List and describe four of the six stated purposes of all programs involving the police and the community, per the National Institute on Police and Community Relations

What will be an ideal response?


1 . To encourage police-citizen partnership in the cause of crime prevention
2 . To foster and improve communications and mutual understanding between the police and the total community
3 . To promote interprofessional approaches to the solution of community problems and to stress the principle that the administration of justice is a total community responsibility
4 . To enhance cooperation among the police, the prosecution, the courts, and the corrections agencies
5 . To assist the police and other community leaders to achieve an understanding of the nature and causes of complex problems in people-to-people relations and especially to improve police-minority relationships
6 . To strengthen implementation of equal protection under the law for all persons

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Indicate whether the statement is true or false

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During the half-century period in which Edgar Hoover was its director, the F.B.I.:

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Fill in the blank(s) with correct word

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