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Criminal Justice
Organizational and Administrative Strategies in Criminal Justice
The Americans with Disabilities Act is designed to protect people with a wide variety of disabilities from all manner of discrimination from employment to access. A police department has the same guidelines as other types of employment, but there may be caveats because of the nature of the job. No matter what the job, an employee, whether disabled or not, has to prove that he or she is capable of performing the job after an offer of employment has been made (DOJ, 1997). Prior to a job offer being made though the agency is not allowed to ask if the potential employee has any type of disability. Also, the police department must consider all applicants equally. If the applicant has an obvious disability, they must still be allowed to compete for a job on equal footing with all other applicants, but they can be asked to demonstrate that they have the ability to perform the job for which they are applying.
Other points in the hiring process are also contained in the ADA and precedent setting court cases that have occurred because of the legislation. A hiring official can require a physical be taken and they can also require a drug test prior to a person being offered employment. Hiring decisions can take drug and alcohol use into account, but only if it is a present danger or has...
The process could actually stretch on for a long period of time with the different levels of the process, but it would probably actually be better in the long run for the person making the grievance.
Like many of these procedures, there are both informal and informal means of resolving the conflict with the informal coming first. Allowing the people to come together and the grievance to be aired between them with a supervisor as an arbiter will probably be able to deal with most of the problems that would occur. If it gets to the formal stages it could possibly take a long time depending on how deep it goes and whether the different investigating bodies have the time to look quickly into the grievance. However, this may also be a good thing because it would allow the person making the grievance to have a cool down period during which they may resolve the difference.
Discussion Three
When a police officer has a grievance against the department for some reason or if the union is speaking for the officers. The department runs the risk of have certain statements made by the officer that could be considered libelous. Being in the criminal justice system is not an…
References
DOJ. (1997). Questions and answers: The Americans with Disabilities Act and hiring police officers. Retrieved from http://www.ada.gov/copsq7a.htm
Mangan, T. (2011). Libel raises its ugly head in Brockport. Retrieved from http://www.examiner.com/article/libel-raises-its-ugly-head-brockport
Mayer, M.J. (2012). ADA and the hiring process. The Police Chief. Retrieved from http://www.policechiefmagazine.org/magazine/index.cfm?fuseaction=display&iss ue_id=92009&category_ID=3
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