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The use of excessive force by police officers is also called

A) police corruption.
B) bullying.
C) police battery.
D) police brutality.
E) all of these

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According to William A.Westley, the police subculture view of citizens is that

A) a face-to-face encounter with a citizen is always going to be confrontational.
B) for the most part, all encounters with citizens are negative.
C) generally, the citizenry needs police and are accepting of them.
D) the public was against the police or hated the police.

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Some police departments offer incentive pay to bilingual officers.

A police crime-control strategy designed to both apprehend offenders and send a message of deterrence to people on the street is

According to the text, the greatest gap between the attitudes of whites, Hispanics, and African Americans relates to how the police

Whites are arrested more often than blacks relative to their numbers in the general population.

Different outcomes in policing that are not necessarily caused by differential treatment, is called

The relations between police and racial-ethnic minority communities is referred to as

Differential treatment based on some extralegal category such as race, ethnicity, or gender is known as

The most important misperception of public attitudes experienced by police officers results from

The name of the commission created to investigate the Los Angeles Police Department after the 1991 Rodney King incident was

The most serious examples of racial profiling that have been documented involve traffic stops by state police officers on interstate highways in

The most serious examples of racial profiling involve traffic stops.The pattern of these stops appears directly related to drug enforcement.This evidence lends support to the context approach to police-citizen interactions, which holds that interactions are different depending on

A factor that ranks second to race and ethnicity in public attitudes toward the police is

Officers are more likely to use force against criminal suspects.Officers are also more likely to use force against male suspects.In other words, police use of force is more likely to be associated with certain

The term "driving while black" refers to

The current standard for the use of deadly force is the

In public opinion surveys, blacks are just as satisfied with the police as are whites.

The U.S.Supreme Court decision that accelerated the trend toward adoption of the defense of life standard, which greatly restricts the use of deadly force by police officers, was

Ethnicity differs from race in terms of