Criminal Justice Policy Brief Assignment

Policy Analysis in the Criminal Justice Context

Welcome to Liberty University to maintain at all times their relationship with the public. That gives reality to the historic tradition that the police are the public and the public, or the police. The police being the only members of the public who are paid to give full time attention to duties which are incumbent on every citizen in the interest of the community, welfare an existence. Sir Robert Peel, I want to talk to you today about policy analysis and the criminal justice context. And it's just such an important field that we need to talk about. But what I want to do is build a model for you, potentially that you may be able to use. And let me just go over a couple of different aspects of it. I'll explain what it is in generic terms. It will boil it down into very specific terms for policy analysis for criminal justice. If I can just give you three words, may, can, and should for development policy analysis, what would you think of that? Let me explain a little bit further. May does the government have the moral, constitutional, ethical obligation to address the problem? And that has to be answered. If not, who should be addressing it? State or local government, if we were talking about federal government to begin with, should have the local communities such as non-profits, churches, businesses, et cetera. Can whichever sphere is responsibility. Obligation falls within federal government, state government, local government, non-profits, churches. How do they tackle that problem? Indeed, they had the resources to actually tackle it. And really this is where the problem-solving model comes into play. And so problem solving model, fairly similar to all types of public policy analysis. With the defined the problem, list, the alternatives. Really establish how we're going to evaluate those alternatives. Assess the alternatives and the criteria that we used for the evaluation, and then implement the chosen alternatives which brings us to should. Should. If an entity has the moral, constitution and constitutional authority to tackle that problem. That's the MAY part. And it also has a resource ID to solve the problem. That's the cam part. What's the best way to do it in terms of political and strategic constraints that that agency may have. How's the agenda best advanced? How does it move forward? How should the message be crafted for that particular policy items? Let's look at it in terms of criminal justice, those are just, that's the general constraints we could use that in any public policy and in any government organization. Let's look at the specific public safety constraints, if you will. We operate in a federal, state, and local level. Typically when we talk about criminal justice, we look at criminal justice also as courts, corrections and law enforcement. But you also have to remember, is it really a systems thinking? We're federal, state, and local governments all on the same sheet of music. Is it even systems thinking dealing with state organizations? Organizations, the organizations? Is IT systems thinking dealing with courts, corrections, and law enforcement always on the same sheet of music with respect to public policy? Or is it some sort of disjointed approach? There may be different agendas and the federal, state, and local level, there may be different agendas, agency to agency, division to division that we have to look at. So that's something in particular with criminal justice. We also have to look at the practitioner versus the academic gap. Lot of times we look at public policy. We see a lot of academic writings on public policy in a lot of thoughts about academic writing on public policy, can the practitioners really use that? And is it useful for them to use that? Enter the academics running about the correct things that they should be writing about. For the practitioners to use. Something else we have to really look at. And in the criminal justice world, as you maybe aware, We are built for the reactive mode. Just our entire system on the local level of responding to calls for service is reactive police work versus our researched approach. And so there may be a little bit of difficulty when we start thinking about public policy and developing public policy on the criminal justice realm. And how do we do that with a well-reasoned, researched approach? Let's just talk about some issues that come up in public policy and policing. And I'm only gonna get the 1 third. I'm a look at criminal justice, not courts and corrections. And there will be just as many issues dealing with those as well. Biospace policing, police corruption, use of force, less lethal, war on drugs, community-oriented policing, problem-solving policing, active shooter, suicide bomber, drones for state and local use. Amd for local and state US gun control, interoperability, Homeland Defense, use of grants from local and state organizations. Pursuit policies, driving pursuit policies, foot pursuits, staffing, modelling, school resource officers. After shooters with school resource officers. Again, each and every one of those could go through the model of May, can and should to develop policy. So let's just modify that model just a little bit. Me. Does law enforcement had the moral, constitutional, and ethical obligation to address the particular situation? And then at what level, level, federal, state, or local. Can communities actually pitch in, or should they be actually doing the job versus criminal justice? Can whatever sphere, federal, state, or local, has that responsibility of addressing that issue? It may be one of the issues that I named. Do they have the obligation to tackle it? In that we start to look for policies. And should we look for other best practice models, those such as the ICP and an association chiefs of police, perf, Police Executive Research Forum who have a plethora of public policies already in place or model policies in place. So once we start to look at those different issues, when we go through the ME and can. Then we had to again, define that problem for criminal justice. List the different alternatives that we may take. Establish some sort of evaluation, assess those alternatives, and then implement those chosen alternatives, which brings us back to the shirt again. And the should. If we do have that obligation, that moral, constitutional authority to tackle that problem, which is the MAE on the criminal justice side. And we do have the resources at our level to deal with that problem. They can then watch the best way in terms of the political and strategic constraints. How's that agenda with respect to criminal justice policy? Best advanced, I want to introduce one term and are several different terms. The Wallace SAR model of public administration. And we can have the most well-reasoned approach that you could think of. The most statistical data that you can think of. All types of survey research. If we, if we fail to look at the Wallace SAR model of public administration, that says public administration may not necessarily be the most logical approach. It may not necessarily be the most researched approach that we have to recognize, at least the different players dealing with bargaining compromise an alliance. When we start to look at the should model in the implementation of the ship model. If we make sure that we also recognize that environment of bargaining compromise an alliance, then we can push that agenda forward. And how do we push it forward? And then how do we bring that message out? As a criminal justice administrator or a potential criminal justice administrator. How are you going to draft, influence and implement public policy? Are you going to get a reactive mode or you'll be in a proactive mode. Are you going to use a well-reasoned approach? May, can and should, and then the building blocks for that. Or are you going to be forced into or just take the convenient approach of using a politically expedient model that may be used today in several different organizations. And let me add one other question. How does your Christian worldview affect your policy analysis and your policy implementation? Thank you and have a great day.