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Chapter 4: Policing Purpose and Organization Study Guide
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Content: Evidence-based policing has an important impact on police management, its research is used in everyday police procedures to evaluate current practices and to guide officers and police executive in future decision making. And the long-term approach of the EBP's model is creating cost-effectiveness in policing in the current economic environment. How does police discretion affect contemporary law enforcement? Police discretion affects contemporary law enforcement when it comes to the decision to investigate or apprehend, the disposition of suspects, the carrying out of official duties, and the application of sanctions. And the police authority's decision to stop and question someone, arrest a suspect, and perform many other police duties are made by solely by individual officers. Finally, any other behaviors done by either police authority to patrol officers. What are the basic purposes of policing in a democratic society? How are they consistent with one another and in what ways may they be inconsistent? The basic purposed of policing in a democratic society is to enforce the laws of the society of which the police are apart, apprehend offenders who participate in crime, prevent crime, preserve domestic peace and tranquility, and provide the community with needed enforcement-related services. They consistent with one another when it comes to police solving a crime or police work.