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Police Administration Detailed Questions and Expert Answers
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Police Administration Detailed Questions andExpert Answers
The two biggest strategic influences on modern policing and administration? - ANS
-community policing
-homeland security
Systems Perspective - ANS emphasizes the interrelatedness among units and
organizations, the influence of external conditions on systems, and the importance
of feedback correcting and improving performance.
Traditional Perspective - ANS highlights administrative principles, management
functions, and the importance of written guidelines.
Behavioral Perspective - ANS stresses the human element in organizations, an
element that is often overlooked or taken for granted.
Strategic Management Perspective - ANS considers communications and
information systems, evaluation of police performance, the strategies and tactics
by which police work is accomplished, and prevailing and promising approaches to
increasing the effectiveness of police agencies.
________________ are at the vortex of all our hopes for a fair, just, and safe
existence? - ANS Police
,Police executives need to develop what to complement the community policing
strategies and tactics being implemented by their officers? - ANS community-
oriented approaches to police administration
What are the two primary concerns of police administration? - ANS 1-an internal
one, the performance of management duties within police organizations.
2-an external one, the implementation of policies and programs designed to
reduce crime and disorder and enhance public safety.
What are three ongoing concerns that continue to dominate the agenda of police
administrators? - ANS 1-terrorism
2-rapid changes in modern technology
3-coping with difficult economic times
Fundamental to American policing is the belief that? - ANS every person should be
treated as you and I would want to be treated.
The year 1829 marks the origin of what? - ANS organized, paid, civilian policing as
we currently know it. In that year, the Metropolitan Police Act became English Law
and allowed Sir Robert Peel to establish a police force in London.
Informal and unorganized law enforcement approaches, which had proven
satisfactory for centuries, were overwhelmed by what? - ANS the Industrial
Revolution
,The fundamental principles of Sir Robert Peel's Peelian Reform are? - ANS 1-The
police should be organized along military lines
2-Securing and training proper persons is essential
3-Police should be hired on a probationary basis
4-The police should be under governmental control
5-Police strength should be deployed by time and area
6-Police headquarters should be centrally located
7-Police record keeping is essential
++The foundation to Peel's approach are the first to principles.
Peel's approach to police administration can be summed up as? - ANS 1-
centralized organization with graded authority
2-selective and stringent personnel standards
One obstacle to the adoption of Peel's approach in the US was the enduring view
of police work as? - ANS essentially undemanding physical labor.
Stringent personnel standards in the early days of American policing were also
subverted by? - ANS the influence of local politics.
During the political era of American policing, which continued well into the 1900's,
decentralized organizational structures were? - ANS favored over centralized ones.
, Leading up to the Professional Era of Policing, police practitioners, academics, and
investigating commissions decried the poor quality of police personnel and
pointed out the need for? - ANS intelligence, honesty, and sensitivity in police
officers; called for stricter organizational controls, and thus reaffirmed Peel's
philosophy.
Among the individuals most vocal and noteworthy in support of both centralized
organization and higher police personnel standards, August Vollmer, Bruce Smith,
and O.W. Wilson agreed that? - ANS physical strength was an important attribute
by thought that good judgement, an even temperament, and other human
qualities and skills were more important. They also believed strongly in education,
training, discipline, and the use of modern technology in policing.
The Wickersham Commission found that? - ANS the American police were totally
substandard and that insufficient progress had been made from the 1930's to
1960's
Problems with Professional Model of Policing - ANS -the rigid, military approach no
longer seems to fit the demanding, unpredictable, discretion-laden nature of the
police job; nor does it seem appropriate for management of the better-educated,
more knowledgeable police officer of today
-the idea of professionalism may encourage police officers to think of themselves
as better than the average person.
-question of it's effectiveness seeing as during it's heyday in the 1960's and 70's,
crime was not reduced, but instead increased more than in any other time since
we started collecting crime stats.
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