CRJ 630 Week 3 Discussion 1

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Week 3 - Discussion 1

Prior to beginning work on this discussion, read Chapters 4 and 5 in the textbook.

The ideas of quality assurance and control can often appear quite clear and salient with respect to corporations and private businesses. However, rarely does one hear direct conversation about these concepts concerning the functions of law enforcement and corrections. It almost seems like a misnomer to hear of “quality assurance and control” when discussing aspects of a law enforcement or correctional organization. Despite the fact that it might appear on the surface as though issues of quality assurance and control are absent from law enforcement and corrections, the opposite is actually true.

Law enforcement and correctional agencies spend a great deal of time and money devising innovative plans to offer a better product to the general public. Programs such as community policing and problem-oriented policing are but two mechanisms through which law enforcement leaders have attempted to increase quality in their organizations. Within correctional organizations, programs aimed at mental health treatment, work programs, and educational offerings have been created in an effort to provide a better quality product.

Based on your required readings, examine how the concepts of quality assurance and control are addressed in a law enforcement or correctional organization of your choice. In your post, identify your chosen organization. Explain the issues pertaining to budgetary considerations and how those affect communication, ethics, and coordination. Analyze how the respective organization's leaders ensured that their agency provided a quality product to the general public. In addition, provide an example of how a law enforcement agency or correctional organization failed to provide a quality product. Describe what the agency did, or failed to do, to ensure quality control and assurance.

Your initial post should be at least 400 words in length.

Guided Response: Review several of your classmates’ posts, and respond to at least two of your peers by 11:59 p.m. on Day 7 of the week. You are encouraged to post your required replies earlier in the week to promote more meaningful and interactive discourse in this discussion. Continue to monitor the discussion forum until 5:00 p.m. (Mountain Time) on Day 7 of the week, and respond with robust dialogue to anyone who replies to your initial post.

Consider your classmate’s analysis of how leadership ensured a quality product to the general public. Recommend at least one additional element not already considered in your classmate’s post and describe how this element might have positively or negatively impacted leadership’s ability to ensure quality. Analyze your classmate’s example of failure on the part of law enforcement or corrections to provide a quality product. Explain whether or not the agency had the power, in the given situation, to effectively affect the output quality. Your response posts to your colleagues should enhance and advance the discussion of the issues, ideas, and questions that were raised in the initial posts.