Community Policing

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Community policing has been around for decades, however, it is difficult to transition a concern citizens mind, vision, feeling, hurt, and worries as a law enforcement leader’s/ field employees. For years, researchers have conducted studies or received surveys from police departments and other sources to seek and find alternatives solutions to regain and rebuild trust from their local law enforcement departments as well as other government agencies. For instance, a bystander recording a police interaction with a presumed suspect. Take this example a step further, let’s stay the suspect is getting aggressive towards the law enforcement officer and the suspect swings, wanting to strike the officer with an object or hand. As this altercation increase, …show more content…

Law enforcement agencies conducts numerous of community oriented policing such as speaking to the community members via social media outlets, community member meetings, public schools, and other entities. For instance, if a certain school district reports teenage drug abuse problem to a local law enforcement agency; the department can offer drug related aids to the school district and or speak with the youth about drug abuse. In Ohio, the state is connected with an association called Office of Criminal Justice Service and this organization provided various of examples of community policing. The Ohio collaboration community-police advisory broad listed great alternatives for community policing. For example, in Richmond, VA the police department would walk down through their community and meet new residence. This department walks door to door and to attract and spark community attention. This is a great alternative for police officers to acknowledge their community. Here, law enforcement leaders/ officers can build dialogue, regain and restore trust. The Richmond department will also include and involved other entities such as social services and public works in order to assist the Richmond police department with problem solving (OCJS, 2016). This comes to show that involving other entities that are non law enforcement related can help law enforcement officials tackle problematic situations and aid those who are …show more content…

The Spokane Police Department presented with new and improved ways to connect with the public and the youth. The SPD started to diversified with different cultures and build a powerful system to reach out to each individual. For example, the SPD department put out a COPS & kids” where law enforcement personnel and the youth/parents would come together on certain days out of the week to education the audience and enjoy themselves with games, food, and giving out prizes. The police department will also invite local business and ask for donation if possible for their community members. The SPD has other community outreach programs for the youth such L.E.A.D, open house programs, and S.T.A.R.S. to mention a few. The L.E.A.D. also called the leadership, education, and development program focused on eighth and ninth grades to teach them about responsibility, team work, and leadership skills. This program is an academy style like the police department, however, not as intensive. The S.T.A.R.S other wise known as the smart teens responsible & sober program concentrated in speaking with the youth about drugs. The idea behind this program is to educate and present presentations to high school students on being sober (Mangarf, 2000). All of these programs are very useful and impactful for the youth when law enforcement officers are conducting community

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