Police Operations

Question 1

critics of policing not meeting society’s needs

Answer 1

Amanda Todd, Rehtaeh Parsons, Anonymous, Creep Catchers, Indigenous Women

Question 2

police: role

Answer 2

rights and responsibilities, expectations and role conflicts, often expected to occupy conflicting roles.
Muir and Wilson

Question 3

patrol function

Answer 3

the backbone of policing
Sir Robert Peel, 1829

Question 4

patrol function: purpose

Answer 4

deter crime
maintain public order
provide 24hr service

Question 5

patrol function: directed

Answer 5

officer’s time spent in specific locations
“hot spots” - only a slight decrease on crime
- Flint Neighbourhood Foot Patrol Program reduced slightly but generated more confidence in police
- similar findings in Newark, Toronto, and Edmonton

Question 6

1972-3 Kansas City Preventative Patrol Experiment

Answer 6

3 types of patrol: reactive, proactive, and control
(these types did not affect anything)
why?? patrols were spread out, many crimes can’t even be prevented from police, some criminals are not affected by patrols (displacement

Question 7

reactive vs proactive policing

Answer 7

• incident driven (reactive): occurs when police react to citizen’s calls for help
• proactive policing: police crack down on street drug trade, prostitution, or staking out crime scenes

Question 8

criminal investigation function

Answer 8

obtaining info to recreate the circumstances of a crime
include preliminary investigation and follow-up
8/10 arrests made by patrol officers rather than detectives

Question 9

broken-windows model

Answer 9

Kelling and Wilson 1982 - the police need community to fight crime

Question 10

problem-oriented policing

Answer 10

direct resources are causes of crime, Kansas City Gun Project 1992-3, etc.

Question 11

community policing

Answer 11

building stronger communities than police themselves, including decentralized mini-stations, community partnerships, and embraces issues of disorder, decay, and fear of crime

Question 12

zero-tolerance

Answer 12

ORDER MAINTENANCE
“crime attack” model and suppression
concentration on specific

Question 13

TYPES OF POLICING CHART: DIMENSIONS

Answer 13

policing focus
police culture
organization and command
measurement of success

Question 14

TYPES OF POLICING CHART: TRADITIONAL

Answer 14

enforcement
inward, community-rejecting
centralized
arrest and crime rate

Question 15

TYPES OF POLICING CHART: COMMUNITY

Answer 15

community building
outward, building partnerships
decentralized
crime calls, fear reduction, community links, etc

Question 16

TYPES OF POLICING CHART: PROBLEM-ORIENTED

Answer 16

law, order, fear problems
mixed analysis focus
decentralized with local command
problems solved, displaced, minimized

Question 17

TYPES OF POLICING CHART: ZERO TOLERANCE

Answer 17

order problems
inward, “attack on crime”
centralized/decentralized with INTERNAL focus
arrests, field stops, activity, location specific reductions

Question 18

intelligence-led policing

Answer 18

used in today’s “risky society” by using computer programs to identify high-crime places and recidivists.
PREDICTIVE
global scope