What Is Community Work? Through this essay I will try to create a greater understanding of the term ‘community work’. I will begin with a short summary from two studies which help define the term on a broad basis. I will follow this by an explanation of the various approaches which can be used in community work. I will highlight the importance the community and voluntary sector have in social partnership in Ireland today. I will also discuss how funding‚ or a lack of it‚ impacts on essential services
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LEADERSHIP IN POLICING LEADERSHIP IN POLICING Good and Poor Leadership in Modern Day Policing Shaquilla Robin Southern University Of New Orleans Professor Gil 10/16/2013 Police Process #320 Introduction Leadership is important in policing. What does it mean to lead a police force? That question seems to be very simple. There are many principles written to breakdown what it is to be an effective police. In my opinion a great leader’s goal should be to protect
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Predictive Policing Dr. Janet Durgin Information Systems for Decision Making October 20‚ 2013 Introduction Predictive policing refers to any policing strategy or tactic that develops and uses and advanced analysis to inform forward-thinking crime prevention. predictive policing is done through software called PredPol. It takes crime data‚ runs it through an algorithm‚ and then generates these maps. The maps tell police where crimes might happen
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Community Orientated Policing is widely held as the new and correct style for American policing. For the past decade the community policing movement has been gaining momentum acquiring the support of politicians‚ scholars‚ reformers‚ and the public. Police chiefs around the country are now feeling the pressures of implementation from citizens and local government officials. Many high ranking professional police organization have placed their seal of approval on the new style of policing‚ including
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Running head: POLICING Policing Paper Amber Pickett AJS/502 January 23‚ 2012 Steven Duplissis Abstract This essay exams the concept of problem-oriented policing and its past‚ present‚ and future implications according to Herman Goldstein. This essay will also discuss administrative and operational considerations of problem-oriented policing in relation to functions of patrol‚ crime investigation‚ emergency or critical incident response‚ and future trends. Policing Paper Throughout history
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The profession of policing will always have a reactionary component to providing police services to the community. Although it is understandable that citizens’ frustrations can run high with this type of response‚ members of the public cannot expect the police to be everywhere at one time in order to prevent every crime from occurring. There will always be some sort of a reactionary response in the policing profession. However‚ proactive policing efforts have developed over the years and provide
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Innovation in Policing In the world of policing‚ innovation does not just come in the form of new gadgets or computer technology; it comes in the form of ideas as to how police can be more effective in their local communities. Though technology such as bulletproof vests and body cameras are changing the way police in the United States preform their jobs‚ these technologies are just a small piece of a larger puzzle. With growing anti-police sentiment in the United States it is imperative that law
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are mixed they can make the officer feel isolated in the community. People in the community can feel disconnected from the police because of the power that officers possess. This leads to officers feeling that they have to protect each other and to the use of deception by officers. The “blue wall of silence” is a term used to describe a situation where an officer is expected to back up a fellow officers story‚ even if they do not agree with what happened. Police say that deception is necessary in their
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Women in Policing Laura Jones 2/12/2013 Grantham University Abstract Women have worked within our law enforcement system for over one hundred and seventy years. This paper examines the history and current status of women in policing and the challenges they have faced. History of women in policing will be presented from the first instances of women being hired as law enforcement to their current status. Research information
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Policing as we know it today has developed from various political‚ economic‚ and social forces. To better understand the role of police in society‚ one has to know the history of how policing became what it is today. Policing has been categorized into three basic eras‚ which include the Political Era‚ Reform Era‚ and lastly the Community Problem-Solving Era that is the present form of policing. Most all of modern-western democracies are based on Sir Robert Peel’s Metropolitan Police Force‚ which
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