President's Task Force: Pillar 1 Flashcards
Name the six Pillars from the report
Pillar 1. Building Trust & Legitimacy
Pillar 2. Policy & Oversight
Pillar 3. Technology & Social Media
Pillar 4. Community Policing & Crime Reduction
Pillar 5. Training & Education
Pillar 6. Officer Wellness & Safety
Procedurally just behavior is based on four central
principles:
- Treating people with dignity and respect
- Giving individuals “voice” during encounters
- Being neutral and transparent in
decision making - Conveying trustworthy motives8
PILLAR 1 BUILDING TRUST & LEGITIMACY
Recommendation 1.1
Law enforcement culture should embrace a
(guardian)mindset to build public trust and legitimacy. Toward that end, police and sheriffs’ departments should
adopt (procedural justice) as the guiding principle
for internal and external policies and practices to
guide their interactions with the citizens they serve
PILLAR 1 BUILDING TRUST & LEGITIMACY
Recommendation 1.2
Law enforcement agencies should acknowledge the role
of policing in past and present injustice and discrimination and how it is a hurdle to the
promotion of community trust.
1.2.1 Action Item: The U.S. Department of
Justice should:
develop and disseminate case studies
that provide examples where past injustices were
publicly acknowledged by law enforcement agencies
in a manner to help build community trust.
PILLAR 1 BUILDING TRUST & LEGITIMACY
Recommendation 1.3
Law enforcement agencies should establish a culture of
transparency and accountability in order to
build public trust and legitimacy. This will help
ensure decision making is understood and in
accord with stated policy.
1.3.1 Action Item: To embrace a culture of
transparency, law enforcement agencies should
make all department policies available for public
review and regularly post on the department’s
website information about stops, summonses, arrests,
reported crime, and other law enforcement
data aggregated by demographics.
1.3.2 Action Item: When serious incidents
occur, including those involving alleged police
misconduct, agencies should
communicate with citizens and the media swiftly, openly,
and neutrally, respecting areas where the law
requires confidentiality.
PILLAR 1 BUILDING TRUST & LEGITIMACY
Recommendation 1.4
Law enforcement agencies should promote legitimacy
internally within the organization by applying the
principles of procedural justice.
1.4.1 Action Item: In order to achieve
internal legitimacy, law enforcement agencies
should
involve employees in the process
of developing policies and procedures.
1.4.2 Action Item: Law enforcement agency
leadership should examine opportunities to incorporate
procedural justice into the internal discipline
process,
placing additional importance on values
adherence rather than adherence to rules. Union
leadership should be partners in this process.
PILLAR 1 BUILDING TRUST & LEGITIMACY
Recommendation 1.5
Law enforcement agencies should proactively promote public
trust by initiating positive nonenforcement
activities to engage communities that
typically have high rates of investigative and
enforcement involvement with government
agencies.
1.5.1 action item: In order to achieve
external legitimacy, law enforcement agencies
should involve the community in the process of
developing and evaluating policies and procedures.
1.5.2 action item: Law enforcement agencies
should institute residency
incentive programs
such as Resident Officer Programs
1.5.3 action item: Law enforcement agencies
should create opportunities in schools and
communities for
positive nonenforcement interactions
with police. Agencies should also publicize
the beneficial outcomes and images of positive,
trust-building partnerships and initiatives.
1.5.4 Action Item: Use of physical control
equipment and techniques against vulnerable
populations—including children, elderly persons,
pregnant women, people with physical and mental
disabilities, limited English proficiency, and
others—can undermine public trust and should
be used as a last resort. Law enforcement agencies should carefully consider and review their policies
towards these populations and adopt policies if
none are in place.
PILLAR 1 BUILDING TRUST & LEGITIMACY
Recommendation 1.6
Law enforcement agencies should consider the potential
damage to public trust when implementing
crime fighting strategies.
1.6.1 action item: Research conducted
to evaluate the effectiveness of crime fighting
strategies should
specifically look at the potential
for collateral damage of any given strategy on
community trust and legitimacy.
PILLAR 1 BUILDING TRUST & LEGITIMACY
Recommendation 1.7
Law enforcement agencies should track the level of
trust in police by their communities just as they
measure changes in crime. Annual community
surveys, ideally standardized across
jurisdictions and with accepted sampling
protocols, can measure how policing in that
community affects public trust.
1.7.1 Action Item: The Federal Government
should develop survey
tools and instructions for use of such a model to prevent
local departments from incurring the expense and
to allow for consistency across jurisdictions.
PILLAR 1 BUILDING TRUST & LEGITIMACY
Recommendation 1.8
1.8 recommendation: Law enforcement
agencies should strive to create a workforce
that contains
a broad range of diversity including race, gender, language, life experience, and cultural background to improve understanding and effectiveness in dealing with all communities.
1.8.1 Action Item: The Federal Government
should create a Law Enforcement Diversity Initiative
designed to help
communities diversify law enforcement
departments to reflect the demographics
of the community.
1.8.2 action item: The department
overseeing this initiative should help localities
learn best
practices for recruitment, training,
and outreach to improve the diversity as well as
the cultural and linguistic responsiveness of law
enforcement agencies.
1.8.3 action item: Successful law enforcement
agencies should be
highlighted and
celebrated and those with less diversity should be
offered technical assistance to facilitate change.
1.8.4 action item: Discretionary federal
funding for law enforcement programs could be influenced by
that department’s efforts to improve their
diversity and cultural and linguistic responsiveness.
1.8.5 Action Item: Law enforcement
agencies should be encouraged to explore more
flexible
staffing models.
PILLAR 1 BUILDING TRUST & LEGITIMACY
Recommendation 1.9
Law enforcement agencies should build relationships based on trust
with immigrant communities. This is
central to overall public safety.
1.9.1 action item: Decouple federal immigration
enforcement from routine local policing
for civil enforcement and nonserious crime
1.9.2 Action Item: Law enforcement
agencies should ensure reasonable and equitable
language access for all
persons who have encounters
with police or who enter the criminal justice system.
1.9.3 Action Item: The U.S. Department
of Justice should not include
civil immigration
information in the FBI’s National Crime Information
Center database. (Already discontinued)