Living where you police
An issue that is in the administrations hand is, would it be effective for the police officers to live in the area in which they patrol? The reason this comes to question is because research has shown that residents that live in the area that the officers’ patrol, have an attitude toward the police officers (Allen & Michaux, 2013). What causes this problem? When talking to the residences, they believe that when the police officers that do not live in the area in which the serve, make different decisions then if they were to live in their area (Allen & Michaux, 2013). The residents are African American but should this matter? Shouldn’t the police department patrol and be involved in every aspect of each part of the community? …show more content…
If the officers are doing what they need to be doing then when they are in the “bad parts of town” they should be getting out and communicating with individuals in the community. When the only time you talk to them is negative, the community is going to have a negative attitude toward the agency. An example that has happened right here in East Texas, that happened a few weeks ago, was when Smith County Deputies were in a “ruff part of town.” Although there were obvious differences between the officers and the residences of this part of Smith County, they got out of their patrol unit and played basketball on the street with some kids who had been playing after school. What these proactive officers were doing was building relationships with the community that they serve which is a key component of effective community policing. As long as police officers are in the community and have this type of proactive attitudes, hopefully they will see the positives in the situation and start this type of interaction with the public. It’s hard for this type of thing to spread if it is not backed by the administration. Now days with the word racial bias being thrown around in the policing community, this would help eliminate the pointing of the finger at the police officers. However, with every …show more content…
When police departments do not have effective community policing, this allows for the department to slip up on the accountability with the public. This becomes a problem because the community believes that the police are hiding something from the public. With this problem comes intense community policing policies and the solution to fixing this would be to have Civilian Oversight Boards (King, 2015). This would allow a select few of the citizens within the community to be able to look at a problem with departmental SOPs or SOGs that had happened on a incident were they believe the policies were not followed (King, 2015). An example of this would be having problems arresting a suspect. You pull over a male suspect who is identified as a 17 year old and the officer can smell what seems to be marijuana. The officer asks if he can search the vehicle. The suspect allows the officer to search the vehicle and even tells the officer where he has hidden the marijuana. Throughout the entire time of this traffic stop the suspect has been Qu operating with the officer. Once the officer finds the drugs, the officer grabs the throat of the suspect and slams him to the ground so he can put the suspect in cuffs. Although this is an extreme case, this would be an example of when a Civilian
An issue that is in the administrations hand is, would it be effective for the police officers to live in the area in which they patrol? The reason this comes to question is because research has shown that residents that live in the area that the officers’ patrol, have an attitude toward the police officers (Allen & Michaux, 2013). What causes this problem? When talking to the residences, they believe that when the police officers that do not live in the area in which the serve, make different decisions then if they were to live in their area (Allen & Michaux, 2013). The residents are African American but should this matter? Shouldn’t the police department patrol and be involved in every aspect of each part of the community? …show more content…
If the officers are doing what they need to be doing then when they are in the “bad parts of town” they should be getting out and communicating with individuals in the community. When the only time you talk to them is negative, the community is going to have a negative attitude toward the agency. An example that has happened right here in East Texas, that happened a few weeks ago, was when Smith County Deputies were in a “ruff part of town.” Although there were obvious differences between the officers and the residences of this part of Smith County, they got out of their patrol unit and played basketball on the street with some kids who had been playing after school. What these proactive officers were doing was building relationships with the community that they serve which is a key component of effective community policing. As long as police officers are in the community and have this type of proactive attitudes, hopefully they will see the positives in the situation and start this type of interaction with the public. It’s hard for this type of thing to spread if it is not backed by the administration. Now days with the word racial bias being thrown around in the policing community, this would help eliminate the pointing of the finger at the police officers. However, with every …show more content…
When police departments do not have effective community policing, this allows for the department to slip up on the accountability with the public. This becomes a problem because the community believes that the police are hiding something from the public. With this problem comes intense community policing policies and the solution to fixing this would be to have Civilian Oversight Boards (King, 2015). This would allow a select few of the citizens within the community to be able to look at a problem with departmental SOPs or SOGs that had happened on a incident were they believe the policies were not followed (King, 2015). An example of this would be having problems arresting a suspect. You pull over a male suspect who is identified as a 17 year old and the officer can smell what seems to be marijuana. The officer asks if he can search the vehicle. The suspect allows the officer to search the vehicle and even tells the officer where he has hidden the marijuana. Throughout the entire time of this traffic stop the suspect has been Qu operating with the officer. Once the officer finds the drugs, the officer grabs the throat of the suspect and slams him to the ground so he can put the suspect in cuffs. Although this is an extreme case, this would be an example of when a Civilian