Assignment:
Question 1. What are the main differences between community policing, problem-oriented policing, and zero-tolerance policing? Provide detailed examples, benefits, and problems for each. Which one should be the most prevalent and why?
Question 2. What are the four categories of citizen behavior discussed in Alpert's "force factor? Concept?" How do the characteristics of the individual officer influence police behavior in relation to those citizen behaviors?
Question 3. What impact upon law enforcement, the criminal justice system, and society as a whole would there be if we increased or decreased police discretion? What are the benefits to providing police officers with more discretion and what are the drawbacks?
Question 4. What is the Law of Equal Employment Opportunity? What is a “BFOQ”? How has employment of racial and ethnic minorities as police officers changed in the last forty years? How about women? How about gays and lesbians? What are the objectives of increasing the number of racial and ethnic minorities as police officers? What is the Law of Affirmative action? What is the Issue of Quotas?
Write each answer in 200 to 300 words in APA FORMAT and also include references.