Polcing models for the 21st century
Please review the following resources prior to answering this discussion prompt that asks you to analyze the role that politics and the media play in community
perceptions of policing:
Criminal Justice: Recent Scholarship: Rethinking Community Policing
What the Dallas Police Department does right – and why doing those things could now be more difficult (Links to an external site.)
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Media coverage of police misconduct and attitudes toward police (Links to an external site.)
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Police group: Minn. Governor ‘exploited what was already a horrible and tragic situation’ (Links to an external site.)
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Community Policing and Procedural Justice (Links to an external site.)
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Provide an example of how statements and/or actions by a politician (elected official) have contributed in a negative fashion to the public conversation and debate
about policing and how that contribution furthered negative rhetoric and/or behaviors in the community. Also, provide an example of how statements and/or actions by a
politician (elected official) have contributed in a positive fashion to the pubic conversation and debate about policing and how that contribution furthered positive
rhetoric and/or behavior in the community. Explain how negative information can and should be included in the public discussion but in such a fashion that it furthers
constructive criticism and progress toward problem resolution.
Your initial post should be a minimum of 250 words in length. Support your claims with examples from required materials and/or other scholarly sources, and properly
cite any references using APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2016/07/08/what-dallas-pd-does-right-and-why-doing-those-things-could-now-be-more-difficult/?utm_term=.71c789810499
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/235268716_Media_Coverage_of_Police_Misconduct_and_Attitudes_Toward_Police https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-
mix/wp/2016/07/07/minn-cop-fatally-shoots-man-during-traffic-stop-aftermath-broadcast-on-facebook/ http://cebcp.org/evidence-based-policing/what-works-in-
policing/research-evidence-review/community-policing/
