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law enforcement agency: - correct answer 1) Prevent crime 2) Investigating crime and apprehending criminals 3) Maintaining order 4) Providing other miscellaneous services Police Officer - correct answer ...

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law enforcement agency: - correct answer 1) Prevent crime

2) Investigating crime and apprehending criminals

3) Maintaining order

4) Providing other miscellaneous services



Police Officer - correct answer a nonmilitary person who is employed by a
government agency and has the legal status of a peace officer



Peace Officer - correct answer a status granted to individuals who have certain
powers not available to ordinary citizens and who provide certain legal protections.



Myths about policing: - correct answer The Crime Fighter Myth

1) Enforce the law

2) Investigate crime

3) Arrest criminals

Sources of this myth/How they are perpetuated

1) Entertainment media

2) News media

3) Police themselves



The CSI Effect - correct answer the influence popular crime and forensic TV
shows have on the public - especially jurors involved in criminal trials



Factors that shape policing - correct answer Police are 24/7

• People call and police promise to respond

• Police are generalists

• Authority to use force

, • Police are part of the system of social control



POP - Problem Oriented Policing - correct answer Herman Goldstein argues
that police should disaggregate their workload, identify recurring problems, and develop strategies to
reduce or eliminate those problems



COP - Community Oriented Policing - correct answer holds that the police
should work closely with community residents, instead of being an inward-looking bureaucracy; that
should emphasize crime prevention, as opposed to law enforcement; that they should decentralize the
decision-making authority rank-and-file officers, as opposed to the top-down military-style organization.



ZTP - Zero-Tolerance Policing - correct answer concentrates on relatively
minor quality-of-life issues such as urinating in public and "fare-beating" and argues that tough
enforcement on these minor crimes directly contributes to a significant reduction in serious crime



Team Policing - correct answer involves restructuring police operations along
neighborhood lines and decentralizing decision-making authority



The Father of Modern Policing - correct answer Sir Robert Peel



3 Eras of Policing - correct answer 1) The Political Era (1830's - 1900)

2) The Professional Era (1900 - 1960's)

3) The Era of Conflicting Pressures (1960's - Present)



Kansas City Patrol Experiment - correct answer tested the effect of different
levels of patrol on crime and found that increased patrol did not reduce crime, while reduced patrol did
not lead to an increased in crime or public fear of crime.



The Kerner Commission - correct answer created in 1967 to study issues of
race relations, found that hostility between the police and ghetto communities was a major cause for
disorder.

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