The benefit and disadvantage for National and State Police
At the end of last class, we have talked about the police system in United States.
In lecture instructer told us there are some countries which only has national police and some countries has State police at each state which operate independently.
I understand when the country is decentlized, there are many benefits, but I don't know the benefts for police to be decentlized. It sounds to me worse, because it seems police are hard to coorporate with each other, less communication and hard to manage at multi-states incident.
I want to know the advantages of State and local police compare to have branch of national police in local. Does anybody have any idea?
4 Comments:
I think that it benefits to have state and local police in large countries with many residents such as the United States. With the sheer size and population, there is a need for immeditate action in some cases. If there were no local or state police, there may be huge delays in emergency response.
In a country with great diversity and needs, local and state police can better act in accordance with thier city, town, or state's best interest. Every region has specific needs and services that the police provide.
For example, a national police force that has programs and policies that reflect the needs of a big city (gangs, street violence, ect.), may not reflect the best policies for a country community.
I would just be afraid that if a police force were to be privatized, all of the sudden there would be a police force cartel banding together the different police "companies" and charging sky-high prices for its customers. Not to mention corruption seems much easier- not that it's difficult without decentralization/privatization.
Maybe in United States, such a decentralized country, we need decentralized police too.
I just wondering there are many countries which only have national plice.
Casey mentioned about police privatization. Usually community services operate more efficiently after privatized like many countries in Latin America. Will it apply to police as well?
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