Suppose you are an active member of a community blog site that focuses on current events. The administrator of the blog has contacted you and asked you to write a blog on recent national events involving law enforcement agencies. The title of the blog is to be “Conflict and Power.”
Preparation
Search the Capella library and the Internet to locate resources that address the dynamics of power and conflict (in particular, with relation to law enforcement), the relational theory of power, perceptions of power, and how things such as gender, culture, and ethnicity can affect that perception.
Requirements
Complete the following:
Describe the factors or conditions that contribute to conflict situations between law enforcement and citizens.
Explain how perceptions of power may contribute to conflict situations between law enforcement and members of a community. Be sure you consider the perceptions of both the police and individual citizens.
Use the relational theory of power to explain how perceptions of power affect the ability to resolve police–community conflict.
Identify strategies you believe might be effective in reducing or resolving conflicts between police and communities.
