Comparison Of Mission, Vision And Values

As mentioned in the mission statement of the police department, the safety and comfort of the

The organization I selected for my research paper is the Chicago Police Department, also known as CPD. This organization interests me because it directly affects me, not only as a member of the communities who seem to interact most with CPD, but also as someone who was born and raised in the city of Chicago. The Chicago Police Department’s mission is to serve and protect citizens of the city, yet this organization has been in the news for doing just the opposite. Recently, the CPD has been in the media for a number of unethical issues and their lack of diversity on the force. Thus I would like to explore how these areas affect the work of CPD and their relationship with various communities. With recent protests and the Black Lives Matter movement

Police organizations across Canada must improve by implementing new community policing strategies to foster a healthy relationship with the population, and must include mandatory ‘cultural sensitivity training’ for all officers. This will be vital in understanding the post-colonial impacts of residential schools, such as intergenerational effects, thus improving their responses to situational exigencies.

Discrimination towards ethnic minority continues to find its way in our country. Unfortunately, the subject of racial profiling remains a part of Canada, as officers ignore individual behavior and instead, rely on race in police investigations. According to Katheryn Russell (as cited by Amy Hackney & Jack Glaser, 2013) racial profiling is defined as “The use of race or ethnicity by law enforcement officials as a basis for judgement of criminal suspicion” (Russell, 1998). Racial profiling within our country can be exposed through Canadian history, surveys and interviews from those treated unjustly. All of which stakeholders attempt to remedy for the victimization of the innocent.

In this essay, I would like to explain the racial policing with the issue of discrimination and racism towards marginalized and the black people. The article describes the risk assessment strategies and legislative responses of policing to reduce racial policing. The article explains the racial policing through racialization and Canada is a country who receives immigrants from a different culture, ethnic, race, and color (Wortley and Akwasi 2011). Every year a large number of immigrants settle in Canada. Those who migrate from one country to Canada may face several challenges such as language barrier, discrimination, racism, and racial policing.

The major problem with the Toronto Police’s budget cuts are that they plan to freeze hiring for three years. This has caused major burnout rates and a reduction in moral in many officers (Fox, 2017). The plan initiated by the Toronto Police this January is one looking at a change to police culture as well as budget reduction. The hiring freeze is a product of the budget, the Toronto Police Service has hit the 1 billion mark as of this year, exceeding any budget ever had in the past (Powell, 2016). The Toronto police have made it their goal to not go over this cap and are doing everything in their power to cut costs. One of the ways they plan on doing this is through a 3-year hiring freeze of all civilian and new cadets (Lee-Shanok,

Although the economic environment and social relationships have changed, police officers remain the centerpiece and foundation of civil law enforcement — but without community support and trust, they will never be capable of doing their job effectively. Public trust is the cornerstone of successful policing, the currency by which they are allowed to operate. One act of misconduct, perceived or otherwise, reflects wholly on the department and is one of the most substantial hurdles to overcome as an active stakeholder within the community, not an enemy of it. Strong leadership can steer the department through adverse periods of municipal distrust by fostering a culture from within that promotes openness, fairness, and high ethical standards. Creating buy-in from internal stakeholders establishes a strong foundation and promotes esprit de corps, upon which a very successful strategic communication and outreach campaign to external stakeholders (latent, expectant, and definitive) will thrive and ensure widespread support.

An advocate of Community Oriented Policing (COP), he has been diligent about sharing the message that “policing is a partnership.”

The mission and values that are of importance will be taken from Portland, Oregon, Houston, Texas, Madison, Wisconsin because all of their attributes is beneficial to the community. For instance, it is vital that police officers work with the community, whether than against them regardless of their geographical location. A law enforcement officer cannot become effective to the community unless there are some trust and respect(Cordner, G.W., 2016). I believe that The Constitutional Rights need to be exercised and protect when it dehumanizes people. Therefore, peace and providing a safe environment is needed in our society now, due to terrorism and other malicious crime. Spokane Washington value statement states that it is service oriented,

Values and morals are an integral part of life; values define who we are on a personal and professional level. My personal and professional values are similar but are used differently on a personal and professional level. In this code of ethics I have identified my core values as respect, honesty, loyalty, integrity, professionalism, and responsibility. Developing a code of ethics has provided me with an opportunity to reflect on my values and evaluate how I turn those values into action.

The success of implementing a program like this requires that both parties be well informed and well educated on the changes that will take place. One of the first steps is to market the concept of community policing both internally (within the department), as well as externally(within the community).  Marketing community policing internally often involves collapsing the existing structures of authority that are in place as well as the specialization within the department.  The case study mentioned that although the senior administrators in the department played a critical role in the reform, it was also necessary that line level officers be active participants in the process.  After all, two important components of community policing are empowerment and ownership.  Officers were given ownership of certain areas that were

In Vollmer’s view, he saw the need to move policing from a community service oriented job, to a crime fighting, crime reduction job focus (Bohm, 2010). The advent of Community Oriented Policing is changing the attitudes of police administrators, and is causing them to revert back, or adopt, a service oriented method of policing. During the last century, police reformers, such as Vollmer, moved policing in the direction of crime fighting, not just providing services to the community. In this way, Community Oriented Policing rejects the ideas of Vollmer, and other reformers, who created the professional model of policing which was common place (Walker, 2012). The community oriented model of policing puts the focus by on providing services to the community, not just responding to calls and chasing criminals (Bohm, 2010). By forming partnerships with the community which they serve, the police are providing services other than just crime fighting. While crime may be an issue to some in the community, it may not be the most important issue to the majority. By working with the public to solve these other issues, the police are providing services to the community,

They also, of course, respond to dispatch calls of crimes in progress. Crime prevention is achieved through mere police presence. Negative interaction between the community and police is generally the norm. In communities policing, on the other hand, police officers are typically assigned to specific geographic areas in their jurisdiction and establish ties with the various community groups. These groups may include ministerial (church) associations, neighborhood associations, youth groups, etc. The idea is that when police are involved with the community they are not viewed as outsiders who are there simply to enforce the law. Crime prevention is achieved through positive interaction with police and the community. The goals of community policing are to reduce crime and disorder, promote citizens’ quality of life in communities, reduce fear of crime, and improve police–citizen relations. These goals are achieved through three essential efforts: community engagement, problem solving, and organizational transformation. In other words, the police are the public and the public are the police.

Whisenand, P. M., & McCain, J. K. (2014). Managing Police Organizations. In P. M.Whisenand, & J. K. McCain, Managing Police Organizations (p. 33). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Education.

As the Police Chief of Kansas, Community service and community participation is an essential part of the police-community relationship. The objective is to provide the community with long lasting preventive patrol where they can learn how to live in a safe environment and provide an outlet where people