Deck 15: Community Policing: Tying It All Together

Question 1

Local policing became the focus of national attention through the President's Commission on Crime and Administration of Justice in the middle:

A) 1980s
B) 1960s
C) 1970s
D) 1950s

Answer 1

B

Question 2

Compared to traditional patrol officers, officers assigned as community policing specialists engage in community policing activities at:

A) higher rates
B) the same rates
C) rates that vary by agency
D) lower rates

Answer 2

A

Question 3

The professional model of policing is based on an assumption that police can control crime and improvements in personnel and organization will lead to better crime control.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

A widely accepted concept that provides a way of understanding things is known as a:

A) theory
B) fashion
C) model
D) principle

Question 5

Community policing creates greater independence for police officers, leading to concerns about:

A) discretion
B) officer training
C) discrimination
D) all of the above

Question 6

Community policing requires changes in both organizational structure and managerial style.

Question 7

Comparing community police officers to traditional patrol officers, Mastrofski and his colleagues found community police officers based arrests primarily on:

A) suspect characteristics
B) victim characteristics
C) legal factors
D) community norms

Question 8

The philosophical dimension of community policing refers to:

A) central ideas
B) officer behaviors
C) means of accomplishing goals
D) all of the above

Question 9

Cordner classifies the tactics and behaviors of officers and agencies under the strategic dimension of community policing.

Question 10

Community- policing strategy includes focus on:

A) geography
B) prevention
C) substance
D) all of the above

Question 11

Neighborhood watch programs compete with community policing efforts.

Question 12

An increased role of the police in general quality- of- life issues in the community is justified by the:

A) citizen fear of crime
B) crime prevention goal
C) neighborhood watch
D) none of the above

Question 13

The idea of professional policing was shaken by:

A) the Kansas City Preventive Patrol Experiment
B) the "due process" revolution"
C) the RAND study of investigation
D) all of the above

Question 14

Perhaps the most direct forerunner to community policing was:

A) foot patrol studies
B) problem- oriented policing
C) team policing
D) none of the above

Question 15

Community policing in theory requires the community to agree on what are problems and what is appropriate behavior, so it is most likely in communities with:

A) low vertical articulation
B) high levels of heterogeneity
C) high horizontal articulation
D) none of the above

Question 16

Maguire's study of large municipal police organizations revealed that community policing produced:

A) both major change and increased arrests
B) little change in organizations
C) major changes in organization
D) increases in arrest rates

Question 17

Community policing is easier in communities where residents agree on what problems are most important.

Question 18

In a recent survey of municipal police, community policing was reported as adopted by:

A) about one- half
B) about one- quarter
C) over three- quarters
D) none of the above

Question 19

Community members may be reluctant to join with the police to achieve community policing as a result of:

A) fear of crime/retaliation
B) lack of commitment to the community
C) distrust of the police
D) all of the above

Question 20

The current dominant model in American policing is:

A) community policing
B) professional policing
C) reactive policing
D) problem- oriented policing

Question 21

At base, community policing requires empowering the police officer.

Question 22

The current movement in American policing seems to be a shift from the problem- oriented to the community- policing model.

Question 23

Foot patrol studies revealed citizens most wanted the police to do law enforcement.

Question 24

Community policing in the United States today is characterized as much by its variety as its consistency.

Question 25

The community policing movement is an outgrowth of police problems in the late 1960s.

Question 26

Community policing is likely in communities with higher levels of vertical articulation.

Question 27

Community policing is now well- defined and clearly understood by both the police and the community.

Question 28

The emergence of crime prevention as a police goal supported the development of community policing.

Question 29

Most observers contend that adoption of community policing will require little fundamental organizational change.

Question 30

By the late 1970s there was growing agreement that police should be concerned about citizen fear of crime.