NCJ Number
83025
Date Published
Unknown
Length
0 pages
Annotation
LEMMP's role in LEAA and LEAA's in the larger social context are addressed, as are the demands and special problems of women in law enforcement jobs.
Abstract
In assessing LEAA's objectives and goals, the speaker contends that despite expansive funding and programing, LEAA has failed to stop the increase of crime. Its programs have been mistakenly centered on police ability to apprehend criminals instead of changing the nature of law enforcement through community involvement. LEMMP represents the one LEAA undertaking that corresponds to the needs and interests of the people and seeks resources in the community for jointly addressing such issues as unemployment and the fear of crime. The crime issue should be depoliticized; community leadership should be sought through such groups as the Urban League so that law enforcement is not pursued in a vacuum. The strengths rather than the pathology of the black community should be emphasized. LEAA is to be relegislated and refunded in the immediate future, and black groups are urged to lobby now for program changes. LEMMP representatives, as recruiters of women for work in the police forces, are urged by an experienced female patrol officer to prepare their candidates for the obstacles they will certainly face in the male-dominated law enforcement field.