POLS 4900 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Reform War
5 May 2018
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Entire communities will shut themselves away from the police allowing crime to
perpetrate with no real means of contacting the police for the greater fear of detention and
eventual deportation. Legislators with political interests are supporting legislation that
contradicts the current Presidential administration and these same decisions will bring
ramifications from the state level down to the local level thus adversely impacting the
effectiveness of police work. While the issue is distant from the local level, the local police
jurisdictions are the stakeholders because they are the physical representation of the laws the
suits at the state and national level are enacting state by state.
It is in the best interest of the local police jurisdictions to take a stance against allocating
true resources into the issue of immigration, illegal and otherwise. While the police may in turn
as an effect of the new laws arrest more bodies, there will continue to be crimes: burglary, rape,
murder, assault, and robbery that will go unchecked in the face of a declining illegal immigrant
population. This raises a serious question. Where are the priorities of the police? From the
building of the first police precinct, to the evolution of the police into the national, yet local
institution of order, the police must realize its fundamental and truest responsibility and carry it
out rather than serve as a tool for the political machines that carry legislation down to the
unwilling constituency. Local police must collectively take action in maintaining what is truly
the work of law enforcement. Ironically, police and law enforcement have grown to have
connotations, which are mostly negative, in the mind of the general public. The pattern of
distrust and distance between the public and the police will continue and widen to create a reality
where the police can not effectively carry out its goals if they not only enforce the enacted
immigration reform laws, but all unjust laws.
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Document Summary
Entire communities will shut themselves away from the police allowing crime to perpetrate with no real means of contacting the police for the greater fear of detention and eventual deportation. Legislators with political interests are supporting legislation that contradicts the current presidential administration and these same decisions will bring ramifications from the state level down to the local level thus adversely impacting the effectiveness of police work. While the issue is distant from the local level, the local police jurisdictions are the stakeholders because they are the physical representation of the laws the suits at the state and national level are enacting state by state. It is in the best interest of the local police jurisdictions to take a stance against allocating true resources into the issue of immigration, illegal and otherwise. Local police must collectively take action in maintaining what is truly the work of law enforcement.
