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Policing
Introduction to Criminal Justice (07-F12) at the University of New Haven.
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Criminal Justice
Undergraduate 1
10/15/2012

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The anticipation, recognition, and appraisal of a crime risk and the initiation of action of eliminate or reduce it.
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Crime prevention.
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A crime analysis and police-management process built on crime mapping that was developed by NYPD in the mid 1990s. 
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Comp stat.
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A minor violation of the law that demoralizes community residents and business people. Create physical disorder and/or social decay.
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Quality-of-Life Offense.
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Elected chief officer of a county law enforcement agency. The sheriff is usually responsible for law enforcement in unincorporated areas and for the operation of the county jail.
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Sheriff.
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A multiagency law enforcement facility designed to enhance cooperative efforts through a coordinated process for collecting, sharing, and analyzing information in order to develop actionable intelligence. 
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Fusion center.
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The administrative activities of controlling, directing, and coordinating police personnel, resources, and activities in the service of crime prevention, the apprehension of criminals, the recovery of stolen property, and the performance of a variety of regulatory and helping services.
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Police management.
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In police organizations, the field activities or supervisory activities directly related to day to day police work. 
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Line Operation.
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In police organizations, activities (such as administration and training) that provide support for line operations. 
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Staff Operations.
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The unbroken line of authority that extends through all levels of an organization, from the highest to the lowest.
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Chain of command.
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The number of police personnel or the number of units supervised by a particular officer. 

 

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Span of control.
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 A style of policing marked by a concern for order maintenance.
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Watchman style.
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A style of policing marked by a strict concern with enforcing the precise letter of the law. 
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Legalistic style.
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A style of policing marked by a concern with helping rather than strict enforcement. More likely to refer citizens to community resources.

 

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Service style.
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An area of police activity that recognizes the need to the community and the police to work together efficiently and is based on the notion that the police derive their legitimacy from the community that they serve.
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Police/community relations.
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The reorganization of conventional patrol strategies into “an integrated and versatile police team assigned to a fixed district”. 

 

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Team policing.
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A type of policing that retains the traditional police goal of professional crime fighting but enlarges the enforcement target to include nontraditional types of criminals.
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Strategic policing.
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A type of policing that assumes that many crimes are caused by existing social conditions within the community and that crimes can be controlled by uncovering and effectively addressing underlying social problems. 
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Problem solving policing. 
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Funneled federal funding to state and local law enforcement agencies.
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Law Enforcement Assistance Administration. 
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The application of social sciences techniques to the study of police administration. 
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Scientific police management.
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First large scale scientific study of law enforcement practices. Sponsored by the police foundation, it focused on the practice of preventative patrol. 
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Kansas City Experiment.
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A police management strategy designed to increase the productivity of patrol officers through the scientific analysis and evaluation of patrol techniques. 
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Directed patrol.
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An exception to the exclusionary rule. Law enforcement officers who conduct a search or who seize evidence on the basis of good faith and who later discover that a mistake was made may still use the seized evidence in court.
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Good faith exception.
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 The level of suspicion that would justify an officer in making further inquiry or in conducting further investigation.
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 Reasonable suspicion.
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Exception to the exclusionary rule that permits law enforcement officers to search a motor vehicle based on probable cause but without a warrant. 
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Fleeting-targets exception.
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A legal concept that provides a basis for suspicionless searches when public safety is an issue. 
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Compelling interest.
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A search without a warrant and without suspicion. Only permissible if there is concern for public safety. 
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Suspicionless search.
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The tactics used by police interviewers that fall short of physical abuse but that none the less pressure subjects into divulging information.
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Inherent coercion.
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