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Assignment: 3 pages

With the advent of community policing, certain concerns have been expressed as to potential ethical dilemmas that community-oriented police officers may experience as a result of their having greater discretion and more public interaction than other officers within the department.

1. Revise your Week 4 Key Assignment draft based on the instructor's and peers' feedback.

2. Once you have finished revising, respond to the following in 3 additional pages, and include your responses in your final Key Assignment Draft:

• Describe some of the unique ethical problems that community police officers can pose.

• Discuss how a change in police management styles can influence the police-community relationship.

• What types of roles do contemporary police officers find themselves in given the shift toward community policing?

• What services can be offered to citizens that will help improve crime prevention in a community? Explain.

i. What best practices can you foresee as being used to implement these additional community services? Explain.

• Select 1 service, such as community watch, and explain how you would be able to improve it to prevent crime within a community.

i. Be specific in your recommendation, and support your arguments with academic and scholarly resources.