The four goals in policing include maintaining social order, preventing crime, ensuring constitutional rights, protecting and serving the public. Which option best describes these items?

• A. Police field operations
• B. Goals in policing
• C. Administrative procedures
• D. Community outreach

Answer: (B)

These items express broad aims that policing strives to achieve for society: maintaining social order, preventing crime, safeguarding constitutional rights, and protecting and serving the public. They describe what policing is trying to accomplish, not the specific ways or actions used to do it. That makes them best described as goals in policing—the overarching objectives guiding police work.

The other labels don’t fit as well: field operations refer to the actual on-the-ground tasks and activities; administrative procedures are the internal rules and processes that govern how work gets done; community outreach is a strategy or program used to engage with the public to achieve those goals, not the goals themselves.