Cox, Steven M.; Marchionna, Susan; Fitch, Brian D., W. (2016). Introduction to policing (Third ed.). SAGE Publications. ISBN: 9781506340166 [Hardcover] Review chapter 12, Policing in a Diverse Society. Your task is to investigate the demographic breakdown of your local community and the demographic breakdown of your local police force. Start with the Community Fact Finder from the U.S. Government to begin your community search: http://factfinder2.census.gov/faces/nav/jsf/pages/index.xhtml You will be creating an infographic of the data. What is an infographic? You can see an example here: http://www.policebrutality.info/content/uploads/2011/04/police-brutality-infographic.jpg After you complete your infographic, address the following question, “In your opinion, does the police demographics help or hinder its effectiveness in serving the community?” Provide a rationale for your response with ideas from the course textbook. The preferred infographic software for this activity is Piktochart (http://piktochart.com), but you can use similar graphing software. For help on creating your infographic, consult the Piktochart users guide.. Once completed, save your Piktochart infographic as an image to REPLACE INTO a word processing program to complete your discussion of the question.
