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WVU Situational Policing Officer and Neighborhood Survey (SPONS)

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SPONS Police Survey

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Eberly College of Arts and Sciences

Division of Sociology & Anthropology

Studies in Neighborhood Dynamics and Situational Policing












West Virginia University is conducting a study of the relationship between neighborhood dynamics and community policing. For the next several days, sociologists and criminologists from this university will be in (name of city) to study these issues. They hope to identify latent neighborhood-level dynamics that operate to either support or inhibit policing efforts. The study is limited to these four neighborhoods: Neighborhood 1 (identify boundaries), Neighborhood 2 (identify boundaries), Neighborhood 3 (identify boundaries), & Neighborhood 4 (identify boundaries).


The attached survey is for police officers who have worked in or around any or all of these four neighborhoods during the past several years. This survey is voluntary. In order to retain anonymity and expedite your participation with us, we are providing a self-addressed, pre-paid postage envelope.



PLEASE NOTE:


The first page of the survey requests information about you and your views on policing in general. The remaining pages ask you about your views on the neighborhood dynamics in each of the above listed neighborhoods. If you want to provide any additional comments about the neighborhood dynamics in any or all of the four neighborhoods, please feel free to write them on the survey itself.


The entire survey should take no more than 15 minutes to complete. Please complete the survey as soon as possible and return it within the next 3 days in the self-addressed, pre-paid postage envelope provided. Thank you for your participation.







**If you have any questions or would like a copy of the final report, please contact Dr. Jim Nolan at West Virginia University (304) 293-5801 ext. 3210 or [email protected].









  1. Please indicate your professional level within your department by marking the appropriate box.

Officer

Detective

Corporal

Sergeant

Lieutenant

Captain

Inspector/Commander/Major

Deputy Chief/Deputy Commissioner

Chief of Police/Commissioner

Other_________________________


  1. How many years have you been with this police department? ____________





  1. How many years in total have you worked in law enforcement? ___________





  1. Please indicate the neighborhoods you have worked in by marking all of the boxes that apply.

  • Central Northside

  • Perry South

  • Marshall-Shadeland

  • Troy Hill



  1. Please mark the box that represents the group that you identify with most strongly.

    • White

    • Black, African American

    • American Indian or Alaska Native

    • Asian Indian

    • Chinese

    • Filipino

    • Other Asian

    • Japanese

    • Vietnamese

    • Native Hawaiian

    • Guamanian or Chamorro

    • Samoan

    • Other Pacific Islander

    • Some other race: ________________

  2. Are you of Hispanic, Latino, or Spanish origin?


  • No

  • Yes, Mexican, Mexican American, Chicano

  • Yes, Puerto Rican

  • Yes, Cuban

  • Yes, another Hispanic, Latino, or Spanish origin (for example, Argentinean, Colombian, Dominican, Nicaraguan, Salvadoran, Spaniard)


  1. What is your gender? Please mark the appropriate box.

Male Female


  1. What is your current age in years? _____________







  1. Please mark the box that represents your highest completed level of education.

  • Less than high school

  • 12th grade – no diploma

  • Regular high school diploma

  • High school equivalency/GED

  • Some college credit, but less than 1 year of college credit

  • 1 or more years of college credit, no degree

  • Associate’s degree (for example: AA, AS)

  • Bachelor’s degree (BA, BS)

  • Master’s degree (MA, MS, MBA)

  • Professional degree beyond a bachelor’s degree (MD, DDS, DVM, JD)

  • Doctorate degree (PhD, EdD)



  1. This section deals with how comfortable you are engaging in certain police activities. For each column, please mark the one box that most accurately reflects the police task you are MOST comfortable, LEAST comfortable, and BEST TRAINED to perform.



  1. I am MOST comfortable

when involved in…

(MARK ONLY ONE BOX)

  1. I am LEAST comfortable when involved in…

(MARK ONLY ONE BOX)

  1. I am BEST TRAINED in…

(MARK ONLY ONE BOX)



  • Responding to calls for service

  • Preventive patrol in a police vehicle

  • Preventive patrol on foot or bike

  • Law enforcement such as investigation, arrests, search warrants, etc.

  • Police problem solving

  • Other (Please specify):

____________________



  • Responding to calls for service

  • Preventive patrol in a police vehicle

  • Preventive patrol on foot or bike

  • Law enforcement such as investigation, arrests, search warrants, etc.

  • Police problem solving

  • Other (Please specify):

____________________



  • Responding to calls for service

  • Preventive patrol in a police vehicle

  • Preventive patrol on foot or bike

  • Law enforcement such as investigation, arrests, search warrants, etc.

  • Police problem solving

  • Other (Please specify):

____________________


  1. This section deals with how well you think the MAJORITY of the officers in your department are trained to do certain tasks as well as how competent they are to do so. Please indicate whether you think the majority of officers in your department are properly trained and are competent to perform the following tasks by marking mostly true or mostly false on both levels for each item.



WELL TRAINED

HIGHLY COMPETENT


Mostly

True

Mostly

False

Mostly

True

Mostly

False

  1. Responding to calls for service

  1. Preventive patrol in a police vehicle

  1. Preventive neighborhood patrols on foot

  1. Law enforcement activities such as making arrests or conducting investigations

  1. Identifying problems in neighborhoods that lead to crime

  1. Analyzing information about problems that lead to crime

  1. Developing solutions to neighborhood problems that lead to crime

  1. Assessing the effectiveness of solutions to problems that lead to crime

  1. Working with residents to identify neighborhood problems that lead to crime

  1. Working with residents to analyze neighborhood problems that lead to crime

  1. Working with residents to investigate crimes

  1. Working with residents to develop responses to problems that lead to crime

  1. Working with residents to assess the effectiveness of responses to problems


  1. Please indicate the percent of time you spend in a TYPICAL week performing each of the following duties by

marking the appropriate box.



0-10% of

the time

10-25% of

the time

25-50% of

the time

50-75% of the time

75-90% of the time

90-100% of the time

  1. Responding to calls for service

  1. Preventive patrol in a police vehicle

  1. Preventive patrol on foot or bike

  1. Law enforcement such as investigation, arrests, search warrants, etc.

  1. Police problem solving

  1. Police and community problem solving

  1. Other (please specify)

____________________
























































NOTE: This page of the survey deals with issues in TROY HILL only.





  1. Have you worked in TROY HILL within the past 12 months? yes no



  1. In this section, please mark the ONE box that most accurately reflects your view about the type of policing activity that is CURRENTLY being used in this particular neighborhood and the type of policing activity that SHOULD be used.



  1. What is the PRIMARY type of police activity CURRENTLY used in this neighborhood?

(CHECK ONLY ONE)

  • Responding to calls for service

  • Preventive patrol in a police vehicle

  • Preventive patrol on foot or bike

  • Law enforcement such as investigation, arrests, search warrants, etc.

  • Police problem solving

  • Other (Please specify):

____________________

  1. What SHOULD be the PRIMARY police activity used in this neighborhood?

(CHECK ONLY ONE)

  • Responding to calls for service

  • Preventive patrol in a police vehicle

  • Preventive patrol on foot or bike

  • Law enforcement such as investigation, arrests, search warrants, etc.

  • Police problem solving

  • Other (Please specify):

____________________



  1. Please indicate whether you feel each of the following statements are MOSTLY TRUE or MOSTLY FALSE about this particular neighborhood by marking the appropriate box.

Mostly True

Mostly False

  1. This is a close-knit neighborhood.

  1. The police are well respected in this neighborhood.

  1. The police have a good rapport with the residents of this neighborhood.

  1. The residents of this neighborhood complain a lot.

  1. This is a safe neighborhood.

  1. I could see myself living in this neighborhood.

  1. There are strong community groups in this neighborhood.

  1. This is a high-crime neighborhood.

  1. The residents of this neighborhood take care of their own problems.

  1. We need more police officers to solve the problems in this neighborhood.






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