Community Policing Chp. 2 Exam Questions and Answers Already Passed
What is the Mission of the Police? - Answers To catch bad guys, prevent crime, maintain order and
protect the public.
A mission statement is a - Answers "Road Map" that delineates how an agency will arrive at a desired
destination. Without it, a law enforcement agency can wander, appearing inconsistent, inefficient, and
purposeless.
It can reveal rather accurately the state of the police-community relations.
The mission statement defines - Answers what the agency's commitment is to the community it serves
and how it views its relationship with the community.
The importance of the mission statement is summarized by Lewis Carroll's Cheshire cat in Alice in
Wonderland "If you don't know where you're going, it doesn't matter which way you go"
Neighborhood-Oriented Policing (NOP) program was perceived as - Answers more social work than
police work and was referred to as "Nobody on Patrol" - some service philosophy may not sit well with
some police officers.
As Klockars notes, because the police officers' domain is the streets: Those who - Answers spend their
time on the street will receive a disproportionate amount of police attention .. particularly people who
are too poor to have backyards, country clubs, air conditioning, or other advantages that are likely to
take them out of the patrolman's sight"
Police work involves much more than catching criminals. It is a - Answers complex, demanding job
requiring a wide range of abilities. Studies suggest that 80% of police officers' time is spent on
nonenforcement activities - the vast majority of the problems they attend are in response to citizen
request for service.
The majority of police actions have nothing to do with - Answers criminal law enforcement but involve
service to the community
Service to the community includes: - Answers peacekeeping, preventing suicides, looking for lost or
runaway children or vulnerable adults, protecting children and vulnerable adults, maintaining public
safety, assisting motorists with disabled vehicles, dealing with emergencies and crisis situations, such as
vehicle crashes and natural disasters, delivering death notifications, resolving conflicts, preventing crime
and educating the public
SWAT Teams are by nature - Answers reactive
, The number of SWAT units has - Answers grown rapidly, with the majority of departments serving cities
with populations of more than 50,000 having SWAT units.
In many emergency situations, SWAT teams are - Answers indispensable and have saved lives. It is not a
question of either-or
Marcou (2009) contends that SWAT teams are not - Answers reactive and that community-oriented
SWAT teams are becoming more proactive in their approach to problem solving.
As part of a proactive approach, SWAT teams - Answers members are establishing partnerships with the
community and learning that there are talents and resources outside of the agency at their disposal if
needed
Who are the Police? - Answers Traditionally, they have been a fairly homogeneous group: White, male,
with a highschool education and a military background.
Although the number of women and minorities going into law enforcement has increased over the past
decades.
Officers are still primarily White males.
Law enforcement candidates today are scrutinized as never before for signs of - Answers racial
prejudice, drinking problems, drug issues, and other factors that could be liability issues.
The background investigations for midsize to larger departments are very - Answers rigorous, often to
the depth of interviewing neighbors of a recruit's childhood residence, among other things.
Today police departments have more - Answers minority and female officers. The educational level is
much higher, and fewer have military experience. More officers are also interested in helping people as
they are in fighting crime.
The police culture has been painted in such a negative light due in part to - Answers reseachers, many of
whom have described a monolithic police culture focused on widely shared attitudes, values and norms
that help manage the strains created by the nature of police work and the punitive practices of police
management and supervision.
This includes a distrust and suspiciousness of citizens and a tendency to assess people and situations in
terms of their potential threat, a lay-low or "cover-your-ass" orientation to police work, a strong
emphasis on the law enforcement elements of the police role, a we-versus-them attitude toward
citizens, and a norm of loyalty to their peer group.
What is the Mission of the Police? - Answers To catch bad guys, prevent crime, maintain order and
protect the public.
A mission statement is a - Answers "Road Map" that delineates how an agency will arrive at a desired
destination. Without it, a law enforcement agency can wander, appearing inconsistent, inefficient, and
purposeless.
It can reveal rather accurately the state of the police-community relations.
The mission statement defines - Answers what the agency's commitment is to the community it serves
and how it views its relationship with the community.
The importance of the mission statement is summarized by Lewis Carroll's Cheshire cat in Alice in
Wonderland "If you don't know where you're going, it doesn't matter which way you go"
Neighborhood-Oriented Policing (NOP) program was perceived as - Answers more social work than
police work and was referred to as "Nobody on Patrol" - some service philosophy may not sit well with
some police officers.
As Klockars notes, because the police officers' domain is the streets: Those who - Answers spend their
time on the street will receive a disproportionate amount of police attention .. particularly people who
are too poor to have backyards, country clubs, air conditioning, or other advantages that are likely to
take them out of the patrolman's sight"
Police work involves much more than catching criminals. It is a - Answers complex, demanding job
requiring a wide range of abilities. Studies suggest that 80% of police officers' time is spent on
nonenforcement activities - the vast majority of the problems they attend are in response to citizen
request for service.
The majority of police actions have nothing to do with - Answers criminal law enforcement but involve
service to the community
Service to the community includes: - Answers peacekeeping, preventing suicides, looking for lost or
runaway children or vulnerable adults, protecting children and vulnerable adults, maintaining public
safety, assisting motorists with disabled vehicles, dealing with emergencies and crisis situations, such as
vehicle crashes and natural disasters, delivering death notifications, resolving conflicts, preventing crime
and educating the public
SWAT Teams are by nature - Answers reactive
, The number of SWAT units has - Answers grown rapidly, with the majority of departments serving cities
with populations of more than 50,000 having SWAT units.
In many emergency situations, SWAT teams are - Answers indispensable and have saved lives. It is not a
question of either-or
Marcou (2009) contends that SWAT teams are not - Answers reactive and that community-oriented
SWAT teams are becoming more proactive in their approach to problem solving.
As part of a proactive approach, SWAT teams - Answers members are establishing partnerships with the
community and learning that there are talents and resources outside of the agency at their disposal if
needed
Who are the Police? - Answers Traditionally, they have been a fairly homogeneous group: White, male,
with a highschool education and a military background.
Although the number of women and minorities going into law enforcement has increased over the past
decades.
Officers are still primarily White males.
Law enforcement candidates today are scrutinized as never before for signs of - Answers racial
prejudice, drinking problems, drug issues, and other factors that could be liability issues.
The background investigations for midsize to larger departments are very - Answers rigorous, often to
the depth of interviewing neighbors of a recruit's childhood residence, among other things.
Today police departments have more - Answers minority and female officers. The educational level is
much higher, and fewer have military experience. More officers are also interested in helping people as
they are in fighting crime.
The police culture has been painted in such a negative light due in part to - Answers reseachers, many of
whom have described a monolithic police culture focused on widely shared attitudes, values and norms
that help manage the strains created by the nature of police work and the punitive practices of police
management and supervision.
This includes a distrust and suspiciousness of citizens and a tendency to assess people and situations in
terms of their potential threat, a lay-low or "cover-your-ass" orientation to police work, a strong
emphasis on the law enforcement elements of the police role, a we-versus-them attitude toward
citizens, and a norm of loyalty to their peer group.
