You have been asked to
present at a conference about how the nature of community can play a role in
the police-community relationship and how the police departments can damage or
improve their relationship with the communities they serve. For this
assignment, you will create a PowerPoint presentation in which you discuss the
following issues:
the nature of
community and how it can affect the police-community relationship,
the broken windows
theory and the role it can play in reducing and preventing crime,
the three styles
of policing that law enforcement officers use to define their role in the
community,
police discretion
and how it can be used to damage or improve the police-community
relationship, and
alleged racial or
biased profiling by the police and how it can damage the police officers’
relationship with people in their communities.