Criminal Justice Trends Evaluation
CJA/ 394
Vicki Jones
January 29, 2012
Jill Violanda Parr

In society today, we as the people of the society want to be able to feel safe in our community no matter where we are or what we are doing. There should not be any reasoning why we should not feel safe in our own community or our own neighborhood or even in our own homes. We should be able to get up every morning without having to look around and make sure it is safe to leave the bedroom, also we should be able to walk out our front door without having to look over our shoulders to make sure there is not anything or anyone that’s going to harm us. No matter what, in our community we should be able to feel safe from harm. In this essay I am going to evaluate the past, present and the future trends in the interface between components of the criminal justice system and criminal justice connections with surrounding society. I have always heard this phrase, “Whatever is the past is the past so let it stay in the past”. But when we are looking into the past and thinking of how society was then we can always say that we as a community felt safe. Our law enforcement back in the 1800’s was always there to protect us no matter what the situation was. Law Enforcement officers back then were a lot more respectful, they always treated everyone the same and did not so favoritism. Law enforcement officers back then also were always making sure that every neighborhood was safe. They would do their patrol of the neighborhoods on foot and go door to door to make sure that there was not anything going on in that neighborhood. They would also walk the streets, always ask the passerby how things were going and they knew then by name. The community’s always felt safe when they were out in their community and knew that the law enforcement officers cared for them and their community that