Chat with AIExam 5: The Police: Role and Function
About 17 percent of people have at least one contact with police a year, and most of those contacts are to report problems or ask for assistance.
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Which of the following is a commonly cited source of ineffective investigation?
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Discuss the major problems of community policing strategies. Based on the current system, is there one current problem you think could be harder to overcome than the others?
(33) VerifiedSome of the major problems with community policing include the following:
1. Defining community-police administrators must be able to define the concept of community as an ecological area defined by common norms, shared values, and interpersonal bonds.
2. Defining roles-police administrators must establish the exact role of community police agents.
3. Changing supervisor attitudes-some supervisors are wary because it supports a decentralized command structure.
4. Reorienting police values-police with a traditional crime-control orientation are less satisfied with community policing efforts than those who are public-service oriented.
5. Revise training-training must reflect a community organizer role.
6. Reorient recruitment-midlevel managers must be recruited and trained to be receptive to and able to implement community-change strategies.
Student answers will vary on the one problem that is harder to overcome than the others, but it should be noted that the text discussed restructuring police departments and traditional attitudes toward policing as one of the major reasons why it has been particularly difficult to make this change.
A(n) ____________________ is an operation designed to encourage and observe criminal behavior so the officers can make an arrest.
(30) A forensic specialist is asked to come study footprints left at the scene of a crime. This analyst would need to be an expert in:
(33) Summarize the broken windows policing approach and why it is thought to be effective. Describe how this approach could help a community.
(27) Which of the following is not a fundamental assumption of the broken windows model?
(34) Jurisdictions that encourage patrol officers to aggressively arrest and detain suspicious persons practice _______ policing.
(36) Most promotions in policing have ____________________ requirements.
(34) Which of the following is not a challenge of community-oriented policing?
(42) Why and how are media representations of policing different from reality? What kinds of issues do patrol officers tend to deal with instead?
(46) ____________________ is another term for the order maintenance function of police.
(34) Which of the following is not one of the major purposes of police patrol?
(35) What are some aspects of proactive patrol and directed patrol that make them effective methods of patrol? Give a specific example of one of these types of patrol in practice and explain why it might be effective.
(29) College degrees may have little direct impact on the promotion potential of a police officer.
(42) __________ patrol concentrates police resources in areas where certain crimes are a significant problem.
(31) Discuss the reasons why investigations are often ineffective. What steps can be taken to improve investigations?
(32) ____________________ are groups of police officers who enforce morality-based laws such as those against prostitution.
(46) Most investigations use _______ as the source of information rather than witnesses and informants.
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