Hodgepodge
This term is used by police to describe areas of frequent criminal activity.
What are “hot spots”?
Advantages of law enforcement wearing these include that the footage can be used as evidence to support criminal charges or exonerate a suspect or the officer if a complaint is filed against them.
What are body cameras?
An officer who identifies with this style of policing strictly enforces “the letter of the law.”, and therefore would be frequently issue citations/tickets and making many arrests.
What is legalistic?
An example of this core function of the police includes conducting a search for evidence and making an arrest.
What is investigate crimes and apprehend offenders?
This type of policing’s primary goal is citizen involvement and satisfaction.
What is community policing?
An example of this type of policing is chiefs, sheriffs, and other agency leaders relying on research to evaluate their policing methods for effectiveness and efficiency.
What is evidence-based policing?
This term describes the process of combining geographic data with police report data and then displaying the information on a map as part of an effort to analyze where, how, and why crime occurs.
What is crime mapping?
Offenses that create disorder in the community and demoralize residents and business owners are referred to as these types of offenses.
What are quality-of-life offenses?
An example of this core function of the police includes precautionary patrolling of high-crime neighborhoods.
What is crime prevention?
This type of policing is an analytic framework used by police to identify problems and solutions, such as identifying situations that are requiring multiple calls for help and finding solutions for them.
What is problem-oriented policing?
The highest position in state police/patrol is titled the Commander/Director, and they are appointed into office by this person.
Who is the governor?
Recent uses and benefits of DNA include both suspect and victim identification as well as solving these types of cases/investigations…BRRR!
What are cold cases/investigations?
Most police officers spend the majority of their time writing tickets, controlling traffic, and doing this…hello, is there anybody there?
What is answering non-emergency calls?
An example of this core function of the police is a patrol officer making a traffic stop and issuing the motorist a citation.
What is enforce and support the law?
This type of policing seeks to identify and resolve neighborhood issues.
What is problem-solving policing?
The highest position in each federal law enforcement agency is called the Director and they are appointed by this person.
Who is the President of the United States?
Programs such as this use statistics to map specific criminal activity such as street crime and burglary.
What is Compstat?
This level of an officer would be the first to respond to a 911 call of a robbery at a gas station.
What is a patrol officer?
An example of this core function of the police includes doing welfare checks.
What is general calls for service?
This type of policing refers to the collection and analysis of information by law enforcement agencies to guide and inform police decision making from tactical and strategic levels.
What is intelligence-led policing?
Once a motorist has been stopped, an officer can order the driver out of the vehicle without justification, seize any items that are in ʺplain viewʺ, and do this to the driver if there are safety concerns.
What is frisk?
Advancements in fingerprinting have allowed crime scene technicians to obtain fingerprints from a wide variety of surfaces, such as weapons, leaves, and these objects often used to stuff pillows.
What are feathers?
When officers are given specific directions as to how and where they are to patrol, it is referred to as this type of policing.
What is directed policing?
Examples of this core function of the police include responding to citizen disputes and riots as well as traffic control.
What is providing for public safety and maintain peace and order?
This type of justice assumes crime control occurs more effectively in a joint effort.
What is community justice?