Deck 8: Policing in the Community

Question 1

What are the names of the three Rs of police work that emerged in the 1920s and 1930s?

A) random patrol,rapid response,reactive investigation
B) random patrol,rapid response,receptive investigation
C) routine patrol,response oriented,reactive investigation
D) routine patrol,response oriented,receptive investigation

Answer 1

A

Question 2

A police service hires a variety of civilian employees to staff a local community police station.What element of community policing does this demonstrate?

A) structural element
B) executive element
C) organizational element
D) administrative element

Answer 2

C

Question 3

Which of the following statements describes the experiences of Aboriginals residing in Canada?

A) Aboriginals have lower arrest rates than non-Aboriginals.
B) Aboriginals report higher levels of public support for and confidence in the police.
C) Aboriginal families are more likely to be two-parent families than single-parent families.
D) Urban Aboriginals are more likely to experience domestic violence than urban non-Aboriginals.

Answer 3

D

Question 4

A new police officer participates in a mandatory training program (the first in Canada)to learn about homophobic violence and to facilitate positive relationships with the LGBT community in the city.What city does the officer work in?

A) Windsor,Ontario
B) Winnipeg,Manitoba
C) Regina,Saskatchewan
D) Vancouver,British Columbia

Question 5

The Kansas City Preventive Patrol Experiment was conducted in the early 1970s.What did this experiment find?

A) doubled patrol coverage reduced crime
B) random preventive patrolling decreased disorder
C) doubled patrol coverage did not increase citizen satisfaction with the police
D) random preventive patrolling facilitated the development of community partnerships

Question 6

A police service establishes connections with a community mental health organization to address some of the needs of the persons with mental illness that they interact with on a day-to-day basis.Which element of community policing does this exemplify?

A) tactical element
B) external element
C) strategic element
D) integrated element

Question 7

A municipal police service and its officers have been involved in their city's annual "Walk for Multiple Sclerosis" for ten years,raising money for the cause.What does this involvement exemplify?

A) public-sector partnership
B) private-sector partnership
C) police-community partnership
D) non-governmental organization partnership

Question 8

What are the three Ps of community policing?

A) prevention,problem solving,partnership
B) patterned patrol,prescriptive,partnership
C) prevention,problem solving,participation
D) patterned patrol,prescriptive,participation

Question 9

Which of the following does NOT account for the gap between the rhetoric and the reality of community policing?

A) lack of participation by communities
B) absence of sustainable police-community partnerships
C) community dissatisfaction with agency-community relationships
D) failure to identify the roles and responsibilities of communities and neighbourhoods

Question 10

What approval rating do the police typically receive from Canadians?

A) 20 percent
B) 40 percent
C) 60 percent
D) 80 percent

Question 11

A middle-aged man asks the young woman who lives next door to him if she is interested in participating in a group that works closely with law enforcement officials in assessing and addressing local issues.What type of group he is asking her to join?

A) community-police liaison committee
B) community-police empowerment team
C) neighbourhood-police liaison committee
D) neighbourhood-police empowerment team

Question 12

What approval rating does the National Parole Board typically receive from Canadians?

A) 4 percent
B) 14 percent
C) 24 percent
D) 34 percent

Question 13

In a typical shift,two police partners spend the majority of their time responding to 9-1-1 calls for service and the remainder of their time patrolling targeted high-problem areas.Which policing model does their police service follow?

A) problem policing model
B) traditional policing model
C) community policing model
D) integrated programming model

Question 14

Which "southern" Canadian city has the largest population of Inuit across the country?

A) Brooks,Alberta
B) Ottawa,Ontario
C) Winnipeg,Manitoba
D) Saskatoon,Saskatchewan

Question 15

An Aboriginal teenager living in an urban centre becomes involved with the local police service,receiving leadership guidance from police officers,and benefits from Aboriginal-specific programs and organizations.Which police service is providing the Aboriginal teenager with these opportunities?

A) Toronto Police Service
B) Saskatoon Police Service
C) Edmonton Police Service
D) Abbotsford Police Service

Question 16

In a typical shift,two police partners spend the majority of their time responding to 9-1-1 calls for service,and the remainder of their time driving around the city waiting until they receive another call.Which police model does their service follow?

A) SARA model of police work
B) professional model of police work
C) crime attack model of police work
D) restorative justice model of police work

Question 17

Approximately what percentage of Canadians are Aboriginal people?

A) 3 percent
B) 4 percent
C) 5 percent
D) 6 percent

Question 18

Which of the following is NOT a feature of community policing?

A) It requires department-wide commitment.
B) It is an organizational strategy and philosophy.
C) It rests on decentralizing and personalizing police services.
D) It is a "one size fits all" policing model that must be applied consistently.

Question 19

How many core elements of community-based strategic policing are there?

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

Question 20

Which element of community-based strategic policing is defined as "how a police service is structured to implement community policing"?

A) internal element
B) political element
C) directorial element
D) organizational element

Question 21

Community policing reduces the number of complaints the public makes about the police.

Question 22

During the 1990s,the concept of community policing re-emerged in Canada.

Question 23

Canadians have typically given the police high approval ratings.

Question 24

Define community engagement and describe two ways police services can increase community involvement in community policing initiatives.

Question 25

Identify and discuss the features of community policing as a concept.

Question 26

Community policing increases job satisfaction among police officers.

Question 27

Discuss two limitations of the professional model of police work.

Question 28

Random patrol is also known as the watch system.

Question 29

Reactive police arrests serve as a general deterrent to criminal activity.

Question 30

Describe two recommendations from the review conducted by the Steering Committee into the death of Raymond Silverfox.Discuss whether you think these recommendations sufficiently address the issues that led to Silverfox's death in police custody.

Question 31

Results from the Kansas City Preventive Patrol Experiment demonstrate how doubling patrol coverage helps reduce victimization rates.

Question 32

Discuss the role of police legitimacy and the relationship between community policing and police legitimacy.

Question 33

Reduced response times seem to have little impact on crime rates.

Question 34

Discuss the beginning of the professional model of police work and identify the three Rs of the professional model of police work.

Question 35

Community policing decreases the productivity of police officers.

Question 36

The concept of community within community policing reflects Peel's principles that were set out in the early 1800s.

Question 37

Describe community-based strategic policing,including reference to the three elements of the model.