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| What are the basic purposes of policing in democratic societies? | 1 |
| How are they consistent with one another? | 2 |
| In what ways might they be inconsistent? | 3 |
| What are the three major levels of public law enforcement described in this chapter? | 4 |
| Why do we have so many different types of enforcement agencies in the United States? | 5 |
| What problems, if any, do you think are created by such a diversity of agencies? | 6 |
| What are the various features of police administration described in this chapter? | 7 |
| What is meant by chain of command? | 8 |
| What stages of historical development did American police agencies experience? | 9 |
| How did policing styles differ by historical era? | 10 |
| What is community policing? | 11 |
| How does it differ from traditional policing? | 12 |
| Does community policing offer a real opportunity to improve policing services in the United States?Why or why not? | 13 |
| What is meant by police discretion? | 14 |
| How does the practice of discretion by today’s officers affect their departments and the policing profession as a whole? | 15 |
