Responsibilities of Police
This responsibility is about stopping bad events before they happen.
What is preventing crime?
A policing strategy that involves removing police from neighborhoods where they are not wanted and allowing community members to elect their own police.
What is community control of police?
What is the First amendment?
Police wear them to keep them accountable and make sure they do the right thing when they stop someone.
What is a body camera?
A collection of social institutions such as legislatures, police, courts, and prisons, that creates and enforces laws
This responsibility is one of the biggest of the police and involves them ensuring that people follow the rules.
What is enforcing the laws?
What is Community Oriented Policing?
What are your rights for phone calls upon being arrested?
1. One local phone call
2. Privacy when speaking to a lawyer
2. No privacy when speaking to friends or family
Policy that allows police to stop and search people when they have reasonable suspicion that the person committed a crime.
What is stop and frisk?
This responsibility is how we normally interact with police. For example, when we call 9-1-1.
What is responding to emergencies?
Drugs, Homelessness, Domestic Violence
What are examples of public safety issues that community oriented police will try to help with?
If a police officer stops you, what is one thing you might do? (according to our notes)
Remain silent, ask if you may go, do not consent to a search, (may accept other answers)
An officer is obligated to give you their name & _______________ if you request it.
What is badge number?
This responsibility is about helping the people that police interact with on a daily basis in order to prevent crime.
What is provide support services?
Why does community control of police propose electing your own police officers by neighborhood?
Because people believe it will create more trust between the police and their community.
Document that allows police to search your property.
What is a warrant?
The fancy (legal) name for stop and frisk. It is based on a case where a police officer stopped three men who were looking in the window preparing to rob a place. The police were able to stop them before the crime was committed.
What is a Terry stop?