Roles
What is a Role?
The rights and responsibilities associated with a particular positions in society.
What does Quick Decisions Making entail (three answers)
Making on the spot decisions on whether to use force, How to maneuver a patrol car, or whether to stop a suspect
What is a Directed Patrol?
When officers are given guidance or orders on how to use their patrol time
What is Terrorism?
the systematic use of terror or unpredictable violence against governments, public's, or individuals to attain a political objective.
What is CyberCrime?
The use of computer technology to commit crime.
What is a Role Conflict?
The psychological stress and frustration that results from trying to preform two or more incompatible responsibilities.
______________ increases the chances of malfeasance and corruption.
The Independent Nature of Police Work
What is CIS Crime Mapping?
The charting of crime patterns within a geographic area, has aided directed patrol.
What is Domestic Terrorism?
perpetrated by individuals and/or groups inspired by or associated with primarily U.S.-based movements that espouse extremist ideologies of a political, religious, social, racial, or environmental nature
What is an Operational Style?
The different overall approaches to the police job
What is a Role Expectation?
The behavior and actions that people expect from a person in a particular role.
What is Danger? (Can be generalized)
Police officers are often afraid on the job, and far too many are injured or killed. Because of the danger they face
What is a Field Interrogation?
A temporary detention in which officers stop and question pedestrians and motorists they find in suspicious circumstances.
What is International Terrorism?
perpetrated by individuals and/or groups inspired by or associated with designated foreign terrorist organizations or nations (state-sponsored).
What is a Traffic Accident Investigation Crew?
The special units assigned to all traffic accident investigations.
What has the role of Police been described as? (Four Answers)
complex, ambiguous, changing, and repressive.
"dealing with people who have committed horrible acts and viewing mangled, broken, and decomposed bodies". Is an example of what?
"Dirty Work"
"When the entire patrol section is instructed to make numerous traffic stops and field interrogations". This Practice is referred to as what?
Aggressive Patrol.
What are the three main categories of Terrorism?
state sponsors or international terrorism, formalized terrorist organizations, and loosely affiliated extremists and rogue international terrorists.
What does "Rap Back" do?
It uses fingerprints to identify individuals who have been arrested and prosecuted for crimes so the FBI can notify agencies about their own going criminal activity
What is a common source of Role Conflict for the Police?
The expectation that they should be social or helping agents at the same time they are expected to be control agents by arresting law violators.
Why is Quick Decision Making important?
Making the wrong decision can be fatal for the officer or the other person.
What is a Preventive Patrol, and what is its purpose?
A "systematically unsystematic" and observant patrol that attempts to prevent and ferret out crime.
What decade did the Modern Era of Terrorism begin?
1960's
___ occurs when someone appropriates another's personal information without his or her knowledge to commit theft or fraud
Identify Theft