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    Community Policing

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    have many duties which include protecting the rights of individuals‚ public safety‚ and many more. Officers are given this power through the government and public and they are expected to uphold these duties to the fullest extent. Stop‚ detain‚ question‚ arrest‚ and even the use of deadly physical force is some of the powers that police officers have as well. Even having these powers and duties‚ they still have to take the communities wishes into consideration. The quality of community-police relationships

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    Community Policing

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    Effectiveness of Community Policing To understand the effectiveness of community policing we first must understand the concept regarding community policing. Community policing is both a philosophy and an organizational strategy that allows the police and the community residences to work closely together in new ways to solve the problems‚ fear of crime‚ criminal disorder and at the same time increasing the community living conditions. Community policing implies an agreement‚ almost like a formal

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    Hockey Community

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    Discourse Communities are defined as “a group of people that share and hold similar beliefs and ideas and communicate amongst each other through unique interactions”. These communities are all around us‚ from the classes in a university‚ to all sorts of sports lingo. Growing up I was involved in the Hockey Discourse community. The people in the community with me all shared the passion for hockey‚ and it was part of everyone’s life. Not only was it just my team‚ and New Mexico hockey‚ but all around

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    Rebuilding a Community

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    Rebuilding a Community The motto of the National Beta Club says‚ “Let us lead by serving others.” Helping others in my community has always played an important role in my life. On April 27th‚ 2011‚ various tornadoes swept throughout the county I live in‚ destroying a large part of my community. Many of my friends and family were effected by the devastating tornadoes‚ including my uncle and aunt with their three children. I helped to rebuild my community by participating in a community wide clean-up

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    Discourse Community

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    11/22/14 Discourse Community Essay Best Buddies Discourse community‚ a term given multiple definitions‚ has been most consistently defined as a group of people‚ who normally meet in a certain place‚ that have texts and practices in common. John Swales‚ the author of The Concept of Discourse Community‚ gives a list of six characteristics a group of individuals should uphold to be considered a discourse community. Even though a few of John Swales’ characteristics of a discourse community are shown in the

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    Community Policing

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    What is community policing? Community policing is a working partnership with a community that helps make the environment a better place to live in. This partnership with the community has goals such as reducing neighborhood crime‚ helping to reduce fear of crime and enhancing the quality of life in the community. And it does so with the help of police‚ local government and community members. With the collaboration between the police and the communitycommunity policing should identify problems of

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    Gay Community

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    The gay community or LGBT community is a loosely defined grouping of LGBT and LGBT supportive people‚ organizations and subcultures united by common culture and civil rights movements. Furthermore‚ the remarkable growth of the gay community in recent history has revolutionized our culture and consciousness‚ creating radically new possibilities for people to “come out”‚ and live more openly as homosexuals. Before the early years‚ homosexuality was a taboo subject. Since then‚ times have changed

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    Community Policing

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    Community policing is a proven method for lowering the crime rate in the United States. Community policing has been a law enforcement strategy for nearly thirty years. In august of 1994‚ the United States Department of Justice formed the Community Policing Consortium. The goal of this consortium was to develop a framework for understanding and implementing community policing in neighborhoods across America. The consortium consisted of representatives from the International Association of Chiefs of

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    Leadership in a Community

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    organizational activities from one nonprofit organization to another organization too often breeds frustration and organizational failure on the part of nonprofit organization leadership. There are simply too many interrelated variables to make such a simplistic assumption. The extant literature is too scant and too weak to provide the needed support for the nonprofit leader. This dissertation‚ therefore‚ is an investigation‚ a case study‚ of a nationally recognized successful‚ community action agency. The

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    Community Assessment

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    nett2009-10-10T11:03:00 A Community Assessment of Rose City Park‚ NE Portland Lori Annis‚ Danielle Thompson‚ Ben Kostenko‚ and Neveen Ismail Linfield College A Community Assessment of Rose City Park‚ NE Portland According to Wilkinson and Treas (2011) Community health nurses function as client advocates‚ educators‚ collaborators‚ counselors‚ and case managers. In order to perform these roles with full relevancy and functionality‚ it is important for the nurse to be familiar with the community at hand. Community

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