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Police AdministrationThe two biggest strategic influences on modern policing and administration? - correct answer ✔✔-
community policing
-homeland security
Systems Perspective - correct answer ✔✔emphasizes the interrelatedness among units and
organizations, the influence of external conditions on systems, and the importance of feedback
correcting and improving performance.
Traditional Perspective - correct answer ✔✔highlights administrative principles, management functions,
and the importance of written guidelines.
Behavioral Perspective - correct answer ✔✔stresses the human element in organizations, an element
that is often overlooked or taken for granted.
Strategic Management Perspective - correct answer ✔✔considers communications and information
systems, evaluation of police performance, the strategies and tactics by which police work is
accomplished, and prevailing and promising approaches to increasing the effectiveness of police
agencies.
________________ are at the vortex of all our hopes for a fair, just, and safe existence? - correct answer
✔✔Police
Police executives need to develop what to complement the community policing strategies and tactics
being implemented by their officers? - correct answer ✔✔community-oriented approaches to police
administration
What are the two primary concerns of police administration? - correct answer ✔✔1-an internal one, the
performance of management duties within police organizations.
2-an external one, the implementation of policies and programs designed to reduce crime and disorder
and enhance public safety.
,What are three ongoing concerns that continue to dominate the agenda of police administrators? -
correct answer ✔✔1-terrorism
2-rapid changes in modern technology
3-coping with difficult economic times
Fundamental to American policing is the belief that? - correct answer ✔✔every person should be
treated as you and I would want to be treated.
The year 1829 marks the origin of what? - correct answer ✔✔organized, paid, civilian policing as we
currently know it. In that year, the Metropolitan Police Act became English Law and allowed Sir Robert
Peel to establish a police force in London.
Informal and unorganized law enforcement approaches, which had proven satisfactory for centuries,
were overwhelmed by what? - correct answer ✔✔the Industrial Revolution
The fundamental principles of Sir Robert Peel's Peelian Reform are? - correct answer ✔✔1-The police
should be organized along military lines
2-Securing and training proper persons is essential
3-Police should be hired on a probationary basis
4-The police should be under governmental control
5-Police strength should be deployed by time and area
6-Police headquarters should be centrally located
7-Police record keeping is essential
++The foundation to Peel's approach are the first to principles.
Peel's approach to police administration can be summed up as? - correct answer ✔✔1-centralized
organization with graded authority
2-selective and stringent personnel standards
One obstacle to the adoption of Peel's approach in the US was the enduring view of police work as? -
correct answer ✔✔essentially undemanding physical labor.
,Stringent personnel standards in the early days of American policing were also subverted by? - correct
answer ✔✔the influence of local politics.
During the political era of American policing, which continued well into the 1900's, decentralized
organizational structures were? - correct answer ✔✔favored over centralized ones.
Leading up to the Professional Era of Policing, police practitioners, academics, and investigating
commissions decried the poor quality of police personnel and pointed out the need for? - correct answer
✔✔intelligence, honesty, and sensitivity in police officers; called for stricter organizational controls, and
thus reaffirmed Peel's philosophy.
Among the individuals most vocal and noteworthy in support of both centralized organization and higher
police personnel standards, August Vollmer, Bruce Smith, and O.W. Wilson agreed that? - correct answer
✔✔physical strength was an important attribute by thought that good judgement, an even
temperament, and other human qualities and skills were more important. They also believed strongly in
education, training, discipline, and the use of modern technology in policing.
The Wickersham Commission found that? - correct answer ✔✔the American police were totally
substandard and that insufficient progress had been made from the 1930's to 1960's
Problems with Professional Model of Policing - correct answer ✔✔-the rigid, military approach no longer
seems to fit the demanding, unpredictable, discretion-laden nature of the police job; nor does it seem
appropriate for management of the better-educated, more knowledgeable police officer of today
-the idea of professionalism may encourage police officers to think of themselves as better than the
average person.
-question of it's effectiveness seeing as during it's heyday in the 1960's and 70's, crime was not reduced,
but instead increased more than in any other time since we started collecting crime stats.
Community Policing - correct answer ✔✔Beginning in the 1980's. Advocates a less centralized
organizational structure, closer ties to the community, a stronger focus on prevention, and a problem-
solving approach to police work. Supports the need for high quality personnel, by emphasizes education
and creativity over conformity, physical attributes, and unnecessarily rigid background characteristics.
, In community policing, police are varying their enforcement strategies and programs from one
neighborhood to the next, instead of? - correct answer ✔✔applying one uniform approach throughout
the entire community.
The same diversity that makes the US such a vibrant and resilient country? - correct answer ✔✔makes
effective and responsive policing a major challenge.
Legislative Branch - correct answer ✔✔enacts laws and appropriates funds.
Executive Branch - correct answer ✔✔implements and enforces laws.
Judicial Branch - correct answer ✔✔reviews the constitutionality of legislative enactments and
adjudicates alleged violations of the laws.
The police are part of which branch of government? - correct answer ✔✔Executive Branch
Policing in America is predominantly what kind of function? - correct answer ✔✔Local, with most of the
country's law enforcement agencies having ten or fewer sworn employees.
The bulk of the law that most police enforce is? - correct answer ✔✔state law enacted by state
legislatures.
Police administrators in what area are more likely to be given authority and responsibility for everyday
police operations and "professional" police admin is more apparent? - correct answer ✔✔the west
In the west and south what plays a larger role than elsewhere in law enforcement? - correct answer
✔✔the county
Particularly in the northeast the county is insignificant and frequently the sheriff is responsible only for? -
correct answer ✔✔serving civil court papers and running a county jail.
One aspect of the law that is always in flux is? - correct answer ✔✔constitutional law
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