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Course Introduction
Community Policing is a course designed to explore the philosophy, strategies, and practices that underpin effective partnership between law enforcement agencies and the communities they serve. The course emphasizes the importance of building trust, communication, and collaborative problem-solving to enhance public safety and quality of life. Topics include the historical evolution of community policing, the roles of officers and citizens, crime prevention techniques, and the impact of culture, diversity, and social dynamics on policing practices. Students will analyze real-world case studies and develop practical skills for fostering community engagement and addressing contemporary challenges in policing.
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Policing 2nd Edition by John
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Chapter 1: Origins and Evolution of American Policing
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Q1) O. W. Wilson started the nation s first police school.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) What led to the establishment of the world s first large -scale organized police force in the city of London?
A) the findings of the Wickersham Commission
B) the passage of the Metropolitan Police Act
C) the lobbying efforts of Reverend Charles Parkhurst
D) the reforming efforts of August Vollmer
Answer: B
Q3) Explain how the frankpledge system is different from modern policing.
Answer: Students should point out that making a small group of people mutually responsible for each other s behavior is far from the modern concept: it is private, rather than public; each individual has responsibility limited to certain persons, whereas police must respond to any situation involving any individual that occurs during their time on duty; women and children seem to be left out of the picture, whereas today, police are responsible for all members of society, plus assisting events that do not have human origin (fires, for example).
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Chapter 2: Policing in American Context
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Q1) Under what conditions does a prosecutor decide to bring charges against a suspect?
A) if the crime is severe enough to warrant it
B) if the evidence is persuasive enough to be compelling
C) if the community is disturbed enough to demand justice
D) if the suspect is likely enough to plead guilty
Answer: B
Q2) Which of the following is a significant difference between the convening of a grand jury and a criminal trial?
A) Police officers do not testify before grand juries.
B) The prosecutor has no role in a grand jury investigation.
C) Suspects are not present and cannot offer testimony in their defense.
D) Testimony presented before a grand jury cannot be used at the trial.
Answer: C
Q3) Membership in the National Black Police Association is not open to officers who are not African -American.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 3: Law Enforcement Agencies and Their Organization
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Q1) Column 1: Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
Column 2: the investigative arm of the U.S. Department of Justice
Answer: the investigative arm of the U.S. Department of Justice
Q2) Column 1: Chief of Police
Column 2: first
Answer: first
Q3) Contingency theory allows overall organizational approaches to be
A) flexible rather than standardized.
B) contingent upon the task at hand.
C) chosen by rank-and-file officers.
D) planned well in advance.
Answer: B
Q4) Column 1: U.S. Marshals Service (USMS)
Column 2: the oldest American law enforcement agency, with a mission that includes judicial security and fugitive investigation and apprehension
Answer: the oldest American law enforcement agency, with a mission that includes judicial security and fugitive investigation and apprehension
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Chapter 4: Becoming a COP
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Q1) Which is required to be able to identify a person who doesn t belong in a certain area?
A) thorough observation of the area and its ordinary conditions
B) advanced training in demographic and social profiling
C) cultivating understanding of all dimensions of human relations
D) preparation for an apparently innocuous encounter to turn violent
Q2) If an applicant for a position is disabled but capable of performing the essential functions of a job, he or she is protected by the Americans with Act.
Q3) Column 1: the crisis/apathy stage
Column 2: fourth
Q4) How does denial fit into the five phases of response to a critical incident?
A) It follows the initial stage of anger and resentment, when emotions are deadened.
B) It is the first stage of response in coping with critical incidents.
C) It is the fourth stage and is an attempt to recover from depression.
D) It happens immediately after the incident and precedes the five phases.
Q5) All police departments in the United States have identical testing requirements.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 5: Police Sub-Culture
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Q1) Presence in the community is an example of how a police officer exercises direct control.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Internal review has been found to have little effect on police subculture.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Although secrecy and solidarity are both parts of police subculture, they are not involved in facilitating corruption.
A)True
B)False
Q4) In police circles, putting on a display of high-mindedness is called .
Q5) Analyze how working undercover would affect an officer in terms of various components of police subculture.
Q6) In the world of police work, common sense refers to recognizing hidden danger in a seemingly safe world.
A)True
B)False
Q7) What is the relationship between force and coercion?
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Chapter 6: Police Discretion and Behavior
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Q1) A set of facts and circumstances that would induce a reasonably intelligent and prudent person to believe that another person has committed a specific crime is
A) known as probable cause.
B) proper legal justification for making an arrest.
C) often easier to find for a serious offense.
D) all of the above
Q2) Almost all police officers have total respect for the law, department policy, and court rulings that limit their behavior.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Whether an encounter between a police officer and a citizen is public or private is a factor affecting behavior.
Q4) Identify as many situations as you can in which following the letter of the law would either cause a problem or result in a less valuable result than following the spirit of the law.
Q5) Which factor(s) do you think has/have the greatest influence on predicting police decision making?
Q6) Publicizing incidents of police abuse and corruption leads people to call for .
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Chapter 7: Core Police Functions
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Q1) Verbrecherpech is likely to result in
A) a criminal making a confession.
B) a criminal making a telling mistake.
C) a criminal returning to the scene of the crime.
D) a criminal removing evidence from the crime scene.
Q2) When the public and police officers identify the role of police as enforcing the law, they capture the essence of what it means to be a police officer.
A)True
B)False
Q3) What are quality-of-life offenses?
A) infractions so serious that they undermine quality of life
B) infractions that occur solely within private property
C) infractions that cause fear and terror
D) infractions that demoralize residents by creating disorder
Q4) What are the investigative goals, and how do they relate to each other?
Q5) Minute or nearly invisible evidence of a crime that would escape all but the most skilled investigators is known as evidence.
Q6) A concentrated area of significant criminal activity is referred to as a spot.
Q7) Traffic stops based on more than one motive are stops.
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Chapter 8: Community Policing and Community Involvement
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Q1) Many studies have concluded that there is little evidence of an increased effect by using civil police academies.
Q2) Column 1: citizen patrol
Column 2: preventive program staffed by citizen volunteers
Q3) Column 1: community policing
Column 2: has a primary goal of citizen involvement and satisfaction
Q4) Most policing programs can be categorized based on intention to encourage interest, communication, and information; and expanding police presence.
Q5) Which of the following approaches to policing draw on input from the community?
A) third-party policing
B) private policing
C) community justice
D) deployment perspective
Q6) Column 1: problem-oriented policing
Column 2: seeks to mutually address and present solutions to issues
Q7) Community policing consists of five different .
Q9) In the definition of third-party policing, the persons are the guardians. Page 10
Q8) Many police departments operate citizen police to help give citizens experience with police work.
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Chapter 9: Policing in the Modern ERA
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Q1) You would consult the IACP for information from your local FBI field office.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Column 1: CalGang
Column 2: database on California gang members
Q3) You are looking for a particular criminal and want to locate him based on the crimes that have been connected to him. Which of the following would help you?
A) Compstat
B) pin maps
C) Crime Mapping Research Center
D) geographic profiling
Q4) The scanning, analysis, response, assessment (SARA) model has very close to the same meaning as .
Q5) Law enforcement at Level 1 includes police agencies that produce tactical and strategic intelligence for internal consumption.
A)True
B)False
Q6) is a plan that called for a national center for intelligence -led policing.
Q7) Criminal investigation is part of the gathering process of a crime scene.
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Chapter 10: Policing and the Law
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Q1) Which of the following parts of the Fourth Amendment would be used by a police officer to gather evidence in a criminal matter?
A) seizure
B) probable cause
C) search
D) justification
Q2) You are approaching a house owned by the friend of someone you know just caused a hit -and-run accident. The friend is out on the porch, and you ask him if you can enter the house and look for the suspect. He says Yes, and you find the suspect. The suspect s attorney argues that you did not have a warrant, but the judge
Allows it. What is this an example of?
A) searches incident to arrest
B) searches based on exigent circumstances
C) plain-view searches
D) consent searches
Q3) Reasonable suspicion is a higher level of justification than probable cause.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 11: Civil Liability and Accountability
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Q1) The citizen-review model is considered a weaker model of citizen oversight.
A)True
B)False
Q2) There is one type of state tort claim, and it is intentional tort.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The code of ethics consists of several standard elements: legality, service, honesty and integrity, loyalty, and the Rule.
Q4) You are a police officer who executed an illegal search but did find drugs and other illegal paraphernalia in the process. The judge ruled that the evidence you found could not be used. Which concept explains this?
A) exclusionary rule
B) fruit of the poisonous tree
C) public-duty defense
D) objective reasonableness
Q5) Column 1: public-duty doctrine
Column 2: protection owed to general public, not individuals
Q6) What is the purpose of the police officers bill of rights?
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Chapter 12: Deviance, Ethics, and Professionalism
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Q1) If a police officer kills someone intentionally then police of authority are put into this single case.
Q2) Column 1: abuse of authority
Column 2: a catchall category for various forms of inappropriate police conduct that do not necessarily amount to crime, deviance, or corruption
Q3) Gratuities occur when an officer accepts an object of value.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Which of the following characterizes a police officer who actively seeks out and plans opportunities to exploit his or her position for personal gain?
A) white knight
B) straight shooter
C) grass eater
D) meat eater
Q5) An officer that accepts gifts and performs deviance is called a meat eater.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Things of value accepted by an officer are .
Q7) , a form of extortion, are not as common today as they were in the past.
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Chapter 13: The Use of Force
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Q1) Legal abuse is defined as any violation of a person s constitutional, federally protected, or state -protected rights.
A)True
B)False
Q2) It is easy to distinguish psychological pressure from abuse. A)True
B)False
Q3) Column 1: compliant Column 2: cooperative controls
Q4) Column 1: using firm, but not painful, grips Column 2: D
Q5) When the police initiate contact with a citizen, officers are less likely to use force. A)True
B)False
Q6) Less-lethal weapons are incapable of deadly force. A)True B)False
Q7) In Tennessee v. , the U.S. Supreme Court specified conditions under which deadly force can be used.
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