Reforming and improving the criminal justice system to address issues in policing and improve community relationships is an important current area of focus. While many police departments, correctional facilities, and court systems have processes where they routinely enact changes to their policies and procedures, future reforms are inevitable and can begin at the individual level.
Criminal justice professionals must always demonstrate professionalism, including when facing peers, senior officials, and the public to advocate for changes in the system. The mayor of a city in your area wants to make changes to the criminal justice system in response to an issue that has been worsening. Due to that, you and other representatives from various agencies and communities have been invited to speak at an upcoming city council meeting to propose and advocate for reforms that would be most beneficial to the city to improve this issue.
Preparation
Determine 1 issue within the criminal justice system in your geographic area and name and research that area or city, that could benefit from reform. Select an issue supported by recent data trends. Refer to the following resources to select your issue:
- Review the 6 pillars of recommendations on positive justice reforms from the Final Report of the President’s Task Force on 21st Century Policing from the Office of Community Oriented Policies Services (COPS).
- Research trends using the FBI’s Federal Bureau of Investigation Crime Data Explorer website or the All Data Analysis Tools page on the U.S. Department of Justice BJS website.
Research reforms to the criminal justice system in your area or city that have been proposed or implemented for positive changes related to the issue you selected.
Select 1 positive reform to use as an example for this assessment.
Investigate the following roles in the successes of the reform movement you selected: legislative efforts, police unions, agency policy, social media, and community and nonprofit partnerships.
Assessment Deliverables
This summative assessment has 2 deliverables:
- Part 1: 10- to 12-slide professionalism presentation
- Part 2: 525- to 700-word executive summary of the presentation
Refer to the instructions in Parts 1 and 2 to complete both deliverables.



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