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  Why is competent communication important in the criminal justice field?

        Competent communication is important in this field for numerous reasons. One and the biggest one thus far is to gain trust, and trust is the pathway to positive relationships. Now when i mention this, it has to do with integrity. You wouldn't want to create a false report just to make yourself look better and them look worse. You want to be as truthful and as honest as you may or may not be ONLY to create more and lasting relationships among your peers and the community. Let's use an example. So say an officer was responding to a domestic violence call, but in all reality it was just a loud conversation. No physical abuse of any kind. When you get done with the interviews of both parties and are going to write your report of the incident, you decide to put that he laid hands on her or even raped her. Now you have just created false reports, which will also ruin said individuals life for no reason also with no physical evidence or proof of said incidents. So now you're in court and the tables have turned against you. You are now the one who is being targeted by the community and the family of this individual because you falsified evidence. 

      When you are using effective and competent communication, you are using the most knowledgeble and trusting communication. You want to make sure that everything that happened is documented exactly how it happened and with every detail to make sure the criminal gets the right amount of punishment for his crimes. That is when justice gets served and the victims can feel safe and trust the system to protect them from future issues and future crimes. 

  Personal experience with competent  communication not used.?

      My personal experience when effective communication was not used was the entire time i was serving in the U.S Military. The communication lacked so bad that when it would come to us having to go anywhere or have a certain time to be somewhere, nobody would be there or even be on time or in the right locations. Our chain of command was so bad at communicating to lower leadership so we could lower it to our soldiers that when it came to the serious stuff we as a unit was never called upon to help. We have five phases of training during our reserve training. during phase five, we are on deployment status. Our unit never really got the chance to get deployed only because of the communication lacking skills. 

   When it came to our specific training. Our leadership was supposed to be telling us where to go and what time to be there, they woudn't when it came to training they would tell us what training we needed but never gave us the exact information we needed to execute the training. Then we would get in trouble.   

    So in all this research, when it comes to effective communication. We can see that it is well needed. Without it we can't really get anything done nor can we really communicate effectively to provide exact details to what happened or what we need done.