Criminal Justice Integration Paper
Criminal Justice Integration Paper
Joyce Cagnon, Dora Frazier, Joseph Okonkwo,
Shontelle Shelton
AJS/504
July 6, 2015
Deana Bohenek
Criminal Justice Integration Paper
Introduction
This paper is intended to elaborate on the main points encompassing the criminal justice integration project. Agency policies include a criterion of conduct, code of conduct, policy discernment, and inhibition against racial profiling and unreasonable application of forces. This paper will explain how the budgets are utilized inside the department, the manner of communication within the society and the system and the effectiveness of the technologies used in the system.
Throughout history, the mission of the police has been to protect and serve. Recently, in …show more content…
The media has a way of influencing the way people think towards particular topics. Racial profiling is a very touchy subject for most. It is known as the presence of ethnic or racial characteristic of determining if a person is likely to commit a particular type of illegal act or crime. For example the term "black man walking". Due to racial profiling black men are looked at as drug dealing criminal thugs. It is the society that we live in and therefore we have no choice but to live with …show more content…
Cognitive bias is typical, but mistakenly, is believed to be viewed as the most common source of racial prejudice. Whereas most officers may be ancient hypocrites, this is not a well-known cause of racial prejudice in police breaks. Even though discrimination against blacks has not declined, most law enforcement agencies forbid this kind of racism and reprimands officers once this is discovered. Bigot behaviors in these cases are prevented through education. It is true that most of us if not all of us have a tendency to group ourselves and others. Once we do this, stereotypes by design, and unconsciously, become influenced behavior. Given the persistent media images of black men are violent and dangerous. It should not be surprising when officers make the decision to pull over, search, and their unconscious bias may influence them to focus more on the brown skinned race. These kinds of biases are typically played out by local police officers that do routine patrolling of communities and businesses and, therefore, have more discretion as to whom to stop and
Joyce Cagnon, Dora Frazier, Joseph Okonkwo,
Shontelle Shelton
AJS/504
July 6, 2015
Deana Bohenek
Criminal Justice Integration Paper
Introduction
This paper is intended to elaborate on the main points encompassing the criminal justice integration project. Agency policies include a criterion of conduct, code of conduct, policy discernment, and inhibition against racial profiling and unreasonable application of forces. This paper will explain how the budgets are utilized inside the department, the manner of communication within the society and the system and the effectiveness of the technologies used in the system.
Throughout history, the mission of the police has been to protect and serve. Recently, in …show more content…
The media has a way of influencing the way people think towards particular topics. Racial profiling is a very touchy subject for most. It is known as the presence of ethnic or racial characteristic of determining if a person is likely to commit a particular type of illegal act or crime. For example the term "black man walking". Due to racial profiling black men are looked at as drug dealing criminal thugs. It is the society that we live in and therefore we have no choice but to live with …show more content…
Cognitive bias is typical, but mistakenly, is believed to be viewed as the most common source of racial prejudice. Whereas most officers may be ancient hypocrites, this is not a well-known cause of racial prejudice in police breaks. Even though discrimination against blacks has not declined, most law enforcement agencies forbid this kind of racism and reprimands officers once this is discovered. Bigot behaviors in these cases are prevented through education. It is true that most of us if not all of us have a tendency to group ourselves and others. Once we do this, stereotypes by design, and unconsciously, become influenced behavior. Given the persistent media images of black men are violent and dangerous. It should not be surprising when officers make the decision to pull over, search, and their unconscious bias may influence them to focus more on the brown skinned race. These kinds of biases are typically played out by local police officers that do routine patrolling of communities and businesses and, therefore, have more discretion as to whom to stop and