Proposal Summary:
What I am proposing is a modification to an organization that would help police officers deal with trauma, Depression, and Anxiety.
Audience:
My Target Audience is obviously police officers, but other responders like: Fireman, State patrol, and EMT’s.
Rationale:
Why should my proposal be accepted? My modification has the potential to help officers with their reactions and actions in hostile situations. My Modifications include: A simple morals test that cast test their biases or implicit biases. Furthermore, If the test comes back positive or negative will depend on their training for hostile situations.
Outline:
What I am proposing is a Modification for ICAP’s own organization and their own system. My modification has the potential to help officers with their reactions and actions in hostile situations. My Modifications include: A simple morals test that cast test their biases or implicit biases. This test would include a written test consisting of many questions that had to do with mental stability and racial bias. ICAP already has the mental stability but no biases test. Next and final part of the test would be to measure implicit bias. With a fake gun either laser, airsoft, or paintball a series of targets ranging from any race and with any type of weapon or non-lethal weapons.
This test should help them see their biases as even if we don’t think we have but we may do. Afterwards they can train to lower this bias if the organization think it is an issue. This test has actually been proven to work in some states like North Carolina.
My other part of this proposal is the mental health part of Police and how that affects their decision making. I want to help them to better all of society as I strongly believe that mental health and perception of officers are a large portion of why they do what they sometimes shouldn’t do.
Reflection:
What I am proposing is a modification to an organization that would help police officers deal with trauma, Depression, and Anxiety.
Audience:
My Target Audience is obviously police officers, but other responders like: Fireman, State patrol, and EMT’s.
Rationale:
Why should my proposal be accepted? My modification has the potential to help officers with their reactions and actions in hostile situations. My Modifications include: A simple morals test that cast test their biases or implicit biases. Furthermore, If the test comes back positive or negative will depend on their training for hostile situations.
Outline:
What I am proposing is a Modification for ICAP’s own organization and their own system. My modification has the potential to help officers with their reactions and actions in hostile situations. My Modifications include: A simple morals test that cast test their biases or implicit biases. This test would include a written test consisting of many questions that had to do with mental stability and racial bias. ICAP already has the mental stability but no biases test. Next and final part of the test would be to measure implicit bias. With a fake gun either laser, airsoft, or paintball a series of targets ranging from any race and with any type of weapon or non-lethal weapons.
This test should help them see their biases as even if we don’t think we have but we may do. Afterwards they can train to lower this bias if the organization think it is an issue. This test has actually been proven to work in some states like North Carolina.
My other part of this proposal is the mental health part of Police and how that affects their decision making. I want to help them to better all of society as I strongly believe that mental health and perception of officers are a large portion of why they do what they sometimes shouldn’t do.
Reflection:
- To what extent did I choose an issue that I genuinely care about?
- I very much care about police brutality of what is seeming said about it the whole political pieces really intrigue me and keep me to search and want more
- How does my proposal align with my own strengths, interests, especially in light of what I’m thinking about doing for my action project for Senior Project?
- It aligns very forward with my ideas and beliefs or at least I strongly think it does. It aligns with a part of my senior project because it can give me more information to work with for my book and paper.
- What did I learn from this process that will help me with my senior project?
- Research skills?
- I did not learn any new research skills
- Ways of being effective in making an impact?
- Again nothing really new here because I’ve already developed these skills from past projects here at Animas
- What was the most valuable/informative/interesting part of this assignment?
- Probably some of the reports regulations and such that are or are not in place for the officers.
- What is one thing I could have done to improve this project the most?
- The only thing I can think of off the top of my head is just doing more making it a bigger project.