mod 3 crime

Assignment 1: What Change Occurs Organizationally?

In response to citizens' pressure to gain accessibility and increase involvement within the community, a police agency is moving from a traditional and professional model of policing to community-based policing. The leadership decides to train all the personnel in this new philosophy and problem-solving tools. The leadership determines that as part of the implementation of the new philosophy, the departments will start the following programs:

•A downtown foot patrol program.

•A community liaison officer (CLO) in each police precinct. Job duties of the CLO will include attending community meetings and listening to community concerns in order to determine an appropriate response.

•A neighborhood response team (NRT) consisting of eight officers and one sergeant. The NRT will be responsible for responding to specific issues in the neighborhood. However, the NRT will not be required to respond to normal police radio–dispatched traffic, freeing the team members to work directly on neighborhood complaints.

Submission Details:

•By Saturday, September 20, 2014, in a minimum of 250 words, post to the Discussion Area your answers to the following:

◦Why is it critical that organizational changes occur when an agency adopts a new philosophy such as community policing?

◦What are the consequences for an agency if only a small group of its officers or employees are responsible for adopting the community policing philosophy?

•By Wednesday, September 24, 2014, read all your classmates' posts and respond to at least two of them. Add to their posts any additional thoughts that would strengthen their positions. If you disagree with their posts, comment on how they could improve their responses.

•Use examples of what happens when any type of agency or business adopts a new philosophy but does not fully engage its employees.

•When responding to your classmates' posts, be sure to provide citations for all the references in APA format.

Assignment 2: LASA 1: New Police Chief’s Community Policing Initiative

Here's What Happened . . .

The newly appointed police chief wants to reinvent policing in Centervale. Community policing has been discussed in the past, but the chief considers the previous efforts inadequate and wants to infuse energy and a new vision. At a recent public meeting, the new chief talked about a desire to move toward a new model of what she calls "Centervale Policing, a Community-Based Approach."

The city manager, mayor, and council are anxious to embrace something positive regarding public safety, and they have good reason:

•The former chief was accused of racial profiling and removed because the allegations of racial profiling were not addressed by the police department.

•The new chief has implemented training to address these issues and has been working to demonstrate that the department is doing a good job and is not racially profiling. However, the new chief realizes that trust is built over time, and she feels this new community approach will help build that trust.

•Further, the department recently came under scrutiny when some heavy-handed techniques of the department were widely publicized.

•Once again, most of this happened as the new chief was being selected and was just another negative issue for her to deal with as she took command of the department. As noted above, she has addressed this problem with training and new policies, but her concern again is that she needs to establish trust with the community.

You can assume that the chief's approach is a reasonable method to reduce the problems from occurring and that, at this point, the main concern is one of community perception based on the past incidents.

City management, the mayor, and the city council want a report the explains the purpose and benefit of the new policing plan and a brochure to distribute to the community that outlines the key components of the chief's new policing plan.

Since you have been working with the police chief on this initiative, she asks you to:

•Prepare a 2- to 3-page report to be distributed internally to department employees on "Centervale Policing, a Community-Based Approach."

•Develop a brochure on the same topic for the community. The minimum size for your brochure is an 8½ x 11–inch sheet folded in half. This will include a half sheet front, two half sheets inside, and a half sheet for the back. If you choose to go to a trifold brochure, you will have six, one-third sheet sections to fill. Therefore, your submission should be at least 2 pages on which you have two or three columns so that if it were printed, it could be folded into a brochure.

Here's What You Need to Do . . .

In the 2- to 3-page report, include the following two sections:

•Explain how the allegations against the former chief undermined the department's efforts to build a positive relationship with the community.

•Justify the reason the department is making the change to "Centervale Policing, Community-Based Approach," a new community-policing philosophy. (Remember, this report is selling this new plan to the department's employees.)

In a brochure, include the following information:

•Summarize the history of community policing and explain why it is an effective philosophy in modern policing.

•Identify the benefits of implementing community policing for this particular community, including how the department intends to use the problem-solving Scanning Analysis Response Assessment (SARA) model. Make sure you address the new plan with specifics of community history.

•Outline the initial steps for engaging the community and building trust between the community and the police department.

Ensure that both the report and the brochure are grammatically appropriate with correct spelling. Make sure to use readings and external research to support your ideas.

Include an APA-formatted reference page that links back to your in-text citations and supports your recommendations. Remember, you cannot have only in-text citations or only references. You must have both because in-text citations and references link to each other.

Submission Details:

•Save your report as M3_A2_Report_Lastname_Firstname.doc and your brochure as M3_A2_Brochure_Lastname_Firstname.doc.

•By Wednesday, September 24, 2014, submit your documents to the M3: Assignment 2 LASA 1 Dropbox.

LASA 1 Grading Criteria and Rubric

All LASAs in this course will be graded using a rubric. This assignment is worth 200 points. Download the rubric and carefully read it to understand the expectations.

Assignment 2 Grading Criteria

Maximum Points

Explained how the allegations against the former chief undermined the department's efforts to build a positive relationship with the community.

28

Justified the reason the department is making this change to "Centervale Policing, a Community Based Approach," a new community policing philosophy, keeping in mind that this brochure is selling this new plan to the community.

28

Summarized the history of community policing and explained why it is an effective philosophy.

28

Identified the benefits of implementing community policing for this particular community, including how the department intends to use the problem-solving model SARA.

36

Outlined the initial steps for engaging the community and building trust between the community and the police department.

36

Written components: •Organization (12)

•Usage and mechanics (12)

•APA elements (16)

•Style (4)

44

Total:

200