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I have taken quite a few leadership and management classes since I started at AMU. During my time I came up with the definition for both a leader and a manager that to me is easy to remember and makes sense to me. A leader is someone who can get individuals to follow him through speech or actions. This person can sway someone’s opinion by speaking to them. While a manager is someone who manages tasks. They place individuals into spots where they are the most effective and are best fit to get a certain task done. This person is in charge of getting a task done and doesn’t have to be a great speaker or get people to follow him. The leadership theory that interests me is the trait theory, This is a theory that someone is born a leader and naturally has the ability to lead and guide individuals no matter what situation you put them in. I found this interesting because in life you come across those people that are well spoken, get along with people, and is someone that everyone tends to like. On the other side though you have the personal-situational leadership theory, which states that leadership can be learned and someone can thrive and be a leader if the conditions and environment is right. It pretty much states that any one can be a leader as long as they are put in the right circumstances. I find this to also be true because some individuals tend to thrive and succeed in certain areas more than others.
I believe that community policing doesn’t open the door for ethic violations, I believe it to do the opposite. Community policing is where officers go into the community and get to know the citizens and they are actively involved in the community as a whole. If these officers go out there and show their faces to the citizens then it becomes more of a personal thing between the officers and citizens. They don’t see them as just officers, but as members of the community. When this happens they begin to trust them a little more and are more open and willing to speak with them on what they see in the community, The police can’t be every where all the time so they depend on tips from the community to help them catch criminals. If these officers keep this door of communication open then it can be nothing but good for the future. The people in the community will be more willing to not only report crimes but also testify in murders or robberies. These citizens feel scared to talk to the police because they feel they can’t be protected if they talk to them. A study was done in five small cities and towns in North Carolina and community oriented policing (COP) agencies where put in place a year prior to gathering the results. The results indicated that 20–50 percent of residents were aware of community policing efforts in their neighborhoods, but most did not participate in these efforts. Awareness of COP was associated with greater self-protection efforts, lower fear of crime, and stronger feelings of community attachment, controlling for demographic, perceptions of neighborhood problems, and victimization (Adams,2005). With this though the officers may get to know some of the wrong people in the community and may get in with the wrong people. It is easy to waive a little bit of money around and have the officer let you go on a traffic stop or say they didn’t see anything. That could possibly be the only thing that could come bad from community policing and that would be bribery of the officers.