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1. Please analyze what type of police are needed for current times. - Discuss three personality characteristics and/or traits that are important and provide the reasons they are crucial when interacting with community members. o Maintaining a strong relationship and having mutual trust between law enforcement agencies and the communities that are being served is extremely crucial in order to maintain not only public safety but also effective policing. There are many different traits/personality characteristics that are important for police officers to uphold in order to police effectively. Capps (2014), explains that communication skills is particularly important because officers should be able to understand ones’ verbal and nonverbal communication abilities. This is important because officers spend a lot of time talking to complainants, witnesses, suspects, and the public, so communication between the two must be understood. Another the characteristic that I think is extremely important for officers to have is humility. Because officers have a prominent role in society as well as authority and power, it is important for them to be confident in their skills without the need to boast about themselves (Capps, 2014). Being capable of maintaining humility in the role of an officer can help ascertain respect as well as trust from the public and the communities that they serve. Lastly, amicability is also an important characteristic for police officers who serve the community to have. Hough (2016), mentions that police officers should be able to get along with other people over time regardless of their background or similarity. This also goes in line with A.4.b (APA, 2014), which mentions that like counselors, police officers should be aware of and avoid imposing their own values, attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors. It is extremely important for officers to not have any type of biases or prejudice to the members of their community regardless of their background. 2. Provide your perspective on police officers demonstrating empathy to community members. - What are the pros and cons? o Posick (2015), explain that understanding the emotions of others and expressing empathy can have many advantages like increase of cooperation as well as a reduction in stress. Posick et al., (2014), examined the role of empathy when it comes to police community relations which revealed that when officers

listened as well as expressed understandings during their interactions with citizens, they were more likely to be trusted and empathy was deemed effective in protecting the community. meanwhile a lack of empathy was linked to having less likely to have a person cooperate because citizens felt that when they received no empathy from officers they were being treated unfairly (Singer et al., 2006). Contrary to this, Patil (2018), conducted a study that also found that officers who were more compassionate within their approach, struggled with being effective as they felt underappreciated. These officers were also likely to score lower on their overall performance, competence, and use of tactical best practices for officer safety. ACA code of Ethics - American Counseling Association . (2014). Retrieved March 12, 2023, from https://www.counseling.org/resources/aca-code-of-ethics.pdf Capps. (2014, December 9). Perspective: Characteristics of an ideal police officer . FBI. Retrieved March 12, 2023, from https://leb.fbi.gov/articles/perspective/perspective- characteristics-of-an-ideal-police-officer Hough, L. M. (2016, October 7). Community-oriented policing: Hiring in the spirit of service: Industrial and Organizational Psychology . Cambridge Core. Retrieved March 12, 2023, from https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/industrial-and-organizational-psychology/ article/communityoriented-policing-hiring-in-the-spirit-of-service/ 1FE12C9CF31C4B3539F15F9D2795E987 Patil, S. (2018). “the public doesn’t understand”: The self-reinforcing interplay of ... Retrieved March 12, 2023, from https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0001839218783988 Posick, C. (2022, October 19). Empathy on the street: How understanding between police and communities makes us safer . The Conversation. Retrieved March 12, 2023, from https://theconversation.com/empathy-on-the-street-how-understanding-between-police- and-communities-makes-us-safer-40041 Posick, C., Rocque, M., & Rafter, N. (2014). More than a feeling: Integrating empathy into the study of lawmaking ... Retrieved March 12, 2023, from https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0306624X12465411 Singer, T., Seymour, B., O'Doherty, J. P., Stephan, K. E., Dolan, R. J., & Frith, C. D. (2006, January 18). Empathic neural responses are modulated by the perceived fairness of others . Nature News. Retrieved March 12, 2023, from https://www.nature.com/articles/nature04271

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