Case Studies with Questions and Answers
4. Use of Technology
Technology Scenario:
Your computer skills have enabled you to be placed at an internship site your fellow interns would die for. There is a great chance you will be hired to a full-time paid position at the end of the internship. As a “computer whiz,” you are asked to create a department website, provide links to other criminal justice websites, and create profiles of the department members highlighting their volunteer and community-minded work and making it easier for citizens to contact them. Your Field Supervisor hands you all employees’ e-mail account information to be utilized when creating this site. Completing this assignment will put you ahead of all the other applicants when it comes time to hire a full-time employee. During the process of creating a website, you find that a department website already exists. You go to the site and find it is full of negative, hate-filled and racist derogatory comments about women, people of color, and fellow officers. It even bashes the town mayor and ridicules the Police Chief. A group who identifies themselves as “THE REAL COPS” (TRC) is identified as the creator of this website. During the course of creating officer profiles for the site, you uncover a connection. You find a social website that is tied to a high-ranking officer in the command staff. In this profile he lists membership in TRC. You also know this command staff member is responsible for hiring new employees.