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20 Cards in this Set
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Police officer main requirements |
High school diploma, good physical condition, absence of criminal record |
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Police recruits need |
Preservice training |
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Four types of stress |
External, Organizational, Personal and Operational |
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Aggressive patrol |
A proactive strategy designed to maximize the number of police interventions and observations In a community |
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Directed Patrol |
A proactive patrol strategy designed to direct resources to known high crime areas |
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Hot spot |
A location that generates a high number of calls for police response |
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Three main features of American policing inherited from England |
Limited authority, local control, organizational fragmention |
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Three main features of American policing inherited from England |
Limited authority, local control, organizational fragmention |
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Frank pledge |
A rule requiring groups of ten families to uphold the law and maintain order |
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Four mandates of the English police 19 century |
To prevent crime without the use of repressive force, to manage public order nonviolently, to minimize and reduce conflict between citizens and the police, and to demonstrate efficiency by the absence of crime |
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(1285) statue of Winchester |
Established the first organized police force |
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Metropolitan police act |
1829 established the first organized police force in London |
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What is the jurisdiction of federal law enforcement agencies |
Enforce the laws of the federal government |
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Community policing |
Police should be close to the community |
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Functions sheriffs perform |
Operate jails, move prisoners and provide court bailiffs |
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Main characteristic of the organization of Police in US |
Local control and fragmention |
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Police have a broad mandate to prevent behavior that either disturbs or threatens to disturb the peace |
Officers handle the situation |
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Three characteristics of a bureaucracy |
Division of labor, chain of command and rules and procedures |
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Two basic reasons that urban residents sometimes resent the police |
Permissive law enforcement and police abuse of power |
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Five operational units of police departments |
Patrol, investigation, traffic, vice and juvenile |
