6-2 Assignment: Podcast

CJ 331 Podcast Guidelines and Rubric

For this assignment, you will create a podcast that will address the scenario below. It serves to enforce community policing practices and become a training tool for your officers.

Scenario You are a police sergeant and just received a supervisor request for an officer who was, in the opinion of the citizen, discourteous and did not provide her with proper law enforcement service. There is video of the incident and the officer was, in your opinion, rude and, as the citizen stated, did not provide her with assistance.

Record a five- to seven-minute training response as a podcast to the citizen about how you will address the issue and provide a response to the officer to correct behavior.

Your training response in the podcast should include:

 The steps you will take to resolve the situation  A description of how you will interact with the citizen  The options for resolution that you will offer the citizen  The option for resolution the citizen selected (you choose the resolution for the purposes of training)  A description of how you will counsel the officer about his or her rude behavior and lack of assistance  How you would present the resolution to the officer and his or her role in the resolution

Podcast requirements:

 Intro and outro music (police themes only; visit this website for ideas)  Narrative that responds to the six prompts listed above (placed between intro and outro music)  Five to seven minutes in length (including music)  Submitted in MP3 format

If you do not have access to recording/editing software, below is free program that you can use:

 Free Audacity® download (MP3 recording/editing software)  http://sourceforge.net/projects/audacity/ (helpful supporting resource)  http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/faq.html (helpful supporting resource)

Transcript of P odcast You must provide a verbatim transcript of your podcast as a separate document. Please be sure to use Arial font for this assignment (as transcripts should be written using a Sans Serif font).

Report on the Assignment Your report on this assignment must include these components:

 A brief summary of the project, music chosen, and the importance of using technology in policing  A summary of your thoughts on the assignment and the challenges you encountered

Additional Resources

 For more information in the role of police sergeant, review this job description  Handling Citizen Complaints Through Proactive Methodology

Guidelines for Submission: The audio portion of this assignment must be submitted as an MP3. The transcript and report must be submitted as a Microsoft Word document with double spacing, 12-point Arial font, one-inch margins, and page numbers on the bottom right.

Instructor Feedback: This activity uses an integrated rubric in Blackboard. Students can view instructor feedback in the Grade Center. For more information, review these instructions.

Critical Element

Proficient (100%) Needs Improvement (0%) Value

Music Includes appropriately themed intro and outro music

Does not include appropriately themed intro and outro music

10

Narrative Includes all of the required elements in appropriate detail

Does not include all of the required elements in appropriate detail

40

Podcast Audio File

Podcast is five to seven minutes in length, including music and narrative, and is submitted as MP3 file

Podcast is not five to seven minutes in length including music and narrative, and/or is not submitted as MP3 file

10

Podcast Report

Includes all of the required elements in appropriate detail

Does not include all of the required elements in appropriate detail

30

Spelling and Grammar

Transcript and report are free of spelling, grammatical, and formatting errors

Transcript and report include spelling, grammatical, and formatting errors

10

Earned Total 100%