Good Citizenship Essay

When dealing with such issues as equality and diversity, good citizenship between the society and public services is important because it allows tasks to run much more smoothly and efficiently. Good citizenship will allow all races/genders/cultures to coexist in a society peacefully without prejudice or discrimination. This of course allows diversity and equality in that society as a whole because everyone is living and being treated equally no matter their chosen gender/race/culture or even disability. Good citizens are important to the public services when relating to diversity and equality for example, there will be a slim chance that crime and hatred toward a specific race will happen because as a good citizen, you learn and adapt to living with different races. The way this benefits the public services is that they will be not needed to tackle crimes in relation to diversity and equality, therefore them being more efficient and using their time to help tackle more 'appropriate' crimes.
There are may different ways of being a good citizen as well as it having many …show more content…
In a local area, there are several hundred citizens classed as 'good' citizens, and 'bad' citizens. If everyone in that area was a good citizen, there would be no/little crime committed because there would be no 'bad' citizens. This would be seen as a big positive, but to the public services, this can be seen as a negative.The way this is a negative/disadvantage to the public services is because, yes there will be no crime, but with no crime means little need for the police to be involved. With no crime happening, the police wouldn't have any crime to tackle which is their prime topic. This is a disadvantage because many police officers would not be needed which may leave them redundant/out of job because there would be no 'jobs' to