Deck 12: Creating Safe Communities

Question 1

The police will be unable to provide public safety if they fail to receive:

A) political support
B) qualified personnel
C) public respect and approval
D) better training

Answer 1

C

Question 2

According to the text, recent protest and civil disturbances have occurred because of:

A) lack of police training
B) lack of minority recruitment
C) use of controversial military equipment
D) challenges to the legitimacy of police use of deadly force against minorities

Answer 2

D

Question 3

The heart of the problem associated with police-minority relations is:

A) community resources
B) the distrust and misunderstanding minorities and police have of each other
C) limited political support
D) unconscious racism

Answer 3

B

Question 4

The ability of neighborhood residents to protect themselves against crime and disorder requires:

A) collective efficacy
B) community patrols
C) tactical training
D) more patrol officers

Question 5

Community refers to all of the following EXCEPT:

A) fixed place
B) relationships of mutual interpendence
C) a sense of belonging
D) political alliance

Question 6

According to the text, the modern community is characterized by all of the following EXCEPT:

A) close sense of personal belonging
B) consistent change
C) connectivity to the macro-society and world
D) residents have little sense of relationship to one another

Question 7

Neighborhood relationships depend upon all of the following EXCEPT:

A) ethnic and kinship networks
B) police patrol strategy
C) pedestrian and automotive traffic patterns
D) the amount of time residents spend in the area

Question 8

Unsafe communities are places where:

A) residents are without a sense of well-being or connection to their neighbors
B) police engage residents as equal partners
C) residents accept responsibility for what takes place in their community
D) individual citizens act on their own to protect themselves and others

Question 9

Planned working relationships between the police, residents, residential groups, and social organizations in a neighborhood are:

A) community association
B) community crime control team
C) police-community partnership
D) neighborhood night watch

Question 10

Broken Windows theory claims all of the following EXCEPT:

A) Citizen fear, created by disorder, leads to weakened social controls and more crime.
B) Community quality-of-life issues left unchecked eventually lead to the breakdown of community controls.
C) If the police engage in quality-of-life or order-maintenance policing, they could simultaneously impact serious crime.
D) If the police focus on serious crime only, communities will be safer.

Question 11

Community collaboration is built upon all of the following EXCEPT:

A) knowledge and understanding of the parties involved
B) responsiveness to the enforcement of community norms
C) trust, respect, and understanding between partners
D) communication consisting of an open and direct dialogue

Question 12

A police agency can develop a structured way for identifying, gathering, and analyzing relevant information to support collaboration and problem-solving efforts by:

A) undercover operations
B) meetings with political leaders
C) developing and maintaining a community profile
D) good interrogation techniques

Question 13

________________ are individuals who live in a community and are respected and used by its residents as a source of help in critical moments of need.

A) Appointed leaders
B) Acknowledged leaders
C) Sanctioned leaders
D) Political leaders

Question 14

Police-community-partnerships will result in failure if:

A) they involve organizations that can support local efforts
B) they involve strategies that support teamwork
C) they lack informed and committed resident and police leadership
D) they have the means to implement and sustain collaborative effort

Question 15

Implementing a community partnership involves all of the following EXCEPT:

A) identifying what should be done
B) identification of community problems
C) priortizing what should be addressed by the partnership team
D) ensuring that the residents follow police leadership

Question 16

Scanning involves all of the following EXCEPT:

A) use of community patrols to identify problems
B) identification of recurring problems of concern to the residents of an area and the police
C) identifying the consequences of problems for the residents and the police
D) determining the frequency of problem occurrence

Question 17

A working document that serves as a guide to the collaboration of partnership members as they implement a community problem response is known as a(n):

A) action plan
B) strategic plan
C) tactical operation
D) strategy

Question 18

Community-based associations who provide a sense of belonging and creativity to address issues and problems are:

A) vertical subsystems
B) horizontal subsystems
C) social subsystems
D) partnerships

Question 19

According to the text, keys to the successful community partnership include all of the following EXCEPT:

A) directing
B) monitoring
C) Measurement
D) evaluation

Question 20

Citizens' view of the legitimacy of the police is linked to:

A) the department's disciplinary process
B) crime control strategies
C) their judgments about the fairness of police decisions and exercise of authority
D) the openness of the department's communication with the public

Question 21

Kelling and Stewart (1989) maintain all of the following shape a community's defense against crime and disorder EXCEPT:

A) Community self-defense is primarily a matter of public professional policing.
B) Police tactics must be tailored to specific neighborhoods.
C) Tailoring tactics to neighborhoods will require decentralization of police authority.
D) tactical decision making at lower levels of the police organization.

Question 22

Numerous studies have concluded that police strategies designed to change social and physical disorder at particular places (quality-of-life policing) have no effect on violent, property, drug, and disorder crimes.

Question 23

Neighborhoods are a smaller sublocation within a larger community distinguished by common ties of family, ethnicity, social class, religion, and occupation.

Question 24

Crime-ridden, disorderly, and disorganized communities are characterized by high resident victimization.

Question 25

According to the text, mutual trust between police and citizens is the key to community stability, the integrity of the criminal justice system, and the safe and effective delivery of policing services.

Question 26

The ultimate goal of community policing is for the police to engage community residents as equal partners in addressing local crime and disorder problems.

Question 27

Community-police partnerships are the capacity of neighborhood residents to protect themselves against serious violence through the achievement of a common set of goals and exertion of control over youth and public spaces.

Question 28

According to Kelling and Stewart (1989), defense of neighborhoods is achieved by residents relying on the police as the only source of community safety.

Question 29

Effective community partnerships can achieve what individuals alone cannot.

Question 30

Community residents' fear is primarily shaped by their knowledge of crime.

Question 31

Public-police collaboration is linked to the public's perceptions of police legitimacy.

Question 32

Identify and define the difference between effective and ineffective communities.

Question 33

Describe Broken Windows theory and its relationship to quality-of-life policing.

Question 34

Identify and describe the steps the police must take to implement community partnerships.

Question 35

Identify and explain Kennedy's (2011) position on police-minority relations.

Question 36

Describe the characteristics of successful community partnerships.