Law Enforcement(Complete solutions)
Police Professionalism correct answers• The serious work on professions has centered in
specifying what criteria must be met to constitute a profession
• Most commonly identified criteria → an organized body of theoretical knowledge ***TEST
QUESTION***
- Advance study is needed to master knowledge
- Have a code of conduct, prestige
- Standards of admission, professional association
- Altruism is the driving force for wanting to practice the profession
Merton's criteria of Professionalism correct answers- Knowing (systematic knowledge)
- Doing (Trained capacity and technical skills)
- Helping (knowing and doing)
Becker's criteria correct answersIf you can't get people to call you one, then you are one
August Vollmer
*Test Question* correct answersFather of modern Law Enforcement
Chief of the Berkeley Police Dept. and created model for professional policing
- Mobilization of officers
- Police signal
- System of dispatch calls
- Modern records system
- Crime analysis
- Scientific laboratory
- Lie detection machine
What is the trilogy? correct answersIt is three studies that changed policing and its functioning
Kansas City Preventive Patrol study, Rand Criminal Investigation Study and Team Policing
Kansas City Preventive Patrol Study
*Test Question* correct answersstudied three types of patrol services to see what differences
each made:
- (1) Reactive districts received no regular patrol; officers who responded to calls entered and left
the district by the shortest routes
- (2) Proactive districts → were saturated with 2 or 3 times the normal amount of patrolling
- (3) Control districts → maintained regular or normal patrolling
*** the number of police officers didn't change anything***
, Rand Criminal Investigation Study correct answerssought to determine what factors contribute to
the success of criminal investigations and just what it is that detectives do because they weren't
doing the right thing. First cop has to control evidence
Team Policing correct answershaving multiple and different officers on patrol but it didn't work,
people need their specific jobs
LEAA (Law enforcement Assistance admin) correct answersit is a U.S. federal agency within the
U.S. Dept. of Justice. It administered federal funding to state and local law enforcement agencies
and funded educational programs, research, state planning agencies, and local crime initiatives. -
1970, this organization made available discretionary grants to those states that wanted to
implement minimum standards programs for police officers
POST correct answers• California Peace Officers Standards and Training Commission was
legislatively created to set minimum standards for selection and training of police officers. Many
units were not created until the late 60's and early 70's.
• These units play an important role in police professionalization. They essentially constitute a
professional licensing board and can revoke an officer's certificate to hold a job with any public
law enforcement agency in the state that issued it
1964 Civil Rights Act correct answersinvalidated Jim Crow Laws, title Vll forbade businesses to
discriminate in hiring, promoting and firing on the basis of sex, race, color or religion. But state
and local units of government were excluded from this requirement until the passage of Equal
Employment Act of 1972
EEO act of 1972 correct answers- amended title iiv, opened door for women to be used in all
types of assignments including patrol, and fostered more minority hiring's.
Patriot Act correct answerssigned into law by George W. Bush
Obama extended it 2011 allowing wiretaps, business records, more surveillance of "lone
wolves," meaning people in terrorist activity but not in terrorist groups
Community Policing
*Test Question* correct answersA operational and management philosophy that is uniquely
identifiable and characterized in trying to promote greater community involvement in the police
function
***Proactive and info based ***
• based on 5 principles
- A commitment to crime prevention
- Public scrutiny of the police
- Accountability of police actions to the public
- Customized police service (each area have different needs like colleges or ball parks)
Police Professionalism correct answers• The serious work on professions has centered in
specifying what criteria must be met to constitute a profession
• Most commonly identified criteria → an organized body of theoretical knowledge ***TEST
QUESTION***
- Advance study is needed to master knowledge
- Have a code of conduct, prestige
- Standards of admission, professional association
- Altruism is the driving force for wanting to practice the profession
Merton's criteria of Professionalism correct answers- Knowing (systematic knowledge)
- Doing (Trained capacity and technical skills)
- Helping (knowing and doing)
Becker's criteria correct answersIf you can't get people to call you one, then you are one
August Vollmer
*Test Question* correct answersFather of modern Law Enforcement
Chief of the Berkeley Police Dept. and created model for professional policing
- Mobilization of officers
- Police signal
- System of dispatch calls
- Modern records system
- Crime analysis
- Scientific laboratory
- Lie detection machine
What is the trilogy? correct answersIt is three studies that changed policing and its functioning
Kansas City Preventive Patrol study, Rand Criminal Investigation Study and Team Policing
Kansas City Preventive Patrol Study
*Test Question* correct answersstudied three types of patrol services to see what differences
each made:
- (1) Reactive districts received no regular patrol; officers who responded to calls entered and left
the district by the shortest routes
- (2) Proactive districts → were saturated with 2 or 3 times the normal amount of patrolling
- (3) Control districts → maintained regular or normal patrolling
*** the number of police officers didn't change anything***
, Rand Criminal Investigation Study correct answerssought to determine what factors contribute to
the success of criminal investigations and just what it is that detectives do because they weren't
doing the right thing. First cop has to control evidence
Team Policing correct answershaving multiple and different officers on patrol but it didn't work,
people need their specific jobs
LEAA (Law enforcement Assistance admin) correct answersit is a U.S. federal agency within the
U.S. Dept. of Justice. It administered federal funding to state and local law enforcement agencies
and funded educational programs, research, state planning agencies, and local crime initiatives. -
1970, this organization made available discretionary grants to those states that wanted to
implement minimum standards programs for police officers
POST correct answers• California Peace Officers Standards and Training Commission was
legislatively created to set minimum standards for selection and training of police officers. Many
units were not created until the late 60's and early 70's.
• These units play an important role in police professionalization. They essentially constitute a
professional licensing board and can revoke an officer's certificate to hold a job with any public
law enforcement agency in the state that issued it
1964 Civil Rights Act correct answersinvalidated Jim Crow Laws, title Vll forbade businesses to
discriminate in hiring, promoting and firing on the basis of sex, race, color or religion. But state
and local units of government were excluded from this requirement until the passage of Equal
Employment Act of 1972
EEO act of 1972 correct answers- amended title iiv, opened door for women to be used in all
types of assignments including patrol, and fostered more minority hiring's.
Patriot Act correct answerssigned into law by George W. Bush
Obama extended it 2011 allowing wiretaps, business records, more surveillance of "lone
wolves," meaning people in terrorist activity but not in terrorist groups
Community Policing
*Test Question* correct answersA operational and management philosophy that is uniquely
identifiable and characterized in trying to promote greater community involvement in the police
function
***Proactive and info based ***
• based on 5 principles
- A commitment to crime prevention
- Public scrutiny of the police
- Accountability of police actions to the public
- Customized police service (each area have different needs like colleges or ball parks)
