1. What lessons should community policing advocates learn from history?
2. What is discretion, do you feel that it is important to law enforcement, and why?
3. What is the Broken Windows Theory, and do you believe it works in police work, why?
4. Do you consider yourself a good communicator? The greatest tool and skill that a police officer needs is interpersonal skills. Discuss what makes a law enforcement officer a person with good interpersonal skills.
5. Why is trust so important between the police and the community, and how could a department build and increase trust in the relationships?
6. Describe the relationship between the media and the police. Do you think that the media is accurate, do they report positive and negative news fairly and accurately?
7. Why is the reduction of fear, and quality of life as important to a community as the actual reduction of crime?
8. How do you think the Criminal Justice System should deal with the drug problem?
9. Why do young people join gangs, and how can families and communities prevent this?
10. Explain why some experts recommend a problem-solving approach to violence prevention.
11. Why was the Department of Homeland Security created, and what is its purpose?
12. What do you think will be law enforcement’s biggest future challenge and why?
13. Find out what your town, or another police department, mission statement is, and what does it say that makes you think that the department is committed to community policing, if it is not how would you change it?
14. What do you think is important in the development and the raising of a child, and why?
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