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Police-Community Relations Final ExamReview Questions and Answers
Broken Windows Theory - Answers -Officers were encouraged to address disorder and
incivilities in the community in order to prevent crime
CAPRA Model - Answers -Is intended to promote discussion in small groups of
employees, clients, and partners of of the Royal Canadian Mountain Police
Community-Oriented Policing - Answers -Comprehensive strategies designed to enlist
community support within designated geographical areas
Computer-Aided Dispatching - Answers -A means of reducing the volume of paperwork
in creating dispatch cards that documented police activities on incidents that did not
result in reports being written, in manually indexing police reports for retrieval, and in
manually collecting statistics on calls for service.
In addition CAD enabled police departments to capture and retrieve many types of
crime and operational data that had previously been unavailable or extremely time-
consuming to generate
Crime Analysis Programs - Answers -A set of systematic, analytical processes providing
timely and pertinent information to assist operational administrative personnel
1) Tactical Crime Analysis- used to identify crime tends and patterns
2) Strategic Crime Analysis- for preparation of statistics and summaries designed to aid
in long term operational planning
3) Administrative Crime Analysis- used to aid in administrative decision making on
social, economic, and geographic information
Mini-Stations - Answers -COP officers worked out of apartments. They walked the beats
within the housing projects, worked with neighborhood groups to solve problems, and
strove to promote cooperation and understanding within the areas served within the
public communities that they served
Neighborhood Foot Patrols - Answers -Emerged during the 1970s as an effort to correct
the deficiencies of team policing
, Peelian Model - Answers -The creation of a "New Police" as necessary to contend with
the increasing crime, class conflict, and social disorder that threatened England in
general and metropolitan London in particular
Problem-Oriented Policing - Answers -An approach to policing in which officers attempt
to engage productively with the community by:
1) Assigning officers to areas for longer periods of time to enable them to identify the
problems of concern to the community
2) Developing the capacity of both officers and the department to analyze community
problems
3) Learning when greater community involvement has the potential for significantly
reducing a problem
4) Working with those specific segments of the community that are in a position to assist
in reducing or eliminating the problem
Team Policing - Answers -Was an attempt to restore those needed ties to the
community while maintaining the standards of the professional model
Volunteers in Policing Service - Answers -Managed and implemented by the
international association of Chiefs of Police in partnership with the White House Officer
of the USA Freedom Corps, created after the terrorist attack on September 11, 2001 ,
and the Bureau of Justice Assistance, Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of
Justice, is the most extensive citizen volunteer program in American Policing
Weed and Seed Programs - Answers -When COP officers use their mini-stations as
headquarters for aggressive "get tough on drugs" operations
Zero-Tolerance Policing - Answers -Based on the belief that aggressive enforcement of
laws directed at combating disorder will motivate residents to better care for their
community, a policy that calls for the police to focus primarily on disorder, minor crime,
and the appearance of crime through interventions that vigorously enforce criminal and
civil laws and are conducted for the purpose of restoring order to communities.
Commitment to Crime Coverage - Answers -The degree of interest media has in crime
coverage
Crisis Guidelines - Answers -1) Use of unmarked or camouflaged cars and equipment
2) Extreme care in using inflammatory words and phrases (ex: "police brutality" "angry
mob" etc.)
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