CCJS340 Exam 2 Police Community
Relations Questions and Answers
1950s- public relations - Answers -- aimed at middle class
- all about image- make police look good
1960s- police-community relations - Answers -- aimed at lower class
- improving quality of work to improve community- police relations
concepts of police community relations (PCR) - Answers -- people's police
- recognition of complex problems
- take an interest in human life (empathy)
- ongoing communication
- does not mean weakened enforcement
- does not mean officers are social workers
obstacles of effective PCR - Answers -- money/resources
- community distrust of police
- police distrust of community
- poor training of police
- scapegoating (blaming others instead of yourself)
- intimidating organizational structure of departments
traditional policing - Answers -- Large scale (200+)
- Quasi military supervision
- "Shift" responsibility (10 hrs)
- Frequent rotation
- Officers function as "generalists: and refer to "specialists"
- Reactive
neighborhood team policing - Answers --small scale (20 a team?)
-professional supervision (team leader, democratic)
-"ongoing responsibility"
-stable assignment
-officers function as both generalists & specialists
-proactive
community preferences (alpert and dunham) - Answers -- different neighborhoods
thought different things were important
- officers felt they were evaluated on the wrong criteria, wanted more subjective criteria
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