Minorities and Ethics
Unequal treatment of persons in personnel decisions on the basis of their race, religion, national origin, gender, or sexual orientation.
Discrimination
Who is the most visible entity of the criminal justice system?
Patrol Officer
Who starts the investigation process?
Patrol officer
In Geographic Targeting what is the core focus?
Hot Spots
What is a major issue with undercover surveillance
Expensive, tedious, demoralizing
Which is not a challenge for minorities being represented in policing?
Recruitment, Discrimination, Immigration, Poor Pay
Poor Pay
Most SMART policing strategies are _______ oriented
Smart policing is combining Law Enforcement with academics.
Community
What are field notes?
Brief written record from time arrived to end
Which of the following is not considered a suppressible crime?
Gang related shootings, street theft, vandalism, domestic violence
Domestic Violence
What is the most common form of money making for gangs?
Drug dealing
Which of the following is not a reason for police corruption?
stress, discretion, personality, cynicism, all are
All are
What are the two types of Tactical Operations?
Aggressive Patrol and Saturation
What is the detective mystique concept?
Idea that detective work is glamorous, exciting, and dangerous
What are the three aspects of the Routine Activities Theory?
Motivated offender, suitable target, lack of guardianship
When targeting offenders, what is the most common police tactic?
Broken Windows Enforcement
What are the four types of police corruption? Hint not meat eaters or grass eaters
Gratuities, Bribes, Theft/burglary, Internal Corruption
What are the three things that make up police response time?
Time between the crime and when someone calls, time it takes call to be processed, travel time.
What are the three types of repeat offenders?
Persistent offenders: over a long period of time
High rate offenders: a lot of crimes
Dangerous offenders (violent)
What are the four types of drug crackdown interventions?
Buy and bust, buy and warrant, buy and walk, surveillance
Who are considered the four "usual suspects"
Offenders creating disorder
Known or repeat offenders
parolees
Gang members
Three stages of Deception
Investigation, Interrogation, Testimony
What is the difference between aggressive patrol and saturation?
Increase stops for minor offenses, saturation increase the number of officers in given area
What are the four solvability factors?
Is there a witness?
Is a suspect named or known?
Can a suspect be identified?
Will the complainant cooperate in the investigation?
What is the argument against racial profiling?
Inner city and poverty. Minorities live in these areas and crime and poverty go hand in hand. Therefore police are called and you have more minority/police interactions
Explain the concept of "Tilting the economic balance sheet" when it comes to dealing with prostitution, drug dealing, and panhandling.
Be always around in those hot spots to disrupt their money making abilities. They aren't worried about jail so much as losing money.