Gone are the days of Andy Griffin and Barney Fife’s version of policing! This version was where officers of the law didn’t carry guns or carried guns but the bullets were in their shirt pocket. Those were the times when crime was low or almost nonexistent, when people didn’t have to lock their homes or vehicles, drugs were not a factor, and when the only crimes that occurred were physically done to individuals in person. However, currently this is not the case and the police must be responsible for protecting and serving the citizens from many dangers that now exist. Due to the transition of the world, society has returned to the western days, when almost everyone carried a gun and used it at the blink of an eye if necessary. Drug usage and the desperation to possess these drugs have people unsafe due to the high rate of crimes that this causes. Also, crimes are no longer categorized as something physically done to, around, and near someone but now they can be committed by using internet and telephones. Therefore in the future police will have to protect society from cybercrimes, drugs, and law enforcement officers with post-traumatic stress, as well as provide the community with the option of policing their own neighborhoods.
Cybercrimes will make up a huge part…
Cyber Citizens Partnership’s website identified the following as their 3 categories: using the computer to help an individual commit a crime, focusing on the computer as the victim, and using a computer to harm or steal. However, the Cross Domain Solutions stated people, property and government as their 3 categories of Cybercrimes. Some cybercrimes police must be prepared to deal with in the future are theft/identity theft, hacking, fraud/financial crimes, harassment/stalking, trafficking (human & drugs), child soliciting/abuse, and cyberterrorism. Below show how the different types are divided up into the 3…