CHAPTER 7: BUILDING PARTNERSHIPS: A CORNERSTONE OF COMMUNITY
POLICING
MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. Traditional policing expected community members to remain in the background. That meant most
citizen–police interactions were:
a.
negligible contacts.
b.
negative contacts.
c.
negotiated contacts.
d.
necessary contacts.
2. Effective community policing depends on optimizing positive contact between patrol -officers and
community members. Patrol cars are one method. Which of the following is not a -supplemental
method?
a.
scooters
b.
bicycles
c.
foot
d.
buses
3. According to the text, key collaborators include all of the following except:
a.
parks employees.
b.
courts.
c.
victims.
d.
taxi drivers.
4. When several agencies come together and share resources, this is an example of:
a.
stakeholders.
b.
collaboration.
c.
community involvement.
d.
nice neighbor process.
5. According to the text, concerns about using volunteers in police departments include:
a.
possible access to confidential material.
b.
older people’s well-known disrespect for the law.
c.
their tendency to try to take over enforcement duties.
d.
all of the above
6. Community prosecution philosophy calls on prosecutors to:
a.
attend daily patrol briefings.
b.
prosecute to the fullest extent of the law.
c.
take a proactive approach.
d.
develop collaboration with jails.
7. According to the text, a good way to build relationships and trust within communities is:
a.
keep officers in the same beat and on the same shift.
b.
volunteer to clean up run-down neighborhoods.
c.
be active in afterschool programs.
d.
issue fewer citations and give more warnings for minor offenses.
8. Core components of effective community partnerships are:
a.
a shared vision and common goals.
b.
open communication.
c.
both a and b
d.
neither a nor b
9. Conflicting interests may impede establishing a __________ and shared goals.
a.
common vision
b.
mission statement
c.
community interest
d.
negotiating stance
10. A central goal of community policing and community partnership is:
a.
supplementing auto patrol.
b.
establishing and maintaining mutual trust.
c.
providing community forums.
d.
adding mini-stations.
11. According to the text, dimensions of trust are:
a.
priorities, competency, dependability, and respect.
b.
citizenship, shared power, lawful assemblies, and shared concerns.
c.
cooperation, effectiveness, shared concerns, and organization.
d.
crime control, responsibility, service, and reliability.
12. The beat for which a patrol officer is given responsibility should be:
a.
large and well-defined geographically.
b.
small and rotated periodically.
c.
large and rotated periodically.
d.
small and well-defined geographically.
13. Community courts are _________________ courts that offer an immediate visible response to
quality-of-life offences.
a.
restorative-focused
b.
neighborhood-focused
c.
offense-focused
d.
proactivly focused
14. Community prosecutors tend to focus on which type of crime?
a.
murder
b.
rape
c.
street-level drug dealing
d.
burglary
15. All of the following are benefits of partnerships with the community except:
a.
a sense of accomplishment.
b.
gaining recognition and trust.
c.
meeting community members.
d.
enhanced officer response to calls for service.
16. According to the text, some call-management strategies include:
a.
using an officer to take telephone reports of nonemergency, low-priority calls.
b.
taking reports by appointment.
c.
having civilians handle certain calls.
d.
all of the above
17. Citizen police academies:
a.
have decreased in popularity.
b.
educate the public about the nature of police work.
c.
have not been shown to change community attitudes.
d.
are having a major impact on police–community relationships.
18. According to the text, the central goal of community policing is:
a.
building trust.
b.
community goals.
c.
neighborhood watch.
d.
SARA programs.
19. A process involving a computer-aided dispatch system in which nonemergency, -lower—priority calls
are ranked so the higher-priority calls are continually dispatched first is called:
a.
call reduction.
b.
call stacking.
c.
call management.
d.
calls for service.
20. What trend is driving the need for increased use of private policing?
a.
increase in burglary alarms
b.
proliferation of cybercrime
c.
need to conduct background checks
d.
protecting existing resources
21. A partnership where a probation officer rides along with a patrol officer:
a.
has been described as the perfect match.
b.
can result in a probationer’s immediate arrest for a violation of probation.
c.
both a and b
d.
neither a nor b
22. Outsourcing of police work is usually found:
a.
in large communities.
b.
where there is a good relationship between agencies.
c.
in small departments.
d.
none of the above
23. Community courts:
a.
address the same kinds of problems as other courts.
b.
are designed to address the most serious crimes.
c.
usually address a wide range of offenses involving quality of life.
d.
are an historical alternative to the traditional courtroom.
24. When prosecutors become involved in community policing:
a.
they become more focused on major crimes like murder and robbery.
b.
they get a different view of the kinds of things that devastate communities.
c.
they recognize the low priority of neighborhood stability issues.
d.
they have little personal contact with police officers.
25. According to the text, what is the number identified by the Baltimore police for -nonemergency calls?
a.
911
b.
411
c.
311
d.
511
26. The third component of the criminal justice system, __________________, also is an often overlooked
partner in the community policing effort.
a.
judges
b.
dispatch
c.
court records
d.
corrections
27. According to the text, the idea of community corrections has been steadily moving forward since the:
a.
1970s.
b.
1960s.
c.
1980s.
d.
1990s.
28. Community prosecution focuses not on specific cases but on community issues and -problems, often
focusing on:
a.
hot spot crime.
b.
juvenile crime issues.
c.
quality-of-life issues.
d.
career criminals.
29. Often known as ________________, local agencies and departments work quite i-ndependently of one
another.
a.
working in “silence”
b.
working in “silos”
c.
working in “style”
d.
working in “staples”
30. When police departments use volunteers, ________________ make excellent volunteers.
a.
individuals wishing to become law enforcement officers
b.
persons who are retired from law enforcement
c.
young persons
d.
older persons
TRUE/FALSE
1. Police departments that use citizen volunteers may benefit from increased cost-effectiveness.
2. When agencies with common interests work independently and not in collaboration, this is called
“working in silos.”
3. Community partnerships usually result in a more effective solution to a problem because of sharing
responsibilities, resources, and goals.
4. TRIAD trains police about aging, communication techniques with elderly citizens, -victimization of
the elderly and management programs using older volunteers.
5. Traditional shift and beat rotation work to build partnerships with the community.
6. Officers who have permanent assignments become experts about their beat.
7. Criticisms of the partnerships in community policing usually center on time and money.
8. When forming partnerships, it is important to recognize commonalities and to ignore -conflicts within
communities.
9. Police departments across the country now staff innovative programs with older citizen -volunteers.
10. The International Association of Chiefs of Police is researching a possible collaboration between
public and private police.
11. Effective community policing depends on optimizing positive contact between patrol officers and
community members.
12. Although community partnerships are important for police agencies serious about -community
policing, community policing can succeed without them.
13. When forming partnerships, conflicts within communities are not as important to recognize as the
commonalities.
14. Crime and disorder were viewed as police matters best left to professionals. That meant that most
citizen–police interactions were negative contacts.
15. Researchers have concluded that linking 311 call technologies with changes in policy and practice
does not advance a department’s community-oriented policing agenda.
16. Departments might free up time for partnerships without expense through effective call -management
or call reduction.
17. Citizen police academies are shown to have significant benefits such as reduced levels of street crimes.
SHORT ANSWER
1. Partnerships are made up of ______________, those people who have an interest in what hap-pens in a
particular situation.
2. In addition to call management, many departments are finding they can improve citizens’ participation
in community policing and build trust through _______________.
3. Four dimensions of _____________ are shared priorities, competency, dependability, and respect.
4. A coordinated approach known as _______________ works to design interjurisdictional -partnerships
to reduce victimization of older persons.
5. Partnerships are often referred to as _______________.
6. According to the text, criticism of the partnerships in community policing usually centers on
_______________ and _______________.
7. The _______________ system allows nonemergency, lower-priority calls to be ranked and stacked so
higher-priority calls can be dispatched first.
8. According to the text, ________________ is a process performed by a computer-aided -dispatch
system in which nonemergency or lower priority calls are ranked.
9. According to the text, a recent alternative to the traditional courtroom is _______________.
10. Large cities have begun to implement _______________ lines to divert nonemergency calls from 911.
11. Agencies that have common interests but work independently with no collaboration are said to be
_____________________.
ESSAY
1. Who are considered the key collaborators in the successful development of community policing?
2. Describe the process of online reporting. What advantages and disadvantages does it have?
3. Discuss in detail call management and call stacking and give examples of each.
4. Discuss the concept of community courts and how it has affected communities.
5. The text lists as examples several local governments that have been forced to curb spending in their
public safety operating budgets. Discuss what these local governments have been doing to save money
in their public safety operating budgets.