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Scenario
You’ve just transferred to the LAPD (Los Angeles Police Department). Your supervisor would like you to assess the ongoing policing issues surrounding homelessness through a community policing lens. This complex, long-standing issue needs a more proactive, positive approach.
Directions
Community Plan
You will be creating a written community plan for how your office should move forward in addressing the policing issues surrounding homelessness in Los Angeles from a community policing standpoint. Your plan should focus on the relationship between police legitimacy and public trust, public opinion and procedural justice, community policing, and policing adaptations. For the plan, create a written product with all sections identified that addresses all of the required elements using the Project Three Scenario:
- Explain the link between police legitimacy and public trust as shown in the scenario. Answer the following questions in your explanation:
- What issues of public trust arise?
- What can be done to address issues of public trust?
- Where is discretion being used?
- Where could discretion be used more judiciously?
- Describe how public opinion can be influenced by using procedural justice for addressing the issue of homelessness. Answer the following questions in your description:
- How can procedural justice create a more positive public opinion about the LAPD’s work with the issues surrounding homelessness?
- How can police transparency aid the LAPD in this situation?
- Address police accountability through transparency to the public.
- Address how specific techniques, such as technology usage, may aid the LAPD in this situation.
- Explain how community policing concepts and principles can be applied to address the issue of homelessness as shown in the scenario.
- What are the principles of community policing?
- Why is community policing a valuable approach for today’s problems?
- How can community policing be applied to the issues surrounding homelessness in Los Angeles?
- Describe how the professional practice of policing for the LAPD changed in order to address the issue of homelessness in our current time. Answer the following questions in your description:
- What specific tactics has the LAPD taken in the past?
- What strategy of policing do these tactics show?
What to Submit
To complete this project, you must submit the following:
Community Plan
Create a 2- to 5-page written community plan for how your office should move forward in addressing the policing issues surrounding homelessness in Los Angeles from a community policing standpoint. The plan should address the rubric criteria listed above: police legitimacy and public trust, public opinion and procedural justice, community policing, and policing adaptations.
******attached is the scenario you need for this assignment*****
below are reading articles also needed for assignment
https://cops.usdoj.gov/html/dispatch/12-2015/le_critical_to_end_homelessness.asp
https://leb.fbi.gov/articles/featured-articles/policing-the-homeless-one-communitys-strategy
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