Police and Community Relations
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Course Introduction
This course explores the dynamic and complex relationship between law enforcement agencies and the diverse communities they serve. Students will examine the historical context of police-community interactions, the impact of policing strategies on public trust, and the role of communication, cultural awareness, and community engagement in building positive relationships. Emphasis will be placed on contemporary issues such as bias, use of force, accountability, and collaborative problem-solving. Through case studies, discussion, and applied projects, students will gain a comprehensive understanding of strategies to enhance cooperation, promote public safety, and foster mutual respect between police and community members.
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The Police in America An Introduction 8th Edition by Samuel Walker
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Chapter 1: Police and Society
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Q1) What does our political system ensure where the police are concerned?
A)policing power and authority
B)public control and accountability of the police
C)fair allocation of monetary resources
D)prosecution of arrests made by police
Answer: B
Q2) P.O.P.in Newport News represented a whole new role for the police.Officers functioned as
A)community government.
B)community organizers.
C)community policemen.
D)community leaders.
Answer: B
Q3) Police contribute to social control through both
A)information and informants.
B)prosecutor relationships.
C)community and political contacts.
D)law enforcement and order maintenance.
Answer: D
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Chapter 2: The History of the American Police
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Q1) The formation of police unions had a dramatic impact on police administrations in that
A)the unions could oversee the types of cases that were to be investigated.
B)police chiefs had to share their power and negotiate with unions over many management issues.
C)police unions could determine who was going to be the next Chief of Police.
D)police unions could start and stop the department's work whenever they chose.
Answer: B
Q2) The greatest changes in policing came during
A)the police professional movement of the 1920s.
B)the last decade of the twentieth century.
C)the radical upheavals of the 1960s.
D)the 1850s in England.
Answer: B
Q3) The term "sheriff" was first coined in the American west.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 3: The Contemporary Law Enforcement Industry
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Q1) The distinction between a law enforcement agency's approved allotment of officers and the number of officers currently employed is known as
A)endorsed strength.
B)authorized strength.
C)personnel strength.
D)sworn strength.
Answer: B
Q2) How is the role of each federal agency specified?
A)by the federal budget
B)by federal statute
C)by Congress
D)by the electoral process
Answer: B
Q3) Private security officers are bound by legal decisions such as Miranda.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 4: Police Organizations
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Q1) The control of police discretion and the reduction of misconduct have been achieved through bureaucratic principles using the technique called
A)performance evaluations.
B)citizen review.
C)policy review.
D)administrative rulemaking.
Q2) An organization legally authorized to represent police officers in collective bargaining with their employer is called a
A)Police Unit.
B)Police Rep Unit.
C)Police Agency Union.
D)Police Union.
Q3) The belief that organizations are created and structured to achieve specific goals, such as crime control, is called
A)police administration theory.
B)police management theory.
C)contingency theory.
D)institutional theory.
E)game theory.
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Chapter 5: Police Of cers I: Entering Police Work
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Q1) The positive or negative belief that strongly influences the public image of the identity, beliefs and actions of the police is called a A)belief system.
B)stereotype.
C)value system.
D)ethics layers.
Q2) The most important part of the employment selection process is the A)fitness test.
B)written test.
C)oral interview.
D)background investigation.
Q3) Usually, the minimum age for becoming a police officer is A)18.
B)19.
C)20.
D)21. E)25.
Q4) According to your text, many police officers are overweight. A)True
B)False
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Chapter 6: Police Of cers II: on the Job
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Q1) A major problem with the original concept of a police subculture is that it does not take into consideration the changes in policing over the past thirty years.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The difference between the younger, better educated officers and the veteran officers with less education is termed
A)community gap.
B)education generation gap.
C)cohort generation gap.
D)split force view gap.
Q3) One of the important consequences of group solidarity is secrecy.
A)True
B)False
Q4) In the last twenty years, the number of police officers killed on duty has declined.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Explain how the "code of silence" affects a police department.
Q6) What were the findings of the Police Foundation study of policewomen on patrol?
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Chapter 7: Patrol: the Backbone of Policing
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Q1) The first event to test the effectiveness of patrol that met minimum standards of scientific research was called the
A)Illinois Patrol Effectiveness Study.
B)Newark Patrol Response Survey.
C)Texas Patrol Response Study.
D)Kansas City Preventive Patrol Experiment.
Q2) What is the reverse 911 call service?
A)A system that allows 911 to call back callers who have hung up.
B)A system that allows police to call citizens in a particular neighborhood with important information.
C)A system that allows dispatchers to call a crime victims' family for assistance.
D)A system that allows for patrol supervisors to monitor emergency calls
Q3) Who first developed the standard workload formula for assigning patrol officers?
A)James Q.Wilson
B)Robert Peel
C)Patrick Murphy
D)August Vollmer
E)O.W.Wilson
Q4) What are some of the reasons why citizens delay calling the police?
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Chapter 8: Peacekeeping and Order Maintenance
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Q1) Which model holds that non-crime calls give officers a broader exposure to the community, with the result that they have more knowledge that will help them solve crimes?
A)community cooperation model
B)police knowledge model
C)crime prophylactic model
D)social work model
Q2) Given that alcohol is so much a part of our society, the actual risk of arrest for drunk driving is extremely low.
A)True
B)False
Q3) In communities with few mental health resources, police officers are sometimes inclined to arrest a mentally ill person for a misdemeanor.This practice is known as:
A)psychiatric first aid.
B)mercy advocacy.
C)psycho policing.
D)none of these
Q4) What are the four citizen expectations, as proposed by John C.Meyer?
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Chapter 9: The Police and Crime
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Q1) What are some of the myths about detective work?
Q2) A Rand Corporation report indicated that detective is
A)superficial, routine, and nonproductive.
B)exciting and interesting.
C)exciting but very demanding.
D)the best place for officers to start their career.
E)easy yet very dangerous.
Q3) Which of the following is not an example of the roles police play in community-based crime prevention programs?
A)making arrests
B)reducing truancy
C)improving physical appearance of neighborhood
D)eradicating centers of drug activity
Q4) Guns account for less than 50 percent of all homicides.
A)True
B)False
Q5) What are the five basic steps in a preliminary investigation?
Q6) Contrary to popular belief, detective work is neither glamorous nor exciting.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 10: Innovations in Police Strategy
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Q1) Concerning Neighborhood Watch programs, studies find they are typically more active and have a closer working relationship with police in the areas of
A)low-income inner city areas.
B)affluent suburban areas with little crime.
C)rural areas with low population growth.
D)inner-city areas showing signs of neighborhood decay.
Q2) Ideally, community policing seeks to change the basic ways in which most Americans, including the police, view
A)the importance of crime prevention.
B)police functions and priorities.
C)the pervasive problem of vice crimes.
D)police organization and administration.
Q3) Neighborhood crime-watch programs typically reduce crime in neighborhoods by 10 to 20 percent within a month after they are organized.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Describe the six basic points of the CAPS program.
Q5) What were the major obstacles to the implementation of the CAPS program?
Q6) How does zero-tolerance policing differ from other police strategies?
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Chapter 11: Police Discretion
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Q1) According to your text, legal factors limit the discretion of a police officer.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The immediate work setting influences officer compliance with written policy.
A)True
B)False
Q3) In the Justice Department report on "'Broken Windows' and Police Discretion," what does George L.Kelling suggest is necessary for the police to effectively address quality-of-life issues in neighborhoods?
A)more money to recruit qualified officers
B)better and newer equipment, especially computers
C)more rigorous training standards
D)clear guidance in the form of rules that tell them both what they should do and what they should not do
Q4) What is the effect of official department policies on police discretion?
A)They have no effect.
B)Whatever effect they may have is not noticeable.
C)They have a powerful influence over police discretion.
D)It is difficult to ascertain their effects.
E)They are the same in every department.
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Chapter 12: Legitimacy and Community Relations
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Q1) Differential treatment based on some extralegal category such as race, ethnicity, or gender is known as
A)discrimination.
B)disparity.
C)disparate treatment.
D)inequality.
Q2) The Christopher Commission studied the computer-based communications among LAPD police officers and found
A)evidence of offensive racial stereotypes.
B)that the officers always used professional language when referring to the public.
C)that the police did not always use professional language, but there was no evidence of offensive racial stereotypes.
D)that white officers did not stereotype blacks but did stereotype Hispanics.
Q3) The four dimensions of trust the authors describe are
A)care, pleasantness, empathy, sympathy.
B)priorities, competence, dependability, respect.
C)bearing, integrity, honesty, quality.
D)service, dedication, honesty, respect.
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Chapter 13: Police Corruption
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Q1) The two key elements of police corruption are
A)deviance and force.
B)money and authority.
C)authority and force.
D)misuse of authority and personal gain.
Q2) Officers in the CRASH unit of which police department were accused in 1998-99 of routinely choking and punching individuals for the sole purpose of intimidating them?
A)Los Angeles
B)Chicago
C)New York
D)Washington
E)Detroit
Q3) The least serious form of corruption exists when
A)it involves only a few police officers acting on their own.
B)only the police chief is engaged in corrupt acts.
C)several corrupt officers cooperate with one another.
D)three to five officers work semi-independently, protecting each other.
Q4) What are the social-structural explanations of police corruption? Summarize each in detail.
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Chapter 14: Accountability of the Police
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Q1) The cases of Weeks v.U.S.and Mapp v.Ohio were decided based on which amendment to the Constitution?
A)first
B)second
C)fourth
D)fifth
E)sixth
Q2) Which of the following is not one of the Miranda warnings?
A)the right to remain silent
B)the right to have an attorney
C)the right to trial by a jury of 12 people
D)the right to have a court appointed attorney
Q3) The purpose of Risk Management (RM) systems is to
A)provide assistance to officers with performance issues.
B)systematically collect data on litigation costs, analyze the causes of the lawsuits, and takes steps to reduce or eliminate the causes.
C)assess the risk of not applying for departmental accreditation.
D)measure the risk of losing federal funding.
Q4) What are the four goals of EI systems?
Q5) Explain "the blue wall of silence."
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Chapter 15: The Future of Policing in America
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Q1) One of the best recent examples of the impact of research on policy is the development of A)TASER technology.
B)team policing.
C)community policing.
D)women in policing.
Q2) What system keeps track of crime mapping?
A)CAD
B)RMS
C)COMPSTAT
D)IBM
Q3) The type of analysis that focuses on long-term crime trends is
A)strategic crime analysis.
B)tactical crime analysis.
C)administrative crime analysis.
D)offender specific analysis.
Q4) How does computer technology offer an opportunity for greater police effectiveness through COMPSTAT?
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