Introduction to Criminal Justice: Practice and Process
Third Edition
Learning Objectives
As a result of reading this chapter, you will be able to
- Describe the current state of policecommunity relations resulting from a number of widely publicized, fatal police shootings beginning in 2014 in the United States
- Define constitutional policing, legitimacy, and procedural justice as they apply to police efforts to bring harmony to their whole approach—and to achieve a “guardian” mindset
- Explain why, as a result of contemporary police-community relations, the proportion and advantages of women and minorities in policing have become more of an issue
- Review what is meant by the term police brutality, and why it has led to widespread calls for use of body-worn cameras
- Explain the types of police actions that are vulnerable to lawsuits and how police officers—and their supervisors—might be held criminally liable for their misconduct
- Delineate several types of technologies that are assisting police in their duties, but that also raise privacy and use concerns