Exam 8: Policing: Issues and Challenges

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When a person’s race is used as the sole or predominate factor in determining criminal intent or culpability
Racial profiling
Potential responsibility for payment of damages or other court-ordered enforcement as a result of a ruling in a lawsuit. Civil liability is not the same as criminal liability, which means “open to punishment for a crime.”
Clarifying the relationship between cultural awareness and police professionalism
The application of an amount and/or frequency of force greater than that required to compel compliance from a willing or unwilling subject
Developing interpersonal relations skills
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When a person’s race is used as the sole or predominate factor in determining criminal intent or culpability
Racial profiling
Potential responsibility for payment of damages or other court-ordered enforcement as a result of a ruling in a lawsuit. Civil liability is not the same as criminal liability, which means “open to punishment for a crime.”
Clarifying the relationship between cultural awareness and police professionalism
The application of an amount and/or frequency of force greater than that required to compel compliance from a willing or unwilling subject
Developing interpersonal relations skills
Training can often be enhanced through the use of carefully chosen and well-qualified guest speakers or participants from minority communities.
Recognizing personal prejudices
The branch of a police organization tasked with investigating charges of wrongdoing involving members of the department
Knapp commission
The use of physical restraint by a police officer when dealing with a member of the public
Internal affairs
The more professional a police officer is, the more sophisticated he or she is in responding to people of all backgrounds and the more successful he or she is in cross cultural contact.
Police use of force
Officers are asked to recognize and identify their own personal prejudices and biases. Once prejudices have been identified, trainers strive to show how they can affect daily behavior.
Excessive force
A committee that investigated police corruption in New York City in the early 1970s
Civil liability
To help officers develop the positive verbal and nonverbal communications skills necessary for successful interaction with community members
Acquiring sensitivity to police–community relations
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The second leading cause of police officer deaths in 2012 were caused by ______________.

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Racial profiling is a controversial subject that brings out strong feelings among different groups of people.Comment on your view of racial profiling and why you feel that way.Use examples and facts to support your answer.Analyze the US Department of Justice's 2011 critical report of the New Orleans Police Department's enforcement of the law and how it fits into your profiling opinions.

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________ Liability is the potential responsibility for payment of damages or other court-ordered enforcement as a result of a ruling in a lawsuit.

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A federal lawsuit directed specifically at federal officials or enforcement agents is known as a:

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In 2003,the U.S.Department of Justice banned its practice of racial profiling in all federal law enforcement agencies except for:

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We have found that stress is a natural component of police work and some stressors in police work are particularly destructive.List and define three areas of stress that affect police officers and explain how these stressors impact the officers' lives.

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The U.S.Supreme Court case Tennessee v.Garner involved civil suits against police departments and not individual police officers.

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Law enforcement supervisors are:

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In the 1989 case of ________the U.S.Supreme Court ruled that a "failure to train" can become the basis for legal liability on the part of a municipality where the "failure to train amounts to deliberate indifference to the rights of persons with whom the police come in contact."

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Which of the following is the least common source of lawsuits brought against the police?

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