P.O.P Deck 2

Question 1

True or False : The P.O.P approach calls for the police to take less responsibility in attempting to deal with problems rather than resign themselves to living with them.

Answer 1

False : The POP approach calls for the police to take greater initiative in attempting to deal with problems rather than resign themselves to livening with them.

Question 2

All bureaucracies risk becoming so preoccupied with running their ____________, and getting so involved in their methods of operating that they so lose sight of the primary purposes for which they were created,

Answer 2

Organizations

Question 3

It is sufficient, for our purposes here, simply to acknowledge that the police job requires that whey deal with a wide range of ______________, that arise in a community that the end product of policing consists of dealing with these problems.

Answer 3

Behavioral and social

Question 4

Hoe does a police agency make the shift to problem-oriented policing? ideally, the initiative with come from ________________?

Answer 4

Police Administrators

Question 5

Merely ___________________, responsibilities for the problem, without some assurance that more adequate provisions have been made for dealing with it, achieves nothing.

Answer 5

Shifting

Question 6

The most significant efforts to use a problem orientation for improving police responses was embodied in the crime-specific concept initiated in what state?

Answer 6

California

Question 7

A substantial percentage of all police business involves dealing with persons suffering from mental illness. In the most acute cases, where the individual may cause immediate harm to himself or others, the police are usually authorized to initiate an _______________.

Answer 7

emergency commitment

Question 8

What is probably among the most common problem brought by the public to the police.

Answer 8

Noise complaints

Question 9

Police in many jurisdictions, in a commendable effort to employ alternatives to the criminal justice system, have arranged to make referrals _____________________.

Answer 9

To various social, health, and legal agencies

Question 10

True or False : a fully developed process for systematically addressing the problems that make up business would call for more than the three steps just explored defining the problem, researching it, and exploring alternative.

Answer 10

True

Question 11

Focusing on problems, because it is practical and concrete approach, is attractive to both________, and the police.

Answer 11

Citizens

Question 12

The greatest potential for improvement in the handling of some problem is in providing police officers with new forms of _____________,

Answer 12

Specialized training