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, su