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A 7 page consideration of the problems inherent in policing those who are not proficient in English. This paper reviews what law enforcement agencies around the nation have done to overcome these problems and recommends a best practice solution. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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growing percentage of individuals that cannot communicate effectively in English. As might be expected, interaction with law enforcement personnel is often complicated by an ever-more-visible language barrier. Whether they
are dealing with a non-English-speaker as a criminal, a victim, an informant or in some other role; finding a way to communicate is an obvious problem (Drake, 2006). Law
enforcement agencies around the nation have dealt with this problem in a variety of ways. The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of approaches, their effectiveness,
and their shortcomings; and to recommend a best practice solution. Larsen (2003) reports that an estimated 33.5 million individuals living in the US
in 2003 (an amazing 11.7 percent of the countrys total population) were born outside the country. Immigrants from Mexico alone have increased from an estimated one-million in 1990 to
an approximately six-million in 2006 (Pastor, 2006). Most immigrants to the US, of course, come here in search of a better life. Unfortunately, many do not have enough
command of the English language to perform optimally in US society. The 2000 US Census revealed 21.3 million individuals that responded to the census had difficulties conversing in the
English language (Drake, 2006). An alarming 3.3 million of these respondents admitted to speaking no English at all (Drake, 2006). This number has undoubtedly continued to increase in
the years since that census was completed. The importance of effective cross-cultural communication has been emphasized in a diversity of fields.
In law enforcement and other organizations alike, the problem has been only partially remedied with the employment of a handful of bilingual employees (Drake, 2006). The problem continues
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