NYPD Policing Impartially Chapter 4
Exam Questions and Answers2
Communication Guidelines - ANSWERS-Explain yourself, dont assume that only criminals fear
the police, be wary of ethnocentrism, understand the effect of proper tactics on innocent
people, be wary of being intolerant, do not engage in racial profiling
Criminal Profiling - ANSWERS-Method by which officers, through careful observation of activities
and environments, identify a suspicious person who for perfectly legal and legitimate reasons
may be stopped.
Policing Impartially - ANSWERS-As police officers, you are required to enforce the law
impartially without regard to actual or perceived race, class, ethnicity, culture, gender, age,
sexual orientation, disability, immigration status or housing status.
Prejudice - ANSWERS-Attached to strong emotions that are often buried in past experiences.
Implicit racial bias - ANSWERS-A result of repeated exposures to the cultural STEREOTYPES
about different RACIAL groups
Implicit bias - ANSWERS-automatic STEREOTYPES and attitudes that we associate with SOCIAL
GROUPS.
Racial Profiling - ANSWERS-Refers to a police officers decision to make a stop or take other law
enforcement action motivated even in part on the actual or perceived race, color, ethnicity or
national origin of the person being stopped and the officers decision is not based on a specific
and reliable suspect description.
Exam Questions and Answers2
Communication Guidelines - ANSWERS-Explain yourself, dont assume that only criminals fear
the police, be wary of ethnocentrism, understand the effect of proper tactics on innocent
people, be wary of being intolerant, do not engage in racial profiling
Criminal Profiling - ANSWERS-Method by which officers, through careful observation of activities
and environments, identify a suspicious person who for perfectly legal and legitimate reasons
may be stopped.
Policing Impartially - ANSWERS-As police officers, you are required to enforce the law
impartially without regard to actual or perceived race, class, ethnicity, culture, gender, age,
sexual orientation, disability, immigration status or housing status.
Prejudice - ANSWERS-Attached to strong emotions that are often buried in past experiences.
Implicit racial bias - ANSWERS-A result of repeated exposures to the cultural STEREOTYPES
about different RACIAL groups
Implicit bias - ANSWERS-automatic STEREOTYPES and attitudes that we associate with SOCIAL
GROUPS.
Racial Profiling - ANSWERS-Refers to a police officers decision to make a stop or take other law
enforcement action motivated even in part on the actual or perceived race, color, ethnicity or
national origin of the person being stopped and the officers decision is not based on a specific
and reliable suspect description.
