With all of the police misconduct in recent years, there has been a push for some type of reform.
The reforms include but are not limited to defunding the police, disbanding the police, reorganization of
police departments and writing new laws that would allow for easier prosecution of police misconduct.
In this project, you will be tasked with designing a new agency that would regulate the police more
closely and establish strict guidelines for the conduct and enforcement of these guidelines. The agency can
be local or state but would be similar to such federal agencies as the Bureau of Alcohol and Tobacco or
the DEA.
For the project, you will need to write a mission statement, a review of current criminal justice policies
and procedures (which should include the reasoning for the development of the status quo policies),
problems with the current policies, revised procedures for police conduct, and new criminal
consequences in the event of a violation of the code. The whole project should be 5-8 pages long.
The project will be graded based on the rubric. It will incorporate material that the student has
learned in Modules 3, 4, 5, and 6. In general, the student will be analyzing one or various regulations or
codes in the criminal justice system and he or she will write a new policy and/or procedure baschoed on
the regulations and codes.
