Chapter 2
This is the only all-purpose emergency service in society.
What is the Police?
The manner in which the police & public interact.
What is noted about the image of police aggression as seen on television?
It is overplayed.
Like racism, what has led the police into a conflict with a sizable portion of the American people?
Sexism
Perception, generalizations, deletion, and distortion are common.
What is to all people.
What does the text note about the important feedback from community groups to the police?
Feedback leads to improvement and goal attainment.
The rapid growth of community relations programs resulted from what events?
As young people mature from childhood into adolescence, their potential for conflict
What role do police officer view as their role?
Crime fighter
How did Sir Robert Peel view police community relations programs?
He emphasized that the police should be in cooperation with the people.
True or False: A strongly held value in our culture is that the informed and educated citizen is the best participant in democratic government.
True
The relationship between the police and the media is ___.
a complicated one
What style of policing views policing as a combination of crime control, order maintenance, and provisions of service?
Social agent
In the mid-1950s what city's police department established a public relations division that became known as one of the best functioning of its kind in the country?
St. Louis, MO
This model of police services delivery is one where government defines the safety needs as well as provide the means to achieve such safety level.
Traditional
The linkage between politics and police corruption has _____.
been a problem
If you were to say, police officers are heroes, always acting in the best interest of society and never making bad judgement calls. What role concept is being defined?
Subjective
Justice community, political community, human services community, citizens & the police are all examples of what type of community?
External communities
Police realize that community-wide respect and cooperation are ___?
difficult goals to achieve.
True or False: Regardless of the minority group in question the primary issues that are faced by the police are the same.
True