The Pros And Cons Of Policing

Having had the opportunity to see both sides of the argument play out in the City of Memphis and as a member of the Memphis Police Department. I have become an advocate for requiring entry-level police officers to have at the very minimum an associate degree or the equivalent college credits. The college requirement can only be avoided with military experience. However, my position is not that more education makes you a better police officer or less education makes you a lousy officer. I believe that there should be a “happy medium” when it comes to police work. A good officer will be empathic, fair and in tune with the needs of the community and its members. Requiring a level of education for your entry-level officers speaks volumes about your agency and their dedication to professionalism. The benefits of having a college educated officer have shown to make a difference in the way they do their jobs. An educated police officer is less likely to utilize force when interacting with his co-workers or civilians. A department with educated officers also has shown to see a reduction in misconduct and disciplinary issues(Gómez-Mejía et al., 2016). Some years back the Memphis Police Department had relaxed their

Every aspect of modern society grew into what we know now as civilized. The American Police organization history and evolution can be explained by detailing the 3 eras of American policing. The Political Era, the Reform Era and the Community Integration Era.

I had always wanted to further my education after college, but due to family commitments at the time I could not attend University. I am now at a point where my family life is settled and I am in a career I enjoy. I now am able to commit my time to studying, increasing my understanding of policing.

The chief of the Abington Police, Chief William (Bill) Kelly came to the campus on Thursday to talk with the criminal justice class about policing. Chief Kelly has been serving for forty-three years between police forces in the states of Ohio and Pennsylvania - and has been a police chief for thirty-three years. With his years of experience, Chief Kelly talked about primarily three main ideas: Problem-Solving, Community- Oriented Policing and Abington’s Approach to Policing.

In order to fully understand hot spots, you must first understand existing research that is found in scholarly articles. Here are three articles that explain hot spots and their evaluation plan, Policing Crime and Disorder Hot Spots: A Randomized Controlled Trail, Hot Spots Policing with Actively Monitored CCTV Camera and The Effects of Directed Patrol and the last article is Self-Initialed Enforcement on Firearm Violence a Randomized Controlled Study of Hot Spots Policing. Each article measures and operationalizes their own individual’s outcome, for example the first article is dealing with physical and social disorder as

Policing can be positive by interacting more with the community in the sense of letting the people know that they are there to help with any serious problem that a person may have. It can also be more positive by officers staying calm when assessing a situation because it is a stressful job and sometimes a civilian can make the job very difficult, but having good communication skills can help the officer keep calm, and stay professional at the same time keeping a good image to the

There is no doubt that policing is a stressful career, the whole purpose of law enforcement is to serve and protect the public and that can put a lot of pressure on a police officer because they’re the people who are called first when tragedies happen and the community reply’s strongly on the police to make the neighborhoods that they live in a safer place. Policing is a stressful career because of the tragedies that officers see when they are on the job responding to a call, which can also be a very traumatizing depending on what the situation was, as well as the high demand that comes with the profession. Stress has a physical, mental, and emotional influence on an individual, which causes mental and bodily pressure. In the article “ Canadian

Hot spots policing involves deploying officers to patrol very specific areas within their jurisdiction that have seen a very high amount of concentrated crime (Lum, Nagin, 2016). The idea of hot spots policing came about “from a striking empirical regularity uncovered by Sherman, Gartin, and Buerger (1989) when they found that only 3 percent of addresses and intersections (“places”) in Minneapolis, Minnesota. produced 50 percent of all calls to the police” (Lum, Nagin; 2016). There were a few other astounding statistics that were seen in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1989. All robberies were reported in only 2.2% of places. All rapes were reported in only 1.2% of places, and all auto thefts were reported at 2.7% of all places (SOURCE).

Proactive in policing is the best way to reduce crime. By maintaining a visible proactive police in a community will deter crime and criminal behavior, as well as to reduce the public fear of crime. These goals are equally important and also contribute to enhancing trust between citizens and police. These police officers must actively enforce laws even for low-level crimes and violations before a call for service. This will prevent more serious crimes in the future. Law enforces officers have to shift away from using only reactive policing tactics and also responding to calls after a crime occurs.

There have been many different traditional and practical approaches addressed and some of them you may not have never heard of to combat problems in policing (Plant, J. & Scott, M., July 2009, p. 31). And while some rely on their police chief executive or supervisor to understand these approaches and to craft a sensible local approach from among them, having some familiarity with and understanding of the most common approaches will enhance their ability to provide knowledgeable support and oversight to their police agency (Plant, J. & Scott, M., July 2009, p. 31). The organization will run more effectively and effeciently if everyone take a part in knowing their roles, responsibilites, and staying up to date on their

The policing model was first implemented under the principles of Sir Robert Peel the Home Secretary of England (chpt2 ).

Lastly, I would like to take some time to reflect back on the way policing was back in the 40’s and 50’s and how it changed for the better or worst in today’s 21st century. From what we already know about Devil in the Grove by Gilbert King. He gives us the perspective where Sheriff McCall and his county sheriffs are members of the Ku Klux Klan back when they Jim Crow Laws were in full effect. Now fast forward it about fifty or sixty years into modern day society. Think to yourself, would it be necessary to be in a group that is associated with killing off innocent African Americans today? These great individuals that make up their race have contributed to our society in so many ways. So being a member of a group to wipe out a particular race

1) The police in this article seem to be conducting sort of preemptive stops, where they are not necessarily waiting for people to commit crimes, rather, they are stopping people, searching them, asking questions, and running a check to see if anything turns up. As seen in the article: “I watched the police stop pedestrians or people in cars, search them, run their names to see if any warrants came up, ask them to come in for questioning, or make an arrest at least once a day...” (Goffman, pg. 343). This is more similarly related to a stop and frisk method of policing, deeming “reasonable suspicion” as grounds to search someone.

In a study by the United Nations Development Program 2014, it shows that higher percentages of crimes by a black officer were against a fellow black person (Rothstein and Nathan, 2003). The regression results revealed a positive relationship between how the police carried out their work, how the police were recruited and how they were trained with the effectiveness of the police in policing as regards to race and corruption. This implies that increase in the infrastructure that monitors the police work will also lead to an increase in the effectiveness of the police in policing, with regards to race and

There are at least two major ethical considerations in hot spot analysis. First, the analyst must make sure any data used is true and not skewed in any way. Bad data could cause analysts to project hot spots in the wrong locations, which in turn cause police to place officers and special units in the wrong areas. Second, the results must be put out, whether they are desired or not. Afflitto (2015) mentioned a city that was having a large number of assaults directed towards African-American Women at gas stations in a certain area. These analysis results were not put out and the high number of assaults continued. Whether the police department did not want to look bad, the women were African-American instead of White, or because the