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In the criminal justice field, competent communication is important to ensure that target audience understands all aspects of the message trying to be put out and to build secure relationships with society. Competent communication is a two-way street between professionals and locals. In order for the two-way street to operate efficiently, the writers of reports and news headlines must write in a way that influences the locals to communicate back to them. According to White et al. (2016), "effective communication aims to get people to think, feel, and act in a specific way after they receive your message" (para. 6). In other words, communication is deemed effective when it evokes an emotional response from the targeted audience. Receiving responses from people can prove to be beneficial if there is a situation where professionals in the criminal justice field need information from locals about a case. Moreover, competent/effective communication in criminal justice isn't just a document that presents facts leading to a dead end. In order to warrant a response from locals, criminal justice professionals may need to stray away from their typical writing style. In Focus on Written Communication: Professional Writing, Reynolds (2020) writes, "writers must adjust their style, sentence structure, and word choice to the situation at hand" (para. 2). In her article, Reynolds (2020) outlines criminal justice writing as being effective when the writer doesn't try to write as if their in English class. Instead, writers should ensure that their writing is informal and direct with a clearly stated purpose. Overall, competent communication in criminal justice is the key to establishing good reciprocity between locals and professionals, while shaping those professionals into effective writers.

In my personal life, I've had numerous times where competent communication was not used. Most recently, I lost friends due to incompetent communication. In March, I made a social media post of one of my close friends stating how much I missed her and one of friends took offense to the post. The friend that was offended decided to leave the group chat we had without stating why. We were confused, so the friend I posted texted our friend to figure out what what was wrong and how we could solve whatever it was. She did state that she felt negatively about the post and she didn't want to be friends with either of us anymore. I tried to talk to her separately to explain that I didn't mean to offend her, but her mind was already made up. As of today, we still haven't talked to one another and we're not going to repair the friendship. The communication for this situation was far from competent because not only did the friendship end, but we weren't able to agree to disagree. Although we still may have ended the friendship, this situation could have been handled better if she had to spoken to me about how the post offended her and given me the opportunity to apologize. "My dear brothers and sisters, take not of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry" (James 1:19).

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  Why is competent communication important in the criminal justice field?

        Competent communication is important in this field for numerous reasons. One and the biggest one thus far is to gain trust, and trust is the pathway to positive relationships. Now when i mention this, it has to do with integrity. You wouldn't want to create a false report just to make yourself look better and them look worse. You want to be as truthful and as honest as you may or may not be ONLY to create more and lasting relationships among your peers and the community. Let's use an example. So say an officer was responding to a domestic violence call, but in all reality it was just a loud conversation. No physical abuse of any kind. When you get done with the interviews of both parties and are going to write your report of the incident, you decide to put that he laid hands on her or even raped her. Now you have just created false reports, which will also ruin said individuals life for no reason also with no physical evidence or proof of said incidents. So now you're in court and the tables have turned against you. You are now the one who is being targeted by the community and the family of this individual because you falsified evidence. 

      When you are using effective and competent communication, you are using the most knowledgeble and trusting communication. You want to make sure that everything that happened is documented exactly how it happened and with every detail to make sure the criminal gets the right amount of punishment for his crimes. That is when justice gets served and the victims can feel safe and trust the system to protect them from future issues and future crimes. 

  Personal experience with competent  communication not used.?

      My personal experience when effective communication was not used was the entire time i was serving in the U.S Military. The communication lacked so bad that when it would come to us having to go anywhere or have a certain time to be somewhere, nobody would be there or even be on time or in the right locations. Our chain of command was so bad at communicating to lower leadership so we could lower it to our soldiers that when it came to the serious stuff we as a unit was never called upon to help. We have five phases of training during our reserve training. during phase five, we are on deployment status. Our unit never really got the chance to get deployed only because of the communication lacking skills. 

   When it came to our specific training. Our leadership was supposed to be telling us where to go and what time to be there, they woudn't when it came to training they would tell us what training we needed but never gave us the exact information we needed to execute the training. Then we would get in trouble.   

    So in all this research, when it comes to effective communication. We can see that it is well needed. Without it we can't really get anything done nor can we really communicate effectively to provide exact details to what happened or what we need done.