Exam 13: Planning, Programming, and Budgeting

Crime mapping is:

__________ planning is the specifying of unit work assignments.

A critical part of budget __________ is ensuring that expenditures do not exceed budget allocations.

Programming translates planning into "action-oriented" strategies.

The administrative philosophy used to develop the budget varies across agencies and is linked to the philosophy of the government.

What term describes resources previously committed to a program that make it impossible for the department to enact changes in current procedures or operational policy?

The final phase of the budgeting process is:

What do administrators do to reduce uncertainty about the future by predicting environmental conditions?

Planning occurs at every level of the police agency.

A choice among possible courses of action is a __________.

CompStat is the enhancement of police intelligence-gathering capability.

Factors that affect decision making include:

Planning revolves around two concerns: concern for the system and risk.Concern for the system includes which key ingredients?

Once the strategies are evaluated and data relative to the performance of each strategy are developed, the manager, in consultation with departmental staff, will select the strategy to be implemented.

__________-led policing is the enhancement of police intelligence-gathering capability.

Operational planning is the specifying of unit work assignments.

Forecasting allows a department to narrow its range of priorities.

__________ is the systematic study of crime and disorder problems as well as other police-related issues.

__________ are the resources previously committed to a program.

Which of the following is NOT a basic function of budgets?