Police Officers and their residency
This week, you reviewed the development of community policing. Improving relations between local police and the communities they serve is a key component of modern police strategy. This week’s discussion will examine certain aspects of these strategies.
- Residency requirements have long been a debated issue in policing and law enforcement. The central issue is the residency of police officers. Should police officers be required to physically reside within their agency’s boundaries? Discuss the benefits and drawbacks of such a policy.
- Local police agencies strive to attract recruits who help the agency match the ethnic and demographic makeup of the community. What should be done if an agency simply does not receive applications from qualified recruits who meet the desired description?
- Should the citizenship requirement for police officers be revised based upon the increasing rate of immigrants in urban areas and the changing threats to domestic security?
Answer previewCommunity policing has been such an effective development that has seen crimes reduce within the residency of living for citizens. Block by block police emergency calls have been effective as police have been able to respond to them all. Though, there has been a long debating issue on the residency requirements of policing and law enforcement, an issue that will see the police officers serve from their own living residents. The central focus is to unfold this discussion concern and the reasons for having it as police reform.
Residency of Police Officers
The US Supreme Court has been quite busy in hearing and judging the truth of the matter on this case of residency requirements of police officers that have seen some politicians in for it and even community officialdoms, like the American Veterans. In a case in Iowa, which is a focal point, Clinton Police Department Bargaining Unit v. The city of…
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