Exam 3: Traditional Policing

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In the policing crime context, the problem that policing may affect crime and that crime may also affect the number of police is called simultaneity bias.

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Spending more money to add police officers to our nation's police forces appears to have a noticeable effect on crime rates.

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The Kansas City Preventive Patrol Experiment found that the level of patrol had no effect on crimes that are suppressible by patrol.

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A significant critique of the Kansas City Experiment was that patrol cars entered reactive beats to respond to calls, which means that they basically created a police presence.

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A large portion of 911 calls to police are for non-___________.

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President Bush's Violent Crime Control Act of 1994 resulted in the hiring of some 100,000 police officers in the latter part of the 1990s.

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Some people are convinced that the ___________ sector can do better than the public sector when it comes to the provision of security and criminal justice services.

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Researchers identified which one of the following advantages of college education for police officers?

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Which is true according to a RAND study?

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How could citizens be utilized more effectively in crime control?

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Very few domestic violence incidents take place in view of the police?

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How could private security officers be utilized better for crime control?

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Private police stress ___________means over detection and apprehension to control crime and disorder.

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Private police are nongovernmental, so they are not bound by the same legal requirements as ___________police.

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President Clinton's Violent Crime Control Act resulted in the hiring of ___________police officers.

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The simple fact that there are far more people than patrol officers makes it unlikely that ___________reduces crime.

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Even if we could suddenly double the size of our nation's police force, the number of police officers per citizens would remain quite small.

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The 311 number was developed as an option to handling nonemergency calls. 21)

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___________policing tends to favor random and preventive patrol.

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___________is arguably the most significant priority to most American police agencies.

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