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2016 GC Chptr 23
Problem Solving and Critical Thinking
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12/06/2016

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23.1.1 What are the 3 things needed for effective communications?
Definition

Arranging

Positioning

Posturing

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23.1.1 What do you need to do to Arrange the Environment for Effective Communications?
Definition

Eliminate distractions

Add attractors

Enchance the evironment to facilitate communications

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What is the pricipal of reciprocal behavior?

Definition

Human actions often determine human reactions.

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23.1.1 What is needed for Positioning for Effectivety and Safety to help with Effective Communications?

Definition

Distance yourself far enough to be safe, but close enough to see and hear.

Face the subject squarely

Look directly at peoople to demonstrate confidence and attentiveness.

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For TCOLE, how far should you be from a subject for effective communication and safety?
Definition
18 inches to 3 feet.
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What should your posture be for effective communications?
Definition

Stand or sit erect to show strength and confidence.

Eliminate distracting behavior that interferes with focusing on what is important.

Lean forward slightly to show interest.

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What is arranging?
Definition
Means eliminating from the environment anything that might distract you or the person you are supervising or you are interacting.
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Another purpose for arranging is to make the environment __________,not______.
Definition
Pleasant, not stressful.
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The first subskill for arranging is?
Definition
Eliminating distractions.
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_________ can enhance the work environment in order to manage communications more effectively.
Definition
Adding attractors
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What is positioning for effectiveness and safety?
Definition
.It means placing your body so you are able to observe, listen or perform some physical act.
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The first skill for postioning is?
Definition
Distancing. Putting 18 inches to 3 feet between you and the subject.
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23.1.1 One of the functions of establishing the appropriate distance from someone is to enable you to what?
Definition
To see and hear clearly.
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23.1.1 What should you do If you anticipate trouble with someone who could possibly injure you.
Definition
Give youreself extra distance.
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23.1.1 It takes energy to ____ posture?
Definition
have good
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23.1.1 One of the clearest signals of being tired or having low energy is what?
Definition
Poor body posture.
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23.1.1The first subskill of posturing is?
Definition
Sitting or standing erect.
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23.2.1 What is critical thingking?
Definition
The intellectual discipline of actively and skillfully conceptualizing, applying , analyzing, and/or evaluating information gathered from or generated by observation, experience, reflection, reasoning or communication as a guide to belief and action.
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23.2.2 What is community policing?
Definition
A policing phylosophy that promots and supports organizational strategies to address the cause and reduce the fear of crime and social disorder through problem solving tactics and community police partenership.
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23.2.3 What are the essential apsects of critical thinking?

Definition

Dispositions

Criteria

Argument

Reasoning

Point of View

Procedures for applying Criteria

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What is dispositioning?
Definition
Critical thinkers are skeptical, open minded, value fair mindedness, respect evidence and reasoning, respect clarity and precision, look at difference points of view, and will challenge positions when reason leads them to do so.
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23.2.3 What is criteria?
Definition
Need to have a conditions that must be met for something to be judged as believable. To think critically, you must apply criteria.
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To think critically, one must apply what?
Definition
Criteria
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What is an argument?
Definition
It is a statement or position with supporting evidence.
Term

Critical thinking involves what?

Definition

Identifying, evaluating and constructing arguments.

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What is reasoning?
Definition
The ability to infer a conclusion from one or multiple premises.
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Reasoning requires what?

Definition

Examining logical relationships among statements or data.

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23.2.3 What is point of view?
Definition
The way one views the world, which shapes one's construction of meaning.
Term
In a search for understanding, critical thinkers view phenomena from______.
Definition
many points of view.
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23.2.4 What are 4 typical reasons for errors in reasoning?
Definition

Person fails to observe and use all relevant facts.

Person fails to approach a problem in a systematic, step by step manner; making leaps in logic and jumping to conculsions without checking them.

Person fails to spell out relationships fully.

Person is sloppy and inaccurate in colleing information and carrying out mental activities.

Term

23.2.5 What are methods of good problem solving:

Definition

Positive attitude

Concern for accuracy

Breaking the problem into parts

Avoid guessing

Activeness in problem solving

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23.2.6 What is an integral part of the phylosophy of community policing?
Definition
Problem solving
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The problem solving approach is what?
Definition
A methodical process for reducing the impact of crime and disorder problems in a community.
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23.2.6 What are the four steps of the SARA model?
Definition

Scanning

Analysis

Response

Assessment

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23.2.7 What is scanning?
Definition
The identification of a cluster of similar, related or recurring incidents through a preliminary review of informatiion, and the selection of this crime/disorder problems, among competing priorities, for future examination.
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23.2.7 What is Analysis pertaning to the SARA model?

Definition

The use of several sources of information to determine why a problem is occuring, who is responsible, where the problem is located, when it occurs and what form the problem takes.

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23.2.7What does analysis require?
Definition
Identifying patterns that explain the conditions that facilitate the crime or disorder.
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23.2.7 When pertaining to the SARA model, what is Response?

Definition

The execution of a tailored set of actions that address the most impprtant findings of the problems analysis phase.

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23.2.7 What should the responce phase focus on?

Definition

1) Preventing future occurances by deflecting offenders

2) Protecting likely victims

3) Making crime locations less conducive to problem behaviors

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232.7 Responses should be designed to
Definition
have a longer term impact to the problem and do not require a commitment of police time and resources that is not sustainable over the long term.
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23.2.7 What is the Assessment phase of the SARA model?

Definition

The measure of the impact of responses on the targeted crime/disorder problem using information collected from multiple sources, both before and after the responses have been implemented

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23.2.7 Assessment allows what?

Definition

Feedback from all resources including police and community.

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23.1.7 What are the 3 sides of the crime triangle?
Definition

Offender

Location

Victim

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23.1.7 What must be present for a crime to occur?

Definition

An offender

A victim

A locaton

Without all 3 a crime can not occur.

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23.1.7Once you figure out each side of the crime triangle you must do what before you can devise strategies to fix the problem?
Definition
Conduct an analysis.
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23.1.7 What must you do to develp an understanding of what is causing the problem?
Definition
Find out as much as possible about the victims, offenders and crime scenes.
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What percent of an officers duty involve verbal skills?

Definition

97%

Term

What percent of contacts require force?

Definition

3%

Term

What percentage of the time is a message received due to content?

Definition

7%

Term

What percentage of a message is received due to voice?

Definition

33%

Term

What percentage of the time is a message received due to non verbal (body language) ?

Definition

60%

Term

What percentage of the time is a message received and interpreted based on how something is said rather than what is said?

Definition

93%

Term

What are elements of incounters?

Definition

Problem
Audience
Constraints
Ethical Presence

Term

What should you do to redirect behavior?

Definition

Listen
Empathize
Ask

Term

What are types of verbal appeal?

Definition

Ethical Appeal
Rational Appeal
Practical Appeal
Personal Appeal

Term

What are the criteria for assessing whether a person is acting professionally?

Definition

Ability to communicate effectively with those persons outside of the profession.

Ability to accurately assess the situation and define the problem.

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