Leadership in the Criminal Justice System The issue of race relations, namely the contemporary discourse surrounding the encounters between African Americans and law enforcement personnel, has significantly influenced our societal fabric and its underlying principles. The emergence of the Black Lives Matter movement has engendered controversial debates surrounding strategies to mitigate the occurrence of unjust civilian fatalities at the hands of law enforcement. This study aims to analyze the broader framework of the discourse around race relations, considering multiple perspectives and then proposing ideas to address the issue. This essay will also include an analysis of Bernard Parks leadership who served as the police chief of the Los Angeles …show more content…
He experiences the pros, cons, accomplishments, and hurdles throughout his time. One of his most valuable pros is his experience and expertise because of how long his career has been. Parks also implemented several reforms during his time as chief. Leadership Styles: Bernard Parks exhibited a predominantly authoritarian leadership style. This was characterized by a strong emphasis on discipline and accountability, as we discussed earlier. This approach enabled him to really implement reforms and achieve goals in crime reduction. This style of leadership can be extremely important in crises, military operations, high-risk environments, and organizational turnaround. In times of crisis, which happens all of the time in law enforcement, this leadership style can be necessary to ensure safety in other quick actions that need to be taken, which is a part of this leadership style. Pros and Cons: Bernard Parks has multiple pros which include experience, expertise, commitment to reform, crime reduction, and accountability. All of these are included to combat racial issues in law enforcement as well. Having experience goes a long way and is extremely important to become a chief of a police department. Since he had so much experience, he was able to face the challenges in the department. Did you know that Parks also implemented several reforms during his time as chief? He made many efforts to reduce crime rates and community relations because he knew how important it was. Holding officers accountable is extremely necessary, and this is also what Parks did. On the other hand, the cons included controversial leadership style, strained relations with the community, and internal department issues. As far as many other leaders, Parks was faced with criticism. The criticism he often received was for his management approach
Roger Maris was born in Hibbing, Minnesota on September 10, 1934. His father, who worked for the Great Northern Railroad, moved the family to North Dakota in 1942where Roger grew up. The Maris brothers played sports and attended Shanley High School in Fargo, North Dakota. It was in the 10th grade when Roger met Patricia, his future wife, at a high school basketball game.
The Baltimore City police have faced a myriad of problems in the last year. The riots following the Freddie Gray arrest were reported around the country and created a situation where the Governor was forced to call in the National Guard to protect the city. Community leaders report that African American’s are stopped, searched and arrested at a far greater number than Caucasian’s. The Baltimore city police are at an impasse with the community at this time, it is up to the city leaders and the police officials to come up with some real solutions to the issues that can no longer be ignored.
Throughout the autobiographical narrative written by Gary Soto, many different literary elements are used to recreate the experience of his guilty six-year old self. Different elements such as contrast, repetition, pacing, diction, and imagery. Soto narrates this story as a young boy at a time when he seems to be young and foolish, Soto foolmaking mistakes, but at the same time hoping to learn from them. Soto uses each of these devices to convey different occurrences in the narrative.
Being a cop is one of the hardest jobs you can get. Now facing the public and everyone seems to be against you makes it worse. Dealing with murders, suicides, and even mass shootings. But still to go home and be the father, mother, daughter, brother, son, or daughter and have a smile on your face when you see your loved ones is the important aspect. To get home safely is his number one goal every night when the cops put off their badge. The officers in Cop in the Hood have many ideas how to make Baltimore a family oriented as it once was. Some say a fire to wipe everything out or a flood to wash away the filth in the city. But, the only way to clear the war on drugs in that city is supply and demand. You cut
Dennis Banks , an American Indian of the Ojibwa Tribe, was born in 1937 on the Leach Lake reservation in Minnesota and was raised by his grandparents. Dennis Banks grew up learning the traditional ways of the Ojibwa lifestyle. As a young child he was taken away from practicing his traditional ways and was put into a government boarding school that was designed for Indian children to learn the white culture. After years of attending the boarding school, Banks enlisted in the U.S. Air Force, shipping out to Japan when he was only seventeen years old.
According to Dr. Carl S. Taylor, the relationship between minority groups and police in the United States has historically been strained. Some cities have a deep and bitter history of bias and prejudice interwoven in their past relationships. The feeling in many communities today is that the system pits law enforcement as an occupying army versus the neighborhood. Dr. Taylor wrote about easing tensions between police and minorities, but stated “If there is any good news in the current situation, it is that the history of this strain has found the 1990’s ripe for change.
Many people claim that racism no longer exists; however, the minorities’ struggle with injustice is ubiquitous. Since there is a mass incarceration of African Americans, it is believed that African Americans are the cause of the severe increase of crimes. This belief has been sent out implicitly by the ruling class through the media. The media send out coded messages that are framed in abstract neutral language that play on white resentment that targets minorities. Disproportionate arrest is the result of racial disparities in the criminal justice system rather than disproportion in offenders. The disparities in the sentencing procedure are ascribed to racial discrimination. Because police officers are also biased, people of color are more likely to be investigated than whites. Police officers practice racial profiling to arrest African Americans under situations when they would not arrest white suspects, and they are more likely to stop African Americans and see them as suspicious (Alexander 150-176). In the “Anything Can Happen With Police Around”: Urban Youth Evaluate Strategies of Surveillance in Public Places,” Michelle Fine and her comrades were inspired to conduct a survey over one of the major social issues - how authority figures use a person’s racial identity as a key factor in determining how to enforce laws and how the surveillance is problematic in public space. Fine believes it is critical to draw attention to the reality in why African Americans are being arrested at a much higher rate. This article reflects the ongoing racial issue by focusing on the injustice in treatment by police officers and the youth of color who are victims. This article is successful in being persuasive about the ongoing racial iss...
Police: Breakdowns that allowed corruption are still uncorrected, study finds. The chief concedes that mediocrity became a way of life at all levels of the department. The Los Angeles Police Department failed time and again to take steps that might have headed off the worst corruption scandal in its history, according to a sweeping self-indictment prepared by the department's own leaders. In a letter accompanying the long-awaited Board of Inquiry report into the corruption centered in the department's Rampart Division, Police Chief Bernard C. Parks called the scandal a "life-altering experience for the Los Angeles Police Department" in which corrupt officers took advantage of lax supervision to carry out criminal acts. "We as an organization provided the opportunity," Parks wrote.
In 2014, the death of Eric Garner in New York City raised controversial conversations and highlighted the issues of race, crime, and policing in neighborhoods that tend to be poor and racially isolated. Garner, an unarmed black man, was killed after being tackled and held in a “chokehold.” According to the AP Polls in December 2014, “Police killings of unarmed blacks were the most important news stories of 2014.” The problem is that young black men are targeted by police officers in which they have responded with the misuse of force and policy brutality. It is evident that this issue affects many people nationwide. The civilians do not trust the police department and the justice system because they hold the perceptions that police officers are immune from prosecution despite their actions. In particular, black individuals, specifically black males, do not feel safe in the presence of police officers because they are not held accountable for their mistakes.
Skylar Lukito Mrs. Carew Honors English 8 Period 4 15 March 2024 The Perceptive Truth of Intelligence Twenty-six percent of Americans suffer from a diagnosable mental disorder. In the 1959 novel by Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon, we are introduced to Charlie Gordon, a mentally challenged man living in New York City. Charlie works at a bakery and attends special education classes in the hopes of improving his intelligence. Charlie Gordon undergoes a groundbreaking surgery that significantly increases his intelligence. However, after this process of tripling his IQ, Charlie realizes that the happiness he once had as a mentally challenged man has instead been replaced with confusion, despair, and detachment from his prior life.
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Police men and women are individuals who are here to help protect and serve and up hold the law and enforce it at all times. But what happens when the men and women who are supposed to uphold the law let their pride and power overcome what is right and replace it with what they think is right. African American people as a whole have faced a greater set of challenges. For example, some black women are looked at as "ghetto" or "uneducated" individuals. While black males are considered "thugs" and "crooks” these are the harsh stereotypes that our race as a whole are forced to deal with.
He told me that Takoma Park was a very a quiet neighborhood and does not have too many crimes occurring. He expressed his love for his co-workers and how they have been working in a team to achieve many difficulties that may arise in the community. For instance, during our patrol we had a call concerning a man who was very violent and was causing a lot of trouble in his home. Just a few minutes after the call it was amazing that all the officers were at the scene and trying to preserve peace. Furthermore, Officer Carl works around only the jurisdictional boundaries which he was sworn to serve and maintain peace. These areas include Langley Park, New Hampshire Ave and other areas within the same boundaries. Officer Carl also explained the importance of community relation programs held in the community and how positively it affects the community and them themselves. He emphasized that community relation programs were very effective and each police officer was happy to a part of it. In addition, this program is often in a form of reunions where the community members and the police come together and celebrate and discusses how to make the community great. The purpose of this program was for the police force to have a good and close relationship with the community so that
Robert Pinsky represents the Confessional movement in poetry because of his personal relation to his works in a matter of deep understanding of the self. Confessional poetry emerged in the 1950’s and 60’s and introduced a new realm of poetry in which the readers could better understand the author’s personal thoughts. “Private experiences with and feelings about death, trauma, depression and relationships were addressed in this type of poetry, often in an autobiographical manner,” (“Brief Guide”). They often describe psychological emotions through literary techniques that may be overlooked to the naked eye. Said poets did not simply spill their emotions unto the page, but they paid much attention to their prosody and articulated each stanza
“Modern police leaders are expected to master a much broader set of capabilities than their predecessors” (Leadership Development, 2016). This includes interaction with political figures, new partnerships, and being visible to the media. Under the spotlight, supervisors are pressured to show their leadership within their organization but must be given support, training, and development. If there are effective leadership development programs (LDPs), law enforcement agencies can develop new ways of thinking and other skills to create successful leaders (Leadership Development, 2016). Interviews conducted by Accenture to supervisors concluded that action learning works best, learning on the job activities make successful leaders, and give employees tomorrow’s challenges(Leadership Development, 2016).