Chapter 8 Quiz

Innovations in Field Operations
. ___ involve the community identifying and defining crime and problems and leverage the public as allies in crime prevention.

. The ___ capitalizes on geographic crime concentration in order to focus policing resources in small places at a specific time.

. Which of the following is NOT a dimension of procedural justice?

. Wilson and Kelling proposed the policing innovation known as ___ in an article in The Atlantic in 1982.

. ___is proactive, uses the uncommitted time for a specified activity, and is based on crime and problem analysis.

. The ___ indicated that increased seizures of illegal guns in a high-crime area can reduce violent gun crimes.

. This strategy emphasizes real-time crime analysis and incorporates intelligence analysis in the deployment of specialized units and regular patrol officers.

. Which of the following is not one of the factors that led to the development and expansion of intelligence-led policing?

. Although it did not reduce serious crime, it did have a modest effect on disorder. This statement comes from a study of ___.

. ___ approaches focus on deterring the relatively small number of individuals involved in a disproportionate amount of gun violence, particularly gang or group members, while simultaneously providing services for anyone wanting to avoid violence.

. Quality of life policing is based on what?

. Which of the following is NOT a feature of focused deterrence?

. _____ targets the reduction of physical (e.g., graffiti) and social (e.g., prostitution) disorder to reduce serious crime.

. The cease-fire strategy was directed at what?

. Which of the following does intelligence-led policing demand?

. The person-focused approach attempts to understand and address underlying causes of crime and disorder, and draws solutions to eliminate these underlying causes of crime.

. Community-based approaches enlist and mobilize people are not in law enforcement.

. If public trust is low, any lack of transparency is often interpreted as an attempt to evade accountability.

. Predictive policing targets the reduction of physical and social disorder to reduce serious crime.

. The Kansas City Gun Experiment indicated that increased seizures of illegal guns in a high-crime area significantly increases violent gun crimes.

. The concept of intelligence-led policing originated in the United Kingdom and Australia.

. The terrorist attacks on 9/11 are a major factor in accounting for the development and expansion of intelligence-led policing.

. Predictive policing focuses on reacting to crimes.

. The Boston Gun Project is a well-known example of quality-of-life policing.

. Evaluations of ceasefire strategies in Minneapolis, Lowell, Massachusetts, Kansas City, and New Orleans reported no success in reducing homicides.

. A focused deterrence strategy evaluated in Los Angeles, also patterned heavily after the Boston program, did not produce significant results with respect to gang violence.

. Intelligence-led policing has been an abject failure.

. Predictive policing raises philosophical and legal concerns.

. Prioritizing police resources on those who are most likely to be repeat or chronic offenders is the goal of the problem-solving approach to policing.

. Another phrase used to describe focused deterrence is pulling-levers policing.

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