An effective police department sets goals. However, there is a difference between real and stated goals. Discuss the difference between real and stated goals and the implications it has on a police department

What will be an ideal response?


a . Stated goals are official statements of what an organization says and what it wants various publics to believe are its objectives.
b. A police department's real objectives are what members of the organization actually do.
c. The conflict in stated and real goals exists because police organizations respond to a vast array of constituencies.

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Gama’a al Islamiyya (IG)'s goal and targets were

a. nearby governments first, in order to unify a Palestinian Islamist state, and then targeted the United States and Israel. b. overthrow the Algerian government and replace it with an Islamic state. c. Algerian targets in its effort to create an Islamic caliphate, and Western targets as well. d. to create an Islamic state, replacing the sovereign state of Egypt; they targeted Egyptian security officials, Coptic Christians, and any Egyptians opposed to the fundamentalist view of Islam.

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A person who manifests extreme indifference to another’s well-being by cutting off the other’s fingers with pruning shears as revenge for an insult is guilty of

(a) aggravated mayhem. (b) aggravated battery. (c) exhibiting a dangerous weapon in a rude manner. (d) possession of a dirk or dagger.

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Which of the following is NOT a category of phishing attacks?

a. redirectors b. pharming c. botnets d. spoofing

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The authors of the textbook believe collective decision-making

a. is a fad with little or no substantive value b. will become a dominant factor in police work c. represents the abdication of real leadership d. indicates the existence of anomic conditions

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