SOC 372 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Predictive Policing, Social Contract, Firstline
23 Jul 2018
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If they say 0 we are losing rights contributing to public goods. What are the attitudes toward policing: don"t remember all of the statistics, found out that attitudes from congress and different leaders below 50 percent, but police more positive. What was police professionalism: eliminating political influences, appointing qualified chiefs, raising personnel standards, emphasizing military style discipline, developing special units, the introduction of scientific management principles. In service: keeps older officers abreast with new techniques, procedures, and their specialized expertise. List the pros and cons of quasi-military policing: police officers wear uniforms, tote guns, carry ranks (for example, patrol officer, operate under an authoritarian command structure sergeant, lieutenant, and captain, orders flow one way from the top down. Did a heavy concentration of officers in certain areas deter crime: an experiment to test the effects of routine preventive patrol- kansas city study, control group: no changes in normal patrol, reactive beats: all preventative patrol eliminated.
