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The number of officers or subordinates a supervisor can supervise effectively is called:
a. chain of command
b. organizational index
c. span of control
d. effective level of supervision
According to your text, which racial group despite efforts is poorly represented in law
enforcement?
a. American Indian
b. Pacific Islander
c. Asian
d. Hispanics
Studies indicate that police officers are _____ more likely to suffer from alcoholism
than the average citizen.
a. 25%
b. 55%
c. 75%
d. 300%
According to the author's definition of police corruption, which of the following would
be an example of police corruption?
a. A police officer receives $15 from a driver for not giving her/him a summons for
speeding.
b. A police officer receives sexual favors from a driver for not giving him/her a
summons for speeding.
c. An off-duty police officer escorts a drug dealer as he delivers illegal drugs to
customers. He receives $100 a delivery.
d. All of the above.
____________ models give the police answers as to where and when to assign officers.
a. Patrol pattern
b. Patrol allocation
c. Patrol simulation
d. Patrol direction
What is the philosophy of empowering citizens and developing a partnership between
the police and the community to work together to solve problems?
a. community policing
b. zero tolerance policing
c. political-based policing
d. neighborhood policing
Enforcement efforts made against terrorist organizations are called:
a. cyberterrorism
b. counterterrorism
c. counterintelligence
d. CompStat
____________________ is a method of deploying police officers that gives them
responsibility for all policing activity by requiring them to walk around a defined
geographic area.
This system allows police departments to call citizens in the entire jurisdiction or limit
it to a particular neighborhood where something is occurring:
a. Reverse 911
b. 311
c. 911
d. Reverse 311
The most important and visible part of police work to the public is/are _____.
a. detective operations
b. public appearances by the police chief
c. patrol
d. crime prevention
According to your text, the average police officer is assigned to which duty in a police
department?
a. traffic
b. patrol
c. foot
d. investigations
The ideal way for police agencies to handle the deviance and corruption issue is
through:
a. detection
b. prevention
c. arrests
d. convictions
In recent years, an increasing number of lawsuits against police officers have been
brought to federal courts on civil rights grounds. These federal suits are known as:
a. 1983 suits
b. Federal Interstate Compacts
c. Civil Rights Act of 1965
d. Civil Rights Act of 1991
_____ of sworn personnel in local police departments are women.
a. 11.9%
b. 15.3%
c. 3.9%
d. 21.2%
Community-oriented policing strategies have proven successful in:
a. only cities with a population over 50,000
b. only cities with a population over 100,000
c. only cities with a population over 500,000
d. cities of all sizes
The police role is:
a. very ambiguous
b. very clearly defined
c. mainly related to violent crime
d. mainly related to arresting offenders
Which of the following is not a responsibility of the U.S. Department of Justice?
a. federal highway patrol
b. enforcing all federal laws
c. representing the government in court action
d. conducting independent investigations
The police structure in the United States is:
a. military
b. civilian
c. quasi-military
d. hemi-military
The Police Explorer program is aimed at youths interested in:
a. camping and sleeping out of doors
b. police work
c. traveling to foreign cities
d. none of the above
In the United States, what percentage of police departments has 25 or fewer officers?
a. 23%
b. 37%
c. 53%
d. 87%
Which of the following is not one of the four general categories of police stress
discovered by researchers?
a. external stress
b. organizational stress
c. personal stress
d. command stress
Which of the following is responsible for the protection of the president, vice president,
and their families?
a. U.S. Marshals Service
b. Federal Bureau of Investigation
c. Federal Protective Service
d. Secret Service
Who are considered the backbone of police services?
a. detectives
b. patrol officers
c. training officers
d. community service officers
An adverse impact or a different rate of selection occurs when the selection rate for any
gender, race, or ethnic group is less than _____ of the selection rate for the group with
the highest selection rate.
a. 50%
b. 60%
c. 80%
d. 90%
What system has greatly improved the surveillance of offenders?
a. Johansen system
b. adult monitoring system (AMS)
c. probation positioning enhancement system
d. global positioning system (GPS)
The first specialized investigative unit in Rome was called "questors," which means:
a. finders of criminals
b. capturers
c. enforcers
d. trackers of murders
Among local departments, African Americans account for approximately _____ percent
of sworn personnel.
a. 10.2
b. 11.9
c. 12.5
d. 19.4
According to the author, one of the best ways to improve relationships between the
police and minority groups is to:
a. enforce the law differentially against minority group members
b. appoint a minority member as police chief
c. ensure that minority groups are adequately represented in a jurisdiction's police
department
d. hold minority group members to a less strict standard of legal behavior
The civil service system was created by the:
a. Pendleton Act
b. Civil Rights Act of 1964
c. Fourteenth Amendment
d. Civil Service Act of 1911
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
In 1985, the fleeing felon rule was declared unconstitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court
in the landmark case of _____.
a. Mapp v. Ohio
b. Lawrence v. Texas
c. Tennessee v. Garner
d. Terry v. Ohio
It has commonly been believed in police administration that random routine patrol
creates a sense of:
a. semipresence
b. omnipresence
c. nonpresence
d. none of the above
The National Advisory Commission on Criminal Justice Standards and Goals
recommended that detectives should only be assigned to preliminary investigations of:
a. felonies
b. crimes of violence
c. very serious crimes and crimes requiring complex preliminary investigations
d. all of the above
The pattern of brutality and violence used by the police to obtain confessions by
suspects is known as ____________________.
Activities performed by police agencies designed to create a favorable image are called
____________________.
The U.S. Supreme Court has consistently ruled that canine sniffs by a trained drug dog
are not actual search and seizures controlled by the Fourth Amendment.
Numerous academic studies have indicated that the nature of policing and the
experiences officers go through on the job cause them to band together into their own
subculture.
Businesses in the United States rarely cooperate with the police in crime prevention
programs.
The police code of silence is often referred to as the "blue curtain."
The USA Patriot Act gave law enforcement new ability to search, seize, detain, or
eavesdrop in their pursuit of possible terrorists.
Probable cause is the standard of proof a police officer needs to arrest an individual.
Evidence that may lead a reasonable person to believe that a crime has been committed
and that a certain person committed it is known as ____________________.
All police departments are governed by civil service regulations.
The plan initiated in 1997 allowing police officers to receive 50 percent discounts and
low-cost loans to purchase homes in"distressed" areas nationwide is called the
____________________.
Forty-nine of the fifty U.S. states have a primary state law enforcement agency.
An experiment was conducted in ____________________ to determine the deterrent
effect of various methods of handling domestic violence, including mandatory arrest.
TRIAD programs are focused on senior citizens.
Nearly half of all 911 calls are made from cell phones.
The first use of the polygraph was by the New York City Police Department in the late
1970s.
The initial training a police officer receives is called ____________________.
It is estimated that there are approximately 70 million physically disabled people in the
United States.
Through the Rand investigation into detectives, it was found that detective's value in the
investigative process was _______________.
