Deck 3: Effectiveness of Police in Reducing Crime and the Role of Crime Analysis

Question 1

Which is NOT an example of a long term level of activity?

A)Problem location
B)Repeat incident
C)Problem victim
D)Problem property

Answer 1

B

Question 2

A set of related crime activities that occur over several months, seasons, or years.

A)Incident
B)Pattern
C)Problem
D)Call for service

Answer 2

C

Question 3

Which type of policing uses analysis of up-to-date computerized crime, arrest, and "quality of life" data is used to produce statistics and maps in strategy meetings to hold managers accountable?

A)Community policing
B)Broken windows policing
C)Hotspots policing
D)Compstat
E)Problem-oriented policing

Answer 3

D

Question 4

Which type of policing asserts that police must work with the community and draw from other resources outside police to prevent and solve crime problems?

A)Community policing
B)Broken windows policing
C)Hotspots policing
D)Compstat
E)Problem-oriented policing

Question 5

In which type of policing does crime analysis merely assist with patrol scheduling and deployment?

A)Standard model of policing
B)Community policing
C)Broken windows policing
D)Hotspots policing
E)Compstat

Question 6

Which of the following are NOT elements of the standard model of policing:

A)Increasing the number of police officers
B)Directed motorized patrol
C)Rapid response to calls for service
D)Follow-up investigations by detectives

Question 7

In which type of policing does crime analysis assist with determining the areas and times where enforcement of disorder activity would be best applied?

A)Standard model of policing
B)Community policing
C)Broken windows policing
D)Hotspots policing
E)Compstat

Question 8

In which type of policing is crime analysis integral in the presentation of regularized statistics that are used to evaluate police managers' responses to problems in their areas?

A)Standard model of policing
B)Community policing
C)Broken windows policing
D)Hotspots policing
E)Compstat

Question 9

Which type of policing asserts that strict enforcement of disorderly behavior and minor offenses will prevent more serious crimes from happening?

A)Community policing
B)Broken windows policing
C)Hotspots policing
D)Compstat
E)Problem-oriented policing

Question 10

A homicide is an example of a

A)Repeat incident
B)Serious incident
C)Incident
D)Pattern

Question 11

In which type of policing does crime analysis assist with providing information to and obtaining information from the community?

A)Standard model of policing
B)Community policing
C)Broken windows policing
D)Hotspots policing
E)Compstat

Question 12

Which is a category within immediate problems?

A)Patterns
B)Repeat incidents
C)Problem victims
D)Incidents

Question 13

Research on the effectiveness of police has found that which type of policing has shown the most promise for reducing and preventing crime?

A)Community policing
B)Broken windows policing
C)Hotspots policing
D)Compstat
E)Problem-oriented policing

Question 14

Which type of policing asserts that a more systematic approach is necessary in which police collect new data, develop new methods of analysis, identify innovative solutions, and apply measures for assessing the success of their efforts?

A)Community policing
B)Broken windows policing
C)Hotspots policing
D)Compstat
E)Problem-oriented policing

Question 15

Which are individual events that arise from calls for service and are deemed more serious by laws and policies of the police department?

A)Immediate Incidents
B)Serious incidents
C)Repeat incidents
D)Patterns

Question 16

Which is a category within short-term problems?

A)Repeat incidents
B)Serious incidents
C)Incidents
D)Problem locations

Question 17

Drug activity on a particular corner occurring over the last five years is an example of a:

A)Incident
B)Pattern
C)Problem
D)Call for service

Question 18

Which is a category within long-term problems?

A)Repeat incidents
B)Serious incidents
C)Patterns
D)Problem locations

Question 19

Which type of policing is the strategy in which police systematically identify areas within a city that have disproportionate amounts of crime and employ responses in those specific areas?

A)Community policing
B)Broken windows policing
C)Hotspots policing
D)Compstat
E)Problem-oriented policing

Question 20

In which type of policing does crime analysis, particularly crime mapping, help to determine the geographic areas police would direct traditional responses?

A)Standard model of policing
B)Community policing
C)Broken windows policing
D)Hotspots policing
E)Compstat

Question 21

Ten auto thefts from the movie theater parking lot over the last two weeks is an example of a:

A)Repeat incident
B)Pattern
C)Hot spot
D)Compound problem

Question 22

Repeat incidents and patterns are short-term levels of activity.

Question 23

Crime analysis is most integral in broken windows policing.

Question 24

Which can be individual people or groups of victims who share characteristics?

A)Problem victims
B)Problem groups
C)Compound problem
D)Problem offenders

Question 25

Crime analysis plays a role in every type of policing.

Question 26

Problem-oriented policing has not shown to prevent or reduce crime.

Question 27

Which are groups of two or more crimes reported to or discovered by police that is treated as one unit of analysis because they share one or more key commonalities which make them notable and distinct?

A)Repeat incidents
B)Patterns
C)Problem locations
D)Problem offenders

Question 28

Which is the type of long term activity that encompasses various locations, offenders, and victims and in most cases exists throughout an entire jurisdiction?

A)Problem target
B)Compound problem
C)Problem location
D)Hot spot

Question 29

A bar with repeated disturbances on the last three Fridays in a row is an example of a:

A)Repeat incident location
B)Pattern location
C)Hot spot location
D)Problem location

Question 30

The research on community policing is clear that is has no effect on reducing or preventing crime.

Question 31

A large retail store that has had a disproportionate number of shoplifting incidents over the last several years is an example of:

A)Problem target
B)Problem location
C)Hot spot
D)Compound problem

Question 32

Which can be an individual address or a type of place at which there is a concentration of crime or problematic activity over several years?

A)Problem target
B)Problem location
C)Hot spot
D)Compound problem

Question 33

Which are two or more incidents that are similar in nature and have happened at the same place typically) or by the same person?

A)Repeat incidents
B)Patterns
C)Problem locations
D)Problem offenders