There are many reasons for police department to implement Community-Oriented-Policing such as improve relationship with community, and also an in-depth understanding of the ethnic groups that live in the community. In todays society many people do not trust the police, and many have good reasons. Police Officers tend to use stereotype, not because they are racist, but because many have not been trained to understand the cultural differences of others. Some of the misunderstandings that police officers can have when dealing with Latino/Hispanics Americans is seeing it as disrespectful when a Hispanic person speaks to those around them in Spanish when they are speaking to an officer (Shusta, Levine, Wong, Olson, & Harris, P, 2014). The police
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One of the steps that law enforcement agencies can take to alleviate the distrust of law enforcement is to be more inclusive, and hire more police officers that are African American, Hispanic, Asian, and Middle Eastern (Dempsey et al., 2011). Hiring more minorities in law enforcement is not as easy as it sounds because police department cannot force minorities to want to become police officers, and this is where the dilemma comes, to make police department more inclusive/diverse there needs to be more minorities, but at the same time many minorities distrust the police and therefor do not want to become police officers. By this standard the only way to diversified police department, and law enforcements as a whole is by increasing community police relationship, and this brings us back to the beginning on how to make police departments more trustful within the …show more content…
The media goals whether it is news or entertainment is to get as much rating as they can, and to do this they show negative actions taking by law enforcement such as police brutality, shootings, and over use of force. As Miller et al., (2004) has found in a research done on media influence on community perspective on police, negative portrayals of police officer in the news media leads to influencing individuals to also have a negative portrayal of police officers (Miller et al., 2004). Another finding was that those who had bad encounters with law enforcement held less respect, and trust toward them, while those who had positive encounter viewed law enforcement more positive (Miller et al., 2004). From Miller et al. (2004) findings it can be conclude that the media does influence individual to have a negative view of law enforcements. We can also conclude that police officers attitude also influence individuals perspective on law enforcements. For law enforcement and the community to have better relationship, the media must do its part to tell the story in a fair way, and stop being one sided when talking about police shooting, and the over use of
One of the steps that law enforcement agencies can take to alleviate the distrust of law enforcement is to be more inclusive, and hire more police officers that are African American, Hispanic, Asian, and Middle Eastern (Dempsey et al., 2011). Hiring more minorities in law enforcement is not as easy as it sounds because police department cannot force minorities to want to become police officers, and this is where the dilemma comes, to make police department more inclusive/diverse there needs to be more minorities, but at the same time many minorities distrust the police and therefor do not want to become police officers. By this standard the only way to diversified police department, and law enforcements as a whole is by increasing community police relationship, and this brings us back to the beginning on how to make police departments more trustful within the …show more content…
The media goals whether it is news or entertainment is to get as much rating as they can, and to do this they show negative actions taking by law enforcement such as police brutality, shootings, and over use of force. As Miller et al., (2004) has found in a research done on media influence on community perspective on police, negative portrayals of police officer in the news media leads to influencing individuals to also have a negative portrayal of police officers (Miller et al., 2004). Another finding was that those who had bad encounters with law enforcement held less respect, and trust toward them, while those who had positive encounter viewed law enforcement more positive (Miller et al., 2004). From Miller et al. (2004) findings it can be conclude that the media does influence individual to have a negative view of law enforcements. We can also conclude that police officers attitude also influence individuals perspective on law enforcements. For law enforcement and the community to have better relationship, the media must do its part to tell the story in a fair way, and stop being one sided when talking about police shooting, and the over use of