Riverpark Shopping Center in Northeast Fresno
Ethical and Effective Leadership
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The University of San Diego’s Law Enforcement & Public Safety Leadership Program has taught me skills relevant to promoting ethical & effective law enforcement leadership. The importance of ethical and effective leadership in law enforcement has always been important, but its need is evident now more than ever. I am committed to practicing the skills I have learned on ethical and effective leadership in my agency and within my community.
My first paper, Fresno Police Department Pillar 1:Building Trust & Legitimacy, is part of a community report created at the direction of the Chief of Police. The report includes information on how the Fresno Police Department is actively creating relationships, building trust, and police legitimacy. Ethical and effective law enforcement leadership requires communication, collaboration, and a strong bond between community members and community stakeholders. The stronger the relationship between community members, community stakeholders, and law enforcement leaders, the safer the community members will feel within that community. The community report is just one of the many ways I will utilize to connect with my community as an ethical and effective law enforcement leader. In my second paper, Organizational Change: Perspective, I identify various organizational metaphors, and explain how I have utilized those metaphors throughout my career. Ethical & effective leadership requires a leader to understand and view their organization through various organizational metaphors. Each metaphor not only allows the law enforcement leader to view their agency through a different perspective. Understanding the negative and positive characteristics of each organizational metaphor, the law enforcement leader will be able to use the different metaphors to mold and transform their agency to current events happening in the community so the agency can thrive. Through the changing perspectives each metaphor brings, law enforcement leaders must understand the importance of making everyone feel like they make a difference in the organization, regardless of the role they play. Inclusion, humility, and compassion are paramount and necessary in law enforcement leaders. These skills will ensure law enforcement leaders propel their agencies into a bright future. It will also ensure they model these behaviors for others in their agency to imitate. Understanding the metaphors, and their applicability to the law enforcement profession, will allow law enforcement leaders like myself to use those metaphors to create a culture of care, compassion, and humility that will be inclusive to all regardless of race, gender, or position. In my third paper, Case Study Applications: Generational Variations and Trait Leadership, I examine the leadership of Lieutenant Richard Winters, a First Lieutenant in charge of the United States Army during World War II from an episode of the series Band of Brothers. The purpose of my examination was to identify generational variations and trait leadership. My examination showed how a great leader can take charge quickly, and make decisions to keep his men safe in dangerous situations through the use of the following leadership traits: initiative, decisiveness, dependability, and courage. Law Enforcement leaders must use leadership traits to lead their agencies and their communities during challenging and unprecedented times. |
"A good leader inspires people to have confidence in the leader, a great leader inspires people to have confidence in themselves." |
| FresnoPoliceDepartmentPillar1BuildingTrustandLegitimacy2.pdf |
| OrganizationalChangePerspective.pdf |
| CaseStudyApplicationsGenerationalVariationandTraitLeadership.pdf |