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Police Final ExamDirected patrol - correct answer ✔✔Officers patrol strategically to address a specific crime problem
This type of patrol is designed to prevent crime before it begins
- Might involve instruction to look for specific persons or types of crime, or to patrol certain areas
intensively
- These officers have a specific direction to follow
- Replaces uncommitted random patrol
- Focus on: specific crime, police philosophy, and community complaints
Split patrol force - correct answer ✔✔A method in which the patrol force is split; half responds to calls
for service and the other half performs directed patrol activities
- Assigned to either calls for service or direct control
Following the Kansas City study in 1972, police departments began to experiment with new patrol
methods such as the split force patrol
- The primary responsibility of these units is to provide a police presence
- Split force patrols are seen as a more effective and efficient use of resources in combating crime.
Differential response to calls for service: - correct answer ✔✔The police responses to calls for service
varies according to the type and severity of the call
Classifying calls according to their seriousness
,- Abandons traditional practices
- Importance of call determines response
- Use of alternative reporting
- Normally used in urban areas where the calls for service are so high that they cannot handle it
- *Get to the most critical calls for service*
Foot patrol: - correct answer ✔✔Police officers walk a beat or an assigned area rather than patrolling in
a motor vehicle
Positive outcome: greater community and citizen relations
Negative outcome: less efficient
Hot spot: - correct answer ✔✔An area receiving a high-volume of calls for service
- Areas that used high levels of police services- focusing on hot spots can make patrol more efficient
Random routine patrol: - correct answer ✔✔Officers *driving* around a designated geographic area
- There's no specific strategy
- Positive outcome: able to cover more area
- Negative outcome: not so great relationships between the police and the community
Kansas City patrol study (1972): - correct answer ✔✔The first study conducted to test the effectiveness
of random routine patrol
The Kansas City Police Department drew the conclusion that routine preventive patrol in marked police
cars has *little value in preventing crime or making citizens feel safe* and that *resources normally
allocated to these activities could safely be allocated elsewhere*
, - Citizens *did not notice* the difference when the frequency of patrols was changed
-Increasing or decreasing the level of patrol had *no significant effect* on resident and commercial
burglaries, auto thefts, larcenies involving auto accessories, robberies, or vandalism-crimes
- Citizens reported fear of crime was not affected by different levels of patrol
- Citizen satisfaction with police did not vary.
Newark foot patrol study (1978): - correct answer ✔✔A study conducted to determine the effectiveness
of foot patrol officers in preventing crime
- Modeled on the study of preventive patrol in Kansas City and focused specifically on whether the
increased visibility of officers patrolling on foot helped deter crime
- In Newark, citizens were actually able to recognize whether they were receiving higher or lower levels
of foot patrol in their neighborhoods (fear decreased when they saw foot patrol units and fear increased
when foot patrol units withdrew)
- In addition, they reported *more positive attitudes toward the police*
- Similarly, those officers in Newark who were assigned to foot patrol experienced a *more positive
relationship with community members*
- However, foot patrol *did not appear to reduce crime*
Omnipresence - correct answer ✔✔The impression of always being there
The legacy of O.W. Wilson - correct answer ✔✔By the 1950s, Wilson's ideas of police professionalism,
presented in "Police Administration", were widely implemented in police agencies across the United
States
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