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| What does aggressive policing accomplish? |
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| agressive policing increases communtiy perception that police arrest many criminals and that most violators get caught. Criminals then think twice about committing a crime in a town with such active police |
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| What does a vice squad do? |
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| police officerrs assigned to enoforce morality based laws such as those on prostitution, gambling, and pornography |
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| What is a sting operation? |
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| An undercover police operation in which police pose as criminals to trap law violators |
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| What police approach is linked with the idea of shattered windows? |
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| What is community policing? |
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| A relationsip between citizens and police to make them more aware of police activites, alert them to methods of self protection, and imporove general attitudes toward police |
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| What does community oriented policing try to accomplish? |
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| Programs and stategies designed to bring police and the public closer together and create a more cooperative working environment between. Examples- foot patrol |
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| What is community policing, once again? |
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| Neighborhodd oriented policing- Community- oriented policing efforts aimed at individual neighborhoods |
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| The concept of crime hot spots relate to what type of policing? |
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| Places from which a significant portion of all police calls originate. These hot spots include taverns and housing projects |
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| What is Operation Ceasefire? |
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| a problem oriented policing intervention aimed at reducing youth homicide and youth firearms violence in boston |
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| internal affairs branches within the department deal iwth corruption or misconduct on the part of police officers |
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| What are some challenges of community-oriented policing? |
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| defining community and roles, changing supervisor attitudes, reorienting police values, revise training, reorient recruitment |
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| What is the broken window model? |
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| a term used to describe the role of the police as maintainers of community order and safety |
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| What is a bind minority police officers are in? |
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| African Americans poilice officers carry both the minority group members and law enenforcement members |
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| What is the blue curtain? |
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| The secretive, isulated police culture that isolates officers from the rest of society |
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| What belief characterizes police culture? |
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| Police are the only real crime fighters, No one else understands the real nature of police work, Loyalty to colleagues counts above everything else, It is impossible to win the war against crime without bending the rules, Members of the public are basically unsupportive and unreasonably demanding, Patrol work is the pits |
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| What are the four basic styles of policing? |
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| The crime fighter, The social agent, The law enforcer, The watchman |
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| What are extralegal discretionary factors? |
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| Where did the fleeing felon rule come from? |
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| The English common law was that a every criminal offense bore the death penalty so shooting a criminal saved the state the trouble of conducting a trial. This is now outdated and officers are now much less likly to use deadly force |
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| How does the Fourth Amendment connect to fleeing felons? |
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| The supreme court outlawed indiscriminate use of deadly force in the cse Tennessee v. Garner; they ruled tha t the use of deadly force against apparently unarmed and nondangerous fleeeing felons is an illeagal seizure under their person under the 14th amendment |
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| What categories did the Knapp Commission create? |
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| Meat eaters- a term for polic offiers who actively solicit bribes and vigorously engage in corrupt practices and greass eaters- a term for police officers who accept payoffs when everyday duties place them in a postition to "look the other way" |
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| What types of officers were involved in 13th century English policing? |
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| People were grouped in collectives of 10 families called "Tithings" and were entrusted with policing their own minor problems |
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| What was the Pledge System? |
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| Every person living in the villages scattered throughout the countryside was responsible for aiding neighbors and protecting the settlement from thieves and marauders |
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| Why are English police officers called bobbies? |
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| named after it's creator, Sir Robert Peel. They wore a distinctive uniform and were led by two magistrates, who were later given the title of commissioner |
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| What group of police did Henry Fielding operate? |
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| He was appointed to a city magistrate. He operated his own group of monied police out of Bow street in London, directing and deploying them throughout the city, deciding which cases to investigate and what streets to protect. "Fielding's Bow Street Runners" |
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| What cities had some of the earliest formal U.S. police departments? |
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| Boston created the first formal U.S. police department in 1838. New York formed theirs in 1844. Philadelphia in 1854. |
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| What did August Vollmer do? |
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| The most famous police reformer of the time. He instituted university training for young officers and helped develop The School of Criminology a the University of California at Berkely. |
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| What Federal Agency focused on the fight against terrorism after 9/11? |
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| The Federal Bureau of Invesitgation (FBI). since 9/11, the FBI has announced a reformulation of it's priorities, making protecting the U.S. from terrorist attack it's number one commitment. |
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| What agency transports federal prisoners? |
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| Who handles witness security? |
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| What are the major agencies within the Department of Homeland Security? |
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| Customs and Border protection, Secret Service |
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| Which state came first with state police? |
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| The Texas Rangers, created in 1835, was one of the first state police agencies formed. It was followed by the Massachusetts State Constables in 1865, and the Arizona Rangers in 1901. |
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| Automated Fingerprint Identification System. AFIS can classify fingerprints and identify up to 250 characteristics of the print |
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| Who is the head of a police organization? |
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| Chief of Police. The top administrator of the police department, who sets policy and has general control over departmental policies and practices. the chief is typically a political rather than a civil service appointee and serves at the pleasure of the mayor. |
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| What tings do the time-in-rank system prevent? |
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| For police officers to advance in rank, they must spend an appropriate amount of time, usually years, in the preceding rank- For example, to become captain, an officer must first spend time as a lieutenant. It promotes stability and fairness and to limit favoritism. |
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| Explain UCR data on felony arrests |
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| UCR- Unified Crime Report : Each year, about 700,000 local, county, and state police officers make about 14 million arrests, or about 20 each. Of these, about 2 million are for serious part 1 crimes. it is evident that the average police officer makes fewer than two arrests per month and fewer than a single felony arrest every 4 months |
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| What does a police patrol do? |
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| Deter crime by maintaining a visible police presence, Maintain public order (peacekeeping) within the patrol area, Enable the police department to respond quickly to violations of law or other emergencies, identify and apprehend law violators, aid individuals and care for those who cannot help themselves, facilitate the movement of traffic and people, create a feeling of security in the community |
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| What is a term for aggressive policing? |
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| Proactive policing: a police department policy that emphasizes stopping crimes before they occur, rather than reacting to crimes that have already occured. Deterrent Effect: stopping or reducing crime by convincing would-be criminals that they stand a significant risk of being apprehended and punished for their crimes |
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| What are police patrol efforts mostly focused towards? |
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| Order Maintenance aka 'Peacekeeping' - This aspect of the police role involves peacekeeping, maintaining order and authority without the need for formal arrest, "Handling the situation" and keeping thing under control by using threats, persuasion, and understanding |
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| What did the Kansas City Gun Experiment find and encourage? |
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| Evidence shows that targeting specific crimes through directed patrol:(a patrol strategy that involves concentrating police resources in areas where certain crimes are a significant problem) can be successful. The Kansas City Gun Experiment was directed at restricting the carrying of guns in high risk places at high risk times. the Kansas city police dept. focuses extra patrol attention on a 'Hot Spot' high crime area identified by computer analysis of all gun crimes. over a 29 week period,the gun patrol officers conducted thousands of car and pedestrian checks and traffic stops and made over 600 arrests. using frisk and searches, they found 29 guns, an additional 47 weapons were seized. 169 gun crimes in the target beat in the 29 weeks before the gun patrol but only 86 while the experiment was under way, a decrease of 49% |
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| New York city Police in the 1990's did what? |
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| New York aimed at controlling or eliminating lifestyle crimes: vandalism, panhandling, and graffiti |
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| The Kansas City Gun Experiment Targeted what? |
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| The Kansas city experiment targeted a certain area or 'Hot Spot' where crime rates were significantly higher, and they cut down the crime rate by 49 percent |
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