Discuss examples of the three types of power. Use non-police examples first and then move to consider some police-related uses of exhortative, reciprocal, and coercive power. Then discuss the idea of power prioritization and why Muir believes this is a critical idea for police officers.

What will be an ideal response?


Exhortation (appealing to logic or reason), reciprocal (giving something in exchange), and coercive (using force or threat of force).

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a. True b. False

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