Exam 17: Current Trends and Future Issues in Policing

The hallmark of the American police is variety.

A major obstacle to pressures toward greater uniformity in American policing is the movement toward:

If successful, the community policing movement may produce variation in police practice even within jurisdictions.

Most collective bargaining in the public sector is guided by statutes that identify issues, which can be negotiated called:

Lawsuits against the police filed in federal courts raise questions about federalism.

Some contend law enforcement accreditation seeks to standardize police organizations and behavior.

Policing on the street represents an interaction of community, organizational, and individual correlates of policing.

The first police agency in the United States to receive the status of accredited was:

Behavior that is careless or insufficiently careful is:

The greatest changes in policing in America that have been the result of technological advances have been those in the area of weapons.

The standards for law enforcement accreditation require that police departments:

Court decisions holding police agencies liable for failure to arrest and other negligence have occurred in:

Police unions have generally served as a force for change in policing.

A likely future for policing in America involves:

In community policing the purpose of patrol is less to respond to calls for aid than to prevent the need for such calls.

We seek to understand the police in hopes of directing or changing the practice of policing.

One effect of disorganized community is greater police dependence on community expectations.

The community policing movement promises to:

Police unions tend to focus on "bread- and- butter" interests of their membership such as:

The war on drugs in recent years has led to: