Community Policing A Contemporary Perspective 6th Edition Victor E Kappeler, Larry K Gaines - Solutions

Briefly describe the six organizational and structural issues associated with community policing.
What social, economic, and political factors impede the implementation and success of community policing in the future?
Discuss the future of community policing, according to the authors. Do you agree with the authors’ conclusions about the status of policing today? Why or why not?
Has policing become more or less democratic in the past 10 years?
Discuss the authors’ concerns about the shift toward community policing. Identify and discuss what you consider to be the four most important questions to be answered about the future of community policing.
Over the past 20 years, have social service agencies centralized or decentralized operations? What are the implications of this for communities?
Describe and discuss Robert Trojanowicz's vision of Neighborhood Community Policing Centers. Have these centers materialized?
What are the three most important factors that led to the development of community policing in the late 1960s and early 1970s?
Discuss the specific values of policing that serve as its ethical and moral foundation.
Discuss what the authors mean when they say that community policing is a paradigm shift.
Understand what community policing offers in terms of “community security” in light of terrorism.
Describe the contemporary issues and questions about community policing.
Describe early attempts designed to resolve problems between the police and community and the shadow they cast on community policing.
Understand the role of the Community Resource Centers in the early idea of community policing.
Describe the social issues that lead to community policing.
List the six structural issues associated with community policing.
List and describe the seven value changes necessary for community policing.
Understand the paradigmatic shift resulting from community policing.
Describe the academic criticisms directed at community policing.
Identify the characteristics of the ideal candidate for a position in a community policing department.
Describe the impact community policing has on the role of the police.
List and describe the reasons for resistance to community policing.
Discuss the impact of “danger” on the social isolation of police officers.
Describe the nature of police work and the research techniques used to glean that information.
Identify the characteristics of people who have traditionally entered policing.
Describe the role of patrol officers in traditional policing and implementing community policing.
Describe why the police role is paradoxical.
Identify the two primary sources of individual images and impressions of police.
Describe why tourists and transients present special challenges to police.
Discuss why undocumented immigrants present special challenges to police.
Discuss the reasons race remains a volatile police issue.
Describe the four groups of homeless people as they are presented in the text. Discuss how each one presents a problem for police.
What factors can be cited to account for the rise in the homeless population?
Discuss specific steps that community policing officers can take to address the needs of homeless persons.
Explain what the authors are referring to when they say that the homeless constitute a two-fold problem for the police.
What is a youth “gang”? What steps can be taken by community policing officers to address gang problems in areas they police?
The National Coalition of State Juvenile Justice Advisory Groups has identified several factors contributing to violent crimes committed by juveniles. List and briefly discuss four of the factors.
Discuss the reasons juveniles represent a special problem for community policing.
Of the special populations discussed in the text, which group, in your estimation, presents the greatest difficulties for the police? Why?
Discuss the special groups the authors are referring to when they write about “special populations.” What unique problems do these groups have with respect to the delivery of police services?
Identify the special problems presented by policing tourists and transients.
Identify the responses police should incorporate when dealing with immigrant populations.
Describe the problems presented in policing undocumented immigrants.
List the reasons race is a volatile police issue.
Describe the reasons for the hindered relationship between minorities and the police.
Understand how community policy can respond to problems related to the homeless.
Describe the difficulties inherent in policing the homeless.
Describe the tactics that have the potential to reduce gang problems.
Understand why children join gangs.
List the characteristics of a youth gang as well as the criteria for identifying gang members.
Identify and discuss the special nature of policing juveniles.
Describe community policing's ability to work with disenfranchised populations.
Discuss the ways in which community policing efforts could be directed at juveniles to prevent drug use.
List and briefly discuss the reasons cited in the text as to why community policing is a viable approach in addressing the illicit drug problem in communities.
How can visual harassment be used in community policing to reduce illicit drug activities?
If sweeps or crackdowns are to be employed in a neighborhood, what role should the community policing officer play in the process?
When and where were DARE programs implemented? What have research studies concluded about the effectiveness of DARE programs?
Should police allocate the majority of their resources toward stopping discreet or indiscreet drug sales? Why?
One drug control strategy has been to interdict shipments of illicit drugs and narcotics by focusing on highlevel dealers. What effect has this strategy had on drug kingpins and their organizations? On the price and availability of illicit drugs?
At what level of the drug distribution market (e.g., high level, street level) are local police best equipped to attack? At what level are police least equipped to attack?
The authors make the statement: “The war on drugs is cloaked in imagery.” First describe what is meant by this statement and then discuss how this imagery impacts certain segments of society.
Understand the ways that community policing can direct police responses in the war on drugs.
Describe how community policing drug enforcement efforts are dependent upon the public and the importance of community involvement.
Describe how community policing can be effective at information gathering for the purpose of drug enforcement.
Understand how community policing can use problem solving to effectively deal with the drug issue.
Understand the importance of directing prevention efforts at juveniles.
Describe high-level and retail-level law enforcement strategies and the limitations of each.
List the six goals that should guide police decision making when implementing drug strategies.
Understand the nature and extent of the drug problem.
Discuss how the concept of governance can be used to prevent crime and empower people in communities.
Discuss the roles community policing and problem solving play in crime prevention.
Discuss the various forms of community crime prevention programs. Can you think of other programs that might be used to reduce crime in your community?
Discuss how situational crime prevention can be used in your college, university, or community.
Discuss which of the five basic strategies for crime prevention you think is most effective. Why?
Discuss as many forms of social control that you can. Which forms of social control seem most effective at controlling people's behavior?
Discuss the three theoretical foundations of crime prevention. How adequate are these theories to understanding how and why people commit crime?
Discuss the relationship between traditional policing and the rise of the crime prevention orientation of the police. How do these two forms of crime control differ?
Explain the roles that community policing and problem solving play in crime prevention.
Explain the purpose of the variation of neighborhood watch called “community anti-drug campaign.”
List and distinguish between the three basic types of community crime prevention programs.
List and explain the concept of situational crime prevention and its elements.
List and distinguish between the five basic strategies for crime prevention.
Understand the various forms of public and private social control.
List and explain the theoretical foundations of crime prevention.
Understand the social conditions that gave rise to the crime prevention movement.
What are the dangers of allowing the police to be the major social institution that addresses social problems in the community?
List and discuss the methods that can be used for problem identification in a community. What are the pros and cons of these different methods?
Many police departments do not use problem solving and some of the reasons for this are listed in the text.Discuss other reasons the police have been slow to adopt problem solving.
Discuss the limitation of problem solving based solely on crime analysis, crime mapping, and crime patterning.
Discuss the difference between dangerous places and hot spots. Given that all “space” is created by a complex networks of social interaction, is there really any such thing as place? List as many factors as you can think of that define social space.
Describe the difference between traditional policing and problem-solving policing. Which is the better model for communities?
Describe and discuss the stages of problem solving. What are the taken-for-granted assumptions implicit in the SARA model?
Discuss the reasons why some social problems like crime come to the public's attention while other social problems are given very little attention.
Discuss and describe the reasons why one location in a city may become defined as a problem place while another location with crime might not be defined that way.
Discuss the relationship between wealth and the conditions that cause crime to be concentrated in specific spaces.
List and discuss the reasons many police agencies do not use problem solving.
Explain the concepts of crime mapping, crime analysis, and crime patterns.
List and describe the methods of problem identification. Know which methods work better than others.
Describe and give examples of how COMSTAT and problem solving can be institutionalized in police agencies.
Describe the stages of problem solving and describe the SARA model.

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