In this assignment, you will describe situations in which the styles of policing (Watchman, Legalistic, and Service) would be used in the career field.
In this assignment, you will describe situations in which the styles of policing (Watchman, Legalistic, and Service) would be used in the career field. You will also explain what you can infer about the organizational and political culture of the agency based on the various policing styles.
Prompt
In this module, you learned about the three styles of policing: Watchman, Legalistic, and Service. You will now apply these styles to the career chosen in Module One in order to prepare for submitting Project One in Module Five. First, review the Styles of Policing resource section. Then, for each style, describe a scenario or hypothetical situation (in 1–2 paragraphs) in which the style is exemplified in the career field. Then, explain what you can infer about the organizational and political culture of the agency based on the various policing styles (in 1 paragraph).
Watchman-Style Situation
Describe a situation in which the Watchman style of policing would be used in the career field.
Culture Based on Watchman Style
Explain what you can infer about the organizational and political culture of the agency based on the Watchman style.
Legalistic-Style Situation
Describe a situation in which the Legalistic style of policing would be used in the career field.
Culture Based on Legalistic Style
Explain what you can infer about the organizational and political culture of the agency based on the Legalistic style.
Service-Style Situation
Describe a situation in which the Service style of policing would be used in the career field.
Culture Based on Service Style
Explain what you can infer about the organizational and political culture of the agency based on the Service style.
Specifically, the following rubric criteria must be addressed:
Describe a situation in which the Watchman style of policing would be used in the career field.
Explain what you can infer about the organizational and political culture of the agency based on the Watchman style.
Describe a situation in which the Legalistic style of policing would be used in the career field.
Explain what you can infer about the organizational and political culture of the agency based on the Legalistic style.
Describe a situation in which the Service style of policing would be used in the career field.
Explain what you can infer about the organizational and political culture of the agency based on the Service style.
CJ205 Policing in the United States
Module 3 Practice Activity
Overview
In this assignment, you will review policing communications. You will identify areas of improvement in the communications and create new communications to address the identified areas of improvement.
Prompt
In this module, you have learned how to craft objective policing communications without bias. You will now apply this knowledge to identify mistakes in communication and create new communications that address those mistakes.
First, download the Module Three Practice Activity Template so you can fill it out. (The template is linked in “Guidelines for Submission” section.)
For each communication example in the template, identify what the mistake in the communication is, which may include biased, unclear, or missing information. (You will identify the mistake by copying text from the “Original Communication” column and pasting it into the “Communication Mistake” column.)
Then create a new communication that addresses the mistake you have identified for each example. Include only the text that would make up your new communication, which should be clear and should include all necessary information, with no bias.
Specifically, you must address the following rubric criteria:
Communication 1
Identify mistake in the communication.
Create a new communication to address the identified mistake.
Communication 2
Identify mistake in the communication.
Create a new communication to address the identified mistake.
Communication 3
Identify mistake in the communication.
Create a new communication to address the identified mistake.
Communication 4
Identify mistake in the communication.
Create a new communication to address the identified mistake.
Communication 5
Identify mistake in the communication.
Create a new communication to address the identified mistake.
CJ205 Policing in the United States
Module 4 Assignment
Overview
In this assignment, you will research police communications that are appropriate to audience, purpose, and task. The communications include an immediate notification/communication (after an incident), a press release, a social media post, and an internal report.
Prompt
In the past few modules in this course, you have learned about the various types of police communications, how to craft objective communications without bias, how communication methods and styles can change based on the law enforcement role, and how to craft clear, concise communications. You will now apply this knowledge to research samples of various types of police communications: an immediate notification/communication (after an incident), a press release, a social media post, and an internal report. These examples will help you prepare for submission of Project Two, due in Module Seven, in which you will actually create communication artifacts regarding a specific scenario.
First, review the Project Two Instructions and Rubric document and familiarize yourself with the scenario and the details of the communications. Next, review the sample communications:
Press Release
Social Media
Internal Report
Then, research each type of communication. Describe the purpose(s) of each type of communication (2- to 3- sentence description) and find a sample of each type of communication. For each sample, provide either a link, video, or screenshot with appropriate citation in APA format. The communications do not need to be related to the same situation. Sample descriptions and communications should be submitted using the Module Four Assignment template.
For Project Two, you will also be creating an Immediate Notification/Communication, but due to this type of communication typically being internal, you are not required to provide a sample for this assignment.
Immediate Notification/Communication Sample
Describe the purpose(s) of an immediate notification/communication.
Press Release Sample
Describe the purpose(s) of a press release.
Provide a sample of a police department press release regarding an incident.
Social Media Post Sample
Describe the purpose(s) of a social media post.
Provide a sample of a police department social media post regarding an incident.
Internal Report Sample
Describe the purpose(s) of an internal report.
Provide a sample of an internal police report.
Specifically, the following critical elements must be addressed:
Describe the purpose(s) of an immediate notification/communication.
Describe the purpose(s) of a press release.
Provide a sample of a police department press release regarding an incident.
Describe the purpose(s) of a social media post.
Provide a sample of a police department social media post regarding an incident.
Describe the purpose(s) of an internal report.
Provide a sample of an internal police report.
CJ205 Policing in the United States
Module 5 Practice Activity
Overview
In this assignment, you will describe how the history of policing in America has evolved to meet the needs and demands of the time. You will focus on three eras: colonial, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Exploring the history of policing will allow you to understand the relationship between societal needs and professional practice. This will help you prepare for Project Three, due in Module Eight, in which you will examine a specific scenario and how policing has adapted to address it.
Prompt
In this module, you have learned how policing has evolved. There have been many changes in the organization of policing and the roles of police officers, both regionally and over time. You will now apply this knowledge to create a timeline that highlights major events or evolutions in American policing during the various eras. First, ensure that you have read the required resources for this module, as the timeline will reflect the evolution of policing highlighted in your required resources. Next, use the timeline template to describe major events and evolutions in each era: colonial, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
American Policing: The Colonial Experience
Describe major policing events or evolutions that occurred in the North during the colonial era.
Describe major policing events or evolutions that occurred in the South during the colonial era.
American Policing: The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
Describe major policing events or evolutions that occurred in urban regions in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Describe major policing events or evolutions that occurred in southern regions in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Describe major policing events or evolutions that occurred on the American frontier in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
American Policing: The Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries
Describe major policing events or evolutions that occurred from 1900 to 1960.
Describe major policing events or evolutions that occurred in the 1960s and 1970s.
Describe major policing events or evolutions that occurred in the 1980s and 1990s.
Describe major policing events or evolutions that occurred in the 2000s.
Specifically, the following critical elements must be addressed:
Describe major policing events or evolutions that occurred in the North during the colonial era.
Describe major policing events or evolutions that occurred in the South during the colonial era.
Describe major policing events or evolutions that occurred in urban regions in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Describe major policing events or evolutions that occurred in southern regions in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Describe major policing events or evolutions that occurred on the American frontier in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Describe major policing events or evolutions that occurred from 1900 to 1960.
Describe major policing events or evolutions that occurred in the 1960s and 1970s.
Describe major policing events or evolutions that occurred in the 1980s and 1990s.
Describe major policing events or evolutions that occurred in the 2000s.
CJ205 Policing in the United States
Module 5 Project
Competency
In this project, you will demonstrate your mastery of the following competency:
Explain the different functions and responsibilities of police and law enforcement officers
Scenario
You are about to be a graduate with a criminal justice degree and are attending a job fair to explore possible careers in the field. You are required to obtain information on a policing or law enforcement career: either one in state/local law enforcement or one in federal law enforcement.
It is your responsibility to obtain information about the career you chose and create a product that includes: the functions, responsibilities, and jurisdictions of the role; which style of policing it most aligns with; what you can infer about the organization based on each style of policing; the recruitment and candidate vetting process for that career; and which theory of policing it best aligns with, with rationale.
Directions
Career Choice
You will be choosing one career from either the State/Local Law Enforcement category or the Federal Law Enforcement category from the What Can I Do With My Degree? resource based on your current interests.
Career Information
You will be creating a product to share information about the career chosen with an audience who is not familiar with the career. Create a product with all sections identified that address all of the required elements:
Describe the functions, responsibilities, and jurisdictional aspects of the career.
Describe the daily functions.
Describe the responsibilities.
Explain the jurisdictional aspects of the career and how they may vary depending on location or specific incidences.
Describe a situation in which each style of policing (Watchman, Legalistic, and Service) would be used in the career field.
Watchman style of policing
Describe a situation in which the Watchman style of policing would be used in the career field.
Explain what you can infer about the organizational and political culture of the agency based on the Watchman style.
Legalistic style of policing
Describe a situation in which the Legalistic style of policing would be used in the career field.
Explain what you can infer about the organizational and political culture of the agency based on the Legalistic style.
Service style of policing
Describe a situation in which the Service style of policing would be used in the career field.
Explain what you can infer about the organizational and political culture of the agency based on the Service style.
Explain the recruitment and candidate vetting processes for the career.
Explain the recruitment process and what steps the agency takes to approach potential recruits (e.g., career day, social media advertisements, flyers).
Explain the candidate vetting and interview process.
Explain the candidate vetting process (e.g., educational requirements, background check, drug test, physical test/ability, financial check, social media activities).
Explain the interview process.
Explain which theory of policing (Evidence-Based, Preventative, Reactive, Problem Solving) is best exemplified by the career and provide rationale.
Describe the theory.
Explain why the theory is best exemplified by the career.
What to Submit
For this assignment, choose the format that works best for you. This could include one or more of the following: poster, handout, presentation slides, brochure, written description, or video.
CJ205 Policing in the United States
Module 6 Assignment
Overview
In this assignment, you will explore how the professional practice of policing changed to address the issue of homelessness in our current time and how community policing helps address the issue of homelessness.
Prompt
In the past two modules, you have explored how the professional practice of policing has adapted to the needs and demands of the time, along with the value of community policing. You will now apply this information to highlight the relationship between societal needs and professional practice specific to a scenario. This information will help you prepare for submission of Project Three, due in Module Eight, in which you will address the issue of homelessness in Los Angeles.
First, review the Project Three Instructions and Rubric document and familiarize yourself with the elements of this project. Next, review the Project Three Scenario document that ties directly to the project. Then, research the issue of homelessness in Los Angeles. The following resources will assist you as you begin your research:
Reading: Contested Development: Homeless Property, Police Reform, and Resistance in Skid Row, LA
Reading: The Safer Cities Initiative and the Removal of the Homeless: Reducing Crime or Promoting Gentrification on Los Angeles’ Skid Row?
Consider what the Los Angeles Police Department has done in the past to address this issue and what it is doing now. Also, consider how community policing may have affected this. Use the rubric criteria listed below as headings to format your writing.
Community Policing: Principles
Describe the principles of community policing.
Community Policing: Valuable Approach
Explain how community policing is a valuable approach for today’s problems.
Community Policing: Homelessness in LA
Explain how community policing concepts and principles can be applied to the issues surrounding homelessness in LA.
Professional Practice of Policing: Tactics
Describe specific tactics the LAPD has used in the past to address the issue of homelessness.
Professional Practice of Policing: Strategy
Explain what strategy of policing the tactics illustrate.
Specifically, the following rubric criteria must be addressed:
Describe the principles of community policing.
Explain how community policing is a valuable approach for today’s problems.
Explain how community policing concepts and principles can be applied to the issues surrounding homelessness in LA.
Describe specific tactics the LAPD has used in the past to address the issue of homelessness.
Explain what strategy of policing the tactics show.
CJ205 Policing in the United States
Module 7 Project
Competency
In this project, you will demonstrate your mastery of the following competency:
Develop communications that are appropriate to audience, purpose, and task
Scenario
You are a recruit-in-training in Miami-Dade County, Florida, working with the field training officer (FTO) to whom you’ve been assigned. Your first call of the shift is to a fatal car accident on a local highway. You see the information provided in the scenario. After analyzing the scene, your FTO asks you to create written communications while she deals with crowd and traffic control.
Directions
Communication Artifacts
Your FTO has asked you to create communications related to the car accident you’ve received information about in this scenario. You are going to submit your communication artifacts in an email. Be sure that your email and attached artifacts address all of the required elements:
Describe the different purposes and types of written reports and external communications within law enforcement. In the body of your email to your FTO, include a 2- to 3-sentence description for each of the following types of communications:
Immediate Notification/Communication
Press Release
Social Media Post
Internal Report
Craft clear, objective policing communications without bias as attachments to your email. Include the following communication artifacts with your submission:
Immediate Notification/Communication: A 1- to 2-paragraph summary to dispatch. This communication would then be forwarded to emergency medical technicians (EMTs) or fire and rescue workers, the hospital, and the Department of Transportation.
Description of job
Injuries
Notifications to allied professionals
Street closures/traffic control
Hospital injured person is being transferred to
Press Release: Bulleted information to send to your public information officer (PIO) for a press release. Names and/or personal information (address, kin, etc.) should not be included.
Detailed summary of incident
Location
Date
Time
Vehicles involved
Description of accident/what occured
Response and hospital transfers
Status of victims
Status of investigation
Social Media Post: Social media draft post for your PIO
Internal Report: Formal police Motor Vehicle Crash Report
Within the body of your email to your FTO, choose one artifact and describe how the communication method and style would change if you had a different role in law enforcement. You may choose any other role in the policing and law enforcement field.
Within the body of your email to your FTO, choose one artifact and describe how the communication method and style would change if the audience changed.
What to Submit
To complete this project, you must submit multiple artifacts (listed below).
Email Template
Download and fill out the email template provided in the Supporting Materials section. Include the following in your completed document:
A 2- to 3-sentence description for each of the various types of communications (Immediate Notification/Communication, Press Release, Social Media Post, and Internal Report)
A description of how the communication method and style would change in relation to one artifact if you had a different role in law enforcement
A description of how the communication method and style would change in relation to one artifact if the audience changed
Communications Artifacts
The following are the attachments that would be included with your email. Submit each artifact as an individual file.
A 1- to 2-paragraph summary to dispatch (can be audio or written)
Bulleted information to send to your PIO for a press release
Drafted social media post for your PIO
Formal police Motor Vehicle Crash Report
CJ205 Policing in the United States
Module 8 Project
Competency
In this project, you will demonstrate your mastery of the following competency:
Describe the relationship between societal needs and professional practice
Scenario
You’ve just transferred to the LAPD (Los Angeles Police Department). Your supervisor would like you to assess the ongoing policing issues surrounding homelessness through a community policing lens. This complex, long-standing issue needs a more proactive, positive approach.
Directions
Community Plan
You will be creating a written community plan for how your office should move forward in addressing the policing issues surrounding homelessness in Los Angeles from a community policing standpoint. Your plan should focus on the relationship between police legitimacy and public trust, public opinion and procedural justice, community policing, and policing adaptations. For the plan, create a written product with all sections identified that addresses all of the required elements using the Project Three Scenario:
Explain the link between police legitimacy and public trust as shown in the scenario. Answer the following questions in your explanation:
What issues of public trust arise?
What can be done to address issues of public trust?
Where is discretion being used?
Where could discretion be used more judiciously?
Describe how public opinion can be influenced by using procedural justice for addressing the issue of homelessness. Answer the following questions in your description:
How can procedural justice create a more positive public opinion about the LAPD’s work with the issues surrounding homelessness?
How can police transparency aid the LAPD in this situation?
Address police accountability through transparency to the public.
Address how specific techniques, such as technology usage, may aid the LAPD in this situation.
Explain how community policing concepts and principles can be applied to address the issue of homelessness as shown in the scenario.
What are the principles of community policing?
Why is community policing a valuable approach for today’s problems?
How can community policing be applied to the issues surrounding homelessness in Los Angeles?
Describe how the professional practice of policing for the LAPD changed in order to address the issue of homelessness in our current time. Answer the following questions in your description:
What specific tactics has the LAPD taken in the past?
What strategy of policing do these tactics show?
What to Submit
To complete this project, you must submit the following:
Community Plan
Create a 2- to 5-page written community plan for how your office should move forward in addressing the policing issues surrounding homelessness in Los Angeles from a community policing standpoint. The plan should address the rubric criteria listed above: police legitimacy and public trust, public opinion and procedural justice, community policing, and policing adaptations.
CJ205 Policing in the United States
Module 8 Practice Activity
Overview
In your final course in the criminal justice program, you will create a research question that you will then investigate further. To assist you in this task, review the following list of current research topics covered in each course. Choose one of those topics (or another topic covered in this course) and create one to three research questions based on that topic. Then, submit the questions to your instructor.
Prompt
This research question assignment is graded based on completion, and instructor feedback should help you strengthen your questions for future use. After you have submitted the questions to your instructor, upload them (and the list of potential topics below, if you wish) to your ePortfolio.
For more information on creating research questions, refer to this research resource from the Shapiro Library. This page also has a helpful FAQ section on research-question creation and expectations that you may want to explore further.
Topics:
Functions and responsibilities of police and law enforcement officers
Theories of policing
Styles of policing
Purposes and types of communications within policing
Developing objective and accurate policing communications
Changing policing communications depending on audience and role
Police legitimacy and public trust
Procedural justice and community perception
Community policing
Specifically, the following rubric criteria must be addressed:
Submit one to three research questions based on a topic covered in this course.
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