Politics in Policing

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This paper examines how politics, inevitably, becomes intertwined with policing, and how problems have resulted in a negative impact, including issues related to crime, racial conflict, and elections. It discusses how, sometimes, the desires, needs, and wants of federal agencies, generally responsible for overseeing policing activities, vary greatly from the needs of community members and civilians in local communities and how, in this situation, conflict often arises as a result of "too much" political interference in policing and community affairs. It attempts to show how harmony can be established between politics and policing.

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"Politics generally becomes involved in the field of policing as a measure or system of checks and balances, guaranteeing in part that police agencie s"stay in line with the principles of a democratic society" (De Vries & Van Der Hooft-Van, 2003). Generally a majority of policing organizations are governmental in nature, thus subject to the same criteria and principles that might be associate any other federal agency. Politics dictates that the decisions and actions of any agency should be in compliance with the principles of democracy, or in plain terms the needs of the people (De Vries & Van Der Hooft-Van, 2003). Decisions and actions that take place within a police agency should also be aligned with politically correct concepts such following the legal framework dictated by a democratic state (De Vries & Van Der-Hooft-Van, 2003)."

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