Research the role of police in your community. For example, visit your local police department website and interview a representative of a local police department (email, phone call, or video chat).
Write a 600-700-word interview summary addressing the answers to each of the following questions. (No works cited page.)
-What is the mission of your local police department?
-What goals do they have? What goals have they accomplished?
-What are the various roles police play in your community? What is their impact? How do the police partner with citizens, human service workers, and other entities? -What does the police department in your town do? -What are their goals? What have they done to reach their goals? -What are the different jobs that the police do in your town? How do they change things? How do the police work together with people, people who work in human services, and other groups?
-Which community programs are offered (e.g., D.A.R.E., Police Explorers)? Explain the programs and the benefits they provide to society and the role the police play in these programs.
-Which 1 or 2 criminal justice strategies from the text or readings have you observed in action in your local police department?
-How does the police department strive to utilize those strategies?
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Summary of 190 words, no works cited
-Why do we have police? Should the primary role be law enforcement, community service, or something else?
-How might law enforcement agencies utilize human service workers to help perform their mission and objectives?
