Cultural Diversity In The Police Workplace

A culture is the body of ideas, ways of looking at the world, values, and standards for conduct and behavior that a given people or nation hold in common. It includes the range of meanings that people assign to their own perceptions and behavior, as well as to the natural world around them. We can define the elements of that culture, and understand how they fit together as a culture, by examining that people's customs, language, religion, material artifacts, and social and political institutions.

Because of exceptional results akin to those of the Rialto study, Birmingham police Chief, A.C. Roper plans to equip every officer in Birmingham with a body camera. Since the behavior of the police are so much better, there will be more diversity within the police force. Therefore, the police force’s public image would alleviate, and more people would be willing to join the police force. Diversity will increase the placement of trust in the police force. Diversity will allow the agency to converse more effectively with minority communities. Diversity will allow the police to understand racial perspectives through communication with other police officers. People would believe that their interactions with the police are not based on racial

Culture is a set of ideals and values about life that are widely shared among people and that guide specific behaviors. Differences, as well as similarities, can be seen when comparing world cultures. We communicate with each other, we feed ourselves with food, and when we sleep we often dream. However, we speak different languages, eat different types of foods, and dream different ways. We call these cultural differences. What causes them is not always obvious to the ordinary person (Nancy). I feel culture is what really sets us apart from each other and what makes us unique as individuals and families.

There have been major incidents in our generation that have caused the need for diversity reform in law enforcement. The biggest incident was the attacks on the United States of America that occurred on September 11th, 2001. The attacks that

A number of problems arise from race and ethnicity issues in policing practices. From the department’s perspective, issues with race and ethnicity, create negative consequences. For example, if a police department fails properly to resolve situational conflicts, this can cause loss of productivity, tension among officers of different race and backgrounds, enhanced suspicion of other officers, and increased isolation of staff member. The department will suffer tremendously if it fails

Student studying criminal justice and those employed in the field of criminal justice need to be aware of differences between those from different cultures. By studying multiculturalism one learns that different cultures can have values, beliefs, customs, and norms that are different from one’s own which leads to acceptance and understanding (McNamara & Burns, 2009). For those employed in the criminal justice field, with the changing face America, it is necessary to understand the background of others in order to do their job. Immigrant populations are part of every major city today and even most small towns have at least a small population of immigrants. Officers have to understand that their culture is different and that they have to

Police Officers in America face diverse individuals within many communities that consist of different cultures, beliefs, norms, languages, religions, and behaviors. As society becomes more diverse, dilemmas of racism and beliefs arise. One of the important lessons we learned in the course is to fully understand these terms and how it can affect minorities, such as African-Americans and Muslims. Minorities perceive themselves as targets of police racial profiling and bias culture. When we face paradoxes of understanding each other’s views, choice of wardrobe, thoughts, and ideas, it will potentially lead to a negative relationship. One concept that affects interactions can be blinded by Racism. According to Policing in A Diverse Society, by Mary Jackson (2006), racism refers to the “belief that all members of each race possess characteristics specific to that race, which is most of the times inferior or superior” (pg. 6). Racism is the 'promotion of ethnocentrism ' in a way that it can be perceived politically, through actions,

Multicultural understanding is critical, as currently members of racial and ethnic minorities account for more than one in three Americans, and projections indicate that members of minorities will constitute a majority of the nation’s population by 2050. One of the most significant problems facing the police during the past three decades has been the tension, and often upright hostility, between the police and minority group citizens. Over the last few decades, minority representation has increased significantly in U.S. police departments. However, African America, Hispanic American, and other minorities are still seriously underrepresented in U.S. police departments.

Diversity is an important factor in the law enforcement agencies. It is important to mention here that police and law enforcement agencies depend on the assistance and the help from the public whereas without the support of the public, police and law enforcement agencies cannot function properly. Most importantly, it has been seen that various members from a number of ethnic minorities do not support the activities and the rules of law enforcement agencies. Here it can be added that within the law enforcement agencies, an increased diversity can help the society and community in a number of ways (Sklansky, 2006, p. 1210). Law enforcement agencies are more pronounced and function openly within the public based on which if law enforcement agencies are more diverse, it shows that the agencies believe in treating all minorities, races and ethnicities with equality. Secondly, with an increased diversity in the law enforcement agencies, the police workers and the law enforcement officers would be aware of the use of the sensitive remarks towards minorities, ethnicities, and races in the country within the official and public places. The importance of diversity cannot be ignored and the importance of diversity within the law enforcement agencies can also be understood within the community which is populated with a single race or ethnicity community.

In his view, the subculture itself, characterizes the public as hostile, potentially violent, and not to be trusted; which requires mutual support, secrecy and unity from the police (Scaramella et al , 2010, 99). The same subculture of police will deteriorate the sense of community from officers in favor for views and beliefs within the police services. Soon after minority police officers are hired into the police services, they begin to shape around police culture. Minority police officers can adopt an attitude that complies with existing police culture in order to succeed in the job and detach themselves from the community in favor of "professionalism." (Ben-Porat, 2008, 16). Police efforts to recruit minorities to stop under-policing and over-policing are in fact diminished by police culture. Although the police services may seem like they are creating a better image for themselves, the police culture itself is hindering minorities from relating to and changing their minority groups. Police culture is the main reason behind police acting and viewing minorities the way they do. Furthermore, the changing of police culture doesn’t come from the hiring of minorities but rather the changing of police services themselves. Training the police to be

Another solution to the problem for creating a culturally diverse is to chance how the minority group view the police force by hiring all type of police, gay, lesbian, different culture and different minority group for they could serve their community better by having very type of police officer to be able to serve the people and , for example a lesbian cop will be able to communicate with another lesbian person better then another cop so it best to be diverse to able to serve every ethnic group. Having diverse on the police force in all the United States will help some minority group chance how, “some minority groups believe that race is a determining factor for use of force incidents by police officers, which has led to the community distrust of law enforcement” (Espiritu,2017).In order to have a effective police force , they have to overcome bias and fear and be able to accept all cultures and diversity to be able service the people and society, there common goal is to protect and serve and not to be bias, races or afraid of

Culture: Culture refers to values, languages, symbols, norms, beliefs, expectations that members of a group possess and the good things they produce and use in their life. Culture is the thing that all the members of a group or society follow.

The United States is a culturally diverse nation; therefore, police officers are expected to interact with citizens in a professional manner which includes but is not limited to the following: (1) understanding various backgrounds; (2) cultures; (3) religions; (4) and ethnicities. Misunderstanding an ethnic culture occurs when officers are not

Claim: I think that our police departments and society as a whole would benefit a great deal from the use of multicultural education. After the deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner, our country’s distrust for the police has reached a boiling point, and must be addressed immediately. There is much work to be done when it comes to providing multicultural education to our police departments, but it is definitely vital to rebuilding trust and thriving as a society.

Culture is a way of life. It can be defined as a group of people linked by geographical location, ethnicity, gender or age. Culture can be reflected through language, clothing, food, behavior, spirituality and traditions. The behavioral patterns developed through culture are difficult to change.