If Police Officers and Agencies Wish to Receive Favorable News

question 8

Multiple Choice

If police officers and agencies wish to receive favorable news media coverage, they should:

• A) promote a relationship with the media that is based on honesty, trust, and inclusiveness.
• B) include the media in background briefings, if appropriate.
• C) not attempt to control the media.
• D) avoid confrontations with the media and admit problems and mistakes.
• E) all of the above.

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Definitions:

Two-tailed

A test in statistics where the critical area of a distribution is two-sided and tests whether a sample is greater than or less than a certain range of values.

Zero-tailed

Refers to a type of hypothesis test in statistics where the area of interest is on one extreme end of the distribution curve, indicating whether a sample mean is either significantly higher or lower than the population mean.

Random Assignment

The use of random selection to assign research participants to experimental groups.

Control Group

In experimental research, a group that does not receive the experimental treatment and is used as a benchmark to measure the effects of the treatment.