That softer way involves community-oriented, preventive policing. Beattie is a model outcome of this integrated, applied FSU response to current trends in criminal justice. Like all FSU criminal justice graduates, he had already completed the 540 training-hours required for certification by the Michigan Law Enforcement Officers Training Council. It puts authority figures back into the neighborhoods. The current theory in law enforcement education is problem-solving policing.
Officers head crime off long before it occurs.
With the increasing education of police officers, there's more sensitivity to dealing with society's problems. Criminal justice is a mixture of professional and applied and social science disciplines. It's different from any other degree option on campus. A variety of forces have combined to bring about the huge demand for educated criminal justice professionals versed in application of proactive social law enforcement at the community level. Although crime rates are generally falling in the U.S., mandatory sentencing guidelines brought about by the war on illegal drugs have produced the highest incarceration rate in the western world.