Confidential Memo: President’s Task Force 2.2.4 Action Item In the wake of the 2014 fatal shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, national attention has focused on the use of force by law enforcement (ACLU, 2016.) To rebuild trust between law enforcement and communities, President Barack Obama signed an executive order establishing the Task Force of 21st Century Policing. In 2015, President Obama met with members of his Task Force and delivered a message to the press which highlighted the need to collect more data and information stating; “…there was a great emphasis on the need to collect more data. Across this country, we’ve got 18,000 law enforcement jurisdictions. Right now [law enforcement and local communities] do not have a good sense, …show more content…
Greenleaf, I would adopt the servant-leadership model to effectively implement policy change. Servant-leadership is defined as, “A new kind of leadership model which puts serving others as the number one priority [and] emphasizes increased service to others; a holistic approach to work; promoting a sense of community; and the sharing of power in decision-making (Smith, …show more content…
More importantly, I would also sponsor the efforts of coalition activists and the American Civil Liberties in their request to Attorney General Mason to: “condition federal criminal justice grants on data collection and reporting on police-civilian encounters; and provide regulations on the implementation of the Deaths in Custody Reporting Act” (ACLU, 2016.) Lastly, I would request technical assistance from D. Brian Burghart; founder of the “Fatal Encounters” project that crowdsources media accounts and public records to create a national database of people killed by law enforcement (Grothaus, 2015.) Burghart’s work on “Fatal Encounters” will be fundamental to increasing awareness of the legislatures by providing visual conceptualization through clear graphs of people killed during interactions with law
During his second term of Presidency, Barack Obama signed an Executive Order creating the Task Force on 21st Century Policing. The Force was created to note which practices worked and which ones did not. They also made recommendations to help develop trust and reduce the scale of crime. President Obama created this Task Force when it became clear that a distrust had formed between the People and Police Officers and the crime rate had spiked. This distrust has always been a problem for Law Enforcement Agencies. However, the distrust and crime against Police Officers grew dramatically following the Ferguson shooting of Michael Brown. Some believe that the Ferguson Effect is a myth though it is clear that this is one of the causes of Officers De-policing certain areas because they fear for the worst. President Obama hoped that by creating the Task Force on 21st Century Policing it would help rebuild the trust that was lost and establish a good relationship between the community and Police Officers. Throughout The Final Report many recommendations were suggested to help Law Enforcement. After reading over the recommendations it has become obvious that some of the suggestions will not work and possibly could
The Michale Brown shooting has forever changed policing in the United States much like the Rodney King beating by the LAPD in 1991. History will show that the death of Michael Brown will prove to have longer and more dramatic influence on how law enforcement officers do their job than the Rodney King incident. The reasons for this are many, to mention a few, society has become more sensitive and less tolerant of police misconduct weather the misconduct is real or perceived. The public is also better informed because of the speed that the modern news media, and social media, are able to disseminate pictures, video and other information. Facebook has probably had a greater affect on the way law enforcement agencies operate that any high profile
The nation was jarred by events that occurred in 2014 in Ferguson, Missouri; Staten Island, New York; Cleveland, Ohio; and in 2015 in Baltimore, Maryland. These events which followed officer-involved incidents in these American cities and around the nation exposed deep divides between communities and their police departments. As the discord reached a fever pitch, law enforcement agencies nationwide began the process of self-evaluation, reflecting on policies and practices and implementing innovative strategies to better engender community policing principles, build trust, and allay fear.
Probably, there is no trust between civilians and the police force. P6. Law enforcement agencies should work with the public to address the distrust between them. P7. The President started a task force to develop recommendations for law enforcement and neighborhoods working together.
For instance, the shooting of the unarmed Michael Brown and the death of Eric Garner promoted the unrest and protests all over the country (Ariel et al., 2014). The grand jury failed to charge the police officers involved. In the case of Garner, the court made a decision despite the witness had recorded the incidence using the cell phone video recorder (Ariel et al., 2014). The use of excessive force by the police officers has a lasting impact on the public views of the police officer and community relationship. In responding to these occurrences, the former president Barrack Obama in December 2014 proposed an allocation of $ 263million to assist in community policing.
in Ferguson, Missouri (Wolfe & Nix, 2016). While efforts such as those of the PPD and the NYPD are turning the tide, their efforts are hindered by the absence of a national certification program which would ensure that police agency comply with a standard certification and training in the use of force. Some national initiatives towards the deterrence of this challenge do exist. They include the President’s Task Force on 21st Century Policing, the Police Accountability Act of 2015, the Excessive Use of Force Prevention Act of 2015 among other instruments (Thompson II, 2015). While these tools could act as a deterrence to the use of excessive force by the police, their consolidation into a uniform national regulatory program would go a long way in addressing this
Upon examining former FBI Director James Comey’s 2015 speech and question and answer session which focused on law enforcement and race relations, many points were made to what got us to this point and possible remedies moving forward. Comey mentioned areas of debates which includes law enforcement’s relationship with communities, appropriate use of force, and the real and perceived biases within and outside of law enforcement. Several points were made during the speech and question and answer session which included data driven intelligence, understanding racial bias, cynicism, unjust laws, militarizing the police, and the impact of the media. Of the many points made by Comey, the two points that I found most important and compelling were
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The United States federal government is demanding a reform of police in the country. Everyone in this country needs answers quickly before the violence continues. What is the government doing to speed the process in the reform? “In December 2014, Presdient Obama proposed $263 million in federal funding
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Events like that took place in Ferguson, Missouri struck a gong that made people realize that communities needed. The White House webpage has shown how the President's Administration plans to better the relationship, This has been written by David Hudson, the Former Associate Director of Content for the Office of Digital Strategy. The administration plans to strengthen the relationship by advancing the use of body cameras, and reforming how the state and local cops (Hudson). In order for the law enforcement to better their media review would be to set up a twitter account announcing a block party, or simple funny pictures or videos that will have the people remember the comic side of your unit. The media recently has had nothing but a negative portrayal of the law, by looking at Josh Crosby’s article or watching any form of anti cop news, openings like “Kill All Cops”
And this task force was outstanding because it was made up of all the different stakeholders.They developed concrete proposals that every community in America can implement to rebuild trust and help law enforcement.” (White House, 2015). The President attempts to increase trust in the police community policing. The future of community policing on the federal level is unknown because when President Obama leaves office his replacement may not support community
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