CHANGING TIMES
Research/Experiment
QUALITY OF LIFE
TECHNOLOGY
Miscellaneous
100
Police are now creating profiles on this online resource in order to catch pedophiles and receive crime tips.
What is "myspace?"
100
The Minneapolis domestic violence (DV) experiment revealed this.
What is "immediate arrests deterred domestic violence?"
100
This is a policing strategy focusing on detection and arrest of suspects for small crimes in an attempt to prevent them from graduating to more serious crimes.
What is "quality-of-life" policing?
100
Although changes/improvements in technology have allowed police officers better ways to fight crime, criminals have also used it for THIS.
What is "new ways to commit crimes" (ID Theft, forgery, computer crime, etc.)?
100
Name a common personality trait of a suicide bomber.
What is "weak personality, low self-esteem, impressionable, rigid thinking, or socially isolated?"
200
The increased terrorism threat that came after 9/11 and impacted police agencies so much had a PARTICULARLY significant impact on the way that local, state, and federal officers do this.
What is "intervention techniques for dealing with suspects?"
200
High police visibility that concentrates on crime hot spots is known as this.
What is "directed patrol?"
200
The primary tactic of quality-of-life policing (which has been criticized in NYC in the 1990s and in domestic violence cases) is THIS.
What is "zero tolerance?"
200
Even with the advance of technology to public police agencies, more and more people are turning to these groups to help fight crime.
What are "private police?"
200
This was found essential in the WEED & SEED program between federal, state and local agencies.
What is "substantial cooperation?"
300
Since 9/11 and because citizens have set up Neighborhood Watch programs, on a political level - police agencies have seen a marked increased interest in THIS.
What is "citizen involvement?"
300
Car break-ins at a port near Newport News, VA were meant to do this.
What is "retrieve drug deliveries?"
300
This was a major result seen in Chicago following their quality of life initiatives.
What is "reduction in homicide rates?"
300
This is benefit to Coplink, AFIS, GIS, Compstat, and other technologies with respect to defragmenting the problems between different agencies.
What is it allows agencies to share information quickly and accurately?
300
This was the result of the Kansas City experiment as far as the effectiveness of "routine patrol."
What is "routine patrol had no significant impact on the level or crime or the public's feelings on security?"
400
Due to changes in the legal environment over the past couple of decades (people sue more frequently), police are more likely to be this.
What is "sued" or "defendants in a lawsuit?"
400
This particular drug is extremely simple to manufacture in the US, although we have recently seen a decline in the number of labs as a result of aggressive policing.
What is "methamphetamine?"
400
For quality of life police strategies to work, it is essential that this strategy be linked to the existence of THIS.
What is "applicable statutes?"
400
Local police officers are often the first responders to incidents, as such their time is occupied with: ensuring the safety of victims, doing paperwork, and attending court hearings, instead of THIS.
What is conducting thorough investigations into the crime and the possible suspects?
400
Problems of this type of policing include: the fact that THEY do not need to comply with federal, state, and local laws; they don't have an government oversight; and THEY primarily serve the rich and wealthy.
What is "private policing/private security?"
500
This "policing" style has been shown by research to be the most effective form of policing, while still implementing department policy, regulations, and training.
What is "evidence-based" policing?
500
THIS is NOT a personality characteristic of a suicide bomber.
What is "high self-esteem?"
500
A study of arrestees in what city showed that quality of life policing had these 3 effects: 1) participants were aware that police were targeting disorderly behavior, 2) more police presence led to behavior changes, and 3) it had a deterrent effect on criminal behavior.
What is "New York City, NY?"
500
Despite the increase in technology, community policing, and undercover operations, this percentage of searches conducted by police departments are still considered unconstitutional.
What is "33% or 1/3?"
500
THIS can be done by both state and federal governments in order to put controls and oversight over private agencies.
What is "create legislation, licensing, and accreditation?"
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