Communication And Communication In A Law-Enforcement Agency
Technology and Communication Paper
Communication and technology are two things that are considered extremely important in a law-enforcement agency. Over the last 20 years technology has grown smarter, faster and has become cheaper to law-enforcement agencies as well as the public. Overtime technology has moved from pay phones to smart phones and television waves to digital high-definition picture. There are two main specialized databases that have recently been upgraded to better serve police forces across the nation and the world. Live scan is an ink-less fingerprinting system that immediately uploads the data into the AFIS system with returned results in minutes. This is a far leap forward from ink print cards and months of waiting for …show more content…
For example, if facial recognition technology becomes a mandatory technology for every law-enforcement agency in the nation, the technology will allow for each agency to communicate with each other on a wide scale basis. If an officer in Florida pulls over a man for speeding and uses his facial recognition scanner and gets to hit for a fugitive in Arizona; the action immediately alerts Arizona that their fugitive is now being taken into custody. This line of communication will be extremely valuable to law-enforcement agencies everywhere. It will open up the lines of communication and allow each agency to communicate with each other. Communication also plays a major role in making the technology. Agencies and the officers from those agencies have the best knowledge of fieldwork, therefore being able to put in their personal feedback to create the technology or equipment that an officer needs is extremely important. In turn, this allows the officers to feel validated by being able to communicate their needs for work in the field. There are many positive effects that technology may have on communication but there are also negative effects as …show more content…
One of my favorites just happens to be facial recognition technology. In 1998 I can remember watching a movie called enemy of the state. This is when I was first introduced to face show recognition technology. After watching the movie, I became obsessed with the idea of being able to possess technology that powerful. Technology that could actually recognize people 's faces anywhere they go would mean that there is no place that a kidnapper, child molester; rapist or even a serial killer could ever hide without law-enforcement finding
Communication and technology are two things that are considered extremely important in a law-enforcement agency. Over the last 20 years technology has grown smarter, faster and has become cheaper to law-enforcement agencies as well as the public. Overtime technology has moved from pay phones to smart phones and television waves to digital high-definition picture. There are two main specialized databases that have recently been upgraded to better serve police forces across the nation and the world. Live scan is an ink-less fingerprinting system that immediately uploads the data into the AFIS system with returned results in minutes. This is a far leap forward from ink print cards and months of waiting for …show more content…
For example, if facial recognition technology becomes a mandatory technology for every law-enforcement agency in the nation, the technology will allow for each agency to communicate with each other on a wide scale basis. If an officer in Florida pulls over a man for speeding and uses his facial recognition scanner and gets to hit for a fugitive in Arizona; the action immediately alerts Arizona that their fugitive is now being taken into custody. This line of communication will be extremely valuable to law-enforcement agencies everywhere. It will open up the lines of communication and allow each agency to communicate with each other. Communication also plays a major role in making the technology. Agencies and the officers from those agencies have the best knowledge of fieldwork, therefore being able to put in their personal feedback to create the technology or equipment that an officer needs is extremely important. In turn, this allows the officers to feel validated by being able to communicate their needs for work in the field. There are many positive effects that technology may have on communication but there are also negative effects as …show more content…
One of my favorites just happens to be facial recognition technology. In 1998 I can remember watching a movie called enemy of the state. This is when I was first introduced to face show recognition technology. After watching the movie, I became obsessed with the idea of being able to possess technology that powerful. Technology that could actually recognize people 's faces anywhere they go would mean that there is no place that a kidnapper, child molester; rapist or even a serial killer could ever hide without law-enforcement finding