Final Project: Training PowerPoint for Police Officers
Pretend you are a Police Academy instructor who needs to develop a PowerPoint presentation for police officers on an emerging technology that addresses a long-standing police issue.
Your choice of topics is as follow:
1. Video Recording of Police-Citizen Encounters/Body Cameras (Ch.15)
2. Video Recording of Police Interrogations (Ch.15)
3. Less-Lethal Use of Force Devices for Crowd Control (Ch.18 & 21)
4. Less-Lethal Use of Force Devices for Emotionally-Disturbed Individuals (Ch.18 & 21)
5. Vehicle Pursuits (Ch.18 & 21)
6. Gunfire Reduction Technology, e.g, ShotSpotter (Ch.18)
7. Problem Officers & Early Warning Systems (Ch.19)
8. Electronic Monitoring of Probationers and Parolees (Ch.21)
9. Facial Recognition Technology (Ch.21)
Begin by reading the relevant sections of your textbook, but don't be limited by what is covered; there have been great technological advances since the book was published.
The presentation should address the following questions:
A. What does the new technology do?
B. Why is it needed? What long-standing police issue does this technology address?
C. How was the problem handled up to this point?
D. How does the technology work? (Don't get too technical.)
E. What are its strengths?
F. What are its weaknesses, risks, or unintended consequences?
At a minimum, the presentation should be 10 slides with at least 4 sources.
EACH SLIDE MUST CONTAIN THE CITATION FOR EACH SOURCE OF INFORMATION OR GRAPHIC USED IN THE SLIDE.
For instance, if you use information from the textbook/OCR, you would follow it with (Foster, 2005).
If you are showing a picture of a Taser, you might follow it with . If you are using information from an online article on Tasers, you might follow the information with.
Remember to fully list them alphabetically in the reference list on the last slide, such as: Foster, R. (2005). Police Technology. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.
HONESTY ALERT: DON'T PUFF UP YOUR REFERENCE LIST WITH SOURCES YOU DON'T ACTUALLY USE IN THE POWERPOINT PRESENTATION.
EVERY SOURCE CITED IN A SLIDE SHOULD APPEAR IN THE REFERENCE LIST, AND VICE VERSA.