Cj Exam 2: Ch 7

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Police Subculture

Back 1

The structure constructed by police officers consists of long standing rules of thumb, including: a special language, an ideology that helps shape a member's everyday experience(s), shared standards, and more.

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Policing Styles

Back 2

1. Legalistic: emphasizes law enforcement

2. Watchman: gives highest priority to order maintenence

3. Service: take all situations seriously, but recognize that all situations do not require arrest

Front 3

Four Officer Styles

Back 3

1. Enforcer: focuses on maintaining social order

2. Idealist: believes that protecting Constitutional rights is necessary

3. Realist: have little faith in the CJ system

4. Optimist: believes that police can genuinely make a difference in society

Front 4

Knapp Commission

Back 4

1973: A comprehensive investigation into the problem of police corruption.

Front 5

Scores

Back 5

Payoffs in narcotics enforcement

Front 6

William Chambliss

Back 6

Found corruption to be widespread in Seattle. Cambliss' study revealed that law enforcement can be a form of class domination.

Front 7

Operation Hammer

Back 7

An effort made by the LAPD to combat gangs, but it was discredited when officers destroyed four apartment buildings, mistakenly identified as crack houses.

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Community Policing

Back 8

A complex arrangement between law enforcement, citizens, community organizations, and public agencies. (Police should be apart of the community in which they work).

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Bad Apple Theory

Back 9

Suggests that police corruption stems only from a few bad apples, in an otherwise clean barrel.

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Driving While Black (DWB)

Back 10

The increased number of incidents where African American motorists have been stopped and searched is known as?

Front 11

Grass-Eaters

Back 11

Corrupt police officers who accept payoffs only if they happened to come their way

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Group Support Theory

Back 12

Suggests that the barrel is not so clean after all, and most officers condone deviance even if not everyone in the department participates in such behavior

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Meat-eaters

Back 13

Corrupt police officers who are heavily involved in recieving payoffs

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Order Maintenance

Back 14

A police function that focuses on keeping things under control and orderly

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Predictive Policing

Back 15

The usage of mathematical, predictive, and analytical techniques in law enforcement to identify potential criminal activity

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Proactive Policing

Back 16

The practice of deterring criminal activity by showing police presence and engaging the public to learn their concerns, thereby preventing crime from taking place

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Racial Profiling

Back 17

If race is the primary factor driving an officer's decision to stop someone, arrest them, etc, then RP is occurring

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Reactive Policing

Back 18

Police responding to specific requests from individuals or groups in the community