Criminal Justice (CCJS 100)

Week 5

1. Research the training requirements for your local police department (searching for the State’s POST requirements will help you with find this information)

2. Find 2 areas of training that you think are most valuable for police based on what you read this week, and based on the argument that police do not have good training- share these in the discussion board and tell WHY you think they are most valuable

3. Identify 2 areas where you think training is lacking in terms of how training in these areas would help the current state of police and community relations today and explain WHY you think the training is lacking and HOW training in these areas may improve policing and police/community relations.

Be sure to use course readings and your outside research to support your thoughts. All posts should be supported with references. Initial posts should be at least 300 words and response posts should be no less than 150 word and ALL posts should have in-text citations and APA formatted references.

Week 6

It is often stated that the United States does not have two systems of courts (i.e. State and Federal), rather, we have 51, because each State has its own system and then there is the Federal system. Discuss two pros and two cons of our current court system and then detail how having 51 “systems” may impact the idea of equality under the court of law in your opinion. Be sure to use resources to back up your opinion.

Be sure to use course readings and your outside research to support your thoughts. All posts should be supported with references. Initial posts should be at least 300 words and response posts should be no less than 150 word and ALL posts should have in-text citations and APA formatted references.