The police subculture often works against the ethical precepts of police departments.
a. True
b. False
Crime Stoppers originated in:
a. Albuquerque, New Mexico.
b. Boise, Idaho.
c. Miami, Florida.
d. Seattle, Washington.
The Humortown Police Department issues many summonses and makes many
misdemeanor arrests. According to James Q. Wilson, it would be considered to be a
____________________ department.
a. watchman
b. legalistic
c. moralistic
d. service
Employees of which agency have the dual mission of protecting the nation’s leaders and
investigating crimes in specialized fields such as information technology?
a. Office of the Secretary
b. U.S. Secret Service
c. U.S. Transportation Security Administration (TSA)
d. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
A state law enforcement system that provides for separate agencies for traffic
enforcement and other state-level law enforcement functions is generally called the
____________________ model.
a. decentralized
b. separate
c. centralized
d. Total
Which is not indicative of the police personality?
a. hostility
b. insecurity
c. cynicism
d. idealism
A study conducted by James David in Texas and Oklahoma revealed that arrest rates for
men and women police officers are:
a. almost identical.
b. slightly higher for men.
c. significantly higher for women.
d. slightly higher for women.
Which of the following is not an argument against citizen review?
a. When a system is formed hastily after a highly charged incident, it might not be the
best one for the department.
b. It allows people who know nothing about police work to make decisions for the
department.
c. It prevents lawbreakers from being punished for their crimes.
d. A citizen review board may cause unnecessary expense by duplicating the work of
the internal affairs department.
Which of the following is not one of the factors that may influence police discretion as
indicated by research findings?
a. time of day
b. the offense
c. subject’s attitude
d. subject’s race
What federal department operates the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) as its research
arm?
a. Department of Defense
b. Treasury Department
c. Department of Justice
d. Department of Homeland Security
Police fraternal organizations generally focus on national origin, ethnic, or gender
identification.
a. True
b. False
Nationwide, in 2008, the sworn law enforcement employee average was
____________________ law enforcement employees per 1,000 citizens.
a. 1.5
b. 2.0
c. 2.5
d. 3.0
. Which of the following is not one of the major issues involved in patrol allocation?
a. determining which officer to assign to each beat
b. determining the number of patrol units needed in each precinct, at each time of the
day, and for each day of the week
c. designing patrol beats
d. developing policies to dispatch and redeploy patrol units
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
One of the most significant problems facing the police over the past three decades has
been the tension, and often outright hostility, between the police and minority group
citizens.
a. True
b. False
The American Institute of Stress ranked police work as the top stress-producing job in
the United States.
a. True
b. False
The U.S. Supreme Court case of Dothard v. Rawlinson (1977) dealt with what?
a. height and weight requirements for necessary job performance
b. age limits for prospective police candidates
c. minimum educational requirements
d. the admissibility of a polygraph in the selection process
The Lautenberg Act prohibits anyone convicted of a misdemeanor domestic violence
offense from owning or using a firearm.
a. True
b. False
According to research, compared to other professions, the police exhibit higher rates of:
a. divorce
b. suicide
c. stress
d. all of these choices
This case established the exclusionary rule in federal courts.
a. Weeks v. United States
b. Wolf v. Colorado
c. Rochin v. California
d. Mapp v. Ohio
The Regional Community Policing Institutes (RCPIs) are part of the _____ program.
a. TOPS
b. COPS
c. TASP
d. COGS
One of the duties of the ________ was performing duties such as lighting street lamps,
clearing garbage from the streets, and putting out fires.
a. thief-takers
b. watchmen
c. shire-reeve
d. magistrates
Crime analysis goes hand-in-hand with community-oriented policing and
problem-oriented policing.
a. True
b. False
In late April 2010, the governor of the state of ____________________ signed a bill to
combat illegal immigration, making this the first state to demand that immigrants carry
identity documents legitimizing their presence on American soil.
a. Texas
b. Arizona
c. California
d. New Mexico
Which of the following is not one of the possible causes for the acceptance of women in
police departments in the late 1960s and early 1970s?
a. the women’s rights movement
b. efforts by females officers to gain the right to perform patrol duty to achieve equality
with male officers
c. pressure applied on behalf of women by the International Association of Chiefs of
Police
d. 1964 Civil Rights Act
One of the most controversial methods of ending job discrimination is the concept of
affirmative action.
a. True
b. False
The police selection process is relatively simple and enables a candidate to become
hired as a police officer within several months after taking the entrance examination.
a. True
b. False
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
The MCI program involves all of the following except:
a. case screening.
b. solvability factors.
c. case enhancement.
d. enhanced patrol techniques.
The civil service system is a ____________________ system.
a. nepotism
b. favoritism
c. reward
d. merit
The U.S Supreme Court, in Kyllo v. United States,ruled that the use of a thermal imager
is not considered a search under the Fourth Amendment.
a. True
b. False
The Kansas City study indicated that our traditional three cornerstones of policing
might not be the most effective way to do police work.
a. True
b. False
The homeless are continually with us in our communities. The police are usually called
upon to handle these individuals. Is this a situation in which the police should be
involved? Why or why not?
Answer:Answer varies.
is one branch of forensic science that deals with the study of physical evidence related
to crime.
Departments expect their personnel to be trained to effectively meet the needs of the
community they serve. Describe the use of police management schools, and give at
least two examples of these schools and their training focus.
Answer:Answer varies.
Previous forms of physical ability testing for police jobs generally have been replaced
by __________ tests.
The process of removing sworn officers from noncritical or nonenforcement tasks and
replacing them with civilians or nonsworn employees is called __________.
Discuss the major divisions within the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Answer:Answer varies.
The__________ is the protective barrier established by the police by which they protect
one another from outsiders, often even refusing to aid police superiors or other law
enforcement officials in investigating wrongdoing of other officers.
A controversial issue in current law enforcement is the cooperation and escalating
involvement of local police with federal immigration officials in enforcing immigration
laws. Should local officers assist immigration authorities? Why, or why not?
Answer:Answer varies
Investigations in which investigators provide opportunities for officers to commit illegal
acts are called __________ or __________.
__________ is the author of the classic text on policing entitled Police Administration.
NCIC stands for __________.
prints are the result of the process of rolling each finger onto a ten-print card using
fingerprinting ink.
The first 10 amendments to the U.S. Constitution are also known as the .
FATS stands for __________.
If evidence is found to be in violation of the exclusionary rule, it must be .
The _____ program deputizes local officers to help enforce federal immigration laws.
Explain Edwin H. Sutherland’s theory of differential association and how it relates to
police corruption.
Answer:Answer varies.
According to Jerome Skolnick, the police officer’s role contains two principal variables:
danger and __________.
What is the broken windows model of policing? Can an unrepaired broken window lead
to a higher rate of crime in a neighborhood? Do you think the broken windows model
has validity in modern policing? Support your argument.
Answer:Answer varies.
What is the Dirty Harry problem? Could you ever justify an officer acting the way
Dirty Harry Callahan did? Why or why not?
Answer:Answer varies.