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Resistance

In the past, the community policing have faced resistance, and as a result, it has not been easy to implement the policy. What has contributed to its resistance is that this system had not produced any useful outcomes since it was introduced. So, for the past two decades, it has not given anything which will make people or the law enforcers to embrace it. When this policy was introduced, according to (In Jonathan-Zamir, In Weisburd, & In Hasisi, 2016), it was meant to increase the personnel on patrol. And by so doing, the rates in which the crimes are committed will reduce, but even after the implementation, nothing changed concerning crimes, and when it was noted that there is no change, that is when the policy started experiencing resistance. Most of the people who resisted the system are the law enforcers since they did not see any changes brought after the implementation. Just as Lewin’s model of change represents and integration of insights offered by previous theorist of organizational change. The model suggests the opening intervention in effective implementation. Organizational change begins with dissatisfaction, identification and having to do with the organization (Spector, 2013). Therefore, to make it possible for the policy to be embraced, there is the need to change the way people perceive the policy.

We ask ourselves "What is police brutality?” Police brutality is the excessive use of unnecessary force by police when dealing with civilians that exceed the necessary force in handling a situation. In the recent past, circumstances surrounding police brutality have involved the discrimination of African-Americans, poor justification and the poor implementation of measures put in place to counter the real issues. Ethically, police brutality has affected the whole criminal justice system with differences in cultural diversity, beliefs, religion, values, race, sexual orientation, and the ethical obligation officers swear to uphold. For decades now, it has been the norm of some police officers to discriminate against African-Americans, or the black community as a whole and it remains to be a major fear for those living in inferior communities. It almost seems that racial profiling has become a common way of police brutality, whereby police officers stop individuals because of their skin color, of which clearly violates the fourth amendment. Just as described by Jossey-Bass. Friesenborg, L. (2015) “The Socio Cognitive System Learning Model” is the understanding of cultural defaults, destructive human interaction, and the comparison of dysfunction with the alternative pattern of learning and change.” Therefore, in my opinion, it is difficult for police organizations and those responsible for curbing wrong enforcement of police towards civilians, simply because they choose not to train and retrain the mindset of those sworn to protect.

Strategies to solve the problem

There were major challenges, which faced the implementation of the community policing by the police officers simply because nobody could get a clear understand as to how the whole plan could be enforced. Therefore, to avoid resistance to the program from the police officers and even from the citizens, according to (Tracy, 2015) there is the need to let all those involved the importance of the program. Therefore, by informing officers and the community of a clear standard and expectations of the program is essential to changing some of the long-standing problems.

Ethics and moral principles are key factors in public service and heavily influence an individual's conduct. An officer with loose moral principles will have fewer regards of civilian rights. This behavior then becomes a habit among other police officers. Nevertheless, if one officer changes their mentality, behavior and how he or she responds to solve the issues, other officers may see this, reconsider their actions, and be less brutal. There is also a strong need for consistent training of management and the frontline officers, who play the largest role in enforcement. Each officer should set out to stand as an example to other officers, with consistent training and awareness of their ethical obligations. In this way, cases of police brutality will decrease.

Conclusion

Leadership can play a big part in preventing cases of police brutality. If the leader can follow the correct procedure to bring justice to anyone suspected of, breaking the law then, more cases of brutality will reduce to a greater level. Organizational leadership play a major part in controlling police brutality. This can be done by enforcing strict punishment to all the police officers with proven cases of brutality. Ethics also reduces cases of police brutality through correct judgment. The ability of the police to know the difference between right or wrong will help him/her give justice to suspected breakers of the law. It is possible to control the resistance by educating the masses and the police officers on the roles, which the program is meant to play in society.

References

In Jonathan-Zamir, T., In Weisburd, D., & In Hasisi, B. (2016). Policing in Israel: Studying crime control, community policing, and counterterrorism.

Jossey-Bass. Friesenborg, L. (2015). The culture of learning organizations: Understanding Argyris’ theory through a socio-cognitive systems learning model. Forest City, IA: Brennan-Mitchell

Kappeler, V. E., & Gaines, L. K. (2015). Community policing: A contemporary perspective.

Maguire, B. & Polly, F., (1996). The past, present, and future of American criminal justice. General Hall

Spector, B. (2013). Implementing organizational change: Theory into practice (3rd ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall

Tracy, B. (2015). Creativity and problem solving.