Law enforcement operations and strategies were historically driven by proven best practices. Current and future challenges now require a new approach combined with the responsiveness and comprehension of officers using a different thought process and judgment. These challenges require a fundamental transformation inclusive of new tools, new strategies, and new approaches. Use your textbook, and/or the Internet, to research credible sources on the aforementioned issues as they relate to law enforcement operations and management and the social aspect of policing.
Write a 6–7 page paper in which you answer the following questions:
- Identify the best practices being used by law enforcement agencies to ensure that officers are trained in all aspects of understanding and manipulating technology and technological devices in their attempts to keep up with the rapidly changing technological environment.
- Identify the ways in which police officers are responding to a changing and diverse community. What can police agencies do to improve the trust between diverse members of the community?
- Identify the agencies involved in investigating hate crimes. Identify the challenges involved in investigating hate crimes. Analyze the problems related to determining the actual number of hate crimes and what makes a hate crime different from other crimes. Describe how domestic terrorism and hate crimes are similar in nature.
- What does the future of policing look like in America? Identify the myriad of challenges that those in the law enforcement community are currently facing, and will face in the future.