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Ch.4 Notes Flashcards

1
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What are the four basic purposes of policing a democratic societies?

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  • Enforce the laws
  • apprehend criminal offenders
  • prevent crime
  • preserve peace
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Establishment going and 1285 to aid constables in their law enforcement effort

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Watch and ward system

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What did the invention of gin do?

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

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

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

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What were the three main problems with early policing?

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  • Low pay
  • disrespect
  • effectiveness
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What were three major innovations in early policing?

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  • Patrol car
  • two way radio
  • telephone
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What were the three levels of police?

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  • Local
  • state
  • federal
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8
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And for state laws exclusively highway patrol is primary activity

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State police

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9
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Everything someone will call police department for

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Release management

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

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Line operations and staff operations

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Field or supervisory activities directly related to daily police work

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Line operations

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12
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Include support roles such as administration

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Staff operations

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13
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Order of authority within the department

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Chain of command

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14
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What are characteristics of good police work?

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Attentiveness 
reliability 
responsiveness
competence 
manners 
fairness
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Process of discovering collecting preparing identifying and presenting evidence determine what happened and who was responsible

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Criminal investigation

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

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Crime prevention

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Focuses police resources on geographic area showing significant criminal activity

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Hotspot policing

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

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Predictive policing

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

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Quality-of-life offenses

20
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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

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Broken windows

21
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Municipal departments rural sheriffs department and specialized group such as campus police in transit police

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Local agencies

22
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Law-enforcement officer who is trained and empowered to perform full police duties such as making arrests conducting investigations and carrying firearms

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Sworn officers

23
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A city or town based law enforcement agency

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Municipal Police Department

24
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What are the three styles of policing

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Watchmen
legalistic
service

25
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Elected public officials whose agencies are responsible for law-enforcement throughout the countries in which they function

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Sheriff

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

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Private protective services

27
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Dedicated to increasing the effectiveness of productivity and security professionals

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American society for industrial security (ASIS)

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

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Interpol (International criminal police organization)

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

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Europol (European police office)

30
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Illegal immigration in which an agent is paid to help a person cross the border

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Human smuggling

31
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Exploitation of unwilling or unwitting people three force coercion threat or deception

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Trafficking in persons (TIP)

32
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Number of police personnel or the number of units supervised by a particular officer

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Span of control

33
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Concerned with achieving a goal “order maintenance”

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Watchmen style of policing

34
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Policing enforce the letter of the law

- departments may take hands off approach disruptive or problematic behavior that does not violate the criminal law

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Legalistic style of policing

35
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Strives to meet the needs of the community and servicemembers the police even sells more as helpers that the soldiers in the war crime

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Service style policing

36
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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

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Police community relations (PCR)

37
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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

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Team policing

38
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What are the three generic kinds of corporate strategies guide American policing

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Strategic
problem solving
community policing

39
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Emphasizes and increased capacity to deal with crimes that are not well controlled by traditional methods

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Strategic policing

40
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Many crimes are caused by existing social conditions in the communities

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Problem-solving policing

41
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Describe his partnership between police and community so that they can work together on solving problems of crime and disorder

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Community policing

42
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To funnel federal funding to state or local law-enforcement agencies

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Law-enforcement assistance administration (LEAA)

43
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Natural outgrowth of the alley LEAA’S insistence that every funded program contain a plan for its evaluation

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Scientific police management

44
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What experiment focused on the practice of preventative control

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The Kansas City experiment

45
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Police management strategy designed to increase the productivity of patrol officers through the scientific analysis and evaluation of patrol techniques

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Directed patrol

46
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These of the best available research on the outcomes of police work to implement guidelines and evaluate agencies units and officers

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Evidence-based policing

47
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Opportunity of law-enforcement officers to exercise choice in their daily activities

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Police discretion

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