Why did early police community relations programs focus on minority
communities?
For this week’s second assignment, you will write a one page essay about the relationship between
community relations programs and minority communities. Be sure to address all prompts and cite
your sources in APA format. This is worth 50 points, so be thorough and give your best effort.
Some experts assert that relationships between minority groups and the police are strained.
This can be seen in cases that have to deal with minorities being profiled by police agencies.
For example, if African American drivers are stopped for questioning by police at a higher frequency
than other ethnic groups, a bogus charge of "Driving While Black" (DWB) is said to be in effect. Such
practices have helped to fuel the distrust between minority groups and the police.
Please answer the following question:
Why did early police community relations programs focus on minority
communities?
From many incidents of the past, it has been observed that police had estranged relations
with the minority communities. So, the major reason behind focus on minority communities’
program is this only. It is also true that policing is mostly required by minority communities
only owing to several reasons like poverty, discrimination, and harassment by other communities
(Brown & Locke, 1980). Crimes generally tend to happen in places and regions of these minority
communities only. But, in place of protecting them, people in such neighborhoods have a
tendency to the most suspicious of police. This is the result of police harassment of minorities
and their brutality toward the people of this community.
In lieu of this, minority communities do not trust on the police and it becomes very hard
for them to get any cooperation even from law-abiding citizens in minority communities. It is
quite apparent that every society provides a unique behavioural context to teach their young ones
(Brown & Locke, 1980). All this also determines the spectrum of emotions available to police. In
communities?
For this week’s second assignment, you will write a one page essay about the relationship between
community relations programs and minority communities. Be sure to address all prompts and cite
your sources in APA format. This is worth 50 points, so be thorough and give your best effort.
Some experts assert that relationships between minority groups and the police are strained.
This can be seen in cases that have to deal with minorities being profiled by police agencies.
For example, if African American drivers are stopped for questioning by police at a higher frequency
than other ethnic groups, a bogus charge of "Driving While Black" (DWB) is said to be in effect. Such
practices have helped to fuel the distrust between minority groups and the police.
Please answer the following question:
Why did early police community relations programs focus on minority
communities?
From many incidents of the past, it has been observed that police had estranged relations
with the minority communities. So, the major reason behind focus on minority communities’
program is this only. It is also true that policing is mostly required by minority communities
only owing to several reasons like poverty, discrimination, and harassment by other communities
(Brown & Locke, 1980). Crimes generally tend to happen in places and regions of these minority
communities only. But, in place of protecting them, people in such neighborhoods have a
tendency to the most suspicious of police. This is the result of police harassment of minorities
and their brutality toward the people of this community.
In lieu of this, minority communities do not trust on the police and it becomes very hard
for them to get any cooperation even from law-abiding citizens in minority communities. It is
quite apparent that every society provides a unique behavioural context to teach their young ones
(Brown & Locke, 1980). All this also determines the spectrum of emotions available to police. In
