Chapter 6: Patrol and Traffic

Differential Response

________: A management tool that broadens the choices for responding to police service requests.

Bicycles

________: These are better to use for community problems that would be harder to reach in a car also its faster than foot patrol.

Tour

________: This is when officers are assigned a sector each shift during their roll call.

Harbor or Water Patrol

: This is where officers use boats to patrol the water and its usually used in states that are closer to the shoreline.

Motorcycles

________: These are used to help regulate heavy traffic because its easier to move around on them since they are small.

1994 Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act

: This provided funding for 100, 000 more officers nationally to increase the availability of officers for foot patrol and other community policing functions.

Conflict resolution

________: Resolving fights in the community.

Reactive Beats

________: Random patrol is suspended and officers only respond when something is called in.

Fatigue

________: This is a feeling of constant tiredness or weakness and it is a result of a disruption of the circadian rhythm.

Maintenance restoration of control

________: Making sure people follow rules.

License Plate Recognition (LPR)

________ : This system reads the registration license from pictures or cameras.

Circadian Rhythm

________: This is a humans biological clock.

Proactive Beats

: Having an increase in random patrol (about 3 times more)

Aggressive Patrol

________: This is when police officers will increase patrol and constantly stop people from breaking the law even if its the simplest thing.

One Officer Car

________: This type of patrol can cover about twice as much area as a two- officer deployment.

Proactive Patrol

________: The practice of deterring criminal activity by showing a police presence.

Patrol Deployment

________: The determination of what officers should be where and when they should be there.

Response Time

________: This is the amount of time it takes for an officer or emergency service to reach you after you call.

Information gathering

________: This refers to gathering evidence for an investigation or any information that may help law enforcement better serve the community.

Police Services Study (PSS)

A study that resulted in finding out that 2/3 of patrol shifts are unassigned and that only 38% of encounters involved crime as the primary problem

Response Time

This is the amount of time it takes for an officer or emergency service to reach you after you call

Information gathering

This refers to gathering evidence for an investigation or any information that may help law enforcement better serve the community

Conflict resolution

Resolving fights in the community

Maintenance/restoration of control

Making sure people follow rules

Random/Routine Patrol

This is when an officer is assigned an area to patrol but they move around in that area randomly

Incident Patrol

This is a major part of random/routine patrol

Directed Patrol

This patrolling focuses on officers going to places that have been known to have a lot of crime or they focus on watching a single person/suspect

Proactive Patrol

The practice of deterring criminal activity by showing a police presence

Differential Response

A management tool that broadens the choices for responding to police service requests

Aggressive Patrol

This is when police officers will increase patrol and constantly stop people from breaking the law even if its the simplest thing

Kansas City Gun Experiment

A police patrol project that was aimed at reducing gun violence, drive-by shootings, and homicides

Saturation Patrol

Placing extremely high levels of patrol within a narrow geographic area

Integrated Patrol

This combines random patrol with another patrol depending on what is needed for the community

Kansas City Patrol Experiment

Routine preventive patrol in clearly designated police cars have minimal utility in reducing crime or fostering a sense of security among the populace, and resources often devoted to these tasks could be safely diverted elsewhere

Reactive Beats

Random patrol is suspended and officers only respond when something is called in

Control Beats

Allowing patrols to function as they had prior to the intervention

Proactive Beats

Having an increase in random patrol (about 3 times more)

Place-Based Policing Movement

A strategy based on the idea that police should prevent crimes from happening in the first place by proactively addressing long-term issues

One Officer Car

This type of patrol can cover about twice as much area as a two-officer deployment

Two Officer Car

This type of patrol is more safer because criminals are less likely to attack

Network Foot Patrol Experiment

This study showed that increased foot patrol does not in fact have a significant effect on overall crime levels

Motorcycles

These are used to help regulate heavy traffic because its easier to move around on them since they are small

Bicycles

These are better to use for community problems that would be harder to reach in a car also its faster than foot patrol

Horse Patrols

This was used for places that a car cannot reach or usually this means parks or forests

Harbor or Water Patrol

This is where officers use boats to patrol the water and its usually used in states that are closer to the shoreline

Patrol Deployment

The determination of what officers should be where and when they should be there

Rotating shifts

Refers to moving officers across different work hours or divisions in the department

Assigned shifts

This involves officers staying in the same workout or department for a long period of time

8-Hour Shift Structure

This is when officers work 8 hours a day for 5 straight days and then get 2 days off

12-Hour Shift Structure

Refers to when officers will work 3 days straight for 12 hours and then get the next 4 days off

2-2-3 Plan

This is when the department has 12-hour shifts where officers work 2 days on, 2 days off, and then 3 days on, 3 days off

Fatigue

This is a feeling of constant tiredness or weakness and it is a result of a disruption of the circadian rhythm

Circadian Rhythm

This is a humans biological clock

Beat

This is the location that an officer will patrol/police

Tour

This is when officers are assigned a sector each shift during their roll call

1994 Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act

This provided funding for 100,000 more officers nationally to increase the availability of officers for foot patrol and other community policing functions

Moving Violation

These are violations by drivers while the car is moving/

Routine Traffic Stop

These are stops for minor crimes such as speeding or not wearing a seatbelt

High-Risk Traffic Stops

Refers to stops where the officer knows that the person stopped has committed a felony

License Plate Recognition (LPR)

This system reads the registration license from pictures or cameras