Police Role - Answers The concept of "what do the police do."
crime-fighting role - Answers A major view of the role of the police that emphasizes crime fighting or law
enforcement.
order maintenance - Answers Major view of the role of the police that emphasizes keeping the peace
and providing social services.
ambiguous - Answers the concept that the police role is very diverse and dynamic.
Omnipresence - Answers the impression of always being there. (participation in police-citizen
partnerships designed to prevent crime.)
police operational styles - Answers styles adopted by police officers as a way of thinking about the role
of the police and law in society and how the police should perform their jobs.
discretion - Answers the availability of a choice of options or actions one can take in a situation.
( freedom to act or decide a matter on one's own.)
Noble Cause Corruption - Answers Stems from ends-oriented policing and involves police officers
bending the rules to achieve the "right" goal of putting a criminal in jail.
Deadly Force - Answers force applied by a police officer that is likely or intended to cause death
fleeing felon doctrine - Answers a now defunct law enforcement rule that permitted officers to shoot a
suspected felon attempting to flee from a lawful arrest
Tennessee vs. Garner - Answers the police practice of using deadly force against a fleeing suspect, made
illegal in Tennessee v. Garner (1985), except when there is clear and present danger to the public
defense of life standard - Answers a policy mandating that the police can use deadly force only in
defense of their own lives or the life of another person
imminent danger standard - Answers The standard that allows the use of deadly force if the officer feels
in immediate danger of great bodily harm or death.
less-than-lethal weapons - Answers alternatives to using firearms that are intended to temporarily
incapacitate or confuse an individual
nonlethal weapons list - Answers 1. chemical sprays
2. batons of some type
3. electronic devices( stun guns and tasers)
4. bodily force techniques ( choke hold, carotid holds, neck restraints