Police departments lead to inconsistent standards

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Discussion Board Three / Fragmentation vs. the Rebirth of Police Bureaucracy On page 57 of our text, we read that one of the major complaints against police departments is that they had become centralized bureaucracies that were isolated from the communities that they served. Hence, the advocation of the era of Community Policing of the 1980's and 1990's. As we read further in chapter three, page 80, we read of the alleged Fragmentation Issue. Our text states that in 1967, the Presentent's Crime Commission concluded that fragmented crime repression was a fundamental problem confronting law enforcement. Compared to the technology of 1967, please consider the current information era, consider the four issues listed in our text, and answer the following. Do you perceive that today, with current technological standards, there is a lack of coordination between agencies in the same geographic area? Why or why not? Is the fragmentation of police departments responsible for displacing crime in other geographic areas? Why or why not? Does the fragmentation of police departments lead to inconsistent standards? Are inconsistent standards necessarily bad? Why or why not?

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