Assignment

1. What factors influence the development of criminal justice policies?

2. Do you consider a police officer to be a bureaucrat? If so how do you define that and if not why not?

3. People will always have an agenda - there are some countries that have a law that you must answer the police officer and if you lie to them then you can be charged - we have some of that - for instance under oath but not so much in normal questioning unless it hinders an investigation in a way you can prove that - which can be hard. Can you think of any other ways that a lie can get you into legal problems when talking to folks?

4. What do you think is the biggest influence on policy and why?

5. Which factor(s) matter most to criminal justice policy development?

6. What are some of the hurdles to the implementation of criminal justice policy?

7. How do we set a general policy for all law enforcement in dealing with suspects of all kinds - How do we make sure police treat everyone equally?

8.Last, there are officers that just plain make the wrong call for a lot of reasons - some good and some bad too. These are all symptoms - what do you think is the real problem - is it policy - procedures - civilians - police - organizational mindset - training? What policy could be made that would either show the real issue or fix the problem?