Exam 6: Police Officers and Law Enforcement Operations.

Different departments allocate their officers in different ways-some departments have more officers on patrol than others,and some departments (such as in Houston,TX)stress criminal investigation.What factors might affect these different distributions?

When a force employs police officers from all demographic groups,the police gain legitimacy because they are seen as reflecting the interests of all people,and there may be reductions in race-based disparities affecting who is stopped,searched,or arrested.

____________________ and ____________________ are the two largest and most important units in a police department.

Which of the following is an example of a proactive strategy to combat crime?​

New communications technology within police departments has tended to fragment decision making.

Generally,police patrol duties in a democracy are organized to be ____________________.

The percentage of crimes that police believe they have solved through an arrest is called

How does isolation help to define the police officer's working personality?

The different types of patrol are foot,bicycle,and ____________________ patrol.

Police are mainly reactive when they are dependenton citizen calls reporting criminal activity.

Alan has always wanted to become a law enforcement officer. He has recently applied to his local sheriff's department. He holds a bachelor's degree from a state university and speaks Spanish as a second language. If hired, he will participate in a 16-week basic law enforcement course before he goes into the field. -Which of the following would not be a standard part of Alan's curriculum through BLET?​

Problem-oriented policing tries to find the underlying causes of crime.

The real threats on the job are called ____________________ stresses.

The word _________ is derived from a French word,patrouiller,meaning "to tramp about in the mud."

A system that assigns priorities to various calls for service is called​

The two most important elements of the police working personality are ____________________ and ____________________.

Which of the following is a consequence of the policy of differential response?

Police help maintain order by enforcing traffic laws.

Which of the following programs attempts to control crime through the collection of crime statistics and meetings to enforce accountability?

Police functions that directly involve field operations such as patrol and investigation are called _____ functions.