Law Enforcement Midterm (2025) – Study Guide and Exam Revision
Material
Police Professionalism - ANS ✔✔• The serious work on professions has centered in specifying
what criteria must be met to constitute a profession
• Most commonly identified criteria → an organized body of theoretical knowledge ***TEST
QUESTION***
- Advance study is needed to master knowledge
- Have a code of conduct, prestige
- Standards of admission, professional association
- Altruism is the driving force for wanting to practice the profession
Merton's criteria of Professionalism - ANS ✔✔- Knowing (systematic knowledge)
- Doing (Trained capacity and technical skills)
- Helping (knowing and doing)
Becker's criteria - ANS ✔✔If you can't get people to call you one, then you are one
August Vollmer
*Test Question* - ANS ✔✔Father of modern Law Enforcement
Chief of the Berkeley Police Dept. and created model for professional policing
- Mobilization of officers
- Police signal
- System of dispatch calls
- Modern records system
, - Crime analysis
- Scientific laboratory
- Lie detection machine
What is the trilogy? - ANS ✔✔It is three studies that changed policing and its functioning
Kansas City Preventive Patrol study, Rand Criminal Investigation Study and Team Policing
Kansas City Preventive Patrol Study
*Test Question* - ANS ✔✔studied three types of patrol services to see what differences each
made:
- (1) Reactive districts received no regular patrol; officers who responded to calls entered and
left the district by the shortest routes
- (2) Proactive districts → were saturated with 2 or 3 times the normal amount of patrolling
- (3) Control districts → maintained regular or normal patrolling
*** the number of police officers didn't change anything***
Rand Criminal Investigation Study - ANS ✔✔sought to determine what factors contribute to the
success of criminal investigations and just what it is that detectives do because they weren't
doing the right thing. First cop has to control evidence
Team Policing - ANS ✔✔having multiple and different officers on patrol but it didn't work,
people need their specific jobs
LEAA (Law enforcement Assistance admin) - ANS ✔✔it is a U.S. federal agency within the U.S.
Dept. of Justice. It administered federal funding to state and local law enforcement agencies and
Material
Police Professionalism - ANS ✔✔• The serious work on professions has centered in specifying
what criteria must be met to constitute a profession
• Most commonly identified criteria → an organized body of theoretical knowledge ***TEST
QUESTION***
- Advance study is needed to master knowledge
- Have a code of conduct, prestige
- Standards of admission, professional association
- Altruism is the driving force for wanting to practice the profession
Merton's criteria of Professionalism - ANS ✔✔- Knowing (systematic knowledge)
- Doing (Trained capacity and technical skills)
- Helping (knowing and doing)
Becker's criteria - ANS ✔✔If you can't get people to call you one, then you are one
August Vollmer
*Test Question* - ANS ✔✔Father of modern Law Enforcement
Chief of the Berkeley Police Dept. and created model for professional policing
- Mobilization of officers
- Police signal
- System of dispatch calls
- Modern records system
, - Crime analysis
- Scientific laboratory
- Lie detection machine
What is the trilogy? - ANS ✔✔It is three studies that changed policing and its functioning
Kansas City Preventive Patrol study, Rand Criminal Investigation Study and Team Policing
Kansas City Preventive Patrol Study
*Test Question* - ANS ✔✔studied three types of patrol services to see what differences each
made:
- (1) Reactive districts received no regular patrol; officers who responded to calls entered and
left the district by the shortest routes
- (2) Proactive districts → were saturated with 2 or 3 times the normal amount of patrolling
- (3) Control districts → maintained regular or normal patrolling
*** the number of police officers didn't change anything***
Rand Criminal Investigation Study - ANS ✔✔sought to determine what factors contribute to the
success of criminal investigations and just what it is that detectives do because they weren't
doing the right thing. First cop has to control evidence
Team Policing - ANS ✔✔having multiple and different officers on patrol but it didn't work,
people need their specific jobs
LEAA (Law enforcement Assistance admin) - ANS ✔✔it is a U.S. federal agency within the U.S.
Dept. of Justice. It administered federal funding to state and local law enforcement agencies and
