Decision-Making Case Study: Racin Ray's Wild Day
Decision Making Case Study
Decision Making Case Study
1. In the case study, Racin’ Ray’s Wild Day, the central issues include but are not limited to vehicle pursuits and police policies. These issues also consist of field training as well as the authorization of use-of-force. The problems within this case study are a result of a 14 year old that died in a police pursuit. This caused the police department to get criticized and to enforce several changes within law enforcement officials and the operation of their offices.
2. The deputy is not in agreement or compliance with the use-of-force policy. He has not been trained or permitted to utilize less than lethal weapons such as a Taser or personal use of his German …show more content…
Shepard. With him recently graduating from the police academy and completing field training, he has the skills and ability to do his job. However, with the lack of knowledge pertaining to the use-of-force policy, he does not have the skills that comply with this specific policy.
3.
The new policy regarding pursuits requires a supervisor to abolish any pursuit that does not implicate a violent felony. With that, the lieutenant should end Deputy Ripley’s pursuit. All officers have been educated and trained on the new policy, which should not allow any confusion regarding pursuits. With all officers being trained on the new policies, Deputy Ripley should not have performed the way he did on his job.
4. The deputy should not have fired warning shots under the circumstances provided in the case study. There is also new policy that forbids the firing of warning shots unless the situation is justified. Nevertheless, there was not a logical reason as to why the deputy fired any type of warning shots seeing as though he was not in any apparent danger.
5. Every police department has a Law Enforcement Code of Ethics which should be followed by every employee and officer. Anytime a death occurs as a result of police action, the officer is put on administrative paid or unpaid leave in order to conduct an investigation. The Internal Affairs Unit would find that the deputy was at fault because there was no reason for his actions. With the use-of-force and personal use of his dog should result in immediate disciplinary action against Ripley. The pending lawsuits against the police department regarding excessive force are what implicated the changes and enforcement of new
policies.
6. There are additional policies that are needed, in reference to police officers and/or deputies complying with the current and new policies that come into play. If an officer(s) is not willing to abide by policies as given by the police department, disciplinary action should be utilized as a result. A training class should be required for every new policy that comes into existence.
References
Peak, K. (2010). Justice administration: police, courts, and corrections management (6th ed.) Upper Saddle River, NJ. Pearson/Prentice Hall.
Kania, R. E. (2008). Managing criminal justice organizations: An introduction. Newark, NJ: Lexis Nexis Matthew Bender.
Decision Making Case Study
1. In the case study, Racin’ Ray’s Wild Day, the central issues include but are not limited to vehicle pursuits and police policies. These issues also consist of field training as well as the authorization of use-of-force. The problems within this case study are a result of a 14 year old that died in a police pursuit. This caused the police department to get criticized and to enforce several changes within law enforcement officials and the operation of their offices.
2. The deputy is not in agreement or compliance with the use-of-force policy. He has not been trained or permitted to utilize less than lethal weapons such as a Taser or personal use of his German …show more content…
Shepard. With him recently graduating from the police academy and completing field training, he has the skills and ability to do his job. However, with the lack of knowledge pertaining to the use-of-force policy, he does not have the skills that comply with this specific policy.
3.
The new policy regarding pursuits requires a supervisor to abolish any pursuit that does not implicate a violent felony. With that, the lieutenant should end Deputy Ripley’s pursuit. All officers have been educated and trained on the new policy, which should not allow any confusion regarding pursuits. With all officers being trained on the new policies, Deputy Ripley should not have performed the way he did on his job.
4. The deputy should not have fired warning shots under the circumstances provided in the case study. There is also new policy that forbids the firing of warning shots unless the situation is justified. Nevertheless, there was not a logical reason as to why the deputy fired any type of warning shots seeing as though he was not in any apparent danger.
5. Every police department has a Law Enforcement Code of Ethics which should be followed by every employee and officer. Anytime a death occurs as a result of police action, the officer is put on administrative paid or unpaid leave in order to conduct an investigation. The Internal Affairs Unit would find that the deputy was at fault because there was no reason for his actions. With the use-of-force and personal use of his dog should result in immediate disciplinary action against Ripley. The pending lawsuits against the police department regarding excessive force are what implicated the changes and enforcement of new
policies.
6. There are additional policies that are needed, in reference to police officers and/or deputies complying with the current and new policies that come into play. If an officer(s) is not willing to abide by policies as given by the police department, disciplinary action should be utilized as a result. A training class should be required for every new policy that comes into existence.
References
Peak, K. (2010). Justice administration: police, courts, and corrections management (6th ed.) Upper Saddle River, NJ. Pearson/Prentice Hall.
Kania, R. E. (2008). Managing criminal justice organizations: An introduction. Newark, NJ: Lexis Nexis Matthew Bender.