As law enforcement administrators there are certain things that have to be accepted, there will be challenging issues to face you each and everyday. I have come to realize that issues such as budgets, unfunded mandates, and manpower allocations, internal influences on the culture whether from the officer’s perspective, diversity, employee groups, or just bad managers, will most likely be there in some form or fashion each and every week. As leaders, this is where many times people will lose their attention and focus and get hung up on doing the urgent things and not the important …show more content…
What is very dispiriting is that since the 1990’s while huge strides have been made in the areas of policing and it has become more successful in its crime fighting efforts, and technology. However, recent polls indicated the confidence in law enforcement still remains as described flat, even declined among in some populations of color ("The President’s Task Force on 21st Century Policing," 2015, p. 9). The report goes on to state that people should be treated with dignity and respect; they should be given a voice during encounters with law enforcement, decisions should be made neutral and transparent, and must always suggest trustworthy motives (21st Century Policing, 2015, p. 10). This goes hand in hand with the leadership lessons that I instill in those coming behind me, listening equals understanding, trust equals respect, loyalty equals strength, and communication equals connectivity. These are the things that inspire one to act in the right way, and set the proper mindset and create a followership, which builds …show more content…
In the wake of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, and Freddie Gray in Baltimore, Maryland, there has been an outcry for body cameras for all police officers to wear body cameras. While there are many upsides for the use of such a device, also come concerns in agency’s that are tasked with the control of the cost and control of the information. With the high resolution of today’s cameras, there is a issue with storage cost, and the length of storage, can it be cloud base storage and if so, what bandwidth rate would it need to be transmitted? Could that type of information to be properly secured? The ACLU has raised questions in regards to privacy issues, should a person have the right to know they are being recorded (ACLU, 2015, p. 1808). Many departments face these issues as unfunded mandates and are forced to make cuts in other areas just to fund the body cameras. In addition, while these cameras provide good information many departments are going away from the in car camera systems due to the additional cost, the body cameras can sometimes only give the viewer a very limited view of what it actually saw by the officer, taking away a peripheral