Becoming a professional police officer Flashcards
____is a personal values system.
Respect
Officers should represent their_______ and not _____
department
personal feelings
By allowing our contacts to save ______ face we reduce the likelihood
of attack.
personal
The community expects its peace officers to be _________ and
service oriented.
visible
________ learning, trust, and _______ are all
benefits of earning/gaining the respect of the community.
continuous
community support
______ is a human trait resulting from our tendency and need to classify individuals
into categories in order for us to quickly make decisions.
bias
List the five fundamental concepts of Human Bias:
a. Bias is a normal human attribute.
b. Biases are often unconscious or implicit.
c. Implicit biases are sometimes incompatible with our conscious, pre-judged
attitudes.
d. Implicit biases can influence our actions.
e. Understanding how implicit bias can affect our behavior is the first step to
“override” it.
________ is the tendency all people have to “fill in” information we do not
know when we meet new people.
Ambiguous stimuli
_________ is unconscious and based on our need to “fill-in” information about
people we do not know using stereotypes;
while _________ are conscious
decisions based on prejudice.
Implicit bias
explicit biases
List three key areas of law enforcement that are affected when officers fail to
maintain fairness and impartiality due to biases.
a. Effectiveness
b. Public & Officer Safety
c. Public Trust
List nine characteristics on which people are commonly stereotyped or treated
differently.
a. race
b. ethnicity
c. nationality
d. Income
e. English Language Abilities
f. Gender / Sexual Orientation
g. Age
h. Religion
i. Profession
The _______ refers to “thinking without thinking” or making snap
judgements based on biases. It is not reliable because it is not based on
objective thinking.
Blink Response
Supported that race-crime bias applied to other minority groups, not just
African Americans.
Turban Effect
Supported that most people have an implicit bias causing them to link African
American faces and crime and a failure to link Caucasian faces with crime.
Visual Perception Study
People are more likely to label actions performed by African Americans as
more aggressive than the same actions performed by Caucasians.
Shove Study
Participants were slower to perceive armed Caucasians as a threat than
African Americans and participants were more likely to perceive African
Americans as a threat when no actual threat (a weapon) existed.
Threat Assessment and Race
(Correll’s Speed / Error Test)
According to research presented during this course, implicit bias can have what
two effects on officer safety and effectiveness?
Over-Vigilance - where officers may perceive a threat when none exists
creating the possibility that someone who is not a threat could be injured or killed.
Under-Vigilance - where officers may place themselves in danger by failing to
perceive or react to a real threat.
__________ refers to the tendency to link minorities, specifically,
African Americans, with crime.
Black Threat Association
___________ is the ability of everyone in the department to work well
with individuals from a variety of backgrounds, races, ethnicities, cultures,
religions, etc.
Cultural Competency
Human bias is______, _______, &________
normal, unconscious, & implicit.
Bias based policing in the _________ can largely impact not only the way the
community feels about the officer but also how well that officer can perform
his/her duties to assure the community is safe.
community
With regards to the ______, if officers are consciously or implicitly using biases in
the community, the effects of these officers’ actions can backlash on the agency,
simply meaning the community views all officers within that agency use biases to
perform their duties while out working or even in an off duty capacity.
agency
When community members _____ & ______ the police, they help the police by
giving them information that is useful for investigations, victims report crime and cooperate with the police and the courts, they are more likely to obey the laws,
and they are more likely to believe you when you testify in court and they sit on
the jury.
trust and respect
Your daily interaction with community members can influence whether the
community supports the police department, even through difficult and
controversial times. Your actions determine whether the community sees police
as ______________ One aspect of this is ensuring that your actions are fair
and impartial.
legitimate authority.
