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Test 3 ch 9-12
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is the foundation of the police department? | Police patrol operations |
| Who is the police department foremost representative to the public? | The patrol officer is the police department’s generalist and foremost representative to the public. |
| How effective is routine patrol according to the finding of the Kansas City Study? | The study failed to demonstrate that adding or taking away police patrols from an area made any difference within the community. |
| “The quality of always being there.” If the police are always there or seem to be always there, criminals cannot operate. | omnipresence |
| What was the Newark foot patrol study? | The study does not prove that foot patrols reduce crime but, rather, that foot patrols actually make citizens feel safer. |
| Assigning a large number of uniformed officers to an area to deal with a particular crime problem. | Saturation patrol: |
| A method in which the patrol force is split and half respond to calls for service and the other half performs directed patrol activities. | Split-force patrol: |
| How many traditional way do police work in the USA? (3) | Random routine patrol, Rapid response to calls by citizens to 911 , Retroactive investigation of past crimes by detectives. |
| What was the biggest gain from the Kansas City Study for policing? | The study indicated that our traditional three cornerstones of policing might not be the most effective way to do police work. has caused tremendous changes in our thinking about policing. |
| What is the most expensive part of the police budget? | Personnel and vehicles are the most expensive part of a police department’s budget. |
| Which agencies are more likely to have take-home vehicles programs? | Some cities with a central shift change have looked at and implemented take-home vehicle plans. |
| Who authored the text, Police Administration? | O.W. Wilson |
| the group that is not acted upon, nothing is changed. | control group |
| the group that receives the changed conditions. | Experimental group |
| Is a policy that abandons the traditional practice of responding to all calls for service, citizens’ calls to 911 for service are matched to the importance or severity of the calls. | In differential response responses |
| Departments suffering from financial difficulties that prevent them from hiring additional officers may benefit most | from differential response. |
| Explain what happened with the Houston high-intensity patrol. | HPD put more officers on the streets in different parts of the city during peak crime hours. The administrators do believe these patrols have led to a decrease in fear of crime and an increase in citizen satisfaction with the police. |
| Officers patrol specific locations at specific times to address a specific crime problem. | directed patrol |
| Explain why the return of foot patrol to policing in the 1980s. | In an attempt to get the police closer to the public and to avoid the problems caused by the alienation of radio car officers from the community. |
| Factors considered in determining whether or not a case should be assigned for follow-up investigation. | solvability factors |
| Identify solvability factors | Is there a witness? Is a suspect named or known? Can a suspect be identified? Will the complainant cooperate in the investigation? |
| How are detectives portrayed in movies regarding their role in the police departments? | they are depicted as detective work is glamorous, exciting, and dangerous. |
| Defined as inducing an individual to commit a crime he or she did not contemplate, for the sole purpose of instituting a criminal prosecution against the offender. | entrapment |
| Undercover police operations in which police pose as criminals to arrest law violators. | sting operations |
| Plainclothes officers’ efforts to blend into an area and attempt to catch a criminal (officers dress in civilian clothes to try to blend in) | blending |
| The use of analytical methods to obtain pertinent information on crime patterns and trends that can then be disseminated to officers on the street. | crime analysis |
| one in which an investigator assumes a different identity to obtain information or achieve another investigatory purpose | undercover investigation. |
| Operations in which officers dress as and play the role of potential victims in the hope of attracting and catching a criminal. | decoy program |
| enforcement efforts directed at known repeat offenders through surveillance or case enhancement. | ROPS (Repeat Offender Programs) |
| What is GPS used for in the Cjus? | tracks offenders without them physically followed 24 hours a day. |
| What was Abscam? | a sting conducted by FBI agents against members of congress. The agents posed as Arab Sheiks, offered bribes to congress in return for favors. (resulted in the conviction of 7 members of congress and other officials |
| Proposal recommended by the Rand Study regarding a more effective way of investigating crimes, including allowing patrol officers to follow up cases and using solvability factors in determining which cases to follow up. | ( Managing Criminal Investigations): MCI |
| The idea that detective work is glamorous, exciting, and dangerous, as it is depicted in the movies and on television. | Detective Mystique |
| What is a cold case squad? | reexamine old cases that have remained unsolved. |
| Who makes most of the arrest? | patrol officers |
| How do sting operations work? | involve using various undercover methods to apprehend thieves and recover stolen property. |
| According to the Rand Study, what percentage of the detective time was spend on activities that did not lead directly to solving previously reported crime. | 93% |
| According to the Rand Study, what percentage of detectives could be replaced without negatively influencing crime clearance rates? | 1/2 |
| police Community Relations begun | in 1955; some believe that the movement grew out of the riots and civil disorders of the 1960s. |
| sometimes referred to as T-groups, or encounter groups- is designed to provide participants an opportunity to learn more about themselves and their impact on others, as well as to learn to function more effectively in face-to-face situations. | sensitivity training. |
| What has police done in the past to improve PCR | they have made sensitivity training mandatory. |
| poses a significant challenge for law enforcement. These individuals are in the community and get involved in disturbances, assaults, suicide attempts, or other criminal actions. (involved with homelessness, drug abuse and many other things) | Problems with people who are mentally ill |
| are activities intended to create a favorable image of the department | public relations |
| refers to everything we do with, for and to each other as citizens | human relations |
| is a full scale effort to acquaint the police and the community with each other’s problems | community relations |
| generally, do people have a great deal or little respect for the police? | public support of the police remains strong as indicated in recent poll indicating that 61% answering “a great deal” and 29% answering “some.” |
| What is the significant of the USSC case, Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka? | they overturned the “separate but equal” doctrine |
| What % of the U.S. population are African American? | 13% |
| What % of the U.S. population are Hispanics? | 14.5% |
| The most popular antidrug program in which police officers teach students in schools about the dangers of drug use | DARE (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) |
| A joint partnership between the police and senior citizens to address specific problems seniors encounter with safety and quality-of-life issues | Triad |
| A program for young adults between the ages of 14 and 20 in which they work closely with law enforcement and explore the police career | police explorers |
| Crime prevention programs in which community members participate and engage in a wide range of specific crime prevention activities, as well as community oriented activities. | neighborhood watch program |
| One of the best known citizen patrol programs. Young people in distinctive red berets and T-shirts who patrol on buses, subways, and streets. Main function is to act as an intimidating force against possible criminals or potentially disruptive people | guardian angels |
| A trench-coated cartoon figure. (dog) advises readers or viewers of actions they should take when they witness criminal activity | McGruff |
| Who wrote an article that got published in the Atlantic Monthly, the article was called “Broken Windows: The Police and Neighborhood Safety” | James Q Wilson and George L Kelling. |
| Broken Window Theory (James Q Wilson and George L Kelling) | (1) disorder in neighborhoods creates fear, (2) certain neighborhoods send out “signals” that encourage crime. (3) community policing is essential . |
| James Q Wilson and George L Kelling argued that | community preservation, public safety, and order maintenance (not crime fighting) should become the primary focus of police patrol. |
| a law professor at the University of Wisconsin. He wrote and article calling for a new kind of policing | Herman Goldstein. |
| forces the police to focus on the problems that cause the incidents. His central theory is that the broad types of police roles (crime, order maintenance and service) can be further broken down | Goldsteins |
| (which strategy) looking at the underlying social problems that cause crime rather than responding to each incident | problem solving |
| active community partnerships to assist the police in solving crime problems | community |
| advanced traditional policing using innovative techniques and intelligence | strategic |
| comprises 5 policing associations in the U.S. International Association of Chiefs of Police(IACP), National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives(NOBLE), National Sheriffs Association(NSA),Police Executive Research Forum(PERF),Police Foundation | Community Policing Consortium |
| founded the National Center for Community Policing in East Lansing, Michigan, in 1983 and was the director until his death in 1994. | Robert C. Trajanowicz |
| believed that community policing can play a vital role in reducing three important kinds of violence in the community (1) individual violence (2) civil unrest (3) police brutality | Robert c. trojanowicz |
| When did the PCR movement began? | in 1982, with the seminal article in the Atlantic Monthly |
| What is SARA | Problem oriented or problem solving policing involves the process of scanning, analysis, response, and assessment |
| officers tend to respond to similar incidents at the same location numerous times-(b/c the police have traditionally focused on the incidents-rarely have the sought to determine the underlying causes of these incidents | incident-driven policing |
| Which Pres signed the 1994 Crime Bill into law | Pres Clinton |
| What are the four elements of problem solving policing | scanning, analysis, response and assessment |
| involve citizens patrolling on foot or in private cars and alerting the police to possible crimes or criminal in the area | citizen patrols |
| police didn’t always welcome this, but citizens felt safer with this | citizen patrols |
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