Exam 6: The Police Image and Policing the Image

From this vantage, crime is viewed as an ideological construct that protects the powerful and further marginalizes the powerless.

The readers/viewers of popular ______ have the highest levels of fear of crime may simply reflect their actual risk of victimization.

Studies have shown that deploying more police officers and street patrols is likely to significantly reduce crime.

Readers of tabloid newspapers may be of ______

Dragnet served as a key public relations tool, if not propaganda arm for the Los Angeles Police Department during some of its most controversial years.

______ males had cause to be especially fearful of interactions with police.

Despite making up only 2% of the U.S. population, ______ between the ages of 15 and 34 accounted for more than 15% of all those killed by police.

The Obama administration committed approximately ______ million dollars to equip police with body-worn cameras and to study their effectiveness.

The police press release is a powerful tool for communicating the service's preferred message.

When forced to choose between employing more police and making broader structural reforms, ______ of the respondents believed that attacking social and economic inequalities associated with crime and increased funding for education and job training programs to be the best approach to the many problems of crime (Gallup, 2010).

Prior to the advent of the internet, police agencies communicated with the public in what has been characterized as a bottom-up fashion.

As much as ______ of the American public accessing news through social media.

Support for broad social and economic approaches to crime control increase among select demographics with 72% of those with some post-graduate education.

Fear of crime shares a causal relationship police force size and strength.

The strange case of the ______ crime program Canal Livre provides a particularly outrageous example of how violent crime and hence the fear of crime is packaged as newsworthy commodity.

The police image is how police are viewed in particular cultural and historical contexts.

Discuss the relationship between the picture of crime and social media according to Box (1983). Do you agree with Box's (1983) argument regarding the picture of crime and social media?

As of 2016, U.S. Customs and Border Protection asks visitors to the United States to voluntarily provide _______.

Media coverage of crime and deviance is rarely grounded in fact.

"Thin Blue Line" holds that police are all that stands between the law-abiding public and wholesale violence and anarchy.