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| Police Community Relations. The degree to which a police agency is responsive to the community, aware of the community’s social composition and has priorities for police action which reflect neighborhood concerns |
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| The 3 major predictors of police performance are: |
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o 1. Recruit training score
o 2. Probationary Evaluation
o 3. Education |
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| Feelings of isolation caused by public hostility cause the police to close ranks and become interdependent upon each other. |
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| The sub-culture of the police is called the |
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| Individual sentiments and ethical principles |
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| 3 major problems in policing |
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o 1. Selectivity process
o 2. Administration
o 3. Lack of articulated policies and guidelines |
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| 3 major functions of the police |
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o Law Enforcement
o Crime Prevention
o Community Service |
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o Prescribed Role – behavior that society prescribes or expects of the individual in the performance of the role.
o Subjective Role – behavior the individual feels is necessary for the performance of the role.
o Enacted Role – what the individual does |
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| Wilson’s 3 styles of policing |
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o Watchman style – order maintenance vs. law enforcement
o Legalistic style – law enforcement vs. order maintenance.
o Service style – middle class homogeneous communities. Low-profile non-formal intervention. |
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| The fundamental core of law enforcement and police-community relations is |
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| 5 authoritarian police personality characteristics |
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o 1. Suspiciousness
o 2. Cynicism
o 3. Violence
o 4. Conventionalism
o 5. Bigotry |
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| collective sets of values |
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| Police work is always done under _____ and involves some form of __________ beavior. |
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| Police work is always done under STRESS and involves some form of AGGRESSIVE beavior. |
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| a deep seeded distrust of basic human goodness |
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| The unambiguous consequence of danger in police work is a suspicious outlook on life. |
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| Public apathy is a causal factor for police brutality |
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| Police selection procedures are geared to weed out conventional applicants. |
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| Racial Prejudice can be a form of directed cynicism |
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| The greatest reason for police brutality is disrespect. |
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| Controlling and individual's behavior so it conforms to the interests and expectations of society as a whole |
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| 3 attitudes towards authority |
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1.Reverence/awe - authority is accepted without question.
2. challenge of authority - authority is respected but questioned and some intellectual proof is required as justification.
3. defiance of authority - authority is ignored or abused and only physical force or fear causes submission. |
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(bottom to top)
Need to survive
security
need to belong
ego status
self-actualization |
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| Behavior that is DEVIANT and has a specific victim or a clearly DELETERIOUS effect upon the total society |
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| The Police are a paramilitary organization. They have __________, _______________, and __________. |
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| discipline, authoritarianism, and conformity. |
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