StudiGuide 3: Principled Policing in California

1. **You work for control**: This is a foundational principle in policing, which involves maintaining order, enforcing laws, and ensuring public safety. Control can be exercised through various means, including territorial reinforcements to prevent crime or maintain order, as well as through an officer’s image, both personally and professionally, which affects community trust and cooperation.2. **RECOGNIZE peace officers’ responsibilities**: Peace officers are responsible for adhering to all levels of the law, enforcing laws fairly and impartially, knowing their patrol beat or area of responsibility, influencing community attitudes positively, and being aware of the potential effects of nonverbal signals they send.

3. **RECOGNIZE components of a message**: Effective communication in policing involves more than just the words spoken; it includes voice characteristics and nonverbal signals such as body language, facial expressions, and tone of voice.

4. **DIFFERENTIATE between PROACTIVE and REACTIVE policing**: Proactive policing involves anticipating crime and taking action to prevent it before it occurs. Reactive policing is the more traditional approach where police respond to crimes after they have occurred.

5. **DISCUSS community policing philosophy and history**: Community policing is a philosophy that promotes organizing police services around the needs and concerns of a community. It evolved from the traditional and professional models, with an emphasis on partnerships between law enforcement and communities to address local problems.

6. **DISCUSS government expectations**: Governments expect peace officers to enforce laws, maintain public safety, prevent crime, and serve as a trusted resource for the community. They also expect officers to uphold the ethical standards associated with their badge of office.

7. **DISCUSS leadership skills**: Effective community policing leaders must possess communication skills, problem-solving abilities, ethical values, decision-making skills, and the capacity to foster teamwork and build trust with the community.

8. **DISCUSS community mobilization methods**: These include engaging community members, identifying local resources and skills, advocating for action, educating the public about relevant issues, and committing to ongoing efforts to sustain public safety initiatives.

9. **DISCUSS components of a community inventory**: This involves identifying partners, stakeholders, and existing collaborative efforts within the community to address common concerns and leverage collective strengths.

10. **DISCUSS principled policing**: This concept emphasizes ethical decision-making and the importance of addressing implicit and explicit biases to ensure procedural justice and legitimacy in law enforcement practices. It also involves understanding how historical events have shaped community perceptions and interactions with the police.

11. **GIVE EXAMPLES of effective communication techniques**: These include active listening, establishing open lines of communication, overcoming barriers to communication through empathy and clarity, and adapting communication styles to meet the needs of different individuals or groups.

12. **GIVE EXAMPLES of obstacles in community partnerships**: Obstacles may include cultural differences, lack of resources or trust, conflicting goals, communication challenges, and organizational constraints.

13. **GIVE EXAMPLES of crime risk factors**: These can include geographic mobility, poverty, substance abuse, social disorganization, and ineffective parenting or supervision among others.

14. **APPLY facilitation techniques**: A facilitator leads a group towards problem resolution by maintaining the focus on issues, showing interest, guiding participants to learn from the experience, remaining calm and respectful, and maintaining objectivity throughout the process.

15. **APPLY a problem-solving strategy**: This involves identifying problems, analyzing the situation, responding to the problem with appropriate actions, and evaluating the outcomes to refine future strategies.

16. **DISTINGUISH between Problem-Oriented Policing (POP) and Community Policing (CP)**: Problem-Oriented Policing is a strategy used by law enforcement to address specific chronic problems through practical, logical, and innovative solutions tailored to the circumstances. Community Policing, on the other hand, is a broader philosophy that emphasizes building relationships with the community as a foundational approach to crime prevention and control.