The most accessible Spanish language guide for police officers and law enforcement officials Quick Spanish for Law Enforcement makes it easier than ever for you to acquire basic Spanish language skills. The book features more than 2,000 key words and phrases in the most easy-to-use format, along with bilingual scenarios based on situations commonly encountered during the course of your duties.

Communicate with ease with the Spanish-speaking public! Learning Spanish is vital to performing many public services, include police work and other law-enforcement professions. Police, patrollers, detectives, and corrections, parole, court, and security officers who interact with Spanish-speaking people need this specialized, easy-to-use guide to help them communicate and sometimes translate quickly and effectively—anywhere. • From expert authors with experience in Spanish language instruction for law enforcement officials. • Essential phrases—including Miranda rights—and vocabulary for patrol, investigations, emergency situations, narcotics, corrections, and more. • Easy-to-use phonetic translations. • Useful information on Latino culture and street Spanish.

Considering the long-lasting and complicated history of U.S. race and ethnic relations, the multiple array of issues currently confronting both ethnic and racial communities, and the shifting trends in the ethnic/racial landscape, this book seeks to provide a comprehensive account of the simultaneous interaction of pressing historical and contemporary forces shaping the Latino experience as well as police-minority relations to better understand the current state of policing and gain further insight into the future role of Latino police in American law enforcement across the country. Delineating the confines of policing a highly diverse and multicultural society in the twenty-first century, this book conjoins historical, theoretical, and empirical research–placing Latino policing within a broader law enforcement and community context. Major topics include the need for Latino police officers; employment of Latino officers by federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies; Chicano police officers working in the Latino community; Latino officers, policy, practice, and ethnic realities; Mexican American law enforcement; bridging the gaps, future research, and change in American institutions; policy recommendations toward a new police force; and the future of Latino officers in the American police. Additional issues highlighted include racial/ethnic profiling, police brutality, underpolicing, and overpolicing which challenge the quest for representation, equality, justice, and due process. Finally, the contributing authors demonstrate that the lack of knowledge on Latino police and the overall American police is not inevitable, and thus the book concludes with policy and research recommendations to help bridge this long-neglected void; ultimately, the creation of a new police force for the twenty-first century. The text represents a most timely and essential tool for all levels of policing, law enforcement administrators, criminal justice educators, civic managers, criminologists, sociologists, and others vested in police reform.

This worktext provides vocabulary, situations, and communicative functions essential to police officers, firefighters, court clerks, and other law enforcement personnel."Applied presentation" features realistic dialogues, personalized questions, situational role-plays, and realia-based activities that correspond grammatically with those in "Basic Spanish.""Practical, specialized vocabulary" includes terms essential for communicating in law enforcement settings, an in-text audio CD, and "Un paso mas" sections that offer additional vocabulary practice and realia-based activities."Cultural focus" highlights Hispanic customs and traditions relevant to the subject matter of the lesson, in "Notas culturales" sections."Comprehension checks" begin with comprehension questions on the dialogues in the "Digame" section that follows the vocabulary lists in the worktext, and end with pair activities in the "Hablemos" section for immediate reinforcement."Convenient Phrasebooks" provide vocabulary words and phrases found in the worktexts for quick, on-the-job reference.

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