Category: Police Organization and Operation

Chapter 7 Discussion
What negative aspects of the police subculture are demonstrated in the case of the Laquan McDonald shooting?  Summarize the issues related to police organizations’ impact on police stress.  Summarize some of the examples of social change that are currently imposing on traditional police work.  Describe the police receptivity to new technologies.
Chapter 8 Discussion
Describe how truth decay impacts politics, potential jurors, and police officers.  Identify topics concerning equality of citizens under the law and how that relates to police work. Give examples of a “surveillance society” and the unresolved issues that are involved.  What is DNA and what are some of the negative concerns about its use in criminal cases?  How does the police use social media?
Policing: The Essentials
M. Buerger, J. Liederbach and S. Lab
ISBN: 978-0-19-092197-2
You will have 2 Critical Thinking Exercises each week.  You are to write out each question and answer as provided in the example.  All exercises are to be answered based on the textbook, but you can have an additional academic source(even when asking for your opinion, the answer should be based on the research forthat particular chapter/topic)