The aggressive saturation patrol operation in Washington, D.C., run by Chief Cathy
Lanier is called:
a. Operation ICE
b. Operation Delta
c. Operation Alpha
d. All Hands on Deck
The ____________________ standard allows police officers to use deadly force against
people who are using deadly force against an officer or another person, as well as in
certain violent felony situations.
a. castle exception
b. defense of property
c. defense of life
d. defense of community
The National Crime Information Center (NCIC) collects and retrieves data about:
a. persons wanted for crimes anywhere in the United States
b. stolen and lost property
c. criminal history files
d. all of these choices
What landmark 1954 Supreme Court case ended legal segregation of the races?
a. Mapp v. Ohio
b. Brown v. Mississippi
c. Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka
d. Board of Education v. Eisenhower
What cabinet-level department, established in 2003, merged 22 previously disparate
domestic agencies into one department to protect the United States from threats to the
homeland?
a. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
b. Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
c. National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC)
d. Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
Activities that benefit other units within the police department more frequently than do
administrative activities are called:
a. personnel processes
b. operational procedures
c. auxiliary services
d. resource functions
What is the largest minority group in the United States?
a. Native Americans
b. German Americans
c. African Americans
d. Hispanics
The purpose of a police inventory search of a vehicle is to:
a. recover weapons
b. recover any evidence
c. account for all the contents of the vehicle
d. look for elements of a crime
The director of the FBI from 1924 to his death in 1972 was ___________.
a. Tom Ridge
b. J. Edgar Hoover
c. Robert Gray
d. O. W. Wilson
Which of the following states does not have a state law enforcement agency?
a. Hawaii
b. Alaska
c. Montana
d. Arkansas
In 1996, the New York City Police Department (NYPD) and the NYPD Patrolman’s
Benevolent Association (PBA), responding to the fact that 26 NYPD officers had
committed suicide in the previous two years, created the ____________________ to
address the problems of police stress and suicide.
a. Law Enforcement Rehabilitation Center
b. Law Enforcement Counseling program
c. Police Organization Providing Peer Assistance (POPPA) program
d. NYPD Cops for Cops program
Which of the following is a functional category of routine patrol as defined by Gay,
Schell, and Schack?
a. calls for service
b. preventative patrol
c. administrative tasks
d. all of these choices
The Police Explorer program is aimed at youths interested in:
a. camping and sleeping out of doors
b. police work
c. traveling to foreign cities
d. none of the above
Community-oriented policing is an approach toward crime that addresses the
underlying causes of crime and endeavors to apply ____________________ problem
solving to the issue through improved police”community relationships.
a. rule-of-law
b. long-term
c. zero-tolerance
d. short-term
The National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States heavily criticized
the government for numerous failures that the commission claimed were largely caused
by:
a. the president’s refusal to leave Iraq
b. the president’s refusal to meet with Iranian leaders
c. political wrangling and bureaucracy
d. local law enforcement’s failure to get on board with Homeland Security
What is an example of an administrative unit in a police department?
a. records
b. alcohol testing
c. personnel
d. community relations
In a nationwide poll asking people how much confidence they have in the police, 56
percent answered:
a. a great deal
b. some
c. very little
d. none
One of the best-known citizen patrol groups, whose members wear distinctive red
berets and T-shirts, is called the:
a. Red Berets
b. Citizen Avengers
c. Guardian Angels
d. Good Samaritans
The first supervisor in the police chain of command is the:
a. detective
b. captain
c. lieutenant
d. sergeant
Regarding police educational requirements, most departments require:
a. a four-year college degree
b. a two-year college degree
c. some college
d. no college, but at least a high school degree or its equivalent
What organization represented African American police officers in New York City?
a. Guardian Angels
b. Guardians Association
c. American Civil Liberties Union
d. African American Equalization Association
What national database contains information on outstanding warrants and criminal
histories?
a. National Crime Information Center
b. Uniform Crime Reports
c. Arrests in the United States
d. Contacts between Police and the Public
Studies of police discretion have shown that the most significant factor in the decision
to arrest is the:
a. location of the offense
b. officer”offender relationship
c. seriousness of the offense committed
d. offender’s past criminal history
The ____________________ maintains the National Criminal Justice Reference
Service (NCJRS) as a national clearinghouse of criminal justice information.
a. Treasury Department
b. Census Bureau
c. National Institute of Justice
d. IRS
Police officers are considered ____________________ members of the department.
a. sworn
b. nonsworn
c. civilian
d. local
Today, computerization is suitable for:
a. only police departments serving cities with a population of one million citizens or
more
b. only police departments serving cities with a population of 100,000 or more
c. any police department, regardless of size
d. organizations such as businesses, not police departments
Which of the following does not describe the typical police pursuit, as studied by the
California Highway Patrol?
a. It occurs during the day.
b. It starts as a traffic violation.
c. It ends without an accident 70 percent of the time.
d. It covers only a mile or so.
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
Officer Smith believes her role is to maintain order on her beat by arresting criminals.
According to Broderick, she would be considered a(n):
a. realist
b. optimist
c. enforcer
d. idealist
The civil service system is a ____________________ system.
a. nepotism
b. favoritism
c. reward
d. merit
The person known as the father of American policing is:
a. O. W. Wilson
b. Robert Peel
c. August Vollmer
d. John S. Dempsey
What is used in the examination of blood, semen, and other body fluids?
a. ballistics
b. serology
c. criminalistics
d. chemistry
What do you think the police role really is?
Answer:
Answer varies.
Define discretion. Discuss some of the major ways police exercise discretion.
Answer:
Answer varies.
Many states and larger cities have created state and local fusion centers to share
information and intelligence within their jurisdictions as well as with the federal
government.
__________ is that part of science applied to answering legal questions.
In 1985, the U.S. Supreme Court dealt with police use of deadly force, declaring the
__________unconstitutional.
Explain the areas that are the source for police civil liability.
Answer:
Answer varies.
Courts have traditionally upheld police department no-smoking policies.
The police role is extremely well defined and contains little ambiguity.
Discuss the value of evidence-based policing.
Answer:
Answer varies.
In the first half of the first decade of the 2000s, crime reductions continued to occur
nationwide as the police adopted or continued aggressive crime-fighting techniques.
Discuss the killings of police officers.
Answer:
Answer varies.
The U.S. Supreme Court decision in __________requires prosecutors to notify defense
attorneys whenever an officer involved in their case has a record of knowingly lying in
an official capacity.
The American Institute of Stress ranked police work as the top stress-producing job in
the United States.
Explain what the research says about police pursuits and how law enforcement is
responding to this information.
Answer:
Answer varies.
Discuss various ways in which the U.S. government immediately responded to the
September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
Answer:
Answer varies.
Berghuis v. Thompkins determined that defendants must make an affirmative statement
or action to expressly waive their right to remain silent or to have a lawyer present
during questioning.
Why are field training programs and probationary periods vital phases in the police
hiring process?
Answer:
Answer varies.
__________ are small police facilities in neighborhoods in which officers are stationed
in order to engage in crime prevention programs with members of the community.
The __________ identifies the important tasks that must be performed by police
officers, and then identifies the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to perform
those tasks.