Question

1. do you feel that the educational requirements for police officers are too lenient? Why or why not? What educational standards would you suggest?
2. Do you feel that law enforcement needs to be diverse, hiring more minorities and women? Why or why not?  
3. As Chief of Police, what steps would you take to hire more minorities and women.
4. In states where marijuana is legal, do you feel that police departments should weaken or eliminate their drug policies and allow officers to use marijuana and/or other substances? Why or why not?

Answer 1

Yes, the educational requiremnt of police officers is too lenient because it is very minimal as compared to their role and responsibility that they have to perform. Police officers act as the starting point for the criminal justice systemand regularly interact with judges and other judicial officials.

Educational standards suggested by me:

• They should be graduated so that they can attained better skills with independent decision making and problem solving.
• They should also pursue higher education while continuing to serve the country by studying online as they work in rotating shifts attending in service training and appaearing in court.
• Computer skills should be basic requirement as law enforcement has changed dramatically in last 30 years to function and communicate in a modern technical society.
• Modern police department need highly educated people capable or leading change in an evolving technlogy oriented society

Yes, the law enforcement needs to be diverse hiring more minorities and women but valuing diversity does not mean placing unqualified minority and women applicants in jobs. It merely recognizes that it might require proactice recruitement and selection to discover the many qualified minority potential applicant who exist.Law enforcement agencies can reap many nbenefits of workplace diversity.

As the chief of police the steps i would take to hire more minorities and women

• Diversity management by the organisationwhhich includes developing specific strategies to diversity such as programs aimed at increasing cultural sensitivity and reducing inequality
• I hire government accountability officer to examine best practices as the federal leval and identifies 10 agencies as having the most success in diversity management.
• I will make diversification part of the organization's strategic plan
• I will do the recruitement by reaching out to minority colleges and university to find diverse candidate.

In states where marijuna is legal, the police department should weaken their drug policies because

• It will reduce the gang violence associated with durg trafficking and prevent the emergence of powerful organized criminal groups
• It will improve the health, economic and social well being
• It restore the quality of life
• It protects the integrity of criminal justice institutions.