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Running head: POLICE AND AFRICAN AMERICAN COMMUNITIES 6

POLICE AND AFRICAN AMERICAN COMMUNITIES

Abstract

It is the police's role to ensure that they have a good relationship with citizens in each community to have successful and ethical law enforcement. This is done to build and maintain community trust as a cornerstone. Growing confidence takes a great deal of progressive effort. However, many local law enactment police's moral works are simply undone through the deeds of just one immoral police officer. Always, the accusation of police appears to be an accusation of all. When transgression takes place, the role of the internal affairs of the law enactment agency turns to be the primary approach of assuring the society that the police is able and will peacefully handle and solve the immoral character. Generally, the police's integrity will typically determine the level of trust within the community (Harty, Friedman & Tung,2019).

Introduction

The relationship between police officers and citizens affects when it comes to law enforcement in the community. Some societies give a good place where they would wish to live. They have the expected level of education, security, and excellent earning; however, the police do not get along with the local citizens. The citizens consider the enacted policy as impartial and brutal people, while police view citizens as a threat to the living. The relationship between police and the community must be healthy and stable for a state’s law to be subject and be applied successfully. A good relationship between the police and the community serves as a concise authority for creating trust between citizens and the police. Without trust, police find it hard to operate even when trying to prevent crimes; people will have the notion that they are not safe. At some point, the police must fight to get citizens who help them fight crimes. Such societies require to concretize the citizen-police relationships. This discussion will analyze related review on police-community relationships.

Literature Review

According to Lipsitt, 2016, there was an awareness of each other’s predicaments between the police and the citizens. There was an increment in faith to corporate to solve problems. The police were interested in preventing citizen’s issues based on disciplinary matters. Some society members had the willingness to manipulate their neighbors on operating together with the police. There has been deliberate indifference between the police and the citizens as an outcome of their relationships. According to the author, based on the backdrop of the previous and present aggression that has dominated the nature between the police black citizens in America, studies have logged away to undo the police- black citizen’s fight in America. The friendship between the citizens and the police at some time facilitated in taking a stake in the sited conformity. Also, racial indifference showed how the connection between African Americans was difficult and determined the space that required inquiry and examination. As per the article, whenever police and citizens met to handle issues faced by the citizens, they only repeated known events and concerns within the community. The reiteration of the established facts is just minor automatic policing. This was an indication of failure to adhere to the program and, hence, decline any reforms titled to change performance. Further, Lipsett argues that the weight of the police indecision lies with the citizens. Local institutions now have invested in how to implement rules; the old program may be subject to repeat. This feature leads to police community-relations, which seem to be unproductive through minor symbolic (Jacobs’s et. 2019).

Harty, 2019, argues that both police and citizens have been affected by the events which took place in the previous years. This feature has revived the thought through the police sector on how they enhance community protocols.

Conclusion

Trust is essential in a policing department between citizens and the police. Studies have shown that the relationship between the police and citizens affects when it comes to enforcement of the law in the community. Citizens have a terrible image concerning the police, while the police feel that citizens are threats to their safety.

References

Fischer, N. R. (2020). Interdependent fates: Youth and police—Can they make peace? Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology. https://doi- org.libraryresources.columbiasouthern.edu/10.1037/pac0000466

Harty, N. M., Friedman, B., & Tung, G. J. (2019). Kids, Cops, and Community: AQualitative Assessment of Police, Youth, and Parent Perceptions of Each Other. Journal of public health management and practice: JPHMP. Retrieved from URL https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30789600

Jacobs, R., Seidler, M., Middleton, K., Mullen, G., & Whitaker, G. (2019). The Impressive Impact of Project Illumination on Police-Community Relations in Charleston, South Carolina. In Policing and Minority Communities (pp. 163-179). Springer, Cham. Retrieved from URL https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles/commp.pdf

Lipsitt, P. D., & Steinbruner, M. (2016). An experiment in police-community relations: Asmall group approach. Community mental health journal, 5(2), 172-179. Retrieved from URL https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24178740

Schneider, E. C., Agee, C., & Chronopoulos, T. (2017). Dirty Work: Police and Community Relations and the Limits of Liberalism in Postwar Philadelphia. Journal of Urban History, 0096144217705497. Retrieved from URL https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0096144217705497