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.11 Sprint 10:26 PM * 50%--1. online.vitalsource.com Criminal Justice Organizations: Admi.. My Textbook 6. How can the city manager manipulate the local news media to communicate his fictional story? 7. If you are a local reporter and you have 24 hours to put together a report for your newspaper, who would you talk to first and why? Bookshelf Online: Sign In Please Solve Each Case Study Question. will the police who serve the city be mor Think like an Administrator Dave Binninger rose quickly to the rank of Captain in Charge of Operations at the Osh-kosh, Wisconsin, Police Department. Dave was born and raised in Oshkosh, married his high school sweetheart, and had four children. On a lark, he applied for the chief of police job in a small town in Southeast Florida. Much to his surprise, he was offered the position. Oshkosh is a bit like the ideal trouble-free friendly town that hasn\'t changed much in decades. The Oshkosh Police Department had very few minority or female police officers. Accepting the chief\'s job in South Florida would be a challenge to Dave. He noticed during the interview process that most of the command staff was made up of older white men, many of whom were transplants from northern states. However, the city was composed of a diverse population of Hispanics, Haitians, Asians, and African Americans. Also, the rank and file of the police department seemed to be a diverse mix of individuals similar to the city\'s population. He didn\'t think much of it until his first day at work. Dave arrived at 6 a.m. Walking from his car, he observed three black officers laughing together and talking loudly in a language he was not familiar with. He later learned they were speaking Creole, the language of Haiti. He also observed African American officers together and white officers in their own groups. In addition, he observed that the female officers tended to hang out together regardless of their particular ethnic backgrounds or rank. 1 Describe and discuss the communication networks that Chief Binninger might have been observing. 2. Is it possible that the communication networks based on ethnicity and gender have created social cliques that do not interact? 3. Discuss in detail the communication barriers the new chief will face when he communicates with the staff as a whole and as individuals. 4. How will the chief\'s background make communication with his staff a challenge? 5. Do you think there might be a communication breakdown between the new chief and the command staff? Why should that be the case, particularly because they are all 6. 7. 8. white males? How will anyone know if communication barriers exist between the new chief and the command staff Discus how the set of communication barriers possible here may worsen the already poor communication that affects a typical chain of command If you are in Chief Binninger\'s uncomfortable shoes, what steps do you have to take to make sure you communicate well with your diverse staff? No doubt the new chief suspects that the cliques formed and communication networks are based primarily on ethnicity and gender. How should the new chief verify his suspicions? 9. What steps should the new chief take to make sure the diversity within his department does not impede communication among staff? 10. Discuss how this blend of police officers can improve communication with the local citizens. 11. Given your answer to the last question, would you recommend that officers be assigned to local communities that match their ethnicity-for example, Hispanics work in Hispanic neighborhoods and so forth? How would this approach impact communication in the department across ethnic lines? Discuss other options for assignments. FOR DISCUSSION 1 As we have seen throughout this chapter, law enforcement agencies, especially intelligence-gathering agencies, keep information to themselves rather than share

Solution

1. The Chief is dealing with the circle networks of communication. There are groups formed on the basis of ethnicity, race and gender that interact and communicate among themselves. Inter circle communication might have been limited or infrequent.

2. Circles based on gender and ethnicity might have little communication among themselves given the difference in language, pattern of socialisation and tendency to be in separate groups.

3. The potential barriers are the different langauges that make the communication difficult across circles, the social cliques that are difficult to break and possible negative perceptions of members of one circle about the other.

9. The chief must ensure that the teams are reorganized to include diversity. Care should be taken to assign tasks in such a way to maximise interaction among members of different circles. The members should be encouraged to communicate in one langauge and trained in cultural and gender sensitivity.

10. A blend of police officers can interact in a variety of languages and connect to different ethnic groups in a better way, drawing cultural assimilation with a larger population and can understand their issues better to reach to a solution.

11. Though this initiative willl enable the officers to communicate better with the communities, it will not do good for the department,as it will give rise to alienation of officers on the basis of ethnicity, making the situation more complicated.