Identify three areas that you would re-evaluate in the basic training curriculum (the police academy) defend your decisions based on what you learned from this weeks curated readings, text, and module (Specifically focus on Rahr and Rice, 2015).

All readings are attached there are three prompted questions

much recruit training focuses on physical control tactics and weapons, with less attention given to communication and de-escalation skills. The reasoning for this approach is the sacred mantra of officer safety. We train relentlesslyas we shouldin physical tactics for the high-risk, low-frequency attacks. Less instructional attention is focused on human behavioral science. Yet seasoned cops and statistics tell us that the officers intellect and social dexterity are often the most effective officer safety tools. For the sake of safety, voluntary compliance should be the primary goal in resolving conflict, with physical control reserved for those who present an immediate threat and cannot be managed any other way.”

Assume you are a policy maker responsible for evaluating the curriculum for the Connecticut Police Officer Standards and Training Council (the accrediting, certifying, and academy training body of local and State law enforcement in CT), review the current Basic Training Curriculum via the attached link.

1. Prompt #1: Identify three areas that you would re-evaluate in the basic training curriculum (the police academy) defend your decisions based on what you learned from this weeks curated readings, text, and module (Specifically focus on Rahr and Rice, 2015).

2. Prompt #2: Next, identify any challenges that you might encounter while attempting to change the curriculum (Specifically, do you think police culture will be hostile towards the changes, if so, why? Support your argument via what you learned from the text, module, and both curated readings

3. Prompt #3: Kurtz and Upton’s (2017) paper, “examines the way narrative development and police storytelling reproduces aspects of police culture” (p. 540). Their “findings indicate storytelling and narratives in the context of American police culture frequently draw upon conceptions of community hostility and frame policing as comparable to foreign military service” (p. 540). After reading Kurtz and Upton’s paper, answer the following: How does the occupying soldier narrative that they observed relate to Rahr and Rice’s (2015) juxtaposition between Warriors and Guardians? Opinion component: How do you think we as a society can protect officers from the traps of police culture? Specifically, the adoption of the “us versus them mentality” that is consistent with fear and alienation from the community

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