Community Policing
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Course Introduction
Community Policing explores the collaborative relationship between law enforcement agencies and the communities they serve. This course examines the principles, strategies, and practices that emphasize proactive problem-solving, community partnerships, and organizational transformation. Students learn about the historical development of community policing, its role in crime prevention, communication techniques, and contemporary challenges such as cultural diversity, trust-building, and technology integration. The course also addresses the evaluation of community policing initiatives and their impact on public safety, community engagement, and police legitimacy.
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Police Crime Control Strategies 1st Edition by Larry Hoover
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Chapter 1: Police Crime Control Strategy Development
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Q1) Community-oriented policing is a conceptual framework for which the central tenet is
A) community engagement.
B) deployment by service demand.
C) partnerships with social service agencies.
D) structured problem solving.
Answer: A
Q2) The organizational source of community-oriented policing was
A) the Police Foundation.
B) the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration.
C) academe.
D) the New York City Police Department.
Answer: C
Q3) The four ground-breaking strategy evaluative studies demonstrated that A) intervention could be quantified.
B) quantitative research is more important than qualitative.
C) qualitative research is more important than quantitative.
D) none of the then-employed strategies worked.
Answer: A
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Chapter 2: The Police Effect on Crime
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Q1) Evidence-based analysis indicates that a promising realm of effectiveness includes
A) the cultivation of diffusion.
B) focused, place-based, and proactive characteristics.
C) a community-oriented emphasis.
D) a problem-oriented emphasis.
Answer: B
Q2) Considerable drops in crime were produced by dramatically increased enforcement activity in the 1990s in what city?
A) Philadelphia
B) Houston
C) San Diego
D) Kansas City
Answer: B
Q3) Conclusions from the Kansas City Preventive Patrol Experiment should be drawn
A) somewhat conservatively.
B) very conservatively.
C) somewhat liberally.
D) none of these choices-no conclusions can be drawn.
Answer: B
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Chapter 3: The Role of Community Policing
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Q1) Of departments serving populations of 1 million or more,what percentage reports to the Bureau of Justice Statistics that they have a specialized community policing unit?
A) 100 percent
B) 85 percent
C) 45 percent
D) 25 percent
Answer: B
Q2) The term "community policing" fits the word usage category of A) metaphor.
B) illusion.
C) idiom.
D) rhetorical sponge.
Answer: D
Q3) As a strategic approach,the only universal attribute of community policing is A) problem solving.
B) structured community contact.
C) foot patrol.
D) deployment by analysis.
Answer: B
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Chapter 4: Focusing Community Policing and Problem-Solving on Crime Reduction
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Q1) The "Three Citizens' Model" includes which of the following programs?
A) civil service systems
B) citizen complaint boards
C) citizen review boards
D) citizens on patrol
Q2) The questions or issues that are relevant to the "every officer is a community policing officer" model include which of the following?
A) Is the model simply politically correct rhetoric?
B) Can agencies afford the cost?
C) Who among team members is responsible for what?
D) Does the model fragment and isolate patrol services?
Q3) It is difficult to construct experimental designs to test the efficiency of problem-oriented interventions because of the
A) difficulty in identifying comparison locations.
B) brevity of most efforts.
C) regression to the mean.
D) inability to specify outcomes.
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Chapter 5: A Typology of Crime Reduction Strategies
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Q1) To be effective,a crime control strategy must be planned; in this context planned means
A) specificity.
B) structured.
C) contemplative.
D) monitored.
Q2) Quick deployment capability requires that staffing be at what level?
A) 4.5 officers per thousand population
B) the minimal ability for targeted deployment
C) comparable to that in Chicago
D) comparable to that in New York City
Q3) Which of the following would be classified as targeted proactive investigation?
A) marked patrol
B) unmarked patrol
C) sting operations
D) problem solving
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Chapter 6: Geographic Targeting Strategies
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Q1) The use of police-operated surveillance cameras was initiated in ______,and began in the United States in ______.
A) Germany; New York
B) Germany; Chicago
C) Britain; New York
D) Britain; Chicago
Q2) Abatement of criminal offenses that occur along strip center corridors requires
A) focused efforts in conjunction with individual businesses.
B) saturation patrol.
C) neighborhood engagement.
D) surveillance of stores and parking lots.
Q3) A hot spot is commonly defined as an area where crime is A) increasing rapidly.
B) predominantly violent crime rather than property crime.
C) substantially higher than the jurisdiction norm.
D) substantially higher than the Uniform Crime Report average.
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Chapter 7: Offense Targeting Strategies
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Q1) The "evil" associated with drug distribution is best described in legal terminology by the phrase
A) inherently both malum prohibitum and malum in se.
B) inherently only malum prohibitum, but associated with malum in se.
C) inherently malum in se, but associated with malum prohibitum.
D) neither malum prohibitum nor malum in se.
Q2) Suppressible street crime includes the offense of A) larceny from a motor vehicle.
B) acquaintance rape.
C) embezzlement.
D) domestic violence.
Q3) Tactical patrol refers to marked units that are
A) deployed for community policing functions.
B) deployed using special weapons and tactics.
C) freed from normal call-for-service response.
D) specially trained in negotiation tactics.
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Chapter 8: Offender Targeting Strategies
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Q1) The least serious of the behaviors associated with offenders creating disorder is
A) obtrusive panhandling.
B) aggressive panhandling.
C) solicitation for prostitution.
D) solicitation for drugs.
Q2) The relative cost of surveillance versus other enforcement approaches is characterized by which of the following terms?
A) very cheap
B) relatively inexpensive
C) comparable
D) very expensive
Q3) The most frequently used enforcement approach to suppress behaviors of offenders creating disorder is
A) intensive field interviews.
B) broken windows enforcement.
C) decoy operations.
D) surveillance apprehension.
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Chapter 9: Compstat and Crime Control
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Q1) Ultimately,the linkage between Compstat and community policing is best described by which of the following statements?
A) At the core, they reflect the same approach to crime control.
B) Compstat is a variant of community policing.
C) Community policing is a variant of Compstat.
D) Compstat is an alternative to community policing.
Q2) Compstat was developed in what decade?
A) 1970s
B) 1980s
C) 1990s
D) 2000s
Q3) The primary components of Compstat include
A) surveillance of known offenders.
B) surveillance of high-crime locations.
C) broken windows enforcement.
D) drug house crackdowns.
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Chapter 10: Conducting Crime Strategy Meetings
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Q1) If one were to conceive a continuum for the style of a crime strategy meeting,with 1 representing a pure accountability program and 10 representing pure tactical planning,today's typical meeting would be a
A) 1 or 2.
B) 4 or 5.
C) 8 or 9.
D) 10.
Q2) Among agencies that employ GIS as part of crime strategy meetings,the most frequent assessment of GIS-based analysis is that A) it had astounding results.
B) it is credited with solving innumerable crimes.
C) although useful, it did not meet original expectations.
D) although not quite a waste of time, it comes close.
Q3) If the data presented at a crime strategy meeting is a month old,then the emphasis of the meeting is likely A) tactical planning.
B) accountability.
C) balanced between tactical planning and accountability.
D) pointless, and wasting everyone's time.
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Chapter 11: The Resurrection of Sherlock Holmes
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Q1) Investigative effort that might be characterized as "super sleuthing" is A) found only in large city agencies.
B) found only in proactive investigations.
C) common in violent crime investigations.
D) rare.
Q2) Within the police profession itself,the status of detectives has A) always been very high.
B) sagged, but is again on the rise.
C) never been higher.
D) been waning for three decades.
Q3) A little-recognized "technology" with rapidly expanding investigative utility is A) the Combined DNA Index System (CODIS).
B) the Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System (IAFIS).
C) the National Integrated Ballistics Information Network (NIBIN).
D) surveillance cameras.
Q4) The trend nationally is toward the investigative role as a(n) A) promoted position.
B) corporal rank.
C) sergeant rank.
D) assignment.
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Chapter 12: Staffing for Crime Control
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Q1) The value employed in patrol allocation models for the variable "percentage of priority-one calls for which there will be at least one officer available" is typically
A) 10 percent.
B) 25 percent.
C) 50 percent.
D) 98 percent.
Q2) The percent of a patrol officer's time available for proactive efforts in a typical urban police agency is
A) 25 percent.
B) 40 percent.
C) 50 percent.
D) 75 percent.
Q3) A limitation of computer simulation models of patrol allocation is that patrol units are
A) so seldom functional.
B) multifunctional.
C) unilateral.
D) bilateral.
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Chapter 13: Deployment for Crime Control
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Q1) The need for specialist enforcement units to keep generalist patrol informed of their activities includes the principle that
A) keeping intelligence secret is unintelligent.
B) random patrol produces random results.
C) crime control is teamwork.
D) the devil is in the details.
Q2) Agency sponsorship of a school liaison/school security program is an illustration of A) problem-oriented policing.
B) community-oriented policing.
C) an offender-focused orientation.
D) a geographically focused orientation.
Q3) During Compstat meetings,interdiction efforts are frequently described as having begun with
A) a tip from a citizen.
B) the insight of an astute detective.
C) a simple patrol stop of a vehicle.
D) the SARA form of problem analysis.
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Chapter 14: Limitations on the Police Role
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Q1) The primary factor governing patrol deployment is A) call-for-service response.
B) proactive patrol.
C) 911 emergency availability.
D) citizen engagement.
Q2) As a general principle,the deployment of patrol resources is best done by considering
A) call-for-service demand.
B) crime concentration.
C) patrol's multiple purposes.
D) the need to maintain emergency standby.
Q3) Appropriate policy relevant to structured use of emergency standby time should A) be premised upon fire department practice.
B) incorporate SARA-style problem-solving projects for patrol officers.
C) be premised upon reengineering patrol services.
D) involve officers in proactive crime targeting endeavors.
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Chapter 15: Evaluating Strategic Impact
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Q1) Research indicates that what strategic approach is effective for crime reduction?
A) community-oriented policing
B) problem-oriented policing
C) crime-specific policing
D) no single strategic approach
Q2) The fact that the police must adhere to basic democratic ideals
A) dictates the research agenda.
B) does not dictate a given model of policing.
C) mandates a community-oriented strategy.
D) mandates a Compstat model.
Q3) The best term or phrase to describe the recommended future direction for police strategy research is which of the following?
A) golden years
B) slow but steady
C) jumpstarting
D) freeze and reassess
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