Deck 3: The Role of Community Policing

Question 1

Of departments serving populations of 1 million or more,what percentage reports to the Bureau of Justice Statistics that they have a specialized community policing unit?

A) 100 percent
B) 85 percent
C) 45 percent
D) 25 percent

Answer 1

B

Question 2

A macro-analysis of the effect of community policing on homicide and robbery reported

A) overwhelmingly positive effects.
B) strongly positive effects.
C) little effect.
D) no effect.

Answer 2

C

Question 3

Of four empirical assessments of community policing,how many reported an impact on crime?

A) one
B) two
C) three
D) four

Answer 3

A

Question 4

As a strategic approach,the only universal attribute of community policing is

A) problem solving.
B) structured community contact.
C) foot patrol.
D) deployment by analysis.

Question 5

The classical misuse of the concept of community policing is characterizing it as

A) a deployment model.
B) everything that works in policing.
C) an analytic tool.
D) a philosophy rather than a strategy.

Question 6

The fact that police officers rate generic community engagement as less important than citizens,as compared to direct law enforcement functions,is best explained by

A) the traditional police subculture.
B) police officers' more realistic assessment of the value of community engagement.
C) greater officer exposure to the consequences of criminal victimization.
D) cynicism among police officers.

Question 7

An Urban Institute publication notes that analysis of a program or intervention's costs and benefits is necessary because

A) programs are frequently politically driven.
B) there is usually no measurable benefit.
C) the costs might outweigh the benefits.
D) full costs are seldom accounted for.

Question 8

Police agency responses to a PERF survey measuring progress in implementing community policing in 2002 indicated that at least 50 percent had an initiative of

A) citizens on patrol programs.
B) court watch programs.
C) citizens helping evaluate officer performance.
D) citizen participation in the promotional process.

Question 9

A community policing program particularly subject to cost-benefit analysis is

A) neighborhood watch.
B) citizen advising groups.
C) problem solving using the full SARA model.
D) specialized community policing roles/positions.

Question 10

The difficulty in measuring the effect of community policing is similar to the difficulty in theoretical physics of measuring the veracity of

A) string theory.
B) relativity.
C) electromagnetic radiation.
D) Newton's laws.

Question 11

Analysis of citizen feedback in Fort Worth,Texas,indicated that a valid measure of the effect of community policing was

A) the absence of crime.
B) a reduction in petty or nuisance offenses.
C) citizen satisfaction with the police.
D) direct citizen engagement in neighborhood crime control.

Question 12

What event during the 1970s helped "set the stage" for new approaches to policing?

A) research indicating that citizen engagement reduces crime
B) research indicating that problem solving reduces crime
C) "nothing works" research
D) "everything works" research

Question 13

The term "community policing" fits the word usage category of

A) metaphor.
B) illusion.
C) idiom.
D) rhetorical sponge.

Question 14

Cordner's assessment of published reports of the effect of community policing reported results as

A) overwhelmingly positive.
B) overwhelmingly negative.
C) mixed.
D) never directly identified.

Question 15

An assessment comparing how regular patrol officers versus "community" officer spend their time found

A) that community officers spend far more time on foot patrol.
B) that community officers spend far more time engaged in conversation with citizens.
C) that community officers spend far more time gathering information from citizens.
D) no significant difference in how the officers spend their time.

Question 16

The inclusion of neighborhood management as a component of comprehensive community policing is best described by the term

A) appropriate.
B) inappropriate.
C) far sighted.
D) short sighted.

Question 17

Analysis of the array of community engagement programs tested in Redlands,California,found what difference in citizen attitudes between experimental and control areas?

A) Experimental areas were more supportive of the police.
B) Experimental areas were less fearful of crime.
C) Control areas were actually more supportive of the police.
D) No differences were found.

Question 18

Survey data compiled by the Bureau of Justice Statistics indicates that since 2000,the number of community policing specialist positions funded by police agencies has

A) decreased dramatically.
B) held steady.
C) increased marginally.
D) increased dramatically.

Question 19

It is suggested that tagging what term onto a descriptive phrase of a strategic approach is harmful?

A) aggressive
B) policing
C) deployment
D) initiative

Question 20

Among the array of community engagement programs tested in Redlands,California,which would likely draw criticism for overextending the police role?

A) neighborhood watch
B) parenting classes
C) citizen police academy
D) citizens on patrol program