Chapter 5

Question 1

What does community policing need to change?

Answer 1

Require a change in:
1. Management style
2. Mission and vision statement
3. Departmental organization and community mobilization efforts
4. The agency’s strategic plan and strategies to implement
5. Hiring and promoting practices
6. Training

Question 2

What do police unions fight back on?

Answer 2

Permanent shifts

Question 3

Compare and contrast team policing and community policing.

Answer 3

-Both have a NEIGHBORHOOD FOCUS, decentralized decision making, community input, and a new police role.
- community policing rejects the crime-attack model in favor of an emphasis on order maintenance and quality-of-life problems
- team policing is the problem associated with unclear definition goals.

Question 4

What does hiring and promoting empower?

Answer 4

Strong recruiting

Question 5

Which of these are not a strategy development?

Answer 5

Proficient with a firearm

Question 6

A management style in which each individual has a voice in decisions, but top management still has the ultimate decision-making authority.

Answer 6

Participatory leadership

Question 7

An operating principle that encourages flattening of the organization and places decision-making authority and autonomy at the level where information is plentiful, usually at the level of patrol officer.

Answer 7

Decentralization

Question 8

What comes with empowerment?

Answer 8

Retention

Question 9

What does implementing community policing takes?

Answer 9

1. Vision statement
2. Mission statement
3. Needs assessment
4. Planning to pull it off.

Question 10

Long-term, large scale, futuristic planning.

Answer 10

Strategic planning