Wk2-Summative Assessment PolicingAwareness
Policing awareness
Research the role of police in your community. For example, visit your local police department website and interview a representative of a local police department (email, phone call, or video chat).
Write a 600-700-word interview summary addressing the answers to each of the following questions. (No works cited page.)
· -What is the mission of your local police department?
· -What goals do they have? What goals have they accomplished?
· -What are the various roles police play in your community? What is their impact? How do the police partner with citizens, human service workers, and other entities?
· -Which community programs are offered (e.g., D.A.R.E., Police Explorers)? Explain the programs and the benefits they provide to society and the role the police play in these programs.
· -Which 1 or 2 criminal justice strategies from the text or readings have you observed in action in your local police department?
· -How does the police department strive to utilize those strategies?