PPAS 2420
Community Policing
Due Date March 28 all essays must be uploaded on Turnitin before midnight
Page 8-10 pages double spaced excluding title and bibliographical pages
6 to 8 academic sources (government studies/reports on the police can be included as part of your academic sources), excluding newspapers and magazines
Newspapers and magazines and can be used as valuable sources in your essay, but they will not count as part of the 6 to 8 sources
The essay should have 3 to 4 substantive intext quotations from your sources.
Standard academic criteria apply
Plagiarism will be punished by the university
You must upload you’re your essay in Turnitin; Moodle turnitin score should be 25% or less
Eight academic sources are required
The paper should have an introduction that lay out the analytical framework and key issues that your paper will address. You must demonstrate in the paper that you are familiar with the debate on your question
The paper must have a thesis and a well-argued body consistent with your thesis
Finally, a good conclusion that summarizes your paper and the important points you made.
Essay Topic: Please choose from the following list of questions: Make certain that you answer all the sub-questions within each topic
1) Is the Special Investigation Unit (SIU) adequate in holding police accountable? What reform is needed to make the SIU a more legitimate institution in the perception of the public?
2) Evaluate the Honorable Justice Michael H. Tulloch Independent Police Oversight Review on Carding. How are the broader community and police responding the findings of the Review? How would you evaluate the Review in light of the problem it set out to investigate?
3) The Peelian principles of policing including the classic statement that ‘the public are the police and the police are the public’ as been at the forefront o grounding the work police do and the way the public has been socialized to view the police. Are these principles still adequate in today’s urban and transnational crime environment?
4) The Transformational Task Force Reform of the Toronto Police Service (TPS) has highlighted a new approach to community policing and cultural change as necessary to improving the relationship with civil society, particularly minority communities. Evaluate these two elements of the (TTF).
5) The crisis of policing in America and Canada is generally cast as a problem in which the police lacks legitimacy and is unaccountable to any democratic authority. Yet the broader public and prosecutors are willing to look the other way when police act outside the scope of the law. How can this be explained?
6) At a time when racialized communities, Indigenous people and LGBTQ people have raised the issue of unfair and unaccountable policing, are the legislative changes to the Police Services Act that the Ford government is proposing warranted?
4) Discuss the problem of police corruption. Do you feel that this is a problem that threatens the possibility of effective police‐community relations? If so, how would you combat the problem of corruption? Make certain to incorporate case studies in your research.
5) Discuss policing in a globalized world. How has policing changed in an age of transnational crime and fiscal austerity?
7) Apply a SWOT analysis (strengths, weakness and opportunity) of community policing in racialized communities in the United States. Choose one or two cities with community policing as part of their policing strategy as your empirical case study. Why is it not possible for community policing to heal the rift between racialized communities and the police?
8) What are the historical and sociological factors that make policing racial minorities inner-city communities so problematic? What reforms are necessary for there to be effective and harmonious policing of these communities?
8) The Ontario Human Rights Commission and the Toronto State have uncovered a racist recusant culture in the Toronto Police Service. How can this culture be rooted out and build trust between the public and the police?