This is necessary to ensure that society's needs are effectively met. When police departments ignore the needs and desires of society and focus only on technologies to do their jobs, they lose sight of the most important need: serving the community. This could lead to not placing enough emphasis on reducing crime or maintaining a strong relationship with citizens. There is also a connection with police officers treating citizens in the way citizens react towards them. If citizens feel they are not being served and initiate negative treatment toward law enforcement, then law enforcement may return bad behavior. This could spiral into out-of-control animosity (U.S. Department of State,