Week 4 Assignment 2

Grading for this assignment will be based on answer quality, logic/organization of the paper, and language and writing skills, using the following rubric.

Points: 200	Assignment 1: Foundations of the Development and Functions of Police, Draft
Criteria	Unacceptable Below 60% F	Meets Minimum Expectations 60-69% D	Fair 70-79% C	Proficient 80-89% B	Exemplary 90-100% A
1. Compare and contrast the major characteristics of the political and reform eras of policing. Weight: 20%	Did not submit or incompletely compared and contrasted the major characteristics of the political and reform eras of policing.	Insufficiently compared and contrasted the major characteristics of the political and reform eras of policing.	Partially compared and contrasted the major characteristics of the political and reform eras of policing.	Satisfactorily compared and contrasted the major characteristics of the political and reform eras of policing.	Thoroughly compared and contrasted the major characteristics of the political and reform eras of policing.
2. Identify the skills and knowledge that are imparted to police trainees during their academy training and explain the importance of these skills in relation to real world applications. Weight: 15%	Did not submit or incompletely Identified the skills and knowledge that are imparted to police trainees during their academy training and did not submit or incompletely explained the importance of these skills in relation to real world applications.	Insufficiently Identified the skills and knowledge that are imparted to police trainees during their academy training and insufficiently explained the importance of these skills in relation to real world applications.	Partially Identified the skills and knowledge that are imparted to police trainees during their academy training and partially explained the importance of these skills in relation to real world applications.	Satisfactorily Identified the skills and knowledge that are imparted to police trainees during their academy training and satisfactorily explained the importance of these skills in relation to real world applications.	Thoroughly Identified the skills and knowledge that are imparted to police trainees during their academy training and thoroughly explained the importance of these skills in relation to real world applications.
3. Provide your own definition of community-policing and explain the difference between community policing and traditional policing. Weight: 15%	Did not submit or incompletely provided your own definition of community-policing and did not submit or incompletely explained the difference between community policing and traditional policing.	Insufficiently provided your own definition of community-policing and insufficiently explained the difference between community policing and traditional policing.	Partially provided your own definition of community-policing and partially explained the difference between community policing and traditional policing.	Satisfactorily provided your own definition of community-policing and satisfactorily explained the difference between community policing and traditional policing.	Thoroughly provided your own definition of community-policing and thoroughly explained the difference between community policing and traditional policing.
4. Critically examine the important elements of implementation and evaluation phases of community policing and problem solving. Weight: 20%	Did not submit or incompletely examined critically the important elements of implementation and evaluation phases of community policing and problem solving.	Insufficiently examined critically the important elements of implementation and evaluation phases of community policing and problem solving.	Partially examined critically the important elements of implementation and evaluation phases of community policing and problem solving.	Satisfactorily examined critically the important elements of implementation and evaluation phases of community policing and problem solving.	Thoroughly examined critically the important elements of implementation and evaluation phases of community policing and problem solving.
5. Determine the top five (5) qualities that detectives and undercover officers need to possess (one [1] being the most important). Provide a rationale for your response.. Weight: 15%	Did not submit or incompletely determined the top five (5) qualities that detectives and undercover officers need to possess (one [1] being the most important). Did not submit or incompletely provided a rationale for your response.	Insufficiently incompletely determined the top five (5) qualities that detectives and undercover officers need to possess (one [1] being the most important). Insufficiently provided a rationale for your response.	Partially determined the top five (5) qualities that detectives and undercover officers need to possess (one [1] being the most important). Partially provided a rationale for your response.	Satisfactorily determined the top five (5) qualities that detectives and undercover officers need to possess (one [1] being the most important). Satisfactorily provided a rationale for your response.	Thoroughly determined the top five (5) qualities that detectives and undercover officers need to possess (one [1] being the most important). Thoroughly provided a rationale for your response.
6. 4 references Weight: 5%	No references provided	Does not meet the required number of references; all references poor quality choices.	Does not meet the required number of references; some references poor quality choices.	Meets number of required references; all references high quality choices.	Exceeds number of required references; all references high quality choices.
7. Clarity, writing mechanics, and formatting requirements Weight: 10%	More than 8 errors present	7-8 errors present	5-6 errors present	3-4 errors present	0-2 errors present