21st Cent. Policing Flashcards
Why was task force created?
to strengthen community policing and trust among law enforcement officers and the communities they serve. Collaborative relationship between police and community they serve. Police Legitimacy/Procedural Justice.
Six Pillars of 21st Century Policing
- Building trust and legitimacy
- Policy and Oversight
- Technology and Social Media
- Community Policing and Crime Reduction
- Training and education
- Officer Safety and Wellness
Pillar 1 - Building Trust - Foundation?
Building trust and Legitimacy among police and citizens is the foundation principle underlying relations between police and communities
Pillar 1 - Building Trust - Advice
- Adopt Procedural Justice as guiding principle for internal & external policies
- Initiate positive non-enforcement activities to engage the community
- Analyze/ survey level of trust community has
Pillar 1 - Building Trust - Instruction/Training
- CIT
- Implicit Bias Training
- Policing in a democratic Society
- Procedural Justice
Pillar 1 - Building Trust - Why?
People are more likely to obey the law when they believe that those enforcing it have legitimate authority. The public confers that authority on those acting in procedurally just ways
Pillar 1 - Building Trust - How?
Develop partnerships across sectors and at every level of government that will find effective and long term solutions to ensuring public safety.
Pillar 1 - Building Trust - Internal Procedural Justice
- Practices within an agency and relationships officers have with colleagues and leaders.
- Officers that feel respected by their supervisors and peers are more likely to accept departmental policies, understand decisions, and comply voluntarily.
- Respected officers are more likely to bring this respect into their interactions with the community they serve.
Pillar 1 - Building Trust - External Procedural Justice
- Way officers and others legal authorities interact with the public and how those interactions shape public trust in police.
- Key component is Fair and Impartial Policing built on understanding and acknowledging human explicit and implicit biases.
Pillar 1 - Building Trust - Accountability
Law enforcement agencies must maintain public trust by having a transparent, credible system of accountability.
Pillar 1 - Building Trust - Guardians
Police are guardians of the community not warriors. They are members of the community protecting from within.
Pillar 2 - Policy and Oversight- Foundation?
If police are to carry out their responsibilities according to established policies, those policies must reflect community values.
Pillar 2 - Policy and Oversight- Advice
Law Enforcement agencies should collaborate with community members, especially in communities disproportionately affected by crime, to develop policies and strategies for deploying resources that aim to reduce crime by improving relationships, increasing community engagement and fostering cooperation.
Pillar 2 - Policy and Oversight- How?
- Develop clear and comprehensive policies on:
- Use of Force
- Mass demonstrations
- Appropriate use of equipment
- Consent before searches
- Gender identification
- Racial Profiling
- Performance measures
- Have external and independent investigations of OIS’s
- Establish Civilian oversight mechanisms
Pillar 2 - Policy and Oversight- Training
- Training on use of force should emphasize de-escalation and alternatives to arrest in situations where appropriate
Pillar 2 - Policy and Oversight- Accountability
- Collect and maintain publicly available use of force data
- Serious incident review boards
- Non-punitive peer review
- Agency demographic data
- Stop and frisk demographic data
- Civilian oversight
- Policies requiring officers to Identify themselves
Pillar 3 - Technology and Social Media - Foundation
Implementing new technologies can give police departments an opportunity to fully engage and educate communities in a dialogue about their expectation for transparency, accountability, and privacy.
Pillar 3 - Technology and Social Media - How? - BWC’s
BWC programs are a means to collect evidence, strengthen officer performance and accountability, and to enhance transparency
- Officers with cameras had 87.5%
fewer incidents of force and 59%
fewer complaints
Pillar 3 - Technology and Social Media - How? - Social Media
Social media is a communication tool the police can use to engage the community on issues important to both and to gauge community sentiment regarding agency policies and practices.
Pillar 3 - Technology and Social Media - Advice
- Research new Less lethal tech.
- Implement smart tech to prevent evidence tampering.
- Encourage public engagement when developing new policies involving tech.
- Develop tech to help serve people with special needs
Pillar 4 - Community policing and Crime Reduction - Foundation
Community policing is a philosophy that promotes organizational strategies that support the systemic use of partnerships and problem solving techniques to proactively address the immediate conditions that give rise to public safety issues such as crime, social disorder, and fear of crime.
Pillar 4 - Community policing and Crime Reduction - How?
Community policing requires the active building of positive relationships with members of the community
Pillar 4 - Community policing and Crime Reduction - Advice
Police interventions must be implemented with strong policies and training in place, rooted in an understanding of procedural justice. Without that police interventions can easily devolve into racial profiling, excessive force, and other practices that disregard civil rights causing negative reactions from the community
Pillar 4 - Community policing and Crime Reduction - Collaborative partnerships
Community policing combines a focus on intervention and prevention through problem solving and with building collaborative partnerships between law enforcement, schools, social services, and other stakeholders.
