Attitudes Towards Law Enforcement

Peoples’ earliest attitudes towards the law enforcement are formed in childhood as part of the socialization process. From the day a child is born they look up to certain people as their role models. It’s not just people who wear capes on tv, fight bad guys, and shoot weapons, its people that can protect them in real life. It is said that having positive attitudes toward the police acquired during childhood have a lasting effect on the adults judgment of police. From seeing police officers on the streets to having them teach the youth in the D.A.R.E programs, officers form a special bond with children. Whether it is teaching them different types of safe behavior, teaching them to look both ways before crossing the street, avoiding drug use,

This is not to justify their wrong behaviors, it is just a different approach to handling their punishment and hopefully sending a message to from there to make the right choices and get back on the right paths. More officers could be placed in schools as resource officers. Here they would not only protect students but develop good trusting relationships with them. They could take a few minutes out of a classroom to teach many different important topics to help keep them out of trouble. As the police-youth relationships can continue to grow where some officers direct athletic sports programs or help coordinate Explorer programs where recruits can help them into a law enforcement careers for teens who want to potentially become an officer them self. On the other hand there are definitely times where officers need to be the bad guys, and unfortunately in some cases some of those situations the issue can be with youths. In this case there needs to an understanding of right and wrong, serious and just a slap on the wrist. This is where the hate usually comes in towards the law enforcement stated earlier from the youths and so on. Many people who get in trouble with the law place tend to place the blame on the police officers and set them to be the bad guys in the

Also, in their neighborhoods, towns, and communities they see different treatment of people by law enforcement of race and class. They also tend to be more influenced by older siblings, peers, and family who believe the best defense for interactions with any type of law enforcement is to challenge them.

The strategy for youth program has developed a game, Juvenile Justice Jeopardy. This game is to be used as an interactive outreach program that wants to engage the youth in conversations regarding the juvenile justice system and the consequences of their actions to be. This scenario based game gives youth children and other law enforcement a way to give and learn the correct information about juvenile law and the youths interactions with the law enforcement.

This juvenile justice game can be played on interactive software. Its used is aimed to ensure that police and youth maintain a positive and trusting relationship and to ensure and hope that the youth stay out of the juvenile-justice system and learn to stay and how to stay on the path to success and positivity. This game already has had a positive significant impact on over 5,000 young children and teens in public schools and after-school programs. This has also helped youth and teens in detention or incarcerated in all different cities and towns throughout the United