Chapter 14 Flashcards
What depends on police supervisors who lead their lives and manage their relationships around values and ethics?
Trust
Community-oriented policing services
Problem-oriented policing
Mission
Community-oriented policing services
What do police supervisors who lead their lives and manage their relationships around values and ethics do?
They see and believe in a mission that is devoted to serving and helping their customers
They exercise self-discipline and are not afraid of hard work
They know how and where to allocate their time
All of the above
All of the above
What depends on police leaders who can convert COPS into operational reality?
The community
The officers
Problem-oriented policing
The goals of a vision/mission statement
Problem-oriented policing
What is the action and performance of COPS?
Problem-oriented policing
An operational reality
Community participation
All of the above
Problem-oriented policing
_____ gives us a destination, while _____ provides a path to get there.
POP / COPS
COPS / POP
Leaders / COPS
Community / POP
COPS / POP
What are the basic elements of COPS and POP?
Officer’s knowledgeable of the community values of the area they serve
Citizen participation
Police officer - citizen communication
All of the above
All of the above
What was the purpose of federally funded police-community relations models that sprang up throughout the country?
Encourage communication, promote mutual support, and bring police officers closer to the community
Promote communication with the community, encourage mutual support, and allow officers to work with the community
Experience success through community relations while making the police agencies stronger from within
By providing positive examples of community relations, allow the agencies to communicate better with the citizens, and to build team cohesiveness
Encourage communication, promote mutual support, and bring police officers closer to the community
What was burdened by a lack of documented successes and failures?
Community-oriented policing programs
Problem-oriented policing programs
Early team-policing programs
All of the above
Early team-policing programs
Agencies with team policing were not aware that the elements of team policing would prove to be incompatible with what other elements?
COPS and POP
Preventive patrol and rapid response to calls for service
Quality and quantity of calls being handled
Federally funded team-policing programs
Preventive patrol and rapid response to calls for service
Who instituted a program in the early 1970s and was considered to be the showcase of federally funded team-policing programs?
Holyoke Police Department
Pennsylvania State Police Department
UCLA and Duke Universities
Karl Wallenda
Holyoke Police Department
What did the team, in 1970, focus on?
Human relations and language
Traditional cultures of those residing in certain wards
Routine police function
All of the above
All of the above
Why is there a greater need today for COPS?
Immigration
Police and citizens do not share common beliefs
The well-being is not understood to be driven by mutual
respect
All of the above
All of the above
and….
“burgeoning immigration of different races and cultures, clustering together in crowded, often sub-standard housing areas, where the police and citizens do not share common beliefs, know or trust one another, or even speak a common language, and where it is not understood that the well-being of each one is driven by mutual respect and engagement from the other.”
What tactics does crime fighting rely on?
Performance measurements and technology
Patrol and rapid response to calls for service
Follow-up investigation of crimes
All of the above
All of the above
How was the police focus on serious crime sharpened?
Developing forensic technology
Screening calls for service
Targeting patrol
All of the above
All of the above
Why have the crime fighting tactics been bashed within and outside policing?
For not decreasing the crime statistics
For being proactive rather than reactive
For being reactive rather than proactive
For lack of participation
For being reactive rather than proactive
Which is a merit of reactive tactics?
They do not develop the sorts of relationships with citizens that could bias their responses to crime incidents
Covert surveillance
The use of criminal informants
All of the above
They do not develop the sorts of relationships with citizens that could bias their responses to crime incidents
What has been created as a proactive tactic to deal with crimes in drug dealing, organized crime, and large-scale crowd disobedience?
Police keep their distance from the community and thereby retain their impartiality
Specialized units that rely on informants
Responding quickly to calls for service
All of the above
Specialized units that rely on informants
What do specialized units rely on?
Informants
Covert surveillance
Undercover investigations
All of the above
All of the above
What was created in the area of juvenile offenses?
Athletic leagues and they formed partnerships with schools to deal with drug abuse, gang activity, and truancy
Specialized units focusing on juveniles
Law enforcement within the school districts
All of the above
Athletic leagues and they formed partnerships with schools to deal with drug abuse, gang activity, and truancy
How is improved crime control achieved?
By being more proactive
By having more community involvement
By building self defense capabilities within the community itself
By going where crimes have occurred and when citizens have summoned them
By building self defense capabilities within the community itself
and…
“-diagnosing and focusing on problems in the specific community that produces specific crimes
-implementing real-time, anticipatory COMPSTAT technology.”
What would enable the police to leverage the resources of citizen groups and other public agencies to control crime?
Utilizing existing tactics
If the police increase the quantity and quality of their contact with citizens
By showing a more rapid response to calls for service
The crime rate statistics show a drop in the crime rate
If the police increase the quantity and quality of their contact with citizens
If officers are taken from patrol and detective units to do problem-oriented or community-oriented policing, when will response times shorten?
When the problem-solving efforts decrease the demands for service by removing the problem that is producing the calls for service
Response times will not shorten, they will increase
When they are able to remove what is causing the problem in the community
When they have more resources to increase police response
When the problem-solving efforts decrease the demands for service by removing the problem that is producing the calls for service
Why are longer response times perceived as indicating a loss in crime-fighting bottom-line statistics?
The department values rapid response to crime calls
The community values rapid response to crime calls
The department and the community value rapid response to crime calls
The public and the police value rapid response to crime calls
The public and the police value rapid response to crime calls
What is COPS primarily a matter of?
Decentralization and initiative
Philosophy, leadership style, and decentralization
Philosophy, leadership style, and structure
Decentralization, leadership style, and structure
Philosophy, leadership style, and structure
What does COPS require?
Transition
Initiative
Decentralization
Structure
Decentralization
What does COPS depend on?
Initiative
Decentralization
Structure
Transition
Initiative
The emphasis of COPS is changed from the police’s enforcing laws and making arrests to what?
The protection of life and of property
Forming a proactive partnership with the community to solve problems
The transition from traditional policing to the community directing police where to focus
All of the above
Forming a proactive partnership with the community to solve problems
What are mission statements revised to reflect?
Initiative
Structure
Transition
Decentralization
Transition
What does COPS hinge on?
A need for money
A need for internal transformation and community support
A need for employees
A need for the community striving for law and order
A need for internal transformation and community support
What is the traditional view of a police department strategy?
The police department is the key defense against disorder and crime
A major source of strength for maintaining the quality of life is with community involvement
Police should partner with the community
Provide communities with sufficient information
The police department is the key defense against disorder and crime
What is the COPS strategy?
Citizens should leave control of crime and maintenance of order to police
Police are a communities front-line answer to crime and disorder
Police should move into a community aggressively
Police should partner with the community’s ability to create safe neighborhoods
Police should partner with the community’s ability to create safe neighborhoods
Who is the first line of defense in a neighborhood?
Police
Citizens
Community and police
Security systems
Citizens
What must law enforcement first provide communities with?
Feeling of security
Trust
Sufficient information
Cooperation
Sufficient information
How long does COPS require before significant results can be measured?
One to three years
Three to five years
Five to ten years
There is no time limit. It is determined by the amount of community involvement
Three to five years
Who does COPS benefit?
Community
Community and police
The department
Everyone
Community and police
How does COPS benefit the community?
Customized police service
Greater citizen support
Better internal relationships
Shared responsibility
Customized police service
and... "-a commitment to crime prevention -public scrutiny of police operations -accountability to the public -community organization"
What is almost certain to gain the citizens’ appreciation about the complexity of police operations?
Providing sufficient information
Officers being accountable to the public
When a community’s respect for police increases so does their support
Public scrutiny of police operations
Public scrutiny of police operations
With COPS, who are officers more accountable to?
Their supervisors
Each other
The public
Themselves
The public
Why will officers increase their responsiveness to neighborhood problems?
COPS strives to prevent crime and disorder
The respect and support for the police will increase
Officers are able to resolve issues within a reasonable amount of time
Police services will be localized
Police services will be localized
What has a significant bearing on the success of police efforts to evaluate neighborhood problems?
As partnerships are formed, the two groups will be better equipped to work together
The degree to which the community is involved
Whether or not the community trust the police department
If the citizens feel connected to the police
The degree to which the community is involved
How does COPS benefit police?
Greater citizen support
Customized police service
Community organization
A commitment to crime prevention
Greater citizen support
and... "-shared responsibility -greater job satisfaction -better internal relationships -support for organizational change"
What increases as people’s knowledge of police work increases?
Their respect and support for the police
The number of arrest in the neighborhood
Better internal relationships
Greater job satisfaction
Their respect and support for the police