Pursuing Criminal Justice Outline
Jason Rodriguez
CJA 483: Futures in Criminal Justice
University of Phoenix
Michael Wilkie
December 20, 2010
Pursuing Criminal Justice Outline
Definition of justice as related to law enforcement:
* Protecting those who are innocent from a vast array of wrong doings including physical and psychological, material and economic, no matter how serious, or not, of a matter the wrong doing may present itself as. Balancing the scale or tipping the scale to be heavier on the more fair side of life. Justice is blind, however has knowledge of what is right and what is not.
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Identify three current practices of law enforcement that demonstrate the successful achievement of the definition:
* Discretion.
* Letter of the law, spirit of the law.
* “One of the most important aspects of policing is that officers exercise enormous discretion in handling these situations” (Walker, S. and Katz, C.M., p. 7, 2008).
* Reverence for the law.
* Honor and Integrity.
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Three examples of changes law enforcement has undergone as a result of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001:
* Hiring of police officers.
* “The reality of policing is that the police play an extremely complex role in today’s society. This role involves many different tasks” (p. 6).
* Background checks.
* Testing.
* Municipal security.
* Related to national security.
* Related to international security.
* Scene safety.
* Initial and secondary responders.
* Training for securing and preserving the scene.
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The three biggest challenges in the next 10 years for law enforcement?
* Quality AND quantity of police officers in departments.
* Recognition and response to developing problems within cities.
* Securing departments from breaches both internally...