Community Policing (TAG)

Catalog description

This course introduces students to the historic and cultural relationships between individuals, communities, and policing in the United States. The course includes policing roles, duties, styles, subculture, and discretion, and their impact on ethical police practices relating to prejudice, perception, discrimination, deviance, labeling, conflict, communication, specific subcultures, the homeless, physically and mentally challenged individuals, alternative lifestyles, and victims of violence.