Often, the community in which the police work is not accepting of the police or authority, making the police officer's job more difficult.

Identify and discuss the barriers to a good police-community relationship. How would you avoid these issues or work to resolve them if you were a police administrator? How would you avoid these issues or work to resolve them if you were head of a federal agency, state agency, sheriff's office, or a municipal agency? (In addition to answering from a police administrator's perspective, answer from the perspective of two of the aforementioned agencies.) Would your techniques be different for each type of agency? How and why?