Community Relations

Catalog description

Three lecture. Examination, recognition, and understanding of community problems; community action programs; methods of coping with human behavior; conflict and communications; ethnic and minority cultures and environments; the community and the relationships with the criminal justice system. Students will be able to: demonstrate by their scores on written assignments and exams, mastery of the basics concerning police community relations and skills necessary to perform the following: problem solving techniques; instruction interpretation; understanding of criminal justice vocabulary; explain the structure of the community relations communications with all the populations served by an agency; how a given agency develops the systems and tactics for establishing community relations programs; describe the management and organizational processes which affect continuous community relations communication concerns; describe the impact which the choice of a particular police community relations plan/program can have on the reduction of crime in given situations.