Behind the Badge
This man was closely associated with the development of modern policing principles
Who is Sir Robert Peel?
Police depend on this support from the public to obtain information and prevent crime.
What is public cooperation?
Someone threatens a cashier and takes money from the register.
What is robbery?
Policing approach that emphasizes partnerships with residents and long-term problem solving
What is community policing?
Before transporting a prisoner, an officer performs this safety procedure to check for weapons or contraband, even if another officer already performed it.
What is a search?
This is the nickname for London police officers that came from Sir Robert Peel’s name
Who are bobbies?
This briefing gives officers their assignments and important updates before a shift.
What is roll call?
Someone unlawfully enters a closed store intending to steal. What crime is this?
What is burglary?
This theory connects unattended visible disorder with the possibility of further disorder and crime?
What is the broken window theory?
During a pursuit, danger to bystanders becomes greater than the need for immediate capture. Following policy, the officer may need to take this action.
What is discontinue the pursuit?
This pillar of character means treating people with dignity, even when you disagree with them.
What is respect?
An assault in progress with someone in immediate danger belongs to this response-priority level.
What is high priority?
Multiple people are killed during one incident.
What is a mass shooting?
This patrol experiment found that foot patrol improved residents’ feelings of safety even though it did not significantly reduce recorded crime.
What is the Newark Foot Patrol Experiment?
Officers follow these written departmental procedures to handle situations consistently and safely. They are often abbreviated as SOPs.
What are Standard Operating Procedures?
These are the three major policing eras discussed in class.
What are the political, reform/professional, and community eras?
This formal structure tells officers who reports to whom within a department.
What is the chain of command?
Killings occur at different locations without a cooling-off period
What is serial killing?
This approach involves identifying the causes of recurring neighborhood problems, developing responses, and evaluating whether they work.
What is problem-oriented policing?
Unlike a peaceful protest, this crowd disturbance involves group violence or destructive behavior.
What is a riot?
The policing era that emphasized professionalism and crime fighting while reducing political influence
What is the reform or professional era?
This study challenged the assumption that increasing routine preventive motor patrol would significantly reduce crime.
What is the Kansas City Preventive Patrol Study?
This feature distinguishes serial killing from spree killing
What is a cooling off period?
An officer should promptly obtain this type of assistance when a prisoner shows signs of medical distress.
What is medical assistance?
An officer responds to two incidents: a suspect threatens someone and takes their wallet; another suspect unlawfully enters an empty business intending to steal. These are the two crimes, in order.
What are robbery and burglary?