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1
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  1. Police agencies use several types of plans that we can think of as falling into the major categories of…
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  • non-strategic

- strategic

2
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  1. Such plans are intended to handle a police agency’s day-to-day responsibilities and are usually developed by and for specific functions within the agency.
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Nonstrategic plans

3
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  1. Nonstrategic plan types:
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single-use, repeat-use, tactical, operational, and contingency.

4
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  1. A plan for a one-time event or special time event or special circumstance.
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Single-use plan

5
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  1. A plan that may be replicated for similar events or tactical situations.
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Repeat-use plan

6
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  1. A plan for special events, unique or extraordinary circumstances, or intra-agency or interagency operational needs.
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Tactical plan

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  1. A plan delineating functional activities and agency change processes. This plan drives an entire agency or units within an agency.
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Operational plan

8
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  1. A plan activated during serious emergencies, critical events, or disasters that affect the agency and demand immediate and/or prolonged response.
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Contingency plan

9
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  1. Long-term courses of action intended to apply to the entire police organization.
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Strategic plans

10
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  1. What types of plans are the result of a more complex and lengthier process?
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Strategic Plans

11
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  1. Two especially important planning approaches.
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CPTED and CompStat

12
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  1. What does CPTED stand for?
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Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design

13
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  1. Define CPTED.
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The process of deciding how to construct or modify the physical environment to deter or discourage criminal activity.

14
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  1. What has proved to be a potent weapon in CPTED?
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Technology

15
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95-96. Name the Four Strategies that lie at the core of CPTED Plans.

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  • Natural Surveillance
  • Territorial Reinforcement
  • Natural access control
  • Target hardening
16
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  1. What does ‘Natural surveillance’ refer to?
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the use of physical features that increase people’s visibility in the area

17
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  1. What CPTED Planning strategy emphasizes the use of physical characteristics to differentiate private and public areas, emphasizing the ownership of private places while discouraging encroachment?
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Territorial reinforcement

18
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95-96. Name the CPTED Planning Strategy that focuses on ensuring that streets and sidewalks are in full view of the community.

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Natural access control

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  1. What CPTED Planning Strategy involves the use of hardware, lighting and other elements designed to make a home or business less vulnerable to physical intrusion?
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Target hardening

20
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  1. What is one important benefit of CPTED as a type of planning?
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it promotes community cohesion

21
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  1. Name a limitation in executing CPTED.
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it can be expensive

22
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  1. What policing approach involves the generation of as much real-time data as possible about crimes AND the frequent evaluation of the data to develop strategies to reduce crime as quickly and effectively as possible?
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CompStat

23
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  1. What is a key element of the CompStat approach?
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frequent evaluation of the intelligence collected.

24
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  1. Why is frequent evaluation of the intelligence collected a key element of CompStat?
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so police can develop plans for moving quickly and effectively to reduce crime.

25
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  1. How can Police Agencies deploy personnel and resources rapidly to areas where crimes are occurring?
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by gathering real-time information.

26
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  1. In addition to the frequent evaluation of the intelligence collected, name additional vital elements of CompStat.
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Relentless follow-up and assessment.

27
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  1. Some studies revealed statistically significant reductions in major crimes which in some cases may have resulted from under reporting due to _________.
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Pressure from superiors to downgrade major crimes to minor offenses.

28
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  1. Regardless of the number of steps a particular planning process model contains, they can be organized into three steps essential to all planning. Name them.
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  • assessing needs and risks
  • developing alternative courses of action
  • selecting a course of action
29
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  1. The process an organization uses to determine whether a need (or problem) exists that could be addressed by a particular course of action is called what?
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Needs assessment

30
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  1. Agency leaders might use a needs assessment to determine whether managers and officers must strengthen particular .
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KSAs

31
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  1. What are KSAs?
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knowlege, skills, abilities

32
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  1. What is the process of visually displaying specific locations, addresses or areas of noted concern.
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Community mapping

33
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  1. Crime analysis is an ______ process used to define current and predict future quality-of-life concerns, crime patterns, or trends.
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analytical

34
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  1. Police agencies can use (GIS) technology to display…
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crime categories, patterns, or trends during a needs assessment.

35
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  1. Mapping is often used in conjunction with the various policing strategies and other databases that become part of…
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the assessment process. (such as housing patterns and vacant properties)

36
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  1. Mapping: School, business, and parks locations, as well as census maps, are overlaid to produce…
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a comprehensive view of problems associated with drug markets, petty crime, robberies, burglaries, and stolen autos and correlations with poverty, gangs, and offenders’ lack of education or employment.

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  1. Crime analysts are valued specialists who use this tool.
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Crime analysis

38
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  1. Agencies use of various databases and to identify crime patterns/trends to deploy officers and prevent/disrupt crime patterns.
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Crime analysis

39
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  1. Generates information that guides the actions an agency might take to achieve a stated goal.
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Needs assessment

40
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  1. Might suggest the need for a plan to bring down the rates.
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Rising crime rates

41
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  1. Method to determine if managers and officers must strengthen particular knowledge, skills, or abilities (KSAs) to meet certain goals.
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Agency leaders might use needs assessment.

42
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  1. Agency leaders needs assessment of KSAs methods.
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  • Interviews
  • casual conversations
  • surveys
43
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  1. Yields information that can help the agency design or revise training programs to strengthen specific (KSAs).
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Needs assessment of KSAs by survey method

44
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  1. Surveys type needs assessment enables agency leaders to…
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identify trends, clarify priorities, and ensure that the agency is adhering to accreditation standards or legislatively mandated standards.

45
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  1. Police agencies face numerous types of risks, including the following:
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  1. Internal organization risks
  2. External risks:
  3. Neighborhood risks:
46
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  1. Risk:
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Undesirable circumstance that hasn’t occurred that a police agency should identify/develop plans for mitigating.

47
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  1. Computer network breakdowns or the loss of valued employees to rival agencies
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Internal organization risks

48
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  1. Damaged to police vehicles from pursuits or damaged facilities from natural disasters.
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External risks.

49
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  1. Reductions in quality of life/neighborhood cohesion and increased crime rates.
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Neighborhood risks

50
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  1. (The police) as leaders consider two criteria in assessing risks.
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  1. Probability a undesirable circumstance will occur.

2. The magnitude of consequences if it does.

51
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  1. An agency conducts a risk assessment to determine:
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  1. If known/foreseeable threat exists.
  2. Likelihood the threat will materialize.
  3. Severity of consequences if it did.
52
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  1. Highly probable risks that would bring the worst consequences, merit…
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a plan for mitigation.

53
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  1. Police agencies can create a matrix depicting…
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their beliefs about how particular risks stack up in terms of probability and severity.

54
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  1. Can be used to determine if a large crowd may require additional police resources.
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A risk assessment

55
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  1. Step 2: After agency managers conduct needs and risks assessments, they develop alternative courses of action for…
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meeting the needs or mitigating the risks they identified.

56
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  1. To develop these alternative courses of action, managers consider:
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  • fiscal, physical, and personnel resources.
  • activities needed to execute plans.
  • strategy for managing resistance to plans.
  • Ideas for building support for potential courses of action.
57
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  1. For each alternative course of action, managers evaluate:
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  • Probable consequences.
  • Desirable consequences.
  • Undesirable consequences.
58
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  1. Managers also prepare a budget and a cost—benefit analysis for each…
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tentative action plan.

59
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  1. When managers and officers meet to discuss the problem and to generate possible courses of action for solving it. (generate ideas for potential solutions)
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brainstorming

60
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  1. A meeting leader encourages participants to continue offering ideas w/out judgement until the “well” seems to have run dry in order to generate ideas for solutions.
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brainstorming

61
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  1. The result of brainstorming is…
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a long list of possible courses of action.

62
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  1. Step 3: The final step in the planning process is to…
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select the best possible course of action from the alternatives developed in Step 2.

63
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  1. To choose the final plan, police managers consider several criteria—such as which plan:
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  • best accommodates agency’s resources?
  • plays to the agency’s strengths?
  • garners most support from stakeholders?
  • generates most enduring positive results?
64
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  1. During step 3, choosing the final plan, to help secure stakeholder’s buy-in for the final choice, they should be…
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invited to contribute to discussions.

65
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  1. So stakeholders can see how the plan supports the agency’s mission, police personnel should clearly state the…
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GOALS of each proposed action plan.

66
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  1. Selecting a course of action from a set of alternatives requires…
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strong decision- making competence (a leadership skill).

67
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  1. Decision making can be more complicated than it might appear because…
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there are many factors to weigh.

68
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  1. Different approaches police managers may take in choosing a final action plan.
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  1. Accommodating stakeholder priorities.
  2. Making innovative change.
  3. Using intuition.
  4. Clarifying decision roles.
69
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  1. When accommodating stakeholder priorities agency managers often feel pressured to appease this person when selecting plans of action.
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Loudest/most persistent stakeholder because he usually captures the most attention.

70
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  1. Decision making approach used when agency managers select a final plan that includes officers’ use of a Taser because doesn’t cause injury so reduces liability claims against police.
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Making innovative change.

71
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  1. Approach for selecting final plan of action when managers draw on past experiences, expertise, knowledge, and intuitive sense.
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Using intuition

72
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  1. The “sixth sense” approach for selecting final plan of action.
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Using intuition

73
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  1. This “sixth sense” approach hinges on…
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the ability to blend information from both personal and outside sources while arriving at a decision.

74
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103-104. (n selecting a course of action) With this decision making approach, managers define what role each participant in the decision will play selecting final plan of action.

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Clarifying decision roles.

75
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Will everyone involved in selecting a final plan have a say in the ultimate decision or will the leader consult and solicit opinions but make the final choice alone?

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Clarifying decision roles.

76
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  1. Provide policing services at unique events.
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Single-use plan

77
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  1. Deal with a one-time community problem.
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Single-use plan

78
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  1. Handle a circumstance that may or may not recur.
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Single-use plan

79
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  1. To provide policing services for a one-time outdoor concert held in town, an agency develops a plan stipulating how officers will control the crowd and provide security for performers.
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Single-use plan

80
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92.When residents of a specific neighborhood complain about cars speeding on their streets, police create a plan for stopping cars to verify license and registration, discouraging people from speeding through the area.

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Repeat-use plan

81
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  1. The agency duplicates this same tactic in other neighborhoods within the community.
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Repeat-use plan

82
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  1. Develop tactics that can be used in multiple similar settings.
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Repeat-use plan

83
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  1. Manage recurring events (such as charity drives or holiday celebrations) where large numbers of people will congregate.
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Repeat-use plan

84
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  1. Deal with special crime issues, such as persistent and numerous shots-fired calls, robberies, rapes, and hostage situations.
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Tactical plan

85
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  1. A police agency develops a plan stipulating when and how to activate a SWAT or other emergency team in a hostage situation so as to contain and end the emergency.
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Tactical plan

86
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  1. Drive change in an entire police agency or specific units within the agency.
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Operational plan

87
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  1. An agency that decides to set up a canine unit creates a plan for selecting human and canine members of the unit, as well as training, certifying, and deploying them.
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Operational plan

88
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  1. Activate during emergencies, critical events, or disasters that affect the agency and demand immediate and prolonged response.
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Contingency plan

89
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  1. An agency develops plans delineating procedures tor responding to terrorist attacks and natural disasters (hurricanes, tornadoes, floods) to which the area is particularly vulnerable.
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Contingency plan

90
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  1. High-level overarching goals:
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  • Enhancing police professionalism
  • fighting crime
  • improving citizen/community satisfaction with quality of life and policing services
91
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  1. Police managers take into account the agency’s values, vision, and mission, as well as the priorities of stakeholders (community members and local business leaders).To develop this category of plans.
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Strategic plans

92
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  1. CPTED: By integrating certain elements into physical places during construction, communities can lower the incidence of crime and…
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increase community cohesion—resulting in higher quality of life for residents.

93
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  1. An outgrowth of overall thinking about how to keep crime from occurring in the first place.
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CPTED - Crime Prevention through environmental design.

94
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  1. CPTED: Hinges on collaboration among…
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police, community residents, business leaders, and local governing bodies.

95
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Most crime prevention results a web of security/safety precautions embodied in these institutional settings of daily life:

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  • Families.
  • Communities.
  • Schools.
  • Workplaces.
  • Legal institutions associated with criminal justice.
96
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  1. CPTED strategy: doors and windows facing streets and parking areas
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Natural surveillance

97
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  1. CPTED strategy: night-time lighting.
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Natural surveillance

98
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  1. CPTED strategy: a willingness among residents to keep their window coverings open to observe activity in the area.
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Natural surveillance

99
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  1. CPTED strategy: emphasizes the use of physical characteristics to differentiate private and public spaces.
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Territorial reinforcement

100
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  1. CPTED strategy: the use of physical characteristics to emphasize the ownership of private places while discouraging encroachment.
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Territorial reinforcement

101
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  1. CPTED strategy: Fences, pavement designs, gates, and landscape architecture can all be used.
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Territorial reinforcement

102
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  1. CPTED strategy: focuses on ensuring that streets and sidewalks are in full view of the community.
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Natural access control

103
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  1. CPTED strategy: removal of tall hedges and solid fences ensuring view of streets and sidewalks.
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Natural access control

104
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  1. CPTED strategy: This openness discourages would-be offenders who prefer to conceal themselves behind opaque barriers.
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Natural access control

105
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  1. CPTED strategy: Prominent video cameras on buildings can act as additional deterrents.
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Natural access control

106
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  1. CPTED strategy: involves the use of hardware, lighting, and other elements (such as alarm systems and guard or pet dogs) designed to make a home or business less vulnerable to physical intrusion.
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Target hardening

107
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  1. CPTED strategy: high-quality window locks and stout deadbolt locks for doors to discourage intrusion.
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Target hardening

108
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  1. CPTED strategy: recessed interior door hinges can make it nearly impossible for burglars to remove hinges.
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Target hardening

109
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  1. To develop an effective CPTED plan, neighbors must remain alert to what is happening in their community, and everyone needs to…
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shoulder responsibility for residents’ overall well-being.

110
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  1. Has helped create a sense of urgency for suppressing crime and apprehending suspects.
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CompStat approach

111
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  1. These needs and risks assessments powerfully shape…
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the rest of the planning process.

112
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  1. A ________ is an undesirable circumstance that has not yet occurred but that a police agency should identify and develop plans for mitigating.
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Risk

113
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  1. An agency conducts a _______ ________ to determine whether a known or foreseable threat exists, how likely it is that the threat will materialize, and how severe the consequences would be if the risk did materialize.
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risk assessment

114
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99-100. Police agencies face numerous types of risks, including ……..

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  • Internal organization risks
  • External risks
  • Neighborhood risks
115
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  1. The first step (Step 1) of three steps essential to all planning is
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assessing needs and risks