Comparing The NCJA And The 21st Task Force

The justice department today is spending millions of dollars to better train the police department against bias and examine law enforcement procedures, known as community policing. Community policing has been slowing evolving over the years. The civil rights movement exposed how weak the system was in the 1960’s. The development of the model has been inspired by

"A series of recommendations from various subcommittees were brought together wednesday during a meeting of two panels working on gang violence issues, but the element of time was also a key issue discussed by those in attendance at the state capitol"(Packham). State Sen. Constace Johnson, believes that we should focus more on education programs to help prevent gang affiliation(Packham). Subcommittees suggested to train neighborhood associations on how to identify and control different gangs and their activities (Packham). Atwood feels that more funding sources are being diverted to other priority areas(Packham). There has been plenty of recommendations we should use for gang prevention that are great ideas and can work. But I feel they need to be executed better.

The task force has several recommendation for how to build up trust and legitimacy. The first recommendation calls for police to change their mindset. Police need to not be seen as an occupying force. A citizen, Rufus Scales, who was affected by the racial profiling stated in the New York Times article that “whenever one of them is near, I don’t feel comfortable. I don’t feel safe.” As a member of the community he does not view the police a guardian but that they are against him. To fix this issue the police need to adopt a guardian mindset.

The use of a task force does not intertwine the community and the police together. Especially when the officers are going out in unmarked vehicles, and flashing their flashlights in random individuals’ faces. I understand they are patrolling, and trying to get the guns and drugs off the street, but rather than going after random areas, the officers should patrol hot spots, and chase after felons. Unfortunately, for Newark drug trafficking and gang violence is excruciatingly high, along with the homicide rates which are nine times higher than New York City. This causes the officers to conduct protruding searches. When it comes to the use of force, the officer’s actions were indefensible.

Over 2015, four out of the task forces five agents began their assignment with the task force. Our overall productivity remained consistently high. 2015 nearly mirrored 2014. In 2015 our task force investigated a total of 272 cases, compared to 274 cases in 2014. A total of 84 search warrants were conducted in 2015, compared to 83 in 2014. A total of 114 drug related arrests occurred in 2015 as compared to 120 in 2014. A total of 36 non-drug arrests occurred in 2015, compared to 20 in 2014.

Community policing is explained as a collaboration of community and the police working together to help identify and solve criminal activities. Additionally, the whole concept behind it is to promote public safety and to enhance the quality of life within the neighborhoods in which we reside in. Community policing is composed of two major components which are community partnership and problem solving. Community policing is a program that was initially started in the 1940’s. All of the support that was released for this program was materialized actually in the 1980’s. One of the main goals if not the most important goal was to bring in the law enforcement closer to their local public to help

The International Association of Chiefs of Police Research Center Board of executives, Smaller Law Enforcement Agencies Technical Assistance Program developed a New Police Chief Mentoring Project (IACP, 2013). Supported by the Bureau of Justice Assistance, U.S. Department of Justice, the focus is to make available official support to newer law enforcement leaders in the first three years of appointment, who are serving in smaller populations less than 50,000 citizens. As cities expand geographically and demographically, police departments face additional challenges determining efficient and effective ways to make use of officers and resources (Roberts, 2000).

National Anti-Gang Task Force, which fights gang related crime as well as an Australian Gang intelligence centre to provide national criminal information and trends on gang activity across Australia and its links overseas. The force includes members from the Australian Federal Police, State

Valley Metro Gang Taskforce, to help tackle the gang violence problem in the Boise area, known

The good news is that towards this program an underlying of more programs have initiated to motivate the community. For example, not only CAPS but other departments are opening neighborhood substations to measure the effectiveness of community satisfaction. Within those programs, there’s the innovation of organizing meetings and crime prevention seminars that motivates everyone positively. On the other hand, researchers have found that in the city of chicago, communities of color most likely reports less fear of crime and better relations with the police (Nissa Rhee & Ramos Manny). Not far from reality, the programs that have been implemented, works with half of the community and the half don’t take advantage of the efforts of the police

Although many may find community policing and problem-oriented policing to fall in the same category, there is (surprisingly) a difference between the two. For one, community policing has many definitions. For some, it means instituting foot and bicycle patrols and doing acts pertaining to the ideal bond between police officers and their community. While for others it means maintaining order and cleaning up neighborhoods in desperate need of repair (Dunham & Alpert, 2005). However, an idyllic definition of community policing is altering the traditional definition of crime control to community problem-solving and promising to transform the way police do their job. Within the past two decades, there has been much research on community

bills, policies and issues that directly impact criminal law. This committee is composed of ten

Policing is a very difficult, complex and dynamic field of endeavor that is always evolves as hard lessons teach us what we need to know about what works and what don’t work. There are three different Era’s in America’s policing: The Political Era, The Reform Era, and The Community Problem Solving Era. A lot has changed in the way that policing works over the years in the United States.

Police Agencies in modern society are a part of the American fabric to serve and protect the American public. The United States currently have more than 15,000 police agencies, (Walker & Katz, 2011). Police Departments across the United States face similar critical issues policing. All police officers face dangers in the job of policing the dangers can emanate from internal and external origins. Police officers have continued to evolve to serve communities by finding better less than lethal alternatives to weapons used. In addition, police departments have continued to keep up with

Law enforcement agencies have been building relationships within their prospective communities for the past 20 years or so which has allowed them to recognize and address growing concerns(Intelligence-Led, n.d.). Consequently, law