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    philosophy or orientation that emphasizes working proactively with citizens to reduce fear, solve a crime-related problem and prevent crime." (p.4). Law Enforcement work to protect and serve the community. They sometimes, need the citizens to help with the criminal investigation and do the community service throughout the city. (bjs.gov). In law enforcement policing went through three eras of policing like the Political Era (1840-1930), The Reform Era (1930-1980) and the Community Era (1980-Present)

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    Community Oriented Policing is a philosophy that combines traditional aspects of law enforcements that promotes organizational strategies, which support the use of community partnership and problem-solving techniques, that address conditions that gives rise to public safety issues such as crime, social disorder, and fear of crime. In the beginning of the 1980s, some police departments were experimenting with an innovative approach of policing called community oriented policing. With the innovative

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    Racial Profiling

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    suspecting someone of having committed an offense. We see this far too often in low class black communities. It has been said, that the police actively use racial profiling as a way to get criminals off the street. They use their stop and search technique as a way of picking “random” people to stop. They take into consideration many factors such as location, car model, time of day and most importantly race. Racial profiling not only hurts the people of the community, but the police as well. It

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    Community Partnerships are best described as collaborative partnerships between the law enforcement agency and the individuals and organizations they serve to develop solutions to problems and increase trust in police (Chapman & Scheider, 2012, p.2). In community policing, the police become an integral part of the community culture, and the

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    Before any move forward on education, study must be made to fully understand just what is meant by community policing. Following would have to include information necessary to outline any benefits. Credited with the concept of community policing was a Michigan State University professor by the name of Robert Trojanowicz. Trojanowicz’s definition (Trojanowicz, Kappeler, Gaines, Bucqueroux & Sluder, 1998) was; “ A philosophy of full service, personalized policing where the same officer patrolled and

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    Police Interrogation and false confessions can damage an adolescent life if they are innocent. There are several things that the police should always keep in mind when integrating a juvenile, understanding a juvenile brain, make sure parents are present when talking to them, don 't let them confess to crimes they did not commit, and make sure they understand about waiving and Attorney. Hypothesis, this paper will cover the high pressure of interrogations and false confessions from the police

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    Police academy training programs must go beyond arrest procedures and usual tactics it must include COP skills (Anyatt, 1993). Academy training is infamously imperfect in instruction that emphasizes the discretionary application of a range of skills that relate to real world circumstances (Kelling, Wasserman, & Williams, 1988). Much police academy training is undermined in the field. For this reason, a change to community policing philosophy and its subsequent organizational changes must be trained

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    Community policing Community policing is defined as a " philosophy that promotes organizational strategies, which support the systematic use of partnerships and problem-solving techniques, to proactively address the immediate conditions that give rise to public safety issues such as crime, social disorder, and fear of crime" according to the U.S. Department of Justice. (U. S. Department of Justice). In other words the main goal of community policing is the allocation of various police agencies/staff

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    peacekeeping and law enforcing on “Skid Row” while implementing containment strategies “…to contain it and to salvage souls from it clutches.”(Bittner, 1967). The most appropriate role for officers assigned to police skid row areas seem to be both peace keeping and law enforcing. “…patrolmen do not act alternatively as one or the other, with certain actions being determined by the intended objective of keeping the peace and other being determined by the duty to enforce the law. Instead, we have

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    policing in the attempts to lower crime rates in his area. The reason for turning his attention to this model is because more police officers will be on the streets and engaging with citizens. Chief Scott Thomson, decided to change his policing technique with the community policing outlook so society can see that police are active and in response so less criminal activities will be tried. Which in the first two years of this police theory it has shown to have worked with the crime rate of murder

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