Chapter 12: The Expanded Police Response

Self Check Answers
Check your understanding of the chapter facts and concepts with these Self Check Answers.

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Chapter Links

Experiential Activities, page 491
12. Police Scanner
http://www.policescanner.com

Web Patrol, page 491
Communities and Crime-Solving
http://www.pavnet.org
http://www.rdvic.org
http://www.fbi.gov

Compare Organizational Structures
http://www.ci.des-moines.ia.us

Newest Forensic Techniques
www.officer.com

Additional Activities

Simulation Scenarios
Test your knowledge of law enforcement application with a Simulation Scenario.

Advanced Web Research

1. Check out the Web site for the Colorado Association of Sex Crimes Investigators at http://www.casci.net and read "About CASCI." When you are done, answer these questions:

1. How does CASCI try to improve knowledge and information sharing among professionals?
2. How do they try to improve sexual assault investigations, and what else do they do to promote professionalism in this area?

2. Visit the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department's "Wanted Suspects" Web site at http://la-sheriff.org. Download the PDF files for three different suspects who are alleged to have committed felonies.

1. What information do these files provide about the suspects?
2. What additional information could possibly help the public find these suspects?

3. Learn more about community policing and its crime prevention aspect by visiting "Crime Prevention and Community Policing" at the National Crime Prevention Council. This site can be viewed at http://www.ncpc.org. Read through this site, then answer these questions:

1. How are crime prevention and community policing similar?
2. How does, as the article says, "each offer what the other needs"?

Further Exploration Links

12.5 Self Check #2
http://ojjdp.ncjrs.org

Questions for Review #3
http:/www.fbi.gov

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