There are a few different ways to improve community policing. What I propose is to extend the Basic Peace Officer Training Academy up to a year to implement a mental health & safety course. The reason it is crucial to implement a Mental Health & Safety course is because the extra courses will give the Deputy Sheriff Trainee time to learn and practice their knowledge. As part of the job description, a deputy sheriff is required to build relationships with community members. However, if the officers who respond to mental health calls do not know how to effectively communicate with the victim or the family, the trusting relationship between law enforcement and that community will deteriorate. Additionally, mental health is one of the leading factors …show more content…
Currently, the police academy is six months long, giving instructors a limited amount of time to cover the basics of search and seizure, reports, defensive tactics, and other necessary in-depth educational topics. As a result, the lack of time results in the trainees lacking proper training in communicating with the mentally ill. Regarding this, according to the academic journal, “A Co-Responder Model for Policing Mental Health Problems at Crime Hot Spots: Findings from a Pilot Project” the author stresses that, “police are often the first and only community resource to respond to a situation where a person is having a mental health crisis, but they do not necessarily have the training and resources to respond properly to these encounters” (par.1). By implementing a mental health and safety course in the academy, this course allows deputy trainees to learn and practice their knowledge in a learning environment. This will improve the communication between law enforcement and the mentally ill, which is likely to increase relationships within the …show more content…
The main reason why is that this party is associated with defunding the police (Cillizza, par. 4). This movement started after the incident with George Floyd. To reconstruct the community and public safety, Minneapolis liberal members “(and the activist community) were pushing for the party to embrace the ‘defund the police’ movement” (Cillizza, par 8). The main reason why the community and some liberal government members believe in defunding the police is to move more funds to schools and other resources that will not “criminalize your own kids” (Cillizza 7). In fact, according to an article by ABC News, “64% of Americans oppose the 'defund the police' movement, key goals: POLL” states that “a majority of black Americans support the movement to ‘defund the police,’ (57%) and put the money towards other community programs (64%), a departure from the other groups” (par.4). Although this movement took place during the year 2020 when the George Floyd incident happened, the idea of funding the police academy to include a mental health and safety course is bound to stir conflict with the individuals who want to defund the police. Mental health and safety courses at the academy have the potential to improve community
within their communities. Many agencies still deploy a traditional response model to address routine and emergency calls for service. The response model places a high emphasis on fast response times to calls for service and effective investigations which result in arrest and prosecution. However, more and more agencies are implementing variations of new strategies to deal with crime and disorder issues within their jurisdictions. Some of these newer strategies include community-policing, hot-spot
Policy paper on the Police Use of Force and Accountability Executive summary An argent need for regulation of the controversial use of force by the police officer is articulated in a contemporary Police Use of Force and Accountability policy agenda of the United States government. Use of force by a police officer can jeopardize the stability of a police department and its relationships with the community overnight (Skolnick & Fyfe, 2013). This paper examines police use of force and accountability
like all others, it is an impersonal, quick and efficient way to run a large institution. Along with the few benefits of police agencies having a top down structure with rigid rules, there are also many costs including poor communication and poor community relations. The problems of the bureaucratic structure are not the only difficulties agencies have faced throughout history, many of these historical complications such as the quality of officers and corruption have been addressed and dealt with numerous
these organizations; however, the police culture can involve police conforming to a code of silence and unprecedented allegiance to other police officers. Additional influence of the police culture often involves feelings of isolation from the communities that they serve and a mistrust of supervisory ranks (Sun, 2002). Possibly the most significant influence is the one pertaining to the inclination to be embraced by the group. Unfortunately, one of the ways in which this aspiration is met is by
contaminated by differences in law enforcement reporting practices, advancements in technology per agency, and changes in whether victims report or do not report crimes (Levitt, 1998). But still crime reports are still used when determining if current policing practices are effective. When capturing crime, Regoli & Hewitt (2008) say that “official crime statistics, which are based on the aggregate records of offenders and offenses processed by police, courts, and correction agencies; and unofficial crime
Enforcement Profession Abstract In order to understand comptemporary law enforcemment, we should recognize the conditions that impact our profession. It is agreed upon by many scholars that major changes in law enforcement occur every five years. Policing is sometimes characterize"... like a sandbar in a river, subject to being changed continuously by the currents in which it is immersed..." (Swanson, Territo and Taylor, p. 2). However, in recent years some major changes have occurred in a shorter
on school climate was not so clear-cut as one might have thought. In fact, research findings indicate that the influence of school uniforms on school climate is unique for each individual school and is dependent on a number of factors to include community demographics and attitudes, the type of dress code, how the dress code was arrived upon, and how the dress code is enforced. Most adults are confident in their assumption that children and teens that dress nice are nice. Hence, the idea that dress
Juvenile adolescents in discipline trouble are being cycled from public education to prison more and more today. There are school districts in South Carolina that have continued to expel students, suspend students out of school, and remove students to alternative settings. Moreover, South Carolina law identifies students that are seventeen years old as an adult. Consequently, many at risk students are kicked out of school at this age or they drop out. Therefore, once a student starts on this