Improving Policing deck one Flashcards

A Problem-Oriented Approach

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According to Herman Goldstein, improving policing, improvements in staffing, organization, and management remain important, but they should be achieved and may in fact, be more achievable within the context of a more direct concern with___________?

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the outcome of policing

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According to Herman Goldstein, improving policing, all bureaucracies risk becoming so preoccupied with running their organizations and getting so involved in their methods of operation that they lose sight of the ___________? __________? for which they were created.

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Primary, purposes

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According to Herman Goldstein, improving policing, one of the most popular new developments in police is the use of officers as?

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decoys in high crime area’s

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According to Herman Goldstein, improving policing, the recent study in Kansas City found that the effect of response time on the capacity of the police to deal with crime was negligible primarily because?

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delays in citizens reporting crime make the minutes saved by police insignificant

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According to Herman Goldstein, improving policing, this article summarizes the nature of ?

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The means over ends syndrome in policing.

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According to Herman Goldstein, improving policing, the emphasis on internal management was so strong that professional policing was defined primarily as?

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the application of modern management concepts to running of a police department

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According to Herman Goldstein, improving policing, in the late 1960’s what lead to several national assessments of the state of policing?

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Increased crime, civil rights demonstrations and political protest

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According to Herman Goldstein, improving policing, recently completed research questions the value of two major aspects of police operation _________? _________?

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1, preventive patrol

2.invetigations conducted by detectives

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According to Herman Goldstein, improving policing, administrators initiating change will be under increasing pressure to demonstrate what?

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to demonstrate in advance that the results of their efforts will make the struggle worthwhile

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According to Herman Goldstein, improving policing, to address the substantive problem of the police requires developing a commitment to a more?

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systematic process for inquiring into these problems

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