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A 6 page paper answering two questions addressing law enforcement. The first requires identification of the primary functions of law enforcement. The second asks for identification of policing styles and a determination of which is best. The paper concludes that the community approach is the best route, because it involves members of the local population and builds relationships with individuals. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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As phrased in the lecture notes, the police officer is the "initial gatekeeper for criminal justice system cases" (p. 2). Business literature has discussed the "front line" employee
in great detail over the past several years, for the purposes of reminding managers that it is their "front line" that has the greatest degree of direct contact with customers
and that they should be trained to fill that function well. Certainly the same applies to the police officer, but as noted in
the lecture material, there is a twist: "the highest degree of discretion is actually exercised by those who operate at the lowest level of the organizational hierarchy" (p. 2).
The patrol officer is the first to respond to calls of all kinds; decide if charges will be filed; and decide what charges will be filed. Additionally, the police
officer "also exercises adjudication and correctional skills" (p. 2) and keeps detainees secure. Broad Duties Detectives collect information for prosecutors, and patrol officers
serve warrants on and arrest those that prosecutors pursue. Varela (1993), a police recruit trainer in Los Angeles, explicitly states the "basic law enforcement function is to respond to
calls for service either as a patrol officer or as a desk officer and follow up investigations of crime. Everything else is in support of that function" (p. 22).
Varelas (1993) comment perhaps is overstated - or oversimplified - given that it was made only two years after the Rodney King incident in
1991 and shortly after the conclusion of an investigation of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) sparked by that incident. There is a perspective in which it is not
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