Overview

In this assignment, you will explore how the professional practice of policing changed to address the issue of homelessness in our current time and how community policing helps address the issue of homelessness.

Prompt

In the past two modules, you have explored how the professional practice of policing has adapted to the needs and demands of the time, along with the value of community policing. You will now apply this information to highlight the relationship between societal needs and professional practice specific to a scenario. This information will help you prepare for submission of Project Three, due in Module Eight, in which you will address the issue of homelessness in Los Angeles.

First, review the Project Three Instructions and Rubric document and familiarize yourself with the elements of this project. Next, review the Project Three Scenario document that ties directly to the project. Then, research the issue of homelessness in Los Angeles. The following resources will assist you as you begin your research:

• Reading: Contested Development: Homeless Property, Police Reform, and Resistance in Skid Row, LA
• Reading: The Safer Cities Initiative and the Removal of the Homeless: Reducing Crime or Promoting Gentrification on Los Angeles' Skid Row?

Consider what the Los Angeles Police Department has done in the past to address this issue and what it is doing now. Also, consider how community policing may have affected this. Use the rubric criteria listed below as headings to format your writing.

Community Policing: Principles

• Describe the principles of community policing.

Community Policing: Valuable Approach

• Explain how community policing is a valuable approach for today’s problems.

Community Policing: Homelessness in LA

• Explain how community policing concepts and principles can be applied to the issues surrounding homelessness in LA.

Professional Practice of Policing: Tactics

• Describe specific tactics the LAPD has used in the past to address the issue of homelessness.

Professional Practice of Policing: Strategy

• Explain what strategy of policing the tactics illustrate.

Specifically, the following rubric criteria must be addressed:

• Describe the principles of community policing.
• Explain how community policing is a valuable approach for today’s problems.
• Explain how community policing concepts and principles can be applied to the issues surrounding homelessness in LA.
• Describe specific tactics the LAPD has used in the past to address the issue of homelessness.
• Explain what strategy of policing the tactics show.

Guidelines for Submission

This assignment must be submitted as a 1- to 2-page Microsoft Word document. Any references should be cited in APA format. For more information on APA style, review the Shapiro Library APA Style Guide.