Please respond to each discussion post with 200 words EACH… 1 Scholarly reference EACH and a Christian worldview that relates to the topic in the initial thread and your replies to classmates also the Bible scripture.

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• How can a leader positively effect a law enforcement organization?
• How can a leader negatively effect a law enforcement organization?
• 1) A good leader can positively affect their law enforcement organization by advancing team members, keeping them happy and motivated to do their jobs, and the performance results will be at its highest. A good leader can help the retention of team members saving the organization money, preventing them of having to train new members and spending money on resources to rebuild. Retaining long term members and keeping them happy provides valuable work experience kept on the department, allowing new members to be trained by experienced team members. Like a ripple affect of good positive, energy. A good leader wants to develop team members to be better than themselves, so that one day they can replace themselves and do the same for others. Good leaders portray a great deal of patience and willingness to train others, allow mistakes to be made, and encouragement to learn from the mistakes (Schumaker, 2016). A truly good leader wants to plan, goals oriented, and wants to give credit when the credit is due to his/her team member. A bad leader can negatively affect their law enforcement organization by being all about themselves, giving directions to their team members when they knowingly can do the task themselves, unmotivated, less happy, unproductive, and drive their team members to seek other employment costing the organization money and time. Stress increases under bad leadership, which in turn create mistakes, decrease in productivity, and increase on errors making it unsafe for everyone. Under bad leadership in the context of first responders, employees will feel a sense of guilt, sleeplessness, loss of memory, nervousness, demoralized, associated with their work (Giblin, 2020). Bad leaders would not take the blame for any mistakes and will delegate the mistakes on their team members. Bad leadership drive away team members inspiring fear with their authority, but the good leader cares for the flock, wanting the best for the team, so they can advance and be productive members (English Standard Version, 1958/2008, Jeremiah 23:1-4). In Proverbs 29:2, “when the righteous increase, the people rejoice, but when the wicked rule, the people groan” (English Standard Version, 1958/2008, Proverbs 29:2, the perfect example of good leader versus bad leader. A good leader sets the example for others, providing guidance, and respect for their members. Good leadership qualities delegate with the intentions to empower and give members self-worth, caring, a teacher, with ethical and moral values. A leader should always have guidance from the Lord (English Standard Version, 1958/2008, Psalm 25:4).ReferencesBibleGateway. (n.d.). Retrieved from BibleGateway: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=psalm…BibleGateway. (n.d.). Retrieved from BibleGateway: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=prove…Giblin, M. J. (2020). Chapter 8: Stress and Burnout. Retrieved from SAGE Books: http://sk.sagepub.com.ezproxy.liberty.edu/books/le…Schumaker, D. (2016, December). Leadership and Its Impact on Organizations. Retrieved from ProQuest: https://search-proquest-com.ezproxy.liberty.edu/do…
  2) Leaders are incredibly influential to any organization. Leaders can have a positive effect on an agency as well as have a negative effect. Successful organizations often employ influential, intelligent leaders. In law enforcement, this concept is essential. Having an ineffective leader will likely degrade the organization and decrease effectiveness (Pearce & Manz, 2005) Leaders can positively affect an organization in many ways. This is done by increasing morale, efficiency, productivity, care, and concern for the work produced. For example, if an officer is motivated, they may be excited about their shift and produce more traffic stops. Traffic stops are directly related to crime control and therefore make the agency more effective (National et al., 2018). Additionally, employees who believe in their supervisors have been shown to produce better products such as arrest reports, investigations, and crime prevention (Workman-Stark, 2017). Consequently, agencies that employ ineffective leaders will likely have the opposite effect of an effective leader. As employees are not confident in their leadership, they tend to lose motivation. With a loss of motivation comes a loss in productivity. With a loss of productivity in law enforcement, the crime control model will turn into a reactive police force (National et al., 2018). Reactive policing is believed to be ineffective in most communities and departments. As such, this will likely lead to increased crime and an ineffective police department (National et al., 2018). For example, if an incompetent leader demands a certain level of performance from the patrol officers, the officers generally will not have the internal motivation to produce quality performance. Likely the officers will try to do less so that they do not have to interact with the supervisor (Pearce, 2005). The field of law enforcement is so dynamic and ever-changing that it requires leadership. Without leadership, agencies will fail or, at a minimum, become ineffective. Officers need to be influenced and motivated by receiving purpose and direction (Pearce, 2005). Without this, the quality of police services that an agency provides to the public will suffer. In turn, the community will suffer. Undoubtedly leaders can make or break an agency (National et al., 2018).The Bible says in 1 Timothy 3:1-5, “The saying is trustworthy: If anyone aspires to the office of overseer, he desires a noble task. Therefore, an overseer must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, sober-minded, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach, not a drunkard, not violent but gentle, not quarrelsome, and not a lover of money” (King James Bible, 1769/2017). ReferencesKing James Bible. (1769/2017). King James Bible Online.https://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/ (Original work published 1769)National, A. O. S. E. A., Division, O. B. A. S. S., Committee, O. L. A. J., & Committee, O. P. P. E. O. (2018). Proactive policing : Effects on crime and communities. ProQuest Ebook Central https://ebookcentral-proquest-com.ezproxy.liberty.eduPearce, C. L., & Manz, C. C. (2005). The new silver bullets of leadership: The importance of self-and shared leadership in knowledge work. Organizational Dynamics, 34(2), 130.Workman-Stark, A. L. (2017). Inclusive policing from the inside out. Cham: Springer International Publishing.