CJ 104 - Introduction to Policing

• Summarize the different historical policing eras in the United States and explain how the past failures and successes impact contemporary policing.
• Identify and effectively apply a broad range of policing and law enforcement terminology.
• Compare and contrast the effectiveness of varying policing theories and strategies and analyze how these approaches affect the relationship between the police and community.
• Examine how politics, the media, and current technology impact policing in a contemporary society.
• Describe police agencies’ organizational structure, police culture and the departments’ basic patrol procedures, investigative processes, and operations.
• Summarize the importance of discretion, ethics, accountability, and professionalism, and explain how these concepts are influenced by corruption, biases, and power.
• Discuss the psychological and physiological effects experienced by members in the law enforcement profession.
• Explain how the legal environment and jurisdiction boundaries limit police power in the contemporary United States.

1. Policing history, theory, strategies, and approaches to policing
2. Contemporary policing, law enforcement, and impact of politics, media, and technology
3. Police agency structure, police culture, patrol procedures, investigative processes, and operations
4. Discretion, ethics, professionalism, and influence of corruption, biases, and Power
5. Legal environment, varying jurisdictions and limitations