Law enforcement and trust

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https://academic.oup.com/policing/article-abstract/4/3/241/1467577/What-is-Trust-and-Confidence-in-the-Police
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:BEzy22L_Eq4J:https://weallhaveaheritage.wordpress.com/2015/01/09/topic-of-building-trust-and-legitimacy-police-and-youth-relations/&num=1&hl=en&gl=do&strip=1&vwsrc=0

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/white-oklahoma-officer-who-fatally-shot-unarmed-black-man-will-return-to-work/ar-BBBjndD?li=BBnbcA1
Describe the role that trust plays within a police department and how it impacts a department's effectiveness and legitimacy. Address concepts from throughout the course such as recruitment, community policing, ethics, and police discretion. Why are trust and legitimacy important to each of these concepts? Bring in outside sources to support your points and provide examples.

Trust is lacking in the public domain when it refers to militaristic tactics that have been adopted by police in urban communities. This is a result of hundreds of years of mistreatment, discrimination, murder, and demonization of minorities in general but specifically African Americans, who have been victims of not only police brutality, but systemic brutality from the criminal injustice system in America as well as the entire political apparatus responsible for creating legislation and writing laws that guide police and the criminal justice system. This is imperative to state because without understanding the systemic racism that permeates throughout the entire society and the entire system in America, that has been built upon hundreds of years of unjust and inhumane policies, it would be impossible to understand why many urban communities distrust police and the entire system that has victimized them and their ancestors as well.

Trust entails the belief by communities that police are serving the interests of the community, care about the citizens within the community, and want to collaborate with the community to protect members of the community from criminal actions. To induce this level of trust within a community, police are supposed to ensure that any actions that don't adhere to just and moral principles committed by their officers are immediately held to account to show the public that police officers are not above the law and are required to comply with the same laws that they enforce. To ensure that the public will cooperate with police agencies, these are the mandatory rules to ensure that the public will respect the police as the police are supposed to respect the public that pays their taxes to ensure that they are served and protected by the police.

Respect is virtually nonexistent by police toward urban youth, as it is legal in cities such as New York, a supposedly progressive city with "liberal" ideas, yet police have the right to stop and frisk hundreds of thousands of minority males for basically walking while Black or Brown. These types of policies along with racial profiling are a continued pattern of how policing in America has been routinely applied toward minorities who police do not extend respect toward. This lack of ...