Plainclothes officers’ efforts to blend into an area and attempt to catch a criminal are
called:
a. coercing
b. blending
c. shadowing
d. marking
The first national commission to discuss police brutality was the:
a. Knapp Commission
b. Wickersham Commission
c. Presidential Commission on Law Enforcement and Administration of Justice
d. National Commission on Causes and Prevention of Police Brutality
Project BioShield was created in 2004 to help the United States:
a. ensure that every American receives a vaccination against anthrax
b. purchase, develop, and deploy cutting-edge defenses against biological weapons
attacks
c. develop cures for diseases caused by agents of biological terrorism
d. all of these choices
What federal department operates the National Institute of Justice as its research arm?
a. Department of Defense
b. Treasury Department
c. Department of Justice
d. Department of Homeland Security
The former height and weight requirements were challenged in court because it was
believed that they discriminated against:
a. people with disabilities
b. African American and Hispanic candidates
c. younger candidates
d. women and minority candidates
James Q. Wilson said that the single most striking fact about the attitudes of citizens,
both black and white, toward the police is that these attitudes generally are:
a. apathetic
b. negative
c. positive
d. ambivalent
During the 1990s, the crime rates across the country:
a. went up in aggregate
b. went down at an unprecedented rate
c. remained constant
d. went up for some crimes and down for others
Which of the following is not one of the basic components of response time?
a. time between the crime and the call to the police
b. time required for the police to process the call
c. travel time from receipt of the call by the patrol car to arrival at the scene
d. time it takes for the perpetrator to flee the scene
Which of the following is not one of the factors leading to stress in police work?
a. poor training
b. role conflict
c. exposure to brutality
d. early retirement
Which of the following are the two major methods of patrol deployment?
a. motorized patrol and foot patrol
b. crime patrol and bicycle patrol
c. bicycle patrol and motorized patrol
d. bicycle patrol and foot patrol
Which New York City police officer’s tales of corruption led to the Knapp
Commission?
a. David Owens
b. Whitman Knapp
c. Frank Serpico
d. Julius LaRosa
The Managing Criminal Investigations (MCI) program is designed to put most of an
investigator’s time and effort into:
a. all misdemeanors that have a chance to be solved
b. only very important cases and cases that actually can be solved
c. only cases in which the complainant agrees to cooperate
d. none of these choices
One way of controlling discretion, particularly improper application of discretion, is the
establishment of:
a. strong policies
b. employee early warning systems
c. citizen review boards
d. active reporting systems
Of the following, the police make more arrests for ____________________ crimes than
for the other types.
a. violent
b. property
c. financial
d. quality-of-life
Which of the following is not a job-related issue that contributes to family dysfunction
in police families, according to Ellen Scrivner?
a. family disruption due to rotating shifts
b. unpredictable work environment
c. the constant exposure of police officers to members of the opposite gender
d. community expectations and demands
Which of the following has the Supreme Court not recognized as an exigent
circumstance?
a. preventing an escape
b. to render immediate aid to a person in need of assistance
c. to check an identity
d. to prevent destruction of evidence
The attitude that there is no hope for the world and a view of humanity at its worst
called:
a. police social control
b. police prejudice
c. police attitude
d. police cynicism
Which of the following is not one of the most important benefits of community
policing, according to the scholar Herman Goldstein?
a. a more realistic acknowledgment of police functions
b. a recognition of the interrelationships among police functions
c. an acknowledgment of the limited capacity of the police to accomplish their jobs on
their own and of the importance of an alliance between the police and the public
d. community control of the police
Deoxyribonucleic acid is otherwise known as:
a. DMA
b. DEA
c. DYA
d. DNA
Which is not a trait of the police personality?
a. authoritarianism
b. suspicion
c. cynicism
d. liberalism
What legislation became law in 1920 and established National Prohibition?
a. Olmstead Act
b. Homestead Act
c. Volstead Act
d. Federal Judiciary Act of 1789
A well-rounded chaplain program will attempt to have representatives from _____
religious groups.
a. all local
b. Christian
c. two main
d. nondenominational
Which of the following is not one of the human behaviors found by Wesley Skogan to
be extremely disruptive to the community?
a. public drinking
b. youths firing gunshots into the air
c. commercial sex
d. street harassment
Marks made by fingers touching a surface after the ridges have been in contact with a
colored material such as blood, paint, grease, or ink are called:
a. visible prints
b. latent prints
c. plastic prints
d. acoustic prints
Which agency is responsible for preventing losses from disasters wherever possible,
and assisting when they do happen?
a. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
b. Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
c. National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC)
d. Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
The only law enforcement officers available on the American frontier were
the__________and the __________.
a. county sheriff, town marshal
b. county marshal, town sheriff
c. chief of police, county sheriff
d. military provost, town marshal
A 1981 report by the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights emphasized the need to provide
____________________ programs and services for police.
a. physical fitness
b. medical
c. stress management
d. in-service training
The U.S. Coast Guard, which is a military branch of the U.S. armed forces and is on the
front lines of maritime security efforts, patrols:
a. only international waters
b. only American coasts, ports, and waterways
c. both international waters and American coasts, ports, and waterways
d. international waters only at the request of a foreign government
Detail the Pregnancy Discrimination Act (PDA) and explain its impact on how police
departments handle female officers who are pregnant.
Answer:Answer varies.
According to research, what is the leading problem among police officers?
a. marital problems
b. problems with children
c. drug problems
d. financial problems
Adverse impact or different rate of selection occurs when the selection rate for any
gender, race, or ethnic group is less than ____________________ percent of that for the
group with the highest selection rate.
a. 50
b. 60
c. 80
d. 90
For law enforcement purposes, the acronym CAD means:
a. computer-assisted department
b. computer-aided dispatch
c. computer-automatic dispatch
d. centralized audio dispatch
Even after the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, most state and local law enforcement
administrators continued to view terrorism primarily as a(n) ____________________
threat.
a. localized
b. international
c. federal
d. distant
Detail the benefits of a police union.
Answer:
Answer varies.
Two studies indicate that people who engage in violent crime or who engage the police
in violent confrontations are much more likely to be the victims of police shootings.
A major drawback in the use of biological weapons is that they cannot be __________
Police civil liability means that a police officer may be sued in civil court for improper
behavior, using such civil law concepts as negligence and torts.
In some jurisdictions, reserve officers are paid, and in some they are not.
Discuss the importance of the research of scholars James Q. Wilson and George L.
Kelling to the concept of community policing.
Answer:
Answer varies.
The Joint Terrorism Task Forces (JTTF) concept involves the melding of personnel and
talent from various law enforcement agencies.
In recent years, there has been a decrease in the use of multiagency investigative task
forces.
The strong bonding that occurs among police officers places the highest value on the
obligation to back up and support a fellow officer.
In 2008, Congress overhauled the __________ Act to bring federal surveillance statutes
into closer alignment with what the government had been secretly doing. The
legislation essentially legalized certain aspects of the National Security Agency’s
(NSA’s) surveillance program.
Age-progression photographs are prepared by forensic artists rather than computers.
__________ is one branch of forensic science that deals with the study of physical
evidence related to crime.
All three shifts in the police three-tour system have the same characteristics.
We will always need some type of rapid police response to citizens’ calls to 911, even
though we have to realize that a __________ response is highly unrealistic.
The plan initiated in 1997 allowing police officers to receive 50 percent discounts and
low-cost loans to purchase homes in “distressed” areas nationwide was called the
__________ program.
Explain the detective mystique and how it has developed.
Answer:
Answer varies.