Community Policing Final

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Strategic Planning is

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a leadership tool and a process; it is primarily used for one purpose: to help an organization do a better jobAto focus its energy, ensure that members of the organization are working toward the same goals, and assess and adjust an organization’s direction in response to a changing environment.

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Some of the reasonsfor conducting a needs assessment or community needs assessment are:

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-To list and clarify existing crime and drugproblems

-To provide information to the public aboutproblems

-To provide baseline data for evaluation

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It is essential that chief executives view and communicate the idea that COPPS is a departmentAwide strategy, in scope, and adopt these four practices as part of the implementation plan:

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-Reducing the barriers to COPPS

-Providing incentives to all agency members to engage in COPPS

-Communicating to employees the vital role of COPPS in serving the public

-Show/train officers how to address problems

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One very important positive aspect of considering whether or not to implement COPPS is that

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it encourages many of the activities that patrol officers would like to do – to engage in more inquiry of crime and disorder and get more closure form their work.

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An impact evaluation establishes whether

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a COPPS initiative actually produced the successful outcomes.

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Citizen survey information is used for a variety of reasons including: providing information to patrol officers, evaluating program effectiveness, and prioritizing crime and disorder.

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providing information to patrol officers, evaluating program effectiveness, and prioritizing crime and disorder.

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Additionally, surveys also seek information on the “mental state” of the community, and they frequently address issues such as these:

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Attitudes towards police performance, fear of crime, future plans and intentions, concerns about specific problems, and suggestions for police actions.

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One of the challenges in training officers in COPPS strategy is that

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policing often attracts actionAoriented individuals – who tend to be more receptive to handsAon skills training.

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Bloom’s taxonomy includes six learning activities:

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Knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation.

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Peter Senge’s concept of learning organizations applies to COPPS and he feels that organizations must allow its employees to

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continually expand their capacity to nurture new and expansive patterns of thinking, allow their collective aspiration to be set free, and continually learn to see the whole picture.

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Police officers prefer to be instructed by

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other police officers.

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Roll call meetings afford an excellent opportunity for

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supervisors to update officer’s knowledge and present new ideas and techniques.

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As seen in several chapters of the book, and heard in several lectures; The Center for Problem Oriented Policing makes readily accessible information about

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ways in which police can more effectively address specific crime and disorder problems.

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The best defense for the police in regards to racial profiling allegations may be summarized in two words: Collect data.

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Collect data.

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A hate crime (bias crime) is one that is motivated by an offender’s

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bias against race, religion, disability, sexual orientation, ethnicity/national origin, gender or age.

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In the recruitment process, agencies should reach out to where prospects live, work, worship, and pray.

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reach out to where prospects live, work, worship, and pray

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Drug violations have

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eroded the environment, created undesirable role models for youths, and given rise to a wide variety of related criminal acts.

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Open-air drug markets represent

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the lowest level of the drug distribution network.

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A traditional police approach to a citizen’s call concerning drug activity typically involved

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showing up, taking a report, and leaving.

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Submarines (narco subs) are now being used by

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drug cartels to smuggle drugs into the U.S.

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The territorial type of gang graffiti is identified by

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some sort of marking of a gang’s territory, often in the form of an arrow pointing down.

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A significant feature of identity theft is that

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the offenders repeated victimization of a single person.

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Basically, Identity theft occurs when

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one steals personal information from a victim, such as a social security number, date of birth, or credit card number, and opens accounts and/or makes purchases in that person’s name.

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Identity theft is facilitated by crimes such as forgery, counterfeiting, check and credit card fraud, computer fraud, impersonation, pickpocketing, and even terrorism.

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forgery, counterfeiting, check and credit card fraud, computer fraud, impersonation, pickpocketing, and even terrorism.

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About 1/3rd of the adult homeless are

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chronically mentally ill.

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Regarding domestic violence, research findings recommended that

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communities with low unemployment have mandatory arrest policies

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COPPS, as in Austin, Texas, was fully implemented in a

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five-year transition.

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To professionalize problem solving, the Professional Executive Research Forum (PERF) and the San Diego, California police department founded the annual

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POP conference.

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In Arlington County Virginia, officers are

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responsible for turfs instead of shifts.

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Elmhurst, Illinois police use a “community sensing mechanism”

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utilizes newspaper articles, editorials, and comments from the chamber of commerce to gauge officer evaluation.

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Problem-Oriented Guides for Police cover a wide range of topics and include discussion of the

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specific problem, some methods for understanding the nature of the problem, and some possible police responses.

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Cybercrime will greatly challenge the police through such activities as

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data manipulation, software piracy, industrial espionage, bankcard counterfeiting, and embezzlement.

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Society of Police Futurists International (PFI) exists for the purpose of

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planning and forecasting police operations.