Deck 11: Recommendations

Question 1

A zero-sum game is the opposite of

A)a negative reward system.
B)a win/win situation.
C)zero tolerance.
D)tertiary intervention.

Answer 1

B

Question 2

Performance evaluations in a citizen-based policing setting should be tied to

A)organizational purposes.
B)discipline and punishment.
C)annual job evaluations.
D)ethics training.

Answer 2

A

Question 3

One way to do this is to encourage all degree-seeking students in two-year programs

Answer 3

to acquire the Associate of Arts.

Question 4

Among other things, an ethically proactive IA unit

A)initiates an investigation as soon as a complaint is filed.
B)seeks out officers who might be involved in illegal activity.
C)disciplines corrupt officers.
D)carries out in-service training.

Question 5

Police departments increasingly are using to assess the work of process and specific accomplishments of police officers.

Question 6

Pre-employment testing in selecting new hires can be most beneficial if departments

A)rely heavily on intelligence testing.
B)reject applicants who score too high on IQ tests.
C)develop a uniform test to be used nationwide.
D)Include skills-based tests and ethical decisionmaking as components.

Question 7

Black Swan anecdotes

A)contradict the underlying purpose of a course of instruction.
B)represent warnings about dangerous offenders.
C)refer to racist tendencies in police organizations.
D)represent examples in which recruits became better officers than their TOs expected.

Question 8

Caldero suggests that IA shift from a negative reward system to

A)positive reinforcement.
B)a zero sum game.
C)performance evaluations.
D)eliminating evaluations altogether.

Question 9

are designed to focus on controlling police behavior.

Question 10

An overemphasis on legal and administrative process to the point where ends are not seen as important is called .

Question 11

Third, recognize that police training should provide a certain amount of general elective

Question 12

A negative reward system is

A)one that grants privileges when an officer performs well.
B)one that encourages people to "just say no".
C)punishment oriented.
D)a zero-sum game.

Question 13

In most departments, engaging in noble cause corruption facilitates good recommendations and promotions, provided that

A)the officer can justify the behavior.
B)the officer doesn't get caught.
C)the officer meets departmental quotas for arrests.
D)the officer can blame someone else for the unethical behavior.

Question 14

The more important the performance evaluation is for a candidate's career, the greater the likelihood that evaluators are not going to provide useful distinctions among candidates.This pickle is known as the .

Question 15

Secondly, build reasonable articulation agreements between non-transfer degree

Question 16

Getting along with local populations is facilitated by hiring individuals with cultural and skills.

Question 17

An Internal Affairs unit that waits for a complaint to be filed before carrying out an investigation is classified as .

Question 18

Caldero's approach to IA asserts that the first and most important change needs to be

A)line officers refusing to be involved in noble cause corruption.
B)line officers opening up to "the brass."
C)at the top, with management leading by example.
D)at the top, with stricter enforcement of the negative reward system.

Question 19

Efforts to encourage a balanced perspective in police officers, toward the center of the ends-means continuum, need to be initiated

A)in the hiring process.
B)during POST training.
C)only in citizen-based policing programs.
D)when excessive crime control shades into corruption.

Question 20

Values are central to decisionmaking and

A)cannot be removed from police work.
B)can and should be removed from police work.
C)have been removed from police work.
D)never were a part of police work.

Question 21

Goldstein (1986) maintains that college education is a benefit to the police because

A)officers are older and more mature when they begin their careers.
B)the college experience makes an officer more authoritarian.
C)college weeds out the rotten apples.
D)all of the above.

Question 22

Oettmeier and Wycoff (1977) assert that performance evaluations can accomplish which of the following purposes:

A)socialization.
B)documentation.
C)system improvement.
D)all of the above.

Question 23

"Hiring toward the policed" means

A)basing the number of individuals added to the force on the amount of crime in a given neighborhood.
B)giving citizens input as to what they want police to be hired to do.
C)placing officers undercover.
D)hiring individuals who share the culture and language of local populations.