Exam 10: Community Policing and Drugs

At the retail level of enforcement, police may use which of the following tactics?

Which law enforcement agencies have the responsibility for combatting high-level drug organizations?

According to the text, this type of drug trafficking is very likely widespread in many communities and is virtually impossible for the police to stop.

There are two groups of people that have information about crime: criminals and the people who are unwillingly exposed to these criminal operations.

Informants are people who provide officers with information about drug dealing.

According to the text, traditional undercover operations can gather more and better information about drug dealing with less danger and expense than community policing.

Explain the hierarchy of drug enforcement and its response to what level of drug dealing.

is defined as "abrupt escalations in law enforcement activities that are intended to increase the perceived or actual threat of apprehension for certain offences occurring in certain situations or locations."

List and explain the six strategies to guide police administrators in drug reduction.

Most drug use relates to cocaine, and for the most part it has not been associated with crime.

In the end, high-level enforcement has little impact on the availability and price of drugs on the street.

Undercover drug buys consist of officers working undercover who attempt to buy drugs from street dealers in order to make arrests and cases.

Retail-level enforcement strategies attempt to reduce "discreet" and "indiscreet" drug dealing, with the latter more susceptible to control.

Drug nuisance abatement consists of civil remedies and third-party policing.

Moore and Kleiman (2003) include which of the following as a drug elimination strategy?