Exam 11: Police in the Community

Which statement is true regarding how age impacts perceptions of the police?

___________ crime prevention, for the most part, focuses on persons and the community in an effort to identify potential criminals and high-crime areas and to address problems that cause crime.

There are multiple major dimensions that occur when community policing is successfully implemented. Within the ____________ dimension, the police must develop tactics to implement the philosophy of community policing which guidelines for the development of specific programs.

For which group of people does the attitude toward police mirror that of African Americans?

Primary crime prevention focuses on removing or reducing the criminal's desire to commit crime, whereas secondary crime prevention efforts focus on diminishing the criminal's opportunities to commit crime.

Females tend to view the police much more positively than males.

Problem solving consists of using the SARA model which has a four-step process. One part of the process, ___________ involves careful investigation of the problem and its attributes and identification of possible solutions.

Police ___________ is where people recognize and accept the authority of the police to the point that they willfully obey the law.

African-American people tend to believe the police are more corrupt than Caucasian people do.

___________ focuses on how the physical decline of a neighborhood, to a great extent, invites crime. A neighborhood in physical decline gives the appearance that no one cares about the neighborhood or what happens therein. Once potential criminals sense this situation, they are less inhibited and tend to commit many more serious offenses.

Which of the following is true regarding age and perceptions of the police?

We cannot say with certainty how females view the police relative to males.

There are multiple major dimensions that occur when community policing is successfully implemented. Within the ____________ dimension, community policing consists of several community-based elements that differentiate it from the traditional professional model such as broad police function, citizen input, and neighborhood variation.

Problem solving consists of using the SARA model which has a four-step process. One part of the process, ___________ involves implementation of a solution.

Problem solving consists of using the SARA model which has a four-step process. One part of the process, ___________ involves an evaluation of police efforts to measure the effectiveness of the solution.

Situational crime prevention, a form of problem solving, comprises opportunity-reducing measures that:

There are multiple major dimensions that occur when community policing is successfully implemented. Within the ____________ dimension, community policing is implemented operationally through reoriented police operations, problem-solving and situational crime prevention, and community engagement.

According to a Chicago study, which factors enhance public perception of the police?

Community policing as a model is complex because it:

In most jurisdictions, there is no such thing as one community; each jurisdiction is composed of numerous communities.