Exam 1: The Evolution of Police Leadership and Administration

Identify and describe the eras of professional policing development.

Early American policing was based upon all of the following EXCEPT

Early 20th-century police reformers believed that an administratively controlled police department commanded by a strong independent chief was the ideal administrative model for policing.

O. W. Wilson's principles of organizational administration include all of the following EXCEPT:

A learning organization continually enhances its effectiveness by:

Wilson and Kelling claimed that fighting crime is important; however, fighting fear is essential in order for communities to survive.

Describe and identify the relevance of Peel's Principles of Law Enforcement.

The first adaptation of the strategic management process in policing occurred in 1994 in the Chicago Police Department with the development of Compstat.

Community policing contains all of the following key elements EXCEPT:

A learning organization actively engages, evaluates, and adapts by continually assessing its environmental demands and operational methods.

Strategic management requires that a police department's chief executive and his or her administrative team create:

Police departments with less than a thousand sworn officers and limited specialization are:

The United States has one of the more decentralized and complex policing systems in the world because of the:

The period in which the development of American urban police departments began in the 1840s and lasted into the early part of the 20th century was identified by Kelling and Moore as the Community Era.

The art and science of formulating and implementing strategies to accomplish organizational goals and objectives is known as strategic management.