When several agencies come together and share resources, this is an example of:
a. stakeholders.
b. collaboration.
c. community involvement.
d. nice neighbor process.
What type of relationship do the police and the media have?
a. impartial
b. opponents
c. symbiotic
d. reliant
What city, in 1985, hosted its first citizen police academy?
a. Washington, DC
b. Los Angeles, California
c. Minneapolis, Minnesota
d. Orlando, Florida
A neighborhood that objects to the placement of a homeless shelter within it provides
an example of:
a. diversion.
b. plea bargaining.
c. NIMBY.
d. diffusion.
According to the text, this research method involves the random assignment of
individuals to experimental (treatment) and control (no treatment) conditions:
a. partnership research.
b. random assignment.
c. action research.
d. experimental design.
According to the text, when gangs have a substantial presence in the community, there
is a strong correlation to:
a. violent crime.
b. narcotic sales.
c. community fear.
d. delinquency from school.
Local law enforcement can take several steps to prevent racial profiling and/or
discrimination against Arab Americans. Which of the following is not a step law
enforcement can take?
a. increase communication and dialogue
b. develop person-to-person contact
c. identify community needs
d. go undercover in mosques
Which of the following is an effective program to deter thefts of or from vehicles?
a. improving surveillance at lot entrances/exits
b. warning offenders
c. conducting lock-your-car campaigns
d. using “bolt on” security devices
August Vollmer:
a. helped spearhead the reform movement in policing.
b. helped institute the patronage system.
c. helped institute the spoils system.
d. both a and b
Which of the following is not a condition making neighborhoods susceptible to drug
dealing?
a. serves as recruiting grounds due to a high population of underemployed or
unemployed tenants
b. frequent property owner inspections
c. limited natural surveillance of property
d. tenants and nearby residents with drug histories
According to the text, crisis planning is the final prong in:
a. effective leadership.
b. effective mentoring.
c. effective management.
d. effective security.
Some of the unintended consequences of video surveillance are:
a. displacement.
b. increased suspicion.
c. increased reported crime.
d. all of the above
The point at which an ordinary, stable phenomenon can turn into a crisis is referred to
as:
a. flight point.
b. tipping point.
c. ethnic instability.
d. turf war.
A departmental-wide strategy aimed at solving persistent community problems is
called:
a. community-wide policing.
b. reactive policing.
c. the SARA model.
d. problem-oriented policing.
What organization is a think tank focusing on issues of crime and justice?
a. Justice Research Association
b. Police Foundation
c. PERF
d. SEARCH
A factor considered when selecting candidates for the Deferred Prosecution/First
Offenders Unit is:
a. the offender’s credit rating.
b. the nature of the current offense.
c. the educational level of the offender.
d. all of the above
The father of American police professionalism is known as:
a. August Vollmer.
b. Darrel Gates.
c. William Parker.
d. William Bratton
According to the text, PIOs are officers trained in public relations who:
a. control leaks of confidential or inaccurate details.
b. manage controversial or negative situations to the department’s benefit.
c. try to consistently provide accurate information to the media.
d. all of the above
Another term for bullyingname calling, fistfights, purposeful ostracism, extortion,
-character assassination, repeated physical attacks, and sexual harassmentis:
a. closet bullying.
b. peer child abuse.
c. passive bullying abuse.
d. disengaged bullying.
The country’s first adult gun court was established in:
a. Miami, Florida.
b. St. Louis, Missouri.
c. Providence, Rhode Island.
d. Reno, Nevada.
According to the authors, crisis intervention, treatment for youths and their families,
-outreach, and referral to social services are elements of a _______________ strategy to
address the gang problem.
a. community mobilization
b. suppression
c. social intervention
d. organizational change
According to the text, which of the following is not an act of terrorism?
a. Million Man March on Washington, DC
b. assassination of a political leader
c. bombing of an abortion clinic
d. criminal lynching of blacks in the South
A primary goal of Child Access Prevention laws is:
a. to keep felons from purchasing firearms.
b. to keep guns out of the reach of children.
c. to make it illegal to store firearms in a residence.
d. to encourage parents to take their children to the firing range for target practice.
Which of the following is not a basic element in a problem-solving approach?
a. grouping incidents as problems
b. adopting a reactive stance
c. seeking the ultimate goal of effectiveness
d. focusing on substantive problems as the heart of policing
The computerized Gang Intelligence System includes all of the following features
except:
a. gang profile data.
b. gang monikers.
c. related criminal activity.
d. vehicle information.
The program at school that offers youths an anonymous TIPS line to get information
about crime or violence to those who can stop it is:
a. Student Crime Stoppers.
b. PeaceBuilders.
c. Horizons.
d. the McGruff media campaign.
In their traditional role of crime fighter, the police seldom interact with those from the
___________ socioeconomic class.
a. lower
b. middle
c. upper-middle
d. upper
_____________ isomorphism occurs when organizations adopt something due to
pressure either from the state or other organizations.
a. Normative
b. Coercive
c. Refractive
d. Mimetic
What bombings highlight the threat of domestic terrorists?
a. World Trade Center and Centennial Olympic Park
b. Alfred P. Murrah Building and Centennial Olympic Park
c. Alfred P. Murrah Building and the Twin Towers
d. World Trade Center and the Twin Towers
Paoline’s study of police culture:
a. supported the conventional wisdom of isolation and a “them-versus-us” worldview.
b. found that isolation and the “them-versus-us” worldview is compatible with
community policing.
c. found that few officers were confident that they could gain citizens’ cooperation.
d. reported that many officers have attitudes and outlooks that vary from those of
traditional police culture.
Community-oriented policing means changing the daily work of the police to include
-investigating problems as well as incidents. It means:
a. targeting past problems.
b. focusing on future problems.
c. working with the bad guys and not just the good guys.
d. working with the good guys and not just against the bad guys.
According to the text, all of the following are ways a law enforcement agency can use
data from research except:
a. to justify equipment purchases.
b. for grant applications.
c. for disciplinary decisions.
d. for hiring decisions.
________________ warfare refers to combat in which a weaker group attacks a
superior group by not attacking the stronger adversary head-on but rather attacking
areas where the adversary least expects to be hit, causing great psychological shock.
a. International
b. Asymmetric
c. Symmetric
d. Group
During the reform era, the concept of ____________ developed, a phrase referring to
the line that separates law-abiding, peaceful citizens from the murderous, plundering
villains who prey upon them. The phrase also suggests a distance between the police
and the public they serve.
a. psychological distancing
b. us against them
c. enemy and pigs
d. the thin blue line
According to the text, important individual characteristics in communication include all
of the following except:
a. age.
b. self-esteem.
c. language skills.
d. morals.
The Community Policing Consortium is funded and administered by the IACP.
The effectiveness of community policing is often measured using ______________ for
a given jurisdiction.
Explain policing in the South during the 1700s. How and why did certain types of
patrols form? What authority did they have?
Answer:
Answer varies.
Among the unintended consequences of video surveillance are displacement, increased
suspicion or fear of crime, and reduction of reported crime.
The homeless are more often the victims of crime than the perpetrators.
The originator of the problem-oriented policing concept is _____________.
The “veil-of-darkness” method has been proposed as an approach to test for racial
profiling in a department’s traffic stop practices.
The Kansas City Preventive Patrol Study found that increased patrol reduced crime and
had a significant effect on public awareness about police presence.
According to the text, ______________ is sometimes called alternative dispute
resolution (ADR).
Citizen patrols are a twentieth-century phenomenon.
Community policing will require a change in management style, mission statement and
-department organization.
As pointed out in the text, contrary to conventional wisdom, law enforcement agencies
are actually quite open to the research process.
The leading known cause of mental retardation in the Western world,
__________________, includes effects such as impulsivity, inability to predict
consequences or to use appropriate judgment in daily life, poor communication skills,
high levels of activity, and distractibility in small children and frustration and
depression in adolescents.
The emphasis in community policing is efficiency.
PAL stands for __________________.
A good relationship between private and public policing is important.
Citizen police academies train citizens to be police officers when the police are not
-available.
Discuss the Schuster’s research on eyewitness testimony and how DNA testing has
-influenced convictions.
Answer:
Answer varies
The widening of the gap between those with wealth (the “haves”) and those living in
poverty (the “have-nots”), with a shrinking middle class, is known as a
_________________