Uwazie et al., Preface (pp. xvii-xx); Introduction (pp. 1-11); Chapters 2, 3, & 4; and Highlight B (pp. 315-317) * Snyder Chapters 17; and * Whitehead Chapters 17 * An article was written by Whitehead, Criminalizing Childhood: School Safety Measures Turn Schools into Prisons and Dont Make Kids Safer Question 1. UWAZIE et al., CHAPTER 2 (Moffatt & Repa: Public Safety for All?) After reading about historical injustices experienced by racial and ethnic minorities during encounters with law enforcement, what strategies would you use to enhance police-community relations in todays modern era? Question 2. UWAZIE et al. CHAPTER 3 (Huang: Economy, Police Staffing, and Crime Rates) Discuss the possible impacts of the economic downturn on law enforcement and other components of the criminal justice system. What are the strategies for law enforcement leaders to maintain public safety and enhance funding during an economic downturn? Question 3. UWAZIE et al. CHAPTER 4 (Getty & Michaud: Has Policy Changed? Lessons Through the Looking Glass) What obstacles do the police have in the early 1900s versus the modern police? Are there any advantages to policing in any time period? Question 4. UWAZIE et al. HIGHLIGHT B (pp. 313-317) (Canton: Implicit Bias & Law Enforcement) What is implicit bias? What factors, or variables, influence biases, specifically racial bias? What can be done to reduce implicit bias within law enforcement, and other criminal justice agencies? Question 5. WHITEHEAD One area that needs improvementsmarter policingis in our nations schools. In fact, John Whitehead has made the same argument and has even gone on to assert very strongly that law enforcement presence in our schools is making things much worse. Whitehead claims that our schools are part of the battlefield, which he writes about in his book, Battlefield America. After reading Part 1 of Whiteheads book, the first couple of chapters of Uwazie et al., and an article written by Whitehead, Criminalizing Childhood: School Safety Measures Turn Schools into Prisons and Dont Make Kids Safer, what are your thoughts? Do you think that having a law enforcement presence in schools is helpful? Harmful? A mix of both? Be sure to explain your thoughts and reasoning. Read the article: Criminalizing Childhood: School Safety Measures Turn Schools into Prisons and Dont Make Kids Safer [Week 1 materials] Question 6. SNYDER/WHITEHEAD In Timothy Snyders book, On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the 20th Century, he provides readers with his thoughts, suggestions, and advice on how to navigate through the different crises were facing today and what we might face in the future if were not paying attention, learning from our mistakes of the past. (a) Chapter 1, Do not obey in advance, is a critical part of the book. Snyder maintains that anticipatory obedience is a political tragedy. What does he mean by that? (b) Yale psychologist, Stanley Milgram, wanted to find out if there was a certain type of personalitythe authoritarian personalitythat explains why some people, sometimes on a large scale such as Germany during WWII, behave in an obedient manner, engaging in behaviors that are shocking and hard to imagine. Briefly discuss Milgrams study in 1961. What might the studys findings reveal about the state of our society today, people in general in the U.S. in particular, in terms what John Whitehead calls the rise of the police state? In other words, are we all unwittingly allowing what is happening in various communities, our schools, etc. with respect to the police and its apparent and obvious militarization? Please be sure to explain your responses thoroughly. Watch the video: Stanley Milgram: Obedience to Authority [Week 1 materials]