No. 5 Standards Of Policing

No. 5 - Standards of Legitimacy: In order to have a negotiated agreement that seems fair to all parties, the parties should utilize “standards of legitimacy.” These standards should “preferably be objective and outside of the ability of any one party to control.”6 The current procedures in place for determining fault in an officer’s behavior and assigning punishment are technically part of an official standard, but they are within the police department's ability to control and thus cannot count as a standard. Furthermore, because several of the interested parties are calling those procedures into question, they are unlikely to meet the criteria of being objective. Alternatively, the parties can look to successful policing practices in other jurisdictions
Also, President Obama’s Task Force on 21st Century Policing put forth a set of recommendations for policing best practices in response to the president’s Executive Order: “The Task Force shall, consistent with applicable law, identify best practices and otherwise make recommendations to the President on how policing practices can promote effective crime reduction while building public trust.”8 These recommendations could also be used as a standard. Finally, the Department of Justice, as an objective third-party, has the ability to investigate a police department to determine the presence of constitutional violations and the ability to require reforms.
No. 6 - Alternatives: Unlike options, which require the consent of the parties involved, “alternatives” are actions that a single party can take on its own without the consent of the other parties. In the absence of a negotiated agreement, a party can act on an alternative to satisfy its own interests in a conflict. In the case of the police force party, they can act on several of the previously stated options like changing internal practices/protocols and planning community events/activities. However, by acting on these as alternatives without