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Community and Diversity Policing Flashcards

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  1. What does 'procedural justice' mean in the context of community policing?

    Answer: Ensuring people feel treated fairly, respectfully, and with voice during police interactions

    Procedural justice focuses on the quality of the process—fairness, respect, voice, and neutrality—which drives community trust more than outcomes alone.

  2. A community policing unit wants to evaluate whether its outreach programs are effective. Which metric is MOST meaningful?

    Answer: Changes in community-reported perceptions of police trust and safety

    Measuring shifts in community perceptions directly reflects whether outreach is achieving its core goal of building trust and improving safety.

  3. When policing a Pride parade, an officer overhears a colleague making derogatory comments about attendees. What should the officer do?

    Answer: Address it privately with the colleague and report it through proper channels

    Officers have a duty to address discriminatory conduct by colleagues through appropriate internal channels to uphold professional standards.

  4. Which OACP principle recognizes that police must adapt services to meet the distinct needs of rural Indigenous, urban minority, and LGBTQ2S+ communities?

    Answer: Differentiated community engagement

    Differentiated engagement acknowledges that a one-size-fits-all approach cannot address the distinct historical and cultural contexts of diverse communities.

  5. A mosque reports repeated vandalism and congregation members fear for their safety. Beyond investigating the crimes, what is an officer's community policing responsibility?

    Answer: Conduct liaison meetings, connect the community to hate crime resources, and coordinate a safety plan

    Community policing requires active engagement, resource connection, and collaborative problem-solving beyond reactive investigation.

  6. Under the Anti-Racism Act (Ontario), police services are required to collect race-based data primarily to:

    Answer: Identify and address systemic racial disparities in policing outcomes

    The Anti-Racism Act mandates race-based data collection to expose and eliminate systemic racial bias in institutional decision-making, including policing.

  7. A school resource officer notices that Black students are referred to police for disciplinary issues at significantly higher rates than other students. This disparity is an example of:

    Answer: Disproportionate policing with potential racial bias

    Racially disproportionate referral rates in school settings are a documented form of systemic bias that officers have a duty to identify and address.