Community Policing
The author of this brief report has been asked to review a case study and answer to what should be done so as to properly use and enforce community policing. In the test case, it is an issue that the Koreans and African-American people of a neighborhood are not getting along to well. The latest flashpoint is a Korean store owner who has detained an African-American youth for petty theft. Of course, the letter of the law could be followed and the child could be charged. Another way to proceed is to let the kid go. Those are the two general options. While one may be inclined to pick one of those extremes, there is an option in the middle.
There are some challenges here. First of all, any action taken against the African-American boy is going to potentially inflame the black protestors outside. This will be true even if the boy is actually guilty. Further, this could turn the crowd against the police. However, there is also a danger in letting mob rule and pressure dictating what happens. Indeed, if the law was broken, the person breaking the law should generally seek justice. However, such rationality is not necessarily going to be paid any mind by an angry mob. The author of this report would be clear and say that the same precise thing would be true in reverse. If an African-American store was stolen from by a Korean boy and the kid was caught and the protestors were Korean, the same dynamics would be in play....
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