Deck 12: Community Policing: The Debate Continues

Question 1

When officers reach the assessment process in the SARA model of problem-solving, officers:

A) plan further strategic movements
B) evaluate community policing
C) evaluate the effectiveness of the response
D) evaluate incident-driven policing

Answer 1

C

Question 2

Many believe that modern community policing began with James Q. Wilson and George L. Kelling's article "'____________________': The Police and Neighborhood Safety."

A) Littered Streets
B) Disordered Communities
C) Broken Windows
D) Dangerous Streets

Answer 2

C

Question 3

The Regional Community Policing Institutes (RCPIs) are part of the _____ program.

A) TOPS
B) COPS
C) TASP
D) COGS

Answer 3

B

Question 4

The problem-oriented policing process necessitates improving various skill sets. One of those skill sets is:

A) scanning
B) analysis
C) response
D) communication

Question 5

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

A) zero-tolerance policing
B) problem-solving policing
C) political-based policing
D) targeted policing

Question 6

The concept of problem-solving policing can be attributed to:

A) James Q. Wilson
B) Lee P. Brown
C) George Kelling
D) Herman Goldstein

Question 7

Which of the following is not one of the most important benefits of community policing, according to the scholar Herman Goldstein?

A) a more realistic acknowledgment of police functions
B) a recognition of the interrelationships among police functions
C) an acknowledgment of the limited capacity of the police to accomplish their jobs on their own and of the importance of an alliance between the police and the public
D) community control of the police

Question 8

More than ____________________ RCPIs provide regional community policing training and technical assistance to law enforcement around the country.

A) 5
B) 7
C) 9
D) 30

Question 9

Newark, New Jersey, has been using the broken windows theory for more than 10 years and has seen violent crime cut by nearly ____________________ percent.

A) 43
B) 53
C) 63
D) 73

Question 10

The 41st Precinct in the Bronx was nicknamed:

A) Little China
B) The View
C) The Flats
D) Fort Apache

Question 11

The Office of Community Policing Services (COPS) is part of the ____________________.

A) NIJ
B) FBI
C) president's cabinet
D) Chicago Police Department

Question 12

Who founded the National Center for Community Policing in East Lansing, Michigan?

A) Robert C. Trojanowicz
B) Logan Stout
C) Richard Hill
D) Rick D. Patterson

Question 13

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

Question 14

What involves a continued reliance on traditional policing operations?

A) strategic policing
B) community policing
C) citizen-based policing
D) political-based policing

Question 15

With incident-driven policing, officers tend to respond to similar incidents at the same location:

A) once
B) as tactical response units
C) with problem-solving tactics
D) numerous times

Question 16

According to Herman Goldstein, traditional policing is:

A) incident driven
B) community driven
C) patrol driven
D) service driven

Question 17

In the 1960s, changes in police management led to the abandonment of:

A) bicycle patrol
B) two-man patrol units
C) foot patrol
D) equestrian patrol

Question 18

The Executive Sessions on Policing focused and debated on the use and price of:

A) rolling traffic enforcement
B) adaptable computer databases
C) intelligence-led policing
D) community policing

Question 19

Which of the following is 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

Question 20

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

Question 21

The real responsibility for proper police-community relations rests with ____________________.

A) the police chief
B) the city manager
C) every police officer
D) the community relations officer

Question 22

David L. Carter of Michigan State University explains that community policing:

A) suddenly materialized as a new idea
B) evolved over time from research conducted by a wide range of scholars
C) is not widely accepted
D) is only the responsibility of police chiefs

Question 23

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

Question 24

Community-oriented policing is an approach toward crime that addresses the underlying causes of crime and endeavors to apply ____________________ problem solving to the issue through improved police-community relationships.

A) rule-of-law
B) long-term
C) zero-tolerance
D) short-term

Question 25

In what decade did increases in crime, technological advances, and changes in police management thinking lead to the reduction of police foot patrols and their resultant ties to the community?

A) 1920s
B) 1940s
C) 1960s
D) 1990s

Question 26

In "Broken Windows" and Police Discretion, George L. Kelling notes that the community policing model ____________________ the use of police discretion among officers at all levels of the organization.

A) reduces and limits
B) contracts and discourages
C) expands and encourages
D) both a and b

Question 27

The idea of problem-solving policing can be attributed to __________

Question 28

__________ involves officers thinking, not just responding to yet another call for duty.

Question 29

Community-oriented policing strategies have proven successful in:

A) only cities with a population over 50,000
B) only cities with a population over 100,000
C) only cities with a population over 500,000
D) cities of all sizes

Question 30

Texas State University-San Marcos worked with the San Marcos, Texas, Police Department to develop the ____________________ campaign.

A) Achieving Community Together (ACT)
B) Increasing Arrest Rates (IAR)
C) Community Crime Control (CCR)
D) Keeping Campuses Safe (KCF)

Question 31

Community policing is more easily facilitated with the __________ available today.

Question 32

The argument that community preservation, public safety, and order maintenance, not crime fighting, should become the primary focus of police patrol has come to be known as the __________ model approach to policing.

Question 33

Many large cities that are faced with rising crime problems are eager to hire administrators who are familiar with CompStat and "broken windows" policing and who came up under this successful police chief:

A) Jimmy Johnson
B) Daryl Gates
C) William Bratton
D) Rick Patterson

Question 34

What was the role of the New York City Police Department's Community Patrol Officer Program?

A) to serve high-risk warrants
B) community surveillance
C) to rid the neighborhoods of street gangs
D) identification of neighborhood problems and development of short- and long-term strategies for solving them

Question 35

The biggest recent 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

Question 36

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

A) community policing
B) zero-tolerance policing
C) political-based policing
D) neighborhood policing

Question 37

The seminal article in the Atlantic Monthly that many believe was responsible for the modern state of community policing was written by __________ and __________

Question 38

A very early attempt at community policing involving the development of decentralized neighborhood-based precincts that served as "storefront" police stations was tried in what city?

A) Detroit
B) Tampa
C) Miami
D) Hattiesburg

Question 39

Many believe that the modern state of community policing began with a seminal 1982 article entitled __________

Question 40

Which of the following is not part of a community policing operation?

A) kiosks
B) mini-stations
C) storefront substations
D) motorcycle traffic control

Question 41

__________ was established to administer the grant money provided by the 1994 Crime Bill and to promote community policing.

Question 42

Three corporate strategies for policing discussed at Harvard's Executive Sessions on Policing were strategic policing, community policing, and problem-solving policing.

Question 43

__________ involves a continued reliance on traditional policing operations.

Question 44

In a resident officer program, a police officer works in the same neighborhood he or she lives in.

Question 45

An untapped resource that can greatly contribute to the mission of keeping the homeland safe and that could prove to be an extremely valuable partner to law enforcement is the __________industry.

Question 46

The plan initiated in 1997 allowing police officers to receive 50 percent discounts and low-cost loans to purchase homes in "distressed" areas nationwide was called the __________ program.

Question 47

Programs through which officers live in particular communities to strengthen relations between the police and the community are called __________

Question 48

The 41st Precinct in the Bronx earned the nickname "The Alamo."

Question 49

Using a COPS methamphetamine grant, Salt Lake City established a task force involving more than 30 government agencies working together to prevent the use and production of methamphetamine.

Question 50

The concept of problem-oriented policing can be attributed to Herman Goldstein.

Question 51

Define problem-solving policing, and give three specific examples of actual problem-solving policing programs.

Question 52

Define community policing, and give three specific examples of actual community policing programs.

Question 53

Discuss the importance of the research of scholars James Q. Wilson and George L. Kelling to the concept of community policing.

Question 54

Researchers who traveled to St. Petersburg, Florida, to observe changes occurring in police roles and police-community relations after the implementation of community policing found that the citizens seemed satisfied with community policing.

Question 55

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

Question 56

Surveys indicate that the public does not support community policing and those strategies that are indicative of community policing.

Question 57

The authors of the seminal article "'Broken Windows': Police and Neighborhood Safety" were O. W. Wilson and Wesley K. Skogan.

Question 58

The 1994 Crime Bill provided that all new police officers hired in the United States would be paid entirely by federal funding.

Question 59

A __________ is an organization composed of individuals from various federal, state, county, and municipal law enforcement agencies in an area through which these individuals facilitate the gathering and sharing of intelligence information and the evaluation of this information.

Question 60

Many states and larger cities have created state and local fusion centers to share information and intelligence within their jurisdictions as well as with the federal government.

Question 61

Discuss how the war on terror has affected community policing.

Question 62

Discuss the difference between problem-oriented policing and incident-driven policing.

Question 63

Discuss how community policing strategies are being used in the fight against terror and the ways in which community policing can contribute to homeland security.

Question 64

Discuss the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services and the effect it has had on law enforcement. In your opinion, has this office been a success? What have been the positive and negative aspects of this office?

Question 65

Name three of the programs administered and supported by the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) of the U.S. Department of Justice and discuss them.

Question 66

Discuss the successes of the New York Police Department and its experience with community policing.

Question 67

Discuss the contributions of Herman Goldstein to the concept of problem-solving policing.