The Police Function Involving a Broad Mandate to Prevent Behavior

question 143

Multiple Choice

The police function involving a broad mandate to prevent behavior that disturbs the peace or involves face-to-face conflict is called:

• A) peace enforcement.
• B) order maintenance.
• C) service.
• D) departmental order.
• E) community measures.

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Definitions:

Function

In mathematics, a relation between a set of inputs and a set of permissible outputs with the property that each input is related to exactly one output; in general, an activity or purpose natural to or intended for a person or thing.

Situation

The set of environmental and contextual circumstances or conditions surrounding and affecting an event, action, or decision.

Demand Characteristics

Features of an experiment that communicate to the participant the experimenter’s hypothesis.

Margin Of Error

A statistic measure of the amount of random sampling error in a survey’s results—for example, a 3% margin of error means that the survey’s result could be 3% lower or 3% higher than the average response—the larger the sample is, the smaller the margin of error is.