Exam 15: Community Policing: Tying It All Together

The current dominant model in American policing is:

Community policing in theory requires the community to agree on what are problems and what is appropriate behavior, so it is most likely in communities with:

The professional model of policing is based on an assumption that police can control crime and improvements in personnel and organization will lead to better crime control.

Community policing requires changes in both organizational structure and managerial style.

Comparing community police officers to traditional patrol officers, Mastrofski and his colleagues found community police officers based arrests primarily on:

An increased role of the police in general quality- of- life issues in the community is justified by the:

Perhaps the most direct forerunner to community policing was:

The community policing movement is an outgrowth of police problems in the late 1960s.

Community- policing strategy includes focus on:

In a recent survey of municipal police, community policing was reported as adopted by:

Compared to traditional patrol officers, officers assigned as community policing specialists engage in community policing activities at:

Community policing is now well- defined and clearly understood by both the police and the community.

Foot patrol studies revealed citizens most wanted the police to do law enforcement.

The philosophical dimension of community policing refers to:

Community policing in the United States today is characterized as much by its variety as its consistency.

Community members may be reluctant to join with the police to achieve community policing as a result of:

Maguire's study of large municipal police organizations revealed that community policing produced:

At base, community policing requires empowering the police officer.

The emergence of crime prevention as a police goal supported the development of community policing.

Community policing creates greater independence for police officers, leading to concerns about: