FINAL Exam 4 Questions.

Question 1: Compare and Contrast community-oriented policing with traditional policing. Describe the strengths and weaknesses of community-oriented policing. How has the the implementation of community oriented policing affected neighborhood crime? Your essay should be well-developed (3-4 paragraphs) using at least two scholarly references and written in APA format.

Question 2: In Problem-Oriented Policing (POP), what are the four steps in the problem solving process? Create a hypothetical scenario involving a deadly batch of heroin that is making its way through your community in which you employ the four steps in the problem solving process. Your essay should be well-developed (3-4 paragraphs) using at least two scholarly references and written in APA format.

Question 3: What is the primary objective of CompStat? What are the four key principles of the CompStat Model? Can CompState be used to combat terrorism? Why / Why Not? Your essay should be well-developed (3-4 paragraphs) using at least two scholarly references and written in APA format.

Question 4: What are the four key objectives in the transformation of local police agencies into intelligence-led organizations? Intelligence-led policing is often viewed as a management tool instead of a crime reduction strategy. Explain how the use of intelligence led policing can reduce in a neighborhood with excessively high rates of burglaries. Your essay should be well-developed (3-4 paragraphs) using at least two scholarly references and written in APA format.

Read Passages 1 and 2 in the textbox titled “FOR CLASS DISCUSSION: An Initial Exercise in Rhetorical Analysis” on page 158 of our online textbook.

In a well-developed paragraph of at least 150 words, incorporating and using in-text citations to document examples from our readings, respond to one of the questions below:

1. How do the strategies of persuasion differ in these two passages? Explain these differences in terms of targeted audience, original genre, writer’s purpose, and writer’s angle of vision.

2. How would you describe the writer’s style in each? What is the purpose of each, and how does the author achieve the aims of the argument?

3. How effective would either argument be for readers outside the intended audience? What changes would Reverend Ball’s argument require to be effective outside a Christian religious context? What information would help the Sierra Club’s argument work outside the context of an environmentalist group?

References

Ball, J. (2012) It’s kairos time for climate change: Time to act. In J. Ramage, J Bean & J. Johnson (Eds.). Writing arguments: A rhetoric with readings. (p. 158). Boston, MA: Pearson.

Sierra Club. (2012). Global warning policy solutions. In J. Ramage, J. Bean & J. Johnson (Eds.) Writing arguments: A rhetoric with readings (p. 158) Boston, MA: Pearson.

Passage 1

 As I sit down to write this column, one thing keeps coming to me over and over: “Now is the time; now is the time.”

In the New Testament the word used for this type of time is kairos. It means “right or opportune moment.” It is contrasted with chronos, or chronological time as measured in seconds, days, months, or years. In the New Testament kairos is usually associated with decisive action that brings about deliverance or salvation.

The reason the phrase, “Now is the time” kept coming to me over and over is that I was thinking of how to describe our current climate change moment.

The world has been plodding along in chronological time on the problem of climate change since around 1988. No more.

Simply put: the problem of climate change has entered kairos time; its kairos moment has arrived. How long will it endure? Until the time of decisive action to bring about deliverance comes—or, more ominously, until the time when the opportunity for decisive action has passed us by. Which will we choose? Because we do have a choice.

 —Rev. Jim Ball, Ph.D., “It’s Kairos Time for Climate Change: Time to Act,” Creation Care: A Christian Environmental Quarterly (Summer 2008), 28.

Passage 2

 [Another action that Americans must take to combat global warming is to transition] to a clean energy economy in a just and equitable way. Global warming is among the greatest challenges of our time, but also presents extraordinary opportunities to harness home-grown clean energy sources and encourage technological innovation. These bold shifts toward a clean energy future can create hundreds of thousands of new jobs and generate billions of dollars in capital investment. But in order to maximize these benefits across all sectors of our society, comprehensive global warming legislation must auction emission allowances to polluters and use these public assets for public benefit programs.

Such programs include financial assistance to help low and moderate-income consumers and workers offset higher energy costs as well as programs that assist with adaptation efforts in communities vulnerable to the effects of climate change. Revenue generated from emissions allowances should also aid the expansion of renewable and efficient energy technologies that quickly, cleanly, cheaply, and safely reduce our dependence on fossil fuels and curb global warming. Lastly, it is absolutely vital that comprehensive global warming legislation not preempt state authority to cut greenhouse gas emissions more aggressively than mandated by federal legislation.

 —Sierra Club, “Global Warming Policy Solutions,” 2008, http://