Routledge Police and YOUth (Routledge Series on Practical and Evidence-Based Policing)

This book brings the knowledge gained from the Teen And Police Service Academy (TAPS), which has been implemented internationally to create partnerships with at-risk teens and police, proactively addressing some of the most pressing conditions in their communities. Readers will learn about the nuances of both youth culture and police culture and will better understand the conflict stemming from race and social class. Straightforward solutions stemming from the President’s Task Force on 21st Century Policing are demonstrated to provide useful strategies for communities struggling with police–youth relations. This book is especially germane to Texas schools and law enforcement, which are to comply with Community Safety Education Act of Texas. It mandates instruction for all peace officers, high school seniors, those applying for their driver’s license and those required to take corrective driver instruction. Police and YOUth is ideal as a primer for students, instructors, police officers, and citizens who stand to benefit from improving police–youth relations. It provides the tools needed to educate all parties and ultimately improve relations between police and the communities they serve. Review The police profession’s commitment to Community Policing has motivated me and other Police professionals to get out of our police stations and police cars and get into the community. Over 30 years I have spent endless hours meeting with business leaders, religious leaders, community activists and civic leaders with the hope of preventing crime and addressing neighborhood issues that impact their quality of life. However, after seeing a number of police officers from my department indicted and disciple for mishandling young men that they came in contact with, I realized that there was a need to give the youth in my community a voice. This realization led to the development of the Teen and Police Services Academy (TAPS) so that the teens and the police could have an opportunity to learn from each other. Therefore, I was not surprised when I saw the angry Black Lives Matter protesters’ demanding better police service, voice and transparency because during our many TAPS sessions over the years we have heard horrific police interaction stories from our youth that would explain why they feel, disrespected, frustrated and angry. As the co-founder of (TAPS) I encourage you to read Police and YOUth because involving youth in all of our Community Policing efforts will better prepare us for policing in the 21st Century. Additionally, this Police and YOUth will also give you the reader a greater insight into the world of policing as well as issues faced by our youth so that we can develop additional strategies and training like TAPS Academy that will lead to safer and better police and youth interactions. Brian Lumpkin Assistant Police Chief (retired) Houston Police Department Perhaps no time in history has the general public been more concerned about the behavior of police and the relationship between police and the African American community. The culmination of decades of movements to end police brutality and violence in African American communities and to achieve justice for the unjustified shootings of unarmed African American males and females occurred in the Summer of 2020. The publication Police and YOUth comes at a time when the nation is being faced with the necessity of rethinking policing in the United States. Penn and Davenport provide a foundation for addressing the issue of Police and Community. For the first time in our history, people and policymakers are acknowledging how law enforcement has ignored the crimes occurring against the LGBT community, the murders of transgender people and how the police have historically harassed and tormented members of the LGBT community. The numbers of Whites participating in demonstrations connected to the Black Lives Matter Movement is now outnumbering the A