Chapter 5

Question 1

Proactive policing

Answer 1

when a law enforcement agency or police attempt to prevent crimes before they occur in a given area,

Question 2

Patrol

Answer 2

Patrols assigned areas, streets, road and highways within the City; maintains surveillance to prevent or detect criminal activity and traffic violations.

Question 3

Private policing

Answer 3

law enforcement bodies that are owned and/or controlled by non-governmental entities.

Question 4

Grass eater

Answer 4

ACCEPT THE PAY-OFFS AND GRATUITIES THAT THE CIRCUMSTANCES OF POLICE WORK MAY DEVELOP.

Question 5

Meat eater

Answer 5

A SMALL PERCENTAGE OF THE FORCE, WHO AGGRESSIVELY EXPLOIT SITUATIONS FOR LARGE PAYOFFS.

Question 6

Mandatory arrest

Answer 6

require the police to refrain from asking victims if they want their abuser arrested or want to press charges.

Question 7

Rotten apples

Answer 7

is an individualistic perspective of police corruption that views police deviance as the work of isolated individuals (“rotten apples”) who evade detection during the screening and selection process.

Question 8

Zero tolerance policing

Answer 8

a policing strategy that involves relentless order maintenance and aggressive law enforcement, against even minor crimes and incivilities.

Question 9

Community policing

Answer 9

promotes organizational strategies that support the systematic use of partnerships and problem-solving techniques to proactively address the immediate conditions that give rise to public safety issues such as crime, social disorder, and fear of crime.

Question 10

Compstat

Answer 10

or computer statistics leverages technology through data to allow law enforcement to make informed decisions, make a timely analysis of crime patterns and hot spots, and gauge the effectiveness of solutions implemented through the philosophy of Community Policing.

Question 11

Reactive policing

Answer 11

when a law enforcement agency responds to the call from a citizen for service.

Question 12

Police subculture

Answer 12

the beliefs, behaviors, and values that are typically associated with those that are police officers.

Question 13

Racial profiling

Answer 13

the act of suspecting, targeting or discriminating against a person on the basis of their ethnicity, religion or nationality, rather than on individual suspicion or available evidence.

Question 14

Routine activity

Answer 14

based on the assumption that crime can be committed by anyone who has the opportunity. The theory also states that victims are given choices on whether to be victims mainly by not placing themselves in situations where a crime can be committed against them.

Question 15

Victimless prosecution

Answer 15

an illegal act that typically either directly involves only the perpetrator or occurs between consenting adults.

Question 16

Broken window theory

Answer 16

states that signs of disorder in a neighborhood, like a broken window, encourages petty crimes and leads to more serious crimes.

Question 17

Discretion

Answer 17

the ability to judge between right and wrong, which is sufficient to hold one liable for one’s own conduct.

Question 18

Intelligence-led policing

Answer 18

a model of identifying crime by utilizing information sharing and collaboration between law enforcement, communities, and other agencies.