The allocation of additional police resources to the enforcement of laws with the intent of deterring illegal conduct.
What are crackdowns?
Concentrating police in areas where crime is most likely to occur.
What is hot spot policing?
Strategies in which the police depend on criminal intelligence to identify high-rate offenders on whom the police then focus enforcement efforts.
What are offender-focused strategies?
Ture or False: Foot patrols are often used to improve police-community relations.
True
Calls that deal with serious problems that have happened more than fifteen minutes before the call was made, where the perpetrator is still on the scene, where the likelihood of apprehension may be high or low, and where the preservation of evidence is urgent.
What are priority 2 calls?
Small geographic areas with a high concentration of crime.
What are crime hot spots?
Decay that occurs when an initial deterrent effect dissipates or disappears.
What is initial deterrence decay?
Decay that occurs when a residual deterrent effect dissipates and the normal level of crime resumes.
What is residual deterrence decay?
Police officers are assigned to these patrol areas within their jurisdiction.
What are beats (also known as police beats)?
Calls that are not serious in nature, where the perpetrator is still on the scene, and where an incident happened less than fifteen minutes before the call.
What are priority 3 calls?
A response to a call for service other than immediately dispatching an officer to the scene.
What is differential police response (DPR)
Crimes witnessed as they are occurring.
What are involvement crimes?
The amount of time that elapses between when a crime occurs and when officers arrive at the scene. It includes both citizen reporting time and police response time.
What is response time?
A collection of patrol areas (beats).
What is a command area?
Calls that involve nonserious situations where the perpetrator is no longer on the scene, where the likelihood of apprehension is low, and where an incident occurred more than fifteen minutes before the call.
What are priority 4 calls?
What does the acronym DPR stand for?
Differential police response
Computers mounted in police vehicles that are connected wirelessly to a department’s computer network and computer-aided dispatch system.
What are mobile data computers (MDCs)?
This occurs when an officer has reasonable suspicion that a subject is involved in criminal behavior so the officer conducts a stop of that person and searches that person for weapons.
What is stopping, questioning, and frisking (SQF)?
Command areas may also be referred to as:
precincts, districts, or divisions
Calls that are similar to priority 4 calls but involve situations where damage or loss is less than $10,000.
What are priority 5 calls?
Crimes discovered after their completion.
What are discovery crimes?
What does the acronym MDCs stand for?
Mobile data computers
Brief detentions by the police if there is suspicion of criminal activity.
What are terry stops?
Calls that involve emergency situations that are still in progress, where a perpetrator is on the scene, where emergency medical services is needed, and where the preservation of evidence is of an urgent nature.
What are priority 1 calls?
The most elaborate study of the effects of routine patrol on crime. The findings showed that routine preventive patrol does not prevent crime.
What is the Kansas City preventive patrol experiment (KCPPE)?