Deck 5: Community Involvement in Policing

Question 1

Which of the following is a specific component of community policing?

A) tasks force policing
B) problem-oriented policing
C) target hardening
D) selective policing

Answer 1

problem-oriented policing

Question 2

Which of the following is not a form of informal social control?

A) neighbors
B) families
C) criminal justice system
D) social organizations

Answer 2

criminal justice system

Question 3

Door-to-door contacts that police make with citizens to make policing more personal in nature is called

A) citizen contact patrol.
B) routine contact patrol.
C) home contact patrol.
D)neighborhood watch.

Answer 3

citizen contact patrol.

Question 4

Which of the following is a form of specialized patrol?

A) routine patrol
B) two-officer patrol
C) district patrol
D) foot patrol

Question 5

Which of the following programs involves the police providing citizens with an engraver to mark their personal possessions?

A) systems identification
B) web watch
C) specialized identification
D) operation identification

Question 6

________ is a reorientation of policing strategy from the view that police must work together with citizens to reduce crime, disorder, and fear.

A) Problem-oriented policing
B) Community policing
C) Tasks forces
D) Community rehabilitation

Question 7

Seattle's Community Crime Prevention Program (CCPP) developed as a response to which of the following crimes?

A) homicide
B) rape
C) burglary
D) motor vehicle theft

Question 8

Most research on community policing has a ________ level orientation.

A) micro
B) macro
C) major
D) minor

Question 9

Drug court, domestic violence court, teen court and reentry court are all examples of

A) traditional courts.
B) treatment courts.
C) innovative courts.
D) private courts.

Question 10

________ meetings are different from neighborhood watch because they are not surveillance-oriented.

A) Block
B) Community
C) School
D) District

Question 11

By building ________ , the police hope to encourage citizens to contact the police since they do not have to physically go to a police station.

A) bigger lobbies
B) smaller stations
C) interrogation rooms
D) substations

Question 12

During which era did police appointments come at the hand of public officials?

A) community era
B) political era
C) reform era
D) social era

Question 13

During which era did police commands become more structured around military channels?

A) community era
B) political era
C) reform era
D) social era

Question 14

A(n) ________ group of citizens are more likely to view the police favorably.

A) elderly
B) younger
C) African-American
D) Hispanic

Question 15

The ________ is an example of third-party policing that was implemented in Oakland, CA.

A) Third-party Oakland Experiment
B) California Civil Law Program
C) Beat Health Program
D) Minneapolis RECAP program

Question 16

The citizens ________ provides the opportunity to learn about the police profession and experience some of its complex operations.

A) volunteer patrol
B) specialized patrol
C) block academy
D) police academy

Question 17

The political era of policing was focused on building a bridge between the citizen and the community.

Question 18

Most research on community policing has been done from a micro level approach.

Question 19

The reform era of policing witnessed patrol work focused on prevention, rapid response and crime control.

Question 20

Minorities tend to be well represented in citizen police academies.

Question 21

Community policing involves a collaborative effort between multijurisdictional police departments.

Question 22

The COPS office in the U.S. Department of Justice helped enhance community policing programs.

Question 23

Crime control newsletters are a proven tool in reducing crime rates.

Question 24

Neighborhood watch programs are surveillance-oriented.

Question 25

School-police partnerships place officers in the actual school building has conclusively shown to reduce school crime.

Question 26

The elderly tend to have a more favorable opinion of police than do minority groups.

Question 27

________ believes that custom-fit crime control is better than an unimaginative, traditional approach.

Question 28

________ police academies give individuals an opportunity to learn about policing and experience some of the sensations that police officers would experience.

Question 29

________ era policing sought to ensure that the police were authorized by legal mandates.

Question 30

________ consists of volunteers that drive their own cars and operate independent of police in watching over their neighborhoods.

Question 31

Police who work in schools are called ________.

Question 32

________ era policing sought to develop more intimate relations with citizens.

Question 33

________ bolsters the credibility of the police through police-citizen partnerships.

Question 34

The Guardian Angels were an unsanctioned civilian group that patrolled the streets of ________.

Question 35

Collaborative efforts between the police and citizens in addressing the crime problem have come to be known as ________.

Question 36

________ policing is geared toward identifying and solving problems.

Question 37

Detail the differences between problem-oriented policing and community policing.

Question 38

List some of the approaches that community policing might utilize in improving police-citizen cooperation.

Question 39

Describe what took place in Seattle's Community Crime Prevention Program (CCPP).