Police Community Relations

Answer the following questions for each video in paragraph form. Also for each video, provide a thought provoking question of your own for discussion and attempt to provide a response to it. Video one: Bill of Rights Overview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXopINJmxkE Which amendment do YOU value most? I consider Amendment I the most crucial aspect of the Constitution's Bill of Rights. WHY? Amendment I safeguards the five most fundamental freedoms: speech, religion, assembly, press and the right of petitioning governmental bodies for righting any wrongs.

The above safeguards were missed most by Antifederalists within the novel Constitution (Feinberg, 1987). Is our justice system better or worse than other systems around the world today? Accessible reports and scholarly works reveal that the American justice system is neither the most effective nor the most unsuccessful justice system of all. Some nations (e.g., Scandinavian nations) enjoy a more superior system while others (e.g., Middle Eastern countries) enjoy swift justice delivery.

Nevertheless, the basis of America's justice system may be considered very robust and sustainable, keeping in mind the near future. WHY? The last twenty years have witnessed a fundamental shift in strategy with corrective approaches no longer proving beneficial in current justice systems. This paradigm shift poses a challenge to conventional techniques that hamper chances of solutions expressing novel goals and values in a bid to contest, review, and re-concentrate existing methods, structures and approaches.

There is a need for novel measures which assess restorative justice's effects and legitimacy, besides implications for this sort of critical discourse. Efforts at reform have accompanied an interest in restorative justice in the form of a transitional approach to change and advancement (Pavelka, 2016).

Video two: Police Role Conflict Following Hurricane Katrina https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WGNAwdkoGo What roles were in conflict? The observed role conflict was between carrying out one's social obligations to citizens and familial responsibilities -- rescuing one's wife and kids, to the detriment of rescuing other citizens. Was his decision correct? It is hard to decide whether the New Orleans law enforcer's choice was right or wrong. He took the action he felt was right. He admits his choice was made with little thought.

But according to his official pledge as a police force member, neglecting his responsibility was a mistake. What penalties, if any, should he face? The law enforcers charged with abandoning their duty were classified on the basis of how far they transgressed. Officials who acted extremely egregiously received the sack whereas the remaining received a 4-month unpaid suspension. On the whole, 51 New Orleans Police Department personnel received the sack -- 6 civilian workers and 45 officers - for deserting their post prior to or after the hurricane struck (Adams, 2005).

What would you do? I would naturally have first thought about my family's safety. However, the guilt associated with not carrying out my pledge to society in this critical time would have forced me to resign from the department before the authorities censured and sacked me (Adams, 2005) Should the police be held to a higher standard? The nation is currently standing on the threshold of a second civil rights revolution.

Law enforcers' increased unthinking slaughters of unarmed non-white civilians, and the existing socio-political atmosphere indicates the imminent rise of a state of anarchy in the nation. Seeing non-whites being slain by those charged with keeping society safe is disquieting (Ruffin, 2016). I personally expect better from law enforcement. What side did the media take in presenting this story? The media did not report any desertion of posts by policemen in the area. Officials questioned in this regard generally replied that such a problem wasn't encountered in their department (Adams, 2005).

Was it fair or unfair? System rules aren't fair. One can clearly witness media bias here. In spite of police department admissions and statements, media channels were not wholly honest when issuing reports. The truth was only reflected accurately by surveys and researches. Video three: Police-Community Relations According to Mayor Bloomberg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=712Y18VJ36M Is this an accurate depiction of the police from your experience? The public holds steady, positive views of law enforcers.

This also holds true with regard to client satisfaction levels among individuals engaging in voluntary law enforcement encounters. Such stability persists despite considerable variation in law enforcement news coverage. Although it is a widely established fact that those reporting negative law enforcement system experiences are not as trusting when it comes to police forces, individuals whose kith and kin report negative exchanges display reduced confidence as well.

But the opposite isn't always true, in both the cases described above: positive law enforcement experiences aren't linked to significantly higher confidence in law enforcement (Miller, Davis, Henderson, Markovic, & Ortiz, 2004). What is your experience with the police (if any)? If you have no previous involvement, what about a close friend or family member? I have never been involved with any law enforcement official. However, my friends who report ill-treatment at police officers' hands displayed low confidence in them.

But those who had positive experiences and those who never had any police contact exhibited similar views. Furthermore, those who had "neutral" law enforcement experiences normally had worse views as compared to.