Intro to Policing _Chapter 9

It is impossible to conduct a controlled experiment to study the effectiveness of certain types of police patrol.

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Data on what occurs when an officer encounters a citizen—when the officer is either on an assignment from the dispatcher or on self-initiated activities—can best be retrieved from researcher observations.

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The Kansas City study demonstrated that adding or taking away police patrols from an area made no difference within the community

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At the conclusion of the Kansas City study, everyone in the community knew that an experiment regarding policing had been conducted in his or her community

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The Kansas City study indicated that our traditional three cornerstones of policing might not be the most effective way to do police work.

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Rapid response to 911 calls works better in discovery crimes than in involvement crimes.

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A specific type of saturation patrol is a crackdown, which generally targets a specific violation of the law, such as a traffic violation.

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 The Newark foot patrol study concluded that foot patrols do not make citizens feel safer

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Police departments are restricting the use of pursuits and using alternative methods to catch the individuals who attempt to elude police officers.

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Typically, the larger urban departments such as New York, Chicago, Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles have deployed two-officer cars, and most suburban and rural departments prefer one-officer cars.

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