The National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders, also known as the
___________, released a report stating, “Our nation is moving toward two societies,
one black, one white, separate and unequal.”
a. Wickersham Commission
b. Kefauver Commission
c. Crime Commission
d. Kerner Commission
What federal building was bombed in Oklahoma City?
a. Lyndon B. Johnson Building
b. Alfred P. Murrah Building
c. John F. Kennedy Building
d. Harrison Watts Building
The management concept that says that each individual in an organization is supervised
by one immediate supervisor or boss who in turn reports to a higher supervisor is
termed:
a. ladder of command
b. effective level of supervision
c. span of control
d. chain of command
Nationally, police are only able to clear ____________________ percent of all property
crimes reported to them.
a. 18.3
b. 46.3
c. 65.8
d. 87.1
The calls radioed to patrol officers, or assignments given to police patrol units by 911
dispatchers, reveal the types of problems for which people call the police and the types
of problems:
a. the police feel deserve a response by patrol units
b. that are important to administration
c. encountered by citizens daily
d. that the local government wants handled
The process of removing sworn officers from nonenforcement jobs and replacing them
by nonsworn personnel is called:
a. rationalization
b. civilianization
c. upgrading
d. lateral transfer
Regarding arrests and the police screening process, most departments reject applicants
with:
a. an adult or juvenile felony conviction
b. an adult or juvenile misdemeanor conviction
c. adult felony arrests
d. juvenile felony arrests
A border search can be made without:
a. probable cause
b. a warrant
c. any articulable suspicion
d. all of these choices
The Kansas City study occurred in the ____________________.
a. 1960s
b. 1970s
c. 1980s
d. 1950s
The right to counsel contained within the Miranda ruling applies only when the subject
of an interrogation:
a. is in custody
b. is accused of a felony crime
c. has been deemed indigent
d. has made an admission of guilt
Who is the author of the classic Varieties of Police Behavior: The Management of Law
and Order in Eight Communities?
a. James Q. Wilson
b. June Nelson
c. Anthony Bouza
d. Ernest Verdeschi
An example of an auxiliary unit in a police department would be:
a. criminal investigations
b. community relations
c. communications
d. training
The use of analytical methods to obtain pertinent information on crime patterns and
trends that can then be disseminated to officers on the street is called
____________________.
a. criminal profiling
b. CompStat
c. crime mapping
d. crime analysis
Which agency has traditionally been the lead federal agency in the response to and
investigation of terrorism?
a. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
b. Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
c. National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC)
d. Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
Early warning systems typically use ____________________ to flag officers who may
be prone to problems when interacting with the public.
a. first-line superiors
b. field training sergeants
c. computer programs
d. citizen review boards
Stephen Leinen attributed the disappearance of institutional discrimination against
African Americans in police departments in recent years to all of the following except:
a. legal events of the civil rights era
b. the urban riots of the 1960s
c. efforts of black police officer organizations
d. social and political events of the civil rights era
The branch of forensic science that identifies corpses through dental examination is
called forensic:
a. toxicology
b. pathology
c. physical anthropology
d. odontology
Of all the FBI Index crimes, the one that occurs least each year is:
a. murder
b. rape
c. robbery
d. felonious assault
In differential response to calls for service, responses to citizens’ calls to 911 for service
are matched to the type and ____________________ of the calls.
a. severity
b. location
c. numerical order
d. time of day
Who is generally credited with establishing the first police department in London,
England?
a. Henry Fielding
b. Sir Robert Peel
c. Patrick Colquhoun
d. Sir Charles Rowan
Which of the following is not considered when selecting police applicants?
a. education
b. physical abilities
c. vision
d. criminal history of parents
A legal defense that holds that police originated the criminal idea or initiated the
criminal action is called:
a. civil code
b. entrapment
c. police solicitation
d. entanglement
Which of the following is not one of the factors that may influence police discretion as
indicated by research findings?
a. time of day
b. the offense
c. subject’s attitude
d. subject’s race
The Violent Criminal Apprehension Program (ViCAP) database contains information
on:
a. persons arrested for violent crime
b. persons wanted for violent crime
c. victims of violent crime
d. unsolved homicides
In the early 1900s, policewomen were often called ____________________ and were
employed to bring order and assistance to the lives of women and children.
a. city mothers
b. mother McCredies
c. matrons
d. mother superiors
Each year, police in the United States make about ____________________ million
arrests for all criminal infractions except traffic violations.
a. 61.3
b. 51.0
c. 13.7
d. 6.2
When Mark Willman and John Snortum duplicated the Rand and PERF findings in a
study of detective work in 1984, they found that in cases reported to a suburban police
department, most cases that were solved were solved when:
a. the victim identified the perpetrator in a photo line-up
b. the perpetrator was identified as a “person of interest”
c. the perpetrator confessed
d. the perpetrator was identified at the scene of the crime
Egon Bittner has stated that police work has, from its earliest origins, been a:
a. religious vocation
b. respected profession
c. feared occupation
d. tainted occupation
Who served as chief of police in Berkeley and instituted many practices that started to
professionalize the U.S. police, including incorporating university training as a part of
police training?
a. O. W. Wilson
b. August Vollmer
c. Raymond Blaine Fosdick
d. Edgar Hoover
The first officer at a crime scene is in charge until relieved, at which point the
____________________ takes charge of the scene.
a. captain
b. lieutenant
c. sergeant
d. detective/investigator
Crime Stoppers originated in:
a. Albuquerque, New Mexico
b. Boise, Idaho
c. Miami, Florida
d. Seattle, Washington
Activities performed by police agencies designed to create a favorable image of
themselves are called police __________
List several of the exceptions to the warrant requirement in search and seizure cases,
and cite and discuss several U.S. Supreme Court cases to illustrate the exceptions.
Answer:
Answer varies.
A civil service system solves all managerial problems with promotion, demotion, and
dismissal.
Discuss some of the issues that should be examined when deciding how to schedule
personnel in road patrol.
Answer:
Answer varies.
What are some of the major factors that influence police discretion?
Answer:
Answer varies.
OC in pepper spray stands for __________
__________ was the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation from its inception
until his death in 1972.
Many believe that the modern state of community policing began with a seminal 1982
article entitled __________
The __________is an operation in which an undercover police officer purchases drugs
from a subject, and then leaves the scene and contacts the backup team, which responds
and arrests the seller.
List the primary and secondary goals of policing and give an example of how the police
work toward each goal.
Answer:
Answer varies.
The Newark foot patrol study concluded that foot patrols do not make citizens feel
safer.
Three corporate strategies for policing discussed at Harvard’s Executive Sessions on
Policing were strategic policing, community policing, and problem-solving policing.
Hrand Saxenian, a former professor at Harvard’s Business School, determined that
__________ is the single most important criterion in the police selection process.
The Kansas City study failed to demonstrate that adding or taking away police patrols
from an area made any difference within the community.
__________ means that employers must take active steps to ensure equal employment
opportunity and to redress past discrimination.
The FBI is the national police force of the United States.