Exam 2: The Organization and Structure of American Policing

Partnerships are a cornerstone of community policing.

The order of authority in an organization in referred to as its _____________________.

A(n) ___________ is an artificial structure created to coordinate either people or groups and resources to achieve a mission or goal.

Law enforcement agencies are not facing the need for change to meet the competition of private policing because private policing in not available everywhere.

Discuss intelligence-led policing and describe the benefits and downfalls of this type of policing.

The philosophy that promotes "organization strategies, which supports the systematic use of partnership and problem solving techniques to proactively address the immediate conditions that give rise to public safety issues, such as crime, social disorder and fear of crime" is __________.

Social psychologists and police officers tend to agree that if a window in a building is broken and is left unrepaired, all the rest of the windows will soon be broken. This theory is known as the __________.

A clear statement of mission, goals, objectives and values; a division of labor among specialists; a rational organization or design; and a hierarchy of authority and responsibility are elements of __________.

When every member in an organization has only one supervisor, this is called __________.

An artificial structure created to coordinate either people or groups and resources to achieve a mission or goal is known as a(n) __________.