Assignment: Letter to Your Local Policing System, “We Have A Problem and I have the Solution”
Directions
1. Watch the provided lecture on the history of policing (HarvardX). This is a powerful summary of policing, leading up to policing in New York.
2. Website:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8g1CuL6-cQ0Links to an external site.
3. After review of the history of policing presented, note some past practices and strategies that could assist modern Policing Organizations today. Think of some of the hot topics mentioned in the lecture and crime in your neighborhood.
4.Follow this format.
Identify the law enforcement agency in your community and the top administrator. (This should be a real person and agency)
Construct a letter that addresses a current concern that be addressed with a strategy from the historical account provided..
Describe the dilemma, concern, issue and its impact on you, your community and/or its members that you will provide a strategy
Provide a potential remedy and solution to the identified concern/issue/dilemma using the prior historical account of policing.
REMEMBER THIS IS A LETTER.
Criteria
Address all assignment points
Double Space Cover Sheet (APA)
Original Not Plagiarized