Police and the Community
Property identification projects are also called
"O-I" projects.
In the United States, domestic violence accounts for how much of the nonfatal violent crime women experience?
20 percent
What percent of children lived in households classified as food insecure in 2013?
21 percent
In 2014, how many people aged 12 or older were classified as having a substance abuse disorder within the past year?
21.5 million
Which three categories appear on the PIO triangle?
Action, Impact, Reaction
The practice of altering the physical environment to enhance safety, reduce the incidence and fear of crime, and improve the quality of life is referred to by which acronym?
CPTED
Which is the foundation for the protection, care, and training of children?
Family
Which is viewed by many as the cornerstone of the community?
Family
Which kills more people every year than floods, tornados, hurricanes, and lightning combined?
Police pursuits
Traditional policing in schools is incident driven; community policing in schools is
Problem oriented
Which characteristic was not shared among the 18 model programs evaluated by the Inner-City Crime Project?
Targeted those who were more affluent
What is the difference between tattling and reporting?
Tattling is done to get someone in trouble.
Which piece of legislation prevents stalking and domestic violence?
VAWA
Which takes on a nickname and writes it on public and private spaces?
a tagger
Which dilemma occurs when students hesitate to tell anyone that they are being bullied because of how it might be perceived?
Tell or tattle
The coercion involved in human trafficking can be
all of the above
Unintended consequences of video surveillance include
all of the above.
Lying to the media is
always a bad idea
The government does not have the power to finance the war on drugs by seizing drug traffickers' illegally obtained
slaves
A strategy to address the gang problem that includes treatment for youths, outreach, and referral to social services is
social intervention
A strategy to address the gang problem that includes education, training, work incentives, and jobs is
social opprotunities
A phenomenon created when the viewing public believes that every police force has access to high-tech crime solving gadgets is
the CSI effect.
The best-known citizen patrol is
the Guardian Angels
Operation Clean Sweep in Rialto, California, identified its drug problem using
the SARA model
The Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act is also known as
the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act.
Human trafficking crimes are defined in
the U.S Criminal Code
The large amount of crime that goes unreported is called
the dark side of crime.
Territory occupied by a gang is called
turf
Which is not a name for a laboratory that produces small-quantity batches of methamphetamine?
two pot lab
Females in gangs are
used as lookouts
Which is the most prevalent from of bullying according to the 2009 study mentioned in the text?
verbal
As police departments adopt the community policing philosophy and implements its strategies, public support is
vital
School should be viewed as
community
A strategy to address the gang problem that includes improved communication and joint policy and program development is
community mobilization
Stereotyping between the police and media is
dangerous.
Dealing with the substance-abuse problem does not require collaborative efforts with
dealers
The 40 ideals, experiences, and qualities established by the Search Institute to help youth are called
developmental assets.
Which is not an impediment to acceptance of community policing?
Community morality
Which drug is perceived by most Americans as neither dangerous nor harmful?
Marijuana
The 2014 NSDUH showed that how many people aged 12 or older reported driving under the influence during the year prior?
10 million
Crime prevention became popular in the
1960s and 1970s.
The peak age for joining a gang is
15
How many states engage in administrative license revocation?
41
In 2012, how many responding law enforcement agencies had a gang unit?
64 percent
Soundbites should be between
7 and 12 seconds.
Larger departments tend to designate whom to communicate with media?
A public information officer
Which is not one of the five underlying principles of CPTED?
Access prevention
Which is not a major component of CPTED?
Aggressive pursuit
Which of the following should be able to recognize child victims of violence and abuse?
All of the above
Which of the following suggestions is an effective response to drive-by shootings?
All of the above
General Colin Powell established
America's Promise Alliance
Which comprises research based on observation or practical experience?
An empirical study
National Night Out originated in
Arizona
Which is not a reason why police may be justified in withholding information from the media?
Because officers do not wish to deal with reporters.
Which is not one of the most common strategies traditionally used community policing?
Boat patrol
Which set of drugs are all currently considered to pose the greatest threat?
CPDs, heroin, meth
The text mentions that crime prevention efforts use the media alongside which city's police force?
Chicago
Which element of CPTED can have the greatest impact on how individuals perceive the livability of their neighborhood?
Community building
According to the text, which California city implemented a successful bullying prevention program using the Olweus anti-bullying model?
Chula VIsta
According to the 2015 Monitoring the Future, which drugs are decreasing in use?
Cigarettes and alcohol
Which is a benefit of conflict between police and media?
Constructive criticism
Which involves living an assumed identity to infiltrate a group or organization?
Deep cover
Probably, the most evaluated drug prevention program is
DARE
Which is not a gang prevention program?
DARE
Which police department mentioned in the text has a community involvement handbook?
Des Moines
Which is not an impediment to acceptance of community policing?
Discredited sponsors
Which occurs when offenders, aware of surveillance cameras, simply move their activity to another area?
Displacement
Which does not correlate with inner-city crime?
Ethnic background
Which Amendment guarantees the public's right to know?
First Amendment
Which study of community policing appeared to decrease crime, increase general citizen satisfaction with foot patrol, reduce citizens' fear of crime, and create a positive perception of officers?
Flint Neighborhood Foot Patrol Program
Which characteristic was not shared among the 18 model programs evaluated by the Inner-City Crime Project?
Focused on consequences of crime
Warrantless use of a GPS device violates which Amendment?
Fourth Amendment
Which protects the privacy rights of sex crime victims?
Freedom of Information Act
Which of the following teaches that milder illicit drugs lead directly to experimentation with and an addiction to hard drugs?
Gateway theory
Which is not an impediment to acceptance of community policing?
Government conspiracy
Which is not an effort to enhance crime prevention?
Guantanamo Bay
Which involves deception, but allows an officer to go home at the end of his shift?
Light cover
According to the 2015 Monitoring the Future, use of which drug has remained stable?
Marijuana
Which is not a local strategy for addressing gang problems?
Mandatory minimums
Which was created by the Office of Justice Programs to create a comprehensive approach to reduce gang involvement?
NGC
In 2016, the FBI added animal cruelty as a category in which program?
NIBRS
Is a qualitative evaluation better than an empirical study?
No, a qualitative evaluation is only different.
Which city developed Teaching Effective Alcohol Management (TEAM) to deal with underage drinking?
Ocean City, Maryland
Which is not a crime fighting technology?
OJJDP
Which step of CPTED is encouraged to prevent burglary and theft at construction sites?
Target hardening
Results of one survey showed that how many respondents felt one purpose of CCTV cameras was to spy on people?
One-third
Which is not one of the five underlying principles of CPTED?
Open borders
Which type of media are police and fire departments increasingly using to disseminate information to the public?
Social media
The Department of Justice launched
Project Safe Childhood
Which is not an impediment to acceptance of community policing?
Public rebuttal
Which is not an effective response to drive-by shootings?
Putting tracked guns in circulation
Volunteers may not serve as
SWAT officers.
The 2015 National Drug Control Strategy has how many core areas of focus?
Seven
Which is not a local strategy for addressing gang problems?
State legislation
Which refers to making potential objectives of criminals more difficult to obtain through the use of improved locks, alarm systems, and security cameras?
Target hardening
Which two Amendments are often incompatible when it comes to police and the media?
The First and Sixth Amendments
Which Amendment guarantees suspects the right to a fair trial and protects defendants' rights?
The Sixth Amendment
Which is not a criticism of the early foot patrol experiments?
They were too scientifically exact.
Which problems top the list of concerns of most neighborhoods and communities?
Traffic problems
A group of people who form an ongoing allegiance for a common purpose and engage in unlawful or criminal activity form
a gang
The police practice of parading suspects before the media is called
a perp walk.
Most recently, the adolescent birth rate was at
a record low
Use of bigoted and prejudiced language that does not in itself violate hate crime laws is called
a bias incident
When dealers sell only to people they know or who are vouched for by other buyers, it is called
a closed drug market
Which legislation is helping the war on drugs?
abatement statutes
A police-media relationship survey found that the factor most affecting this relationship was
accessibility to police data and personnel
Violent acts of delinquency are less likely to committed by youths with
after-school supervision
When dealers sell to all potential customers, eliminating only those suspected of being police or some other threat, it is called
an open drug market
An ongoing organization, association, or group of three or more people with a common interest in criminal conduct, and whose members must operate a motorcycle to achieve membership is called
an outlaw motorcycle gang
In court, parties' conflicting interests may result in
antagonism.
In the Rand Corporation's 2005 report, which did not make it more likely that a student would frequently resort to violence 5 years later?
attractiveness
Five or more alcoholic drinks in a row during the previous 2 weeks is considered
binge drinking
Victims of ATM robberies are usually robbed
between midnight and 4 a.m
A hate crime is also called
bias crime
Name calling, fistfights, extortion, and sexual harassment are all types of
bullying
The Safe Start National Resource Center helps support those working with
children exposed to violence.
Focusing only on those living around at-risk places rather than an entire neighborhood is called
cocoon neighborhood watch
Resistance to change is
common
Media stories often
confuse the public.
Some have expressed concern that the detailed and sensationalist media coverage following mass shootings and other terroristic events might feed a vicious cycle of
copycat effects.
The Sixth Amendment mentions
criminal trials.
The fact that violent or sexual victimization of children can often lead to their becoming perpetrators as adults is called the
cycle of violence
Speed display boards and volunteer monitors are examples of
enforcement responses.
Warning signs and awareness campaigns are examples of
engineering responses.
The purpose of surveillance is to
gather information
Effects of meth use do not include
excessive obedience
Delinquency is highest when
family interaction and controls are weak
In the rape category, the FBI documents only
forcible rape of female victims
OMGs are not known for
genocide
Unauthorized writing or drawing on public surfaces is
graffiti
A law enforcement strategy whereby local police direct intensive patrols to specific geographic areas with high rates of gun-related incidents of violence is
gun interdiction
Effective gun control strategies do not focus on
gun possession sentencing laws
A criminal offense against a person or property motivated in whole or in part by an offender's bias against a race, religion, disability, ethnic origin, or sexual orientation is
hate crime
Whistle Stop programs involve the modern version of
hue and cry
Americans worry most about
identity theft
Improved media relations lead to
improving community relations.
Traditional responses to preventing street prostitution have been
ineffective
Violence that occurs between two people in a close relationship is called
intimate partner violence
Which means of deterring crime has been around since ancient times?
lighting
The brief amnesia that may accompany a traumatic situation is
little understood
In many American families, the traditional bonds of discipline and respect between parent and child have
loosened
Most identity theft cases involved
misuse of an existing account
A gang member's nickname is called her
moniker
How many Americans report being victims of workplace violence each year?
nearly 2 million
Mothers Against Drunk Driving is a
nonprofit organization.
Most police chases are initiated in response to
nonviolent crime.
Changes to make crime more difficult, risky, less rewarding, or less excusable are referring to as
opportunity blocking
A law enforcement strategy to address the gang problem that includes special police units and crisis programs is
organized development
Bullying is also called
peer abuse
The value of CCTV is limited by
police response time.
Experiencing multiple forms of victimization is called
polyvictimization
A self-perpetuating criminal organization that originates in the penal system and continues to operate outside of it is called a
prison gang
A method of internal analysis that takes a horizontal view of system and involves personnel at all levels is
process mapping
A condition, characteristics, or variable that increases the likelihood that a child will avoid delinquency is called a
protective factor
A multiagency law enforcement team imposing all available sanctions on gang members who violate established standards for behavior is
pulling levers
Assessments that are more descriptive and less statistical than empirical studies are
qualitative evaluations.
Journalists are sometimes criticized for giving fame to infamous criminals, while victims
remain overlooked and obscure.
Preventing witness intimidation
requires multiagency partnerships
A condition, characteristic, or variable hat increases the likelihood that a child will become delinquent is a
risk factor
Blame, outrage, or fear in a family, group of friends, or a community is called
second victimization
Conflict between the media and the police does not arise from
shared objectives.
Weapons buyers fronting for people linked to illegal gun trafficking are called
straw purchasers
A group of people whose allegiance is based on social needs, who have an identifiable leadership, who claim control over a specific territory in the community, and who engage in acts injurious to the public is a
street gang
Illegal trafficking in firearms is a problem of
supply and demand
A strategy to address the gang problem that includes tactics such as prevention, arrest, and imprisonment is
suppression
A pilot initiative that emphasizes the importance of developing collaborative relationships between law enforcement and mental health communities is
the CD-CP model
Among organized crime groups, human sex trafficking comprises
the fastest-growing business
The theory that the media have the power to influence the operations to influence the operations of the criminal justice system is called
the news media echo effect
Animal abuse is not often found in the background of
theft perpetrators
Gangs use children
to commit shoplifting
Speed bumps and traffic circles are examples of
traffic calming devices
Video cameras connected to CCTV may be used as a tool for
wiretapping citizens.
Any act or threat or physical violence, harassment, intimidation, or other threatening disruptive behavior that occurs at the work site is called
workplace violence
A juvenile clique within a gang is called a
youth gang
A policy of punishing all offenses severely, no matter how minor an offense may be, is called
zero tolerance