Exam 4: Police Organization and Operation

According to the author Jim Collins,the Level 1 leader possesses the greatest executive capabilities because this leader's ambition is directed first and foremost to the organization and its success.

Proponents of the military style of policing uphold the model's tradition because of the following:

CALEA is a non-profit organization that has developed and administers 459 mandatory standards for law enforcement agencies to meet in order to earn accreditation.

Policies are:

_____________ is a relatively new law enforcement concept that attempts to improve the quality of policing and provide a better way to attempt to combat crime.

Smart policing,which emphasizes the use of data and analytics as well as improved crime analysis,was developed against the backdrop of fiscal prosperity in the early 2000s when cities and counties had plentiful revenues to finance new crime-fighting programs.

According to the California Department of Justice,community-oriented policing and problem solving is a philosophy,management style,and organizational strategy that promotes reactive problem solving and police-community partnerships.

The quasi-military style of policing is characterized by the following:

When Plato observed that "Each thing becomes ...easier when one man,exempt from other tasks,does one thing",he was also describing the concept of division of labor.

Some observers have perceived a shift from community policing to homeland security due to all of the following reasons except:

The advantages to specialization in large police departments include all the following except:

___________ ___________is the extent to which an organization is spread geographically.

The police role is much too ambiguous to become totally standardized,but it is also much too serious and important to be left completely to the discretion of the patrol officer.

Which of the following is a law enforcement organizational element that is not spatial differentiation structure?

The acronym S.A.R.A.stands for Scanning,Analysis,Response,and _____________.

Two principal and interrelated components emerge from the COPPS model: community ________________and________ _________.With its focus on collaborative problem solving,COPPS seeks to improve the quality of policing.

One of the major changes in policing that has occurred since September 11,2001 is:

Policies are more specific than procedures in that they serve as specific guides to the organization's philosophy and mission and help in interpreting their elements to the officers.

The role of chief executives,middle managers,and first-line supervisors in police departments is to ensure that these units work independently to reach a common goal.