation between the ...
As shown above, curfew laws can play a very critical role in a teenager’s life. It can assist with keeping the city safer, help them get enough sleep, and help them build their personal skill under a well-structured system routine. A lot of people might find curfew laws for teenagers unconstitutional and contradict the first amendment, so they decide not to abide with it. But by doing so, they are placing more a bigger experience to teenagers who are still working on developing their skills to take on new challenges. After all, Teenagers are the future of our society if we don’t teach, coach, direct, and offer guidance their future will be unstable and unproductive and that will affect the entire nation.
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There has always been alarm and despair over escalating juvenile crime. In the 1950s there were reports about the mushrooming problems with youthful gangs in the big cities. In the 1960s we began to hear about a surge of juvenile crime in areas that had been regarded as virtually crime free. In the suburbs as well as the inner cities, youngsters were dropping out of school, using drugs and committing crimes. In the 1970s and 1980s, juvenile court dockets became increasingly jammed with criminal cases. According to the Department of Justice, the percentage increases in arrests from 1985 to 1994 have been greater for juveniles than for adults. During 1994 alone, 2.7 million juveniles were arrested. During the latter part of this century, juvenile courts that customarily provided social services in order to rehabilitate rather than punish lawbreakers were faced with an onslaught of children who were not simply wayward youths, but hardened repeat offenders. The 1980s witnessed an increasingly desperate outcry for courts to take more extreme measures to contain juvenile crime, which is assuming ever more serious forms.
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Standing alone, it will not succeed. Advocates of community policing seek a needed change in the mission and methods of the police. They argue that the police should focus their efforts on reducing fear and maintaining public order on the quality of life in neighborhoods.” This article centralizes the main problems occurring in communities in today’s society. Police officers are dehumanized and humiliated by the society due to scenarios they are placed in, but whenever there are small incidents the same officers are the first ones to be called and they are expected to be present at the scene and restore peace. Police are placed in certain situations at times where they are easily placed in the wrong and are at the center of protests. A major form of police needed in a community are foot patrol officers. “This criticism is accurate. As studies confirm, the passing police car does little to make us feel safer or to deter crime; it distances the police from the community and prevents them from focusing on patterns of conduct that injure community life. Community policing calls for a return to foot patrol. It harks back to the halcyon days when an officer was permanently assigned to the same area so that he came to know its residents and their problems. No sensible law enforcement official can quarrel with such reforms, many of which are long overdue. But before community policing is fully embraced, important caveats
spraying graffiti on public places, ect. In many cities crime rates among teens have declined at substantial amounts. The U.S Conference of Mayors surveyed mayors in 347 cities with curfews and found that 88 percent of the cities found that curfews made their streets safer for residents. While only 72 of the 347 cities had daytime curfews, 100 percent of those cities showed a decrease in truancy and daytime crime. Gang related problems also d...
The community policing philosophy itself encouraged individual agencies to strategically adapt the notion of community policing to meet their own circumstances, it is not meant to be applied monolithically to all law enforcement agencies (Schieder, Chapman and Schapiro, 2009, p. 696). Therefore, no one community policing project looks the same from one jurisdiction to another and from state to state. Community policing also encourages partnerships with anyone who has a stake in the public safety problems (p. 697). This may include local businesses, social service agencies and the school districts. Hence, law enforcement must have established a working relationship with all its members in the community; because the common aim of community policing is to bridge distance between them (Terpstra, 2011, p. 88).According to Lima (2010), law enforcement should reach out to every group that is forming their operational environment, so as to reassure them that they care about their safety (p. 13). This is done through the discovery and elimination of biases, prejudices, and barriers that impede the ability to deal with cultural differences in the community (Coderoni, 2002, p. 16). Decatur Illinois police department has worked with its community members in bridging that gap and eliminating barriers. Together, they have identified and addressed areas that are in need of heightened patrolling. Although crime has not been eliminated, community policing has certainly impacted the outcome. This paper investigated the community policing policies and procedures of the Decatur Police Department. It also presented the plans, future goals and diversity considerations of the program.
♦ Set up a community police academy or other training to learn more about the police 's job. "Ride along" programs with police on patrol help teach people about this.
Stereotyping- “curfews are mainly made to keep the rebellious teens out of trouble, but not every teenager is the same. So, assuming every teen is going to go out and make poor choices is making a false accusation in the fact that all teenager are the same and looking for trouble.”
The purpose of this paper is to examine juvenile curfew. Curfews have been in place for many years. In the 1700s, curfew was put in place for slaves and workers. Now, since the 1990s, juvenile curfew has become a popular policy across the nation in hopes that it will reduce crime while also protecting the welfare of a minor. Though that may be the sole purpose, there have been critiques about the implementation of juvenile curfew. Some may say that it creates a safer community while others may conclude that it is biased and does not work. First, this paper will provide some of the reasons in which curfew is being used. Second, some of the consequences that come along with juvenile curfew will be stated. Then, the various forms of the curfew