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This approach emphasizes the necessity of tailoring crime prevention responses to the specific characteristics of the crime problem being addressed—it rejects any one-size-fits-all thinking:

Which of the following is a FALSE statement about foot patrol?

The police department of a college campus would be an example of what type of policing?

Qualified immunity extends to police officers performing duties that are discretionary in nature.

The philosophical dimension of community policing includes the central ideas and beliefs underlying community policing.

As a general rule, the greater the number of problems or calls for service, the smaller the size of the beat and thus the more concentrated the resources.

Community policing is the logical combination of more than 30 years of police effectiveness research and decades of experimentation with police-community relation programs, crime prevention strategies, and team policing.

During the 1980s, the police became more political, reactive, and assertive in an effort to deal with citizens’ fear of crime.

According to Mapp v. Ohio, if the defendant requests an attorney, the police must comply before interrogating the defendant.

Police officers may be concerned primarily with the ends but police managers must be concerned with both the means and the ends.