Policing in the Future

The demands placed upon police officers in American society in the 1990s are far more complex and difficult than were those placed on the police a decade earlier, and the demands placed on police may be expected to continue to change and increase over the next 20 years (Grinc, 1994, pp. 437468). The complex demands placed on American police officers may be appreciated through a consideration of the following factors:

1. Police departments are expected by society to preserve order and to enforce the law. In accomplishing these objectives, police, at times, injure or, less often, kill offenders. When injury to or death of offenders occur, police officers are often condemned by many in society (Hayes, 1993, pp. 42, 55).

2. Police departments are expected by society to incarcerate offenders, and to preserve order in detention centers. In accomplishing these objectives, police, at times, are required to employ procedures which can, and at times do, result in injury or death to those individuals apprehended and/or incarcerated. When injury or death does occur in such circumstances, police officers are often condemned by many in society for the consequences of their actions, in general, and for

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in brutality cases is the fact that fines against police officers for such actions are typically paid by the responsible jurisdiction. This type of action on the part of responsible jurisdictions, as justified as it may be, convinces many minority racial and ethnic civilians that individual police officers and police departments have little incentive to cease the use of excessive force. One effective means of neutralizing the problem and of establishing improve relations between the police and minority neighborhood residents is through the hiring of members of racial and ethnic minorities as police officers (Kaminski, 1993, pp. 395409). Minority hiring by police departments in the United States is expected to accelerate over the coming 20 years (Lynwander, 1994, p. 2). Education's Impact on Policing Law enforcement in the 1990s is confronted with criminal activity which is increasing in terms of volume, violence, and sophistication. To effectively meet the challenge of this criminal activity, society must develop police officers whose education and training is both broader and deeper than has been typical in the past (Cage, 1993, p. A5). The development of police officers with the desired characteristics dictates that tr
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