Study Exam 4 Flashcards
Death Notifications – Recommended ways to make a death notification
Natural causes (Foreseen) Fatal accidents or crashes -
Industrial accidents -
Homicide -
Suicide - Officer involved shootings - Infant / child death - Line of duty death -
Recommended You deliver the Death notification in person if at all possible. Show compassion and be sympathetic toward NoK.
What can be shared with the media at the scene of a fatality accident?
Do not share any information with the media unless directed by police personnel. Media should not be involved in the Death Notification process. Do not relate any crime investigation information you may have to survivors or to the media.
Is it the responsibility of the officer to provide/arrange transportation for next of kin to someone seriously injured or killed in an accident
It is not the officer’s responsibility
What is acculturation?
assimilation to a different culture, typically the dominant one.
What does Prejudice mean?
To Prejudge- Is an emotional response, usually based on fear, mistrust, and/or ignorance, which is directed at a racial, religious, national, or other cultural group.
What is “Stereotype”?
Is an overgeneralization applied to an individual without regard to his or her own uniqueness.
Examples: African Americans are drug peddlers, thugs, good dancers, good athletes
Homeless are that way by choice
What is racism?
Is the institutionalized practice of excluding from power groups of people solely on the basis of race. Such exclusion takes the form of discrimination, prejudice, segregation, and domination.
What are the 2 categories of criminal intelligence?
Tactical
Strategic
What is MIAC?
Missouri Information Analysis Center (MIAC)
is the mechanism to collect incident reports of suspicious activities to be evaluated and analyzed in an effort to identify potential trends or patterns of terrorist or criminal operations within the state of Missouri. MIAC will also function as a vehicle for two-way communication between federal, state and local law enforcement communities within our region.
What are the 2 models of crime prevention?
The opportunity reduction model
The informal social control model
What is The informal social control model ?
Involves the use of rewards and punishments by community members to encourage conformity with local customs and norms.
What is The opportunity reduction model?
Removal or reduction of opportunities for criminal activities in specific situations, and that fear can be reduced by decreasing the level of crime in the community.
What are the approaches to crime control?
Citizen patrols
Neighborhood organizations
Social problems approach
Community policing
Boards, councils and Commissions
What are the components of community policing?
Foot patrol
Police organizing and outreach strategies
Neighborhood administrations and community centers
Analysis and mapping crime related dates
LAPD Phonetic Alphabet
ABSOLUTELY NO WORRIES GUY
Know ways an officer can deal with a citizen contact that is intensifying
Know how should you console a family member during a death notification
“Would you like to pray” “I’m so sorry for your loss” “Give remain location if applicable” “Is there someone you can call?”
Know community values that control attitudes of the community
What are the 5 stress color conditions?
White: unaware
Yellow: Relaxed but alert!
Orange: state of alarm
Red: what appears to be wrong is actually wrong
Black: Panic, misdirected frenzy, paralysis
Know and be able to apply: Command Presence
use of non verbal skills, communication skills, voice for voluntary compliance
