Day: December 22, 2019

For this task you will think about an organization where you currently work, have previously worked, or are familiar with its work environment. Reflect on how leaders within that organization currently encourage the heart, how they recognize contributions, and how they celebrate values and victories. Be sure to use specific examples and details in your discussion of the current culture of encouraging the heart. Then, explain how you, as a leader, could build upon or improve the different facets of encouraging the heart within an organization. Again, provide detailed examples to support your ideas.

Support your reflection with at least five scholarly resources. In addition to these specified resources, other appropriate scholarly resources, including older articles, may be included.

Length: 5-7 pages, not including title and reference pages

Your reflection should demonstrate thoughtful consideration of the ideas and concepts presented in the course by providing new thoughts and insights relating directly to this topic. Your response should reflect scholarly writing and current APA standards. 

For this assignment, consider the role, responsibility, and perspective of the criminal justice administrator (i.e., police chief or sheriff) in your municipality. You are tasked with identifying the plan and budget for the agency that accounts for threats of domestic terrorism. 

To accomplish this, you will need to research your local (i.e., city, county, or state) law enforcement agency and the applicable fusion center to determine the connection that exists between budget allocation and the threat of terrorism. Use this information to analyze the threats that your agency plans and prepares for, and determine how training and response to these threats are budgeted. Most law enforcement agency budgets and fusion center budgets are public record and are easily obtained online; however, you may need to do some deeper research to obtain all of the information needed for this assignment.

Your case study should address the items below.

1) Identify your location and the law enforcement agency that you selected.

2) Discuss the terrorist or homeland security threats that apply to your area and how they are specifically addressed through department policy, procedures, and training. 

3) Examine the role of the law enforcement administrator or leader (e.g., sheriff, police chief) in protecting the community from a terrorist incident. Address his or her potential concerns regarding the safety of the community and his or her officers in a terrorist incident. 

4) Identify the external resources (fusion center resources and others) that could be tapped by law enforcement leadership in the event of a terrorist incident.

5) Determine how terrorist incident response, preparation, and training are budgeted. Are these items specifically allocated, or do they fall under the general category line items such as overtime and training? What other factors must an administrator consider when creating the fiscal budget that could possibly interfere with terrorism budget allocation?

6) Finally, take into consideration everything you have learned in this course about the role and responsibilities of a criminal justice administrator, the value of community policing, and the importance of the agency leadership having a positive influence on personnel and policy. With this in mind, propose two changes to the current way in which the threat of terrorism is handled and budgeted for in your local agency. Support your recommendations with a strong argument and evidence.

Your case study must be a minimum of three pages in length, not counting the title page and references page. A minimum of three sources will be used and must be properly cited. The case study, including all references, should be formatted in APA Style.

Please complete ALL THREE of the Professional Development exercises.

1. Some institutions that require students to develop e-portfolios as a part of their program of study also may use this evidence of student learning to evaluate the program quality or generate evidence for accreditation reports. What do you think should be the driving purpose behind requiring electronic portfolios – professional development planning or institutional evaluation? What are the merits of each approach?
    
2. Conduct a literature search for a scholarly article about e-Portfolios and how they are used in nursing. Summarize the findings, and discuss how this may be applicable within your nursing practice.
    
3. Investigate a healthcare informatics technology trend
    
   • Use both Internet sites and library resources to describe the trend.
   • Cover both hardware and software requirements.
   • Discuss considerations for implementing the trend.
   • Discuss how the technology trend will impact nursing knowledge and/or practice.  

Please submit one APA formatted paper 1000 words, not including the title and reference page. Each assignment should have a minimum of two scholarly sources, in addition to the textbook.

McGonigle, D. & Mastrian, K. (2017) Nursing informatics and the foundation of knowledge (4th ed.). Burlington, MA: Jones & Bartlett

Marijuana was decriminalized in Canada in October 2018. Since that time, many Canadian police departments have implemented policies regarding officials using marijuana that would probably shock many Americans. For example, the Vancouver Police Department says that it will not impose any restrictions on their officers for using marijuana while off-duty. The only policy they will enforce is that all officers must be fit for duty when they report to work. It essentially holds them to the same standards as after-hours alcohol consumption.

Changes are happening in the United States as well. In Atlanta, Georgia, which is a state where marijuana use is still illegal, the Atlanta Police Department will no longer ask applicants if they have smoked marijuana and consider its use as a factor in eligibility to join the force. They claim that they have lost too many qualified candidates when asking them about marijuana smoking.

Share your opinions, from both the perspective of a criminal justice administrator working in a state where marijuana use has been decriminalized and from the perspective of a private citizen, on whether criminal justice personnel (in states where it is legal) should be allowed to use marijuana while off-duty. Explain the rationale for your opinions.

REPLY TO MY CLASSMATE’S RESPONSE TO THE ABOVE QUESTION AND EXPLAIN WHY YOU AGREE? (A MINIMUM OF 150 WORDS or MORE)

                                                          CLASSMATE’S POST

Marijuana was decriminalized in Canada in October 2018. Since that time, many Canadian police departments have implemented policies regarding officials using marijuana that would probably shock many Americans. For example, the Vancouver Police Department says that it will not impose any restrictions on their officers for using marijuana while off-duty. The only policy they will enforce is that all officers must be fit for duty when they report to work. It essentially holds them to the same standards as after-hours alcohol consumption.

Changes are happening in the United States as well. In Atlanta, Georgia, which is a state where marijuana use is still illegal, the Atlanta Police Department will no longer ask applicants if they have smoked marijuana and consider its use as a factor in eligibility to join the force. They claim that they have lost too many qualified candidates when asking them about marijuana smoking.

Share your opinions, from both the perspective of a criminal justice administrator working in a state where marijuana use has been decriminalized and from the perspective of a private citizen, on whether criminal justice personnel (in states where it is legal) should be allowed to use marijuana while off-duty. Explain the rationale for your opinions.

As a criminal justice administrator working in a state where marijuana has been decriminalized, I would still ask the questions of, do you smoke marijuana, have you ever smoked marijuana, and when was the last time you consumed marijuana? This would be for documentation purposes to have notated in the officer’s file. I would like to have a policy of no smoking marijuana 24 hours prior to their shift. 

My rationale for this reasoning is that if a person consumes marijuana prior to being employed versus someone that says they do not consume marijuana but may pick up the habit after being influenced to try it by co-workers. If an incident should occur with an employee after consuming marijuana for the first time an incident occurs at work and the marijuana consumption played a part in the behavior of the officer, it would be good for the employer to have notated this information prior to their start date. Being a new consumer of marijuana may have played a major role in the officer’s behavior versus his conduct before ever consuming marijuana. 

As a private citizen, I do not believe criminal justice personnel should be able to consume marijuana off-duty even if it is legal in the state, they work in. My rationale for this is that criminal justice personnel are held to a higher standard and looked upon by citizens as professional persons that they go to for help. I think that if they use marijuana and are corrupt, they will possibly take drugs from citizens to consume for themselves. I think that they will not follow the policy as directed by the department that will possibly lead to bad judgment calls and the use of force issues.

Discuss two of the most valuable learning takeaways you gained from this course (Critical Analysis of Criminal Justice Administration) and how they can help you in your career or future studies. Identify the value you perceive of each of your identified takeaways as they relate to law enforcement agencies, citizens of the community, or you personally as a leader.