ROLE OF THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE PROFESSIONAL Criminal justice professional field is wide with differing responsibilities and roles allocated by position and the level of an officer in the criminal justice department. These criminal justice professionals assume/play a key part in guaranteeing law and order to the citizens. This paper outlines the key individual and societal needs that necessitate the roles and responsibilities of a criminal justice professional and their role in serving these needs. Societal Needs…
This is because police officers play and important role in crime control and correctional population.4 A report by the Brennan Center was done to try to fill in the gap in research on the affect policing has on crime. In the 1990s, there were innovations in the way policing was done. Those innovations include “increases in the number of police officers on the street; community, problem-solving, and ‘zero-tolerance’ policing. ”1…
A group of scholars performed an experiment on community policing in the Journal of Experimental Criminology. The study monitored many different societies before and after community oriented policing was introduced. After community policing was introduced there was a reported five to ten percent decrease in crime and citizens were forty percent more likely to approve of the job police officers were doing. Los Angeles is a major city that uses community policing. All officers in the Los Angeles Police Department are trained in community-police problem solving where they work with the community to find common problems and develop solutions in order to solve these problems.…
Many people criticize the border for being a harmful, polluted, and shameful environment. Society classifies the Rio Grande border as if it were an infection that slowly harms anyone close to it, but it is actually quite the opposite. The place where I live in, the border between the United States and Mexico, has taught me and made me realize how uninformed and ignorant society can be, which motivated me to prove them the contrary. Despite the border being a wall that tries to separates families, cultures, and two different but great countries; none of this ever affected my family or environment.…
Community Oriented Policing Law enforcement agencies do their very best to find criminals responsible for destruction that’s been or will be caused, though sometimes it can be a daunting task that seems impossible. Typically citizens look to law enforcement for help, but in special cases those very same agencies may need to look back at the citizens for help solving a case. This use of the community is referred to as community oriented policing, and if implemented correctly, can be a very efficient tool in handling cases that seem otherwise impossible to solve.…
The question comes up over and over again on how the criminal justice system can improve the ways they run the organization. From lending down harsh penalties for people that have non-violent offenses instead of helping them through rehabilitation so they can become a part of society again. Police officers could be more involved in the community, helping look over those that have juvenile records. The officers can be around and that is the best thing they can do. When they are present it makes it harder to get away with criminal acts.…
Citizens are to be involved in providing information to help the police. Citizens are responsible for becoming actively involved in identifying and responding to problems in their community. The community is a source of operational information and crime knowledge for the police, and police are more directly accountable to the community. It is said that the gender mix and culture of a police agency should reflect the community that it serves. “Community policing also attempts to reduce the levels of specialization in police services by expanding the role of officers as generalists.…
Police brutality is something that can easily be found, whether in a news article, social media, or a new broadcast. Since the early years of law enforcement, police departments have taken numerous steps to prevent crimes through a tactic known as community policing. Which is the action of bringing police and citizens together to prevent crime and solve local problems (very poorly worded). Community policing is the most important and widely discussed solution to the current 21st century tensions between law enforcement officials and the local communities they police. Localized policing should be used to put emphasis on the prevention of crime rather than the traditional policing method of responding to crimes after they happen.…
Yes, I would have to agree that the peacemakers are a viable alternative to traditional criminal justice intervention in social conflicts. Consequently, “each year, the CRS’s conciliators bring hundreds of communitywide conflicts to peaceful closure across the United States and its territories” Bohm, R. & Haley, K. (2014). Peacemakers are key factors in allocating turbulent situations arising in our communities, courtrooms, and emerging conflicts. Therefore, by allowing peacemakers the right to address community incompatibility and apprehensiveness, this will alleviate excessive…
The relationships between law enforcement personnel and members of the community…
The role of community policing is clearly evolving as some agencies are continuing to focus on community poling to bring the community together and to crime control (Hoover 2014).“There are different sides to the community policing effort according to one police chief” and some other agency representatives due to problem solving policing. In many respects community policing is a thing of the past for some agencies Hoover 2014). With that said there are some advantages and dis advantages of community policing. One of the main advantages of community policing is that it reduces fear in the community due to the increase in police presence (Teacher, Law 2013).…
Tracking criminal data in the United States is a large part of the process in understanding and preventing further crimes in each community and every year the FBI releases an analytical statistics report for crimes committed in the United States, called the Uniform Crime Report (UCR). The UCR program data collection is done by individual agencies, such as police departments where they compile data by arrests and offenses. This system is called the Summary reporting system or SRS and the data collected is turned in, once a month, to the FBI or indirectly to the UCR program (FBI.Gov, 2016). Resources used by public officials to identify how to classify or categorize crime include tools from the UCR website such as the UCR data tool which helps…
The perception of what the role of a police officer in society varies depending on who is doing the perceiving and under what circumstances judgement is made. Not necessarily how the criminal justice system actually works, but rather how people think that it works, whether accurate or not. Expectations of a rookie cop making a difference, being helpful and full of energy are sometimes stereotyped as being cocky by the public, while being described ignorant and naïve by senior officers. “Citizens’ experiences with the police affect their overall assessment of the police. The more positive a citizen’s recent experience with the police, the more positive the citizen’s over-all assessment of the police.…
“Community policing requires changes to every part of policing, including its supervision and management, training, investigations, performance evaluation, accountability and even its values” (Stone and Travis, 2011, p. 5). The innovations of community oriented policing also helps officers identify themselves and their role in the social order. Stone and Travis (2011) further stated, “Innovations help supervisors identify officers at greater risk of engaging in misconduct” (p. 16). Police organizations must develop innovative strategies in order to be effective and efficient when faced with “technological advances, globalization of crime and increased scrutiny” (Chrismas, 2013, p. 2). Innovation could improve police and citizen relationships, and it could also help police supervisors counsel their subordinates regarding police misconducts such as excessive force.…
They voice their concerns, take action and contribute advice in addressing concerns in the community. It involves various philosophical and practical approaches that will vary according to the needs of the community. However, there are three key components that are vital in community policing these are community partnership, organizational transformation and problem solving. Compared to traditional policies, which prioritize, order maintenance and crime control, community policing emphasizes on crime prevention.…