Professionalism Flashcards
(48 cards)
Policing in America has roots in which European methods?
County
Sheriff
Common law
English “bobby” foot patrol
What is watch in the watch and ward system?
nighttime
American policing developed in ______________?
New York, Boston, and Philadelphia
service models or styles 1900-1940s changed how?
Automobiles provided rapid response to calls for service
Advent of radio communications allowed calls for service to be dispatched to officers in the field
The police performance level increased due to rapid response, while actual
communications with citizens decreased.
Which time frame was the absence of quality evaluation prevalent throughout?
1900-1940
whose goal was to bring professionalism to the
police?
August Vollmer
From 1950 through the 1970s what evolved?
technology continued to improve, with computers and communication
professional police model developed with emphasis on accountability and
increased standards. Success measures such as ________, _________, ___________ became common indicators of police performance
response time, crime statistics,
and citizen complaints
police personnel should have two or four years of college education. This Commission indicated that the ultimate aim of all police departments was for personnel with general enforcement powers to have
baccalaureate degrees was stated by whom?
President’s Commission on Law Enforcement and the Administration of Justice stated in 1967
The patrol system became an ___________ approach in which police officers
often became little more than report takers in most communities
Incident-driven
From 1980 through present what developed?
Technology continues to improve with computers, mobile devices, and weapons.
Policing was handled by the Spanish military. This ended when Texas became a free and independent republic after
Battle of San Jacinto in 1836
Which office is ancient?
Sheriffs
The Posse Comitatus Act is a United States federal law that?
The Act was intended to prohibit Federal troops from supervising elections in former Confederate states. It generally prohibits Federal military personnel and
units of the United States National Guard under Federal authority from acting in a law enforcement capacity within the United States
the statutory authority for the Commission to establish rules that law
enforcement agencies and officers must follow.
he Occupations Code 1701
Firearms Proficiency Requirements for Handguns
minimum of 50 rounds, fired at ranges from point-blank to at
least 15 yards with at least 20 rounds at or beyond seven yards, including at least one timed reload
The minimum passing percentage shall be ____ for each firearm
70
Most of the workload of patrol officers and detectives consists of handling
crimes that have already been committed, disturbances in progress, traffic
violations, and such. Exceptions include crime prevention and narcotics
investigations… is what?
Reactive response
This relies on limited information, mostly from victims, witnesses, and suspects.
Focus tends to be on one “incident” which is resolved before moving to the next
“incident.” Definition for what?
Incident driven
This relies on limited information, mostly from victims, witnesses, and suspects.
Focus tends to be on one ______ which is resolved before moving to the next
“incident.
“incident”
The primary means of resolving incidents is to involve _________
criminal justice
process
Use of aggregate statistic The department is doing a good job when ____________ or the citywide ________
citywide crime rate is low, citywide arrest rate is high.
Under the Traditional Police Service Model what happens?
Lack of community and employee involvement in the decision-making process
Most decisions are made at the management and mid-management level with
little citizen involvement
Community Policing
A new philosophy of policing, based on the concept that police officers and
private citizens working together in creative ways can help solve contemporary
community problems related to crime, fear of crime, social and physical disorder,
and neighborhood decay
