The stress produced by the interpersonal characteristics of belonging to the police
organization, such as difficulties in getting along with other officers, is classified as:
a. external stress
b. organizational stress
c. personal stress
d. operational stress
The most prevalent form of discrimination has been:
a. separate job titles
b. disparate recruiting
c. de facto discrimination
d. standard discrimination
According to your text, which is not an “interesting fact” about local police
departments?
a. 32 percent use regular bicycle patrol.
b. 53 percent use full-time community policing officers.
c. 55 percent of departments use foot patrol routinely.
d. 23 percent of officers have bachelors degrees or higher.
The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that a warrantless search of a vehicle is valid if the
police have probable cause to believe that the car contains evidence that they are
seeking. This decision is known as:
a. the Stout doctrine
b. the Carroll doctrine
c. the exclusionary rule
d. fruits of the poisonous tree doctrine
The stress produced by elements inherent in the quasi-military character of the police
service, such as adjusting to changing tours of duty, odd working hours, and working
holidays, is classified as:
a. external stress
b. organizational stress
c. personal stress
d. operational stress
Detectives in a centralized squad are considered _____.
a. specialists
b. generalists
c. to be in field training
d. felony-only detectives
The members of the military appointed by Roman Emperor Augustus to protect the
palace and the emperor were called the:
a. Royal Guard
b. Praetorian Guard
c. Roman Guard
d. Praefectus Urbi
Marvin Wolfgang discovered that most predatory street crime in the United States is
committed by:
a. only a few criminals
b. convicted felons
c. sex offenders
d. individuals under the influence of drugs
Undercover operations target all of the following crimes except:
a. robbery
b. DUI
c. burglary
d. selling stolen goods
What stage of the police selection process receives the most litigation?
a. background examination
b. written entrance exam
c. physical agility test
d. medical exam
For law enforcement purposes, the acronym CAD means:
a. computer-assisted dispatching
b. computer-aided dispatch
c. computer-assisted dispatch
d. centralized audio dispatch
The Federal Witness Security Program is administered by the:
a. U.S. Marshals Service
b. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives
c. Immigration and Naturalization Service
d. Customs Service
Directed patrol units are often interrupted by calls for service. This can affect the
performance assignments. What is a solution to this problem?
a. routine patrol
b. task force patrol
c. split-force patrol
d. There is no solution to the problem.
Which law expanded the FBI’s wiretapping and electronic surveillance authority and
allowed nationwide jurisdiction for search warrants and electronic surveillance devices?
a. USA Patriot Act
b. Executive Order 13228
c. Civil Rights Act of 1991
d. all of these
Which of the following is part of the Department of Justice?
a. Secret Service
b. U.S. Postal Service
c. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives
d. National Park Service
Due to the mobility of an automobile, this case allowed police to search automobiles
upon probable cause but without a search warrant:
a. Florida v. Bostick
b. California v. Greenwood
c. Hester v. United States
d. Carroll v. United States
Officer White concentrates her efforts on helping people in trouble, rather than on
keeping society safe. According to Broderick, she would be considered a/an:
a. realist
b. optimist
c. enforcer
d. idealist
McGruff, the crime dog, and the “Take a Bite Out of Crime” program is an example of:
a. a police ride-along program
b. a police mass media campaign
c. a police storefront or mini-station program
d. a citizen volunteer program
What police department has served as the model for field training programs since the
1970s?
a. San Jose, California
b. Reno, Nevada
c. Dallas, Texas
d. Chicago, Illinois
Agencies that cover a large geographical area, such as sheriff’s departments and state
patrols, utilize:
a. take-home car programs
b. personally owned vehicles (POVs)
c. fleet vehicles
d. pre-owned vehicles
The almost “official” police practice of obtaining confessions by use of brutality and
violence:
a. hammering tactics
b. first degree tactics
c. third degree tactics
d. drop down tactics
The Kansas City Study indicated that adding or removing police random routine patrol:
a. caused crime to increase
b. caused crime to decrease
c. had no effect on crime
d. eliminated crime altogether
A form of community self-protection developed by King Alfred the Great in the latter
part of the ninth century England was/were the:
a. Vigiles
b. hue and cry
c. shire-reeve
d. mutual pledge
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
According to your text, which is not a key feature that departments look for in recruits?
a. emotional intelligence
b. ability to communicate
c. good family history
d. maturity
An example of an auxiliary unit in a police department would be:
a. criminal investigations
b. community relations
c. communications
d. training
The concept that employers must take active steps to ensure equal employment
opportunity and to redress past discrimination is called:
a. reverse discrimination
b. adverse impact
c. affirmative action
d. de facto opportunity
Suicide by cop incidents accounted for _____ of municipal police shootings.
a. less than 1%
b. 11%
c. 39%
d. 59%
Which agency collects and maintains a database of clandestine laboratories?
a. FBI
b. ATF
c. DEA
d. CIA
The California Highway Patrol (CHP) implemented a program to keep the thousands of
farm laborers who are hired to work the fields safe while being transported to work
sites, as there had been a large number of collisions with fatalities and injuries. This is
an example of:
a. traditional policing
b. strategic policing
c. problem-oriented policing
d. none of the above
Informal job actions by officers in which they refuse to perform certain job functions in
an attempt to win labor concessions from their employers is called _____.
a. blue flu
b. sit-out
c. blackout
d. blue-out
Most police patrol today is performed by uniformed officers in radio-equipped patrol
cars or on foot.
The man who is credited with establishing London’s first large-scale, civil police
department in 1829 was Sir Robert Peel.
Inducing an individual to commit a crime he or she did not contemplate for the sole
purpose of instituting a criminal prosecution against the offender is called
____________________.
The classic study of random routine patrol was the ____________________.
_______________ investigate people who are illegally trafficking in
government-protected animals and birds, such as falcons.
Typically, larger urban departments such as New York, Chicago, Washington, D.C., and
Los Angeles have deployed two-officer cars, and most suburban and rural departments
prefer one-officer cars.
Young people are not a target for police community relations because of the level of
immaturity of today’s youth.
In police communications systems using____________________, voice
communications are replaced by electronic transmissions.
A credit check is not often used in the police selection process.
Computer-aided investigation systems are not very effective in the criminal
investigation process and are being abandoned by many police departments in the
United States.
The Department of Justice office of policing was established to administer the grant
money provided by the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 and to
promote community-oriented policing.
The police officer is generally the first decision maker in the U.S. criminal justice
system and is often the most important.
Courts typically do not support minimum height and weight requirements for police
officers but do support the need for maximum weight standards or a weight-to-height
proportion ratio.
The ____________ toll that internal affairs investigations can cause is a subject often
ignored by academics.
All police departments have the same hiring standards that have to be met by
applicants.
Reverse sting operations are rarely used by undercover drug operations.
Blood and semen evidence is analyzed by the ____________________ section of the
crime lab.
According to the 2007 report Contacts between Police and the Public, 2005, most of
the police contacts with citizens involved motor vehicle or traffic-related issues.
In the ____________________ simulation, targets depicting “good guys” and “bad
guys” pop up, requiring officers to make split-second decisions.