Good examples of special crime watch programs are:
a. electronic surveillance companies.
b. storefront police precincts.
c. realtor and carrier watch programs.
d. all of the above
The majority of police actions have less to do with ______________ and involve
service to the community.
a. order maintenance
b. law enforcement
c. time maintenance
d. social services
Studies have shown that CCTV:
a. only reduced crime where people were aware they were being watched.
b. had no affect on crime.
c. reduced crime.
d. made citizens more aware of crime in their neighborhoods.
To evaluate the effectiveness of specific community policing strategies, police
departments should consider data from all of the following except:
a. the health care system.
b. schools.
c. community surveys.
d. homeless shelters.
Dr. Olweus’s program to prevent bullying has as a basic tenet the intervention by
______________ when they see bullying behavior.
a. students
b. teachers
c. school liaison officers
d. parent volunteers
A frequently used law enforcement strategy to deal with street gang problems is:
a. suppression.
b. social intervention.
c. community mobilization.
d. all of the above
When deciding whether to allow the media to take photographs or shoot video at crime
scenes, police must consider important _______________ Amendment constraints.
a. First
b. Second
c. Fourth
d. Fifth
According to the text, the majority of an officer’s actions involve:
a. high-speed chases.
b. apprehending criminals.
c. service to the community.
d. both a and b
According to the text, crime-specific planning is a more precise strategy than:
a. reactive policing.
b. POP
c. community policing.
d. categorized response.
Which one of the three types of activities, as identified by Finn, do School Resource
Officers not engage in?
a. law enforcement
b. mentoring
c. friendship
d. teaching
Qualitative evaluations are __________ than quantitative evaluations.
a. less descriptive and less statistical
b. more descriptive and less statistical
c. less descriptive and more statistical
d. more descriptive and more statistical
The Anglo-Saxons grouped their farms around small, self-governing villages that
policed themselves. This informal arrangement became more structured under which
ruler?
a. King Edward
b. Queen Victoria
c. King Alfred
d. Queen Elizabeth
If a watchman or any other citizen saw a crime in progress, he was expected to
__________, summoning all citizens within earshot to join in pursuing and capturing
the wrongdoer.
a. perform the tithing
b. give the hue and cry
c. identify and pursue
d. none of the above
Community prosecution focuses not on specific cases but on community issues and
-problems, often focusing on:
a. hot spot crime.
b. juvenile crime issues.
c. quality-of-life issues.
d. career criminals.
Often known as ________________, local agencies and departments work quite
i-ndependently of one another.
a. working in ‘silence”
b. working in ‘silos”
c. working in ‘style”
d. working in ‘staples”
If police expect to maintain order, they must maintain effective interactions with all of
the following community organizations and institutions except:
a. schools in the community.
b. the Department of Human Services.
c. health care providers.
d. defense attorneys.
Schools that implemented Dr. Olweus’s program found ______________ in the rate of
-bullying behavior within the first two years.
a. a 25 percent increase
b. a 15 to 20 percent reduction
c. a 40 to 50 percent reduction
d. no change
The DARE Program was started by:
a. Orlando Police Department.
b. Seattle Police Department.
c. Los Angeles Police Department.
d. New York Police Department.
To reduce the residential burglary rate, the Seattle Citywide Crime Prevention Program
used all of the following except:
a. self-defense courses.
b. neighborhood block watches.
c. home security checks.
d. property identification.
According to the text, which of these community policing tenets are of increased
importance when facing budget cuts that reduce the number of officers on the street?
a. community partnerships
b. organizational transformation
c. problem solving
d. All are correct.
The police have different priorities and perspectives from the media. The media
depends upon the police:
a. for information about crime.
b. to help them maintain a good public image.
c. for professional and legal advice.
d. all of the above
Core components of effective community partnerships are:
a. a shared vision and common goals.
b. open communication.
c. both a and b
d. neither a nor b
Recent studies on police use of force concluded all of the following are true except:
a. that less than half of 1 percent of the population actually experienced force during
contact with the police.
b. that in most instances the force used was of the lower or most moderate level.
c. that suspect characteristics, such as race, were not related to the use of force.
d. that most citizens do not understand or support law enforcement.
Only about ________________ percent of sexual assaults are reported to authorities.
a. 15″20
b. 10″20
c. 7″10
d. 2″5
A vision statement is:
a. more philosophical than a mission statement.
b. the same as a mission statement.
c. a review of a department’s past.
d. unnecessary for police departments.
Which research foundation has created a center for survey research?
a. JRSA
b. Police Foundation
c. PERF
d. SEARCH
If officer retention is to be maintained and loyalty and morale preserved and
heightened, -officers must be:
a. verbal.
b. problem solving.
c. empowered.
d. strategic.
A long-term, community-based, violence reduction or prevention program designed to
help create an environment that reduces violence and establishes more sociable ways of
behaving, living, and working in families, schools organizations and communities is:
a. Student Crime Stoppers.
b. PeaceBuilders.
c. Horizons.
d. the McGruff media campaign.
When dealing with the media, it is important to remember that:
a. you can say “no” to the media.
b. you must protect children from interviews.
c. you select the place and time for the interview.
d. all of the above
According to the text, block or neighborhood watch programs would not be described
as:
a. the backbone of the nation’s community crime prevention effort.
b. mutual aid societies.
c. the eyes and ears of the police.
d. vigilantism.
Because of their shared experiences and unique exposure to their community, many
police officers develop a fierce loyalty to:
a. poor people.
b. minorities.
c. each other.
d. the community.
______________ isomorphism occurs when an organization copies or imitates another.
a. Normative
b. Coercive
c. Refractive
d. Mimetic
The social contract:
a. means that, in a free society, people can do exactly as they please.
b. has been weakened by increased mobility and economic factors.
c. is dependent upon the government to support.
d. is a redistribution of accountability and authority.
The first step in analysis, determining what information is needed, should:
a. be guided by past perspectives.
b. ask whether or not answers can be obtained.
c. ask questions that lead to tangible results.
d. be skipped if the nature of the problem seems obvious.
Hundreds of agencies across the United States and Canada have become
______________ and more are going through the process every year.
Large cities have begun to implement _______________ lines to divert nonemergency
calls from 911.
Ample evidence suggests communities that participate in Operation Identification
programs have a greater number of apprehended and convicted burglars.
Describe how MADD began and the initiatives started by MADD.
Answer:
Answer varies.
________________ are variables that predict an increased probability of a person later
-committing an offense.
Describe the process of online reporting. What advantages and disadvantages does it
have?
Answer:
Answer varies.
According to the text, citizens’ police academies are designed to familiarize citizens
with law enforcement.
Assistance in experiments in criminal justice is available through the NIJ’s Locally
Initiated Research Partnerships in Policing.
When prosecutors charge a defendant with a lesser charge in exchange for a guilty plea,
it is called _________________.
Community policing is a philosophy of full-service, _______________ policing where
the same officer patrols and works in the area on a permanent basis from a
decentralized place.
First Strike: The Violence Connection campaign was created in 1997 to raise public and
-professional awareness about the connection between animal cruelty and human
violence.
Ethics involves integrity, honesty, values, standards, courage, and ________________.
Describe “perp walks,” and explain their current legal standard. How do courts and law
enforcement agencies regard this practice today, compared with in the past?
Answer:
Answer varies.
Community policing is a philosophy that promotes organization strategies, which
supports the systematic use of partnerships and problem-solving techniques.
According to an OJJDP survey, the strategy most frequently used by law enforcement to
address the gang problem is _______________.
A group of signs, causes, and symptoms that occur together to foster specific crimes is
called the NIMBY syndrome.
The approach to sentencing that holds offenders accountable not to the state but to the
victim harmed and the community that has been disrupted is _________________
justice.