Ch.4 Notes

Question 1

What are the four basic purposes of policing a democratic societies?

Answer 1

• Enforce the laws
• apprehend criminal offenders
• prevent crime
• preserve peace

Question 2

Establishment going and 1285 to aid constables in their law enforcement effort

Answer 2

Watch and ward system

Question 3

What did the invention of gin do?

Answer 3

The invention of gin provoked a more organized effort toward the establishment of public policing in the 17th and 18th century

Question 4

What happened when people called the “new police” came around?

Answer 4

They were not immediately popular because they were seen as an unnecessary encroachment into lives of land owners

Question 5

What were the three main problems with early policing?

Answer 5

• Low pay
• disrespect
• effectiveness

Question 6

What were three major innovations in early policing?

Answer 6

• Patrol car
• two way radio
• telephone

Question 7

What were the three levels of police?

Answer 7

• Local
• state
• federal

Question 8

And for state laws exclusively highway patrol is primary activity

Answer 8

State police

Question 9

Everything someone will call police department for

Answer 9

Release management

Question 10

What are the two categories with them please agencies that people generally fall into?

Answer 10

Line operations and staff operations

Question 11

Field or supervisory activities directly related to daily police work

Answer 11

Line operations

Question 12

Include support roles such as administration

Answer 12

Staff operations

Question 13

Order of authority within the department

Answer 13

Chain of command

Question 14

What are characteristics of good police work?

Answer 14

Attentiveness 
reliability 
responsiveness
competence 
manners 
fairness

Question 15

Process of discovering collecting preparing identifying and presenting evidence determine what happened and who was responsible

Answer 15

Criminal investigation

Question 16

Proactive approach to the problem of crime anticipation recognition an appraisal of crime rates in initiation of action to remove or reduce it

Answer 16

Crime prevention

Question 17

Focuses police resources on geographic area showing significant criminal activity

Answer 17

Hotspot policing

Question 18

Quantitive techniques are applied to crime data in an effort to identify likely targets for police intervention in an effort to prevent criminal activity

Answer 18

Predictive policing

Question 19

Minor Violations petty crimes that demoralize residents and business people by creating disorder or by reflecting social decay

Answer 19

Quality-of-life offenses

Question 20

Idea based on the notion that physical to K such as litter and abandoned buildings can breed disorder in a community and lead to crime by signaling that laws are not being enforced

Answer 20

Broken windows

Question 21

Municipal departments rural sheriffs department and specialized group such as campus police in transit police

Answer 21

Local agencies

Question 22

Law-enforcement officer who is trained and empowered to perform full police duties such as making arrests conducting investigations and carrying firearms

Answer 22

Sworn officers

Question 23

A city or town based law enforcement agency

Answer 23

Municipal Police Department

Question 24

What are the three styles of policing

Answer 24

Watchmen
legalistic
service

Question 25

Elected public officials whose agencies are responsible for law-enforcement throughout the countries in which they function

Answer 25

Sheriff

Question 26

Independent or proprietary commercial organizations that provide protective services to employers on contractual basis

Answer 26

Private protective services

Question 27

Dedicated to increasing the effectiveness of productivity and security professionals

Answer 27

American society for industrial security (ASIS)

Question 28

International law-enforcement support organization that began operations in 1946 and today has 182 member nations

Answer 28

Interpol (International criminal police organization)

Question 29

Integrated police intelligence gathering and information dissemination arm of the member nations of the European Union

Answer 29

Europol (European police office)

Question 30

Illegal immigration in which an agent is paid to help a person cross the border

Answer 30

Human smuggling

Question 31

Exploitation of unwilling or unwitting people three force coercion threat or deception

Answer 31

Trafficking in persons (TIP)

Question 32

Number of police personnel or the number of units supervised by a particular officer

Answer 32

Span of control

Question 33

Concerned with achieving a goal "order maintenance"

Answer 33

Watchmen style of policing

Question 34

Policing enforce the letter of the law | - departments may take hands off approach disruptive or problematic behavior that does not violate the criminal law

Answer 34

Legalistic style of policing

Question 35

Strives to meet the needs of the community and servicemembers the police even sells more as helpers that the soldiers in the war crime

Answer 35

Service style policing

Question 36

Area of police activity that recognizes the need for the community and the police to work together effectively and is based on the notion that the police derive their legitimacy from the community they serve

Answer 36

Police community relations (PCR)

Question 37

Officers were assigned semi-permanently to particular neighborhoods where they were expected to become the familiar with the inhabitants in with their problems and concerns

Answer 37

Team policing

Question 38

What are the three generic kinds of corporate strategies guide American policing

Answer 38

Strategic problem solving community policing

Question 39

Emphasizes and increased capacity to deal with crimes that are not well controlled by traditional methods

Answer 39

Strategic policing

Question 40

Many crimes are caused by existing social conditions in the communities

Answer 40

Problem-solving policing

Question 41

Describe his partnership between police and community so that they can work together on solving problems of crime and disorder

Answer 41

Community policing

Question 42

To funnel federal funding to state or local law-enforcement agencies

Answer 42

Law-enforcement assistance administration (LEAA)

Question 43

Natural outgrowth of the alley LEAA'S insistence that every funded program contain a plan for its evaluation

Answer 43

Scientific police management

Question 44

What experiment focused on the practice of preventative control

Answer 44

The Kansas City experiment

Question 45

Police management strategy designed to increase the productivity of patrol officers through the scientific analysis and evaluation of patrol techniques

Answer 45

Directed patrol

Question 46

These of the best available research on the outcomes of police work to implement guidelines and evaluate agencies units and officers

Answer 46

Evidence-based policing

Question 47

Opportunity of law-enforcement officers to exercise choice in their daily activities

Answer 47

Police discretion