CH 12: Community Policing

True or False: The concept of problem-oriented policing can be attributed to Herman Goldstein

True

True or False: The four elements of the problem-solving strategy are scanning, analysis, planning, and response

false

Four parts of problem-oriented policing

Scanning, analysis, response, and assessment

SARA

Which of the following was not one of the corporate strategies of policing described by the Executive Sessions on Policing?

a) Team policing

b) Strategic Policing

c) Community policing

d) Problem-solving policing

a) Team policing

Which of the following was not one of the human behaviors found by Wesley Skogan to be extremely disruptive to the community?

a) Public drinking

b) Youths firing gunshots into the air

c) Commercial sex

d) Street harassment

b) Youths firing gunshots into the air

Problem-oriented policing involves officers dealing with the ____

a) underlying causes of incidents

b) things as they are before them

c) community pressures

d) management priorities

a) underlying causes of incidents

Analyzing crime issues to determine the underlying problems and addressing those underlying problems is referred to as ____

problem-solving policing

What is the philosophy of empowering citizens and developing a partnership between the police and the community to work together to solve problems?

Community policing

The real responsibility for proper police-community relations rests with ___

every police officer

Officers practicing incident-driven policing___

a) seek to determine the underlying causes of incidents

b) act proactively by contacting merchants prior to an incident

c) tend to respond to similar incidents at the same location numerous times

d) generally walk a business beat and are not tied to a patrol car

c) tend to respond to similar incidents at the same location numerous times

The biggest threat to community policing and, consequently the biggest criticism of community policing initiatives is ____

a) the initial startup costs

b) the inability to keep police departments fully staffed and to keep money flowing to these initiatives

c) convincing local governmental leaders to participate in the programs

d) the capital investment for vehicles

b) the inability to keep police departments fully staffed and to keep money flowing to these initiatives

Broken windows model of policing

Theory that unrepaired broken windows indicate to others that members of the community do not care about the quality of life in the neighborhood and are unlikely to get involved; consequently, disorder and crime will thrive.

Strategic policing

Involves a continued reliance on traditional policing operations, but with an emphasis on crimes that are not generally controlled by traditional policing using innovative enforcement techniques, including intelligence operations, electronic surveillance, and sophisticated forensic techniques.

Community policing

Philosophy of empowering citizens and developing a partnership between the police and the community to work together to solve problems.

Problem-solving policing

Analyzing crime issues to determine the underlying problems and addressing those problems.