Why is using personal experience as an indicator of police performance not very reliable?

What will be an ideal response?


Our personal experiences with law enforcement are limited. Just because we have interactions with one officer, or one police department does not necessarily mean that this interaction is representative of other departments or officers. In addition, interaction may not even be representative of how that officer or department operates in general.

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Congressional authority to create federal criminal law derives from Article ________ Section ________ of the U.S. Constitution

Fill in the blank(s) with correct word

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Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)

1. The Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Uniform Crime Report includes crimes that are not reported to the police. 2. Treatment of the American flag is an example of a tradition, custom, or norm. 3. An individual’s personal experience is objective and accurately reflects the larger truth. 4. Research always begins with the collection of data. 5. A component of designing research is making the concepts measurable, or operationalization.

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Another term for the offense of malicious mischief is ______

Fill in the blank(s) with correct word.

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Delinquency experts who believe that aggression is a function of the level of an individual's need(s) for stimulation are called ___________

a. Biosocial theorists b. Cognitive theorists c. Arousal theorists d. Freudian criminologists

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