Reflection Assignment
As an educated policing scholar, you have been asked to respond to any ONE of the following issues on the future of policing:
Prospective employees face a world in which there is an ever-increasing emphasis on skills, training, and education.
New technology will introduce new weapons and methods for police and criminals alike.
Impact of media
Race relations
Privatization
How will be breakthroughs in genetics, new materials, software, and thousands of new discoveries impact policing?
Use of technology and political, moral, and legal debates regarding their application in modern law enforcement and crime control.
What new potential invasions of privacy will become technologically possible?
What bio-monitoring technologies should be admitted as evidence? In what way will such breakthroughs affect interpretation of the Bill of Rights and the Constitution?
In what manner will criminal codes need to be restructured to address the use of new technologies?
What new forms of organization will have to be created?
