Which of the following was not one of the corporate strategies of policing described by
the Executive Sessions on Policing?
a. team policing
b. strategic policing
c. community policing
d. problem-solving policing
Dorothy Bracey found that due to a poor diet and lack of exercise, a significant sample
of American police possessed a body composition, blood chemistry, and general level
of physical fitness greatly inferior to that of a similarly sized sample of:
a. college students
b. prison convicts
c. military personnel
d. high school seniors
The Knapp Commission was a(n) ____________________ commission.
a. international
b. federal
c. state
d. local
Activities performed in direct assistance to the public are called:
a. administration
b. operations
c. auxiliary services
d. fraternal procedures
The civil service system was created by the:
a. Pendleton Act
b. Civil Rights Act of 1964
c. Fourteenth Amendment
d. Civil Service Act of 1911
When conducting a stop and frisk, officers may search:
a. the outer clothing of the individual
b. the outer and inner clothing of the individual
c. inside the individual’s shoes
d. only inside the individual’s pockets
The program that provides an annual compilation of all crimes reported to local police
is called the:
a. National Crime Registry
b. Annual Crime Digest
c. Uniform Crime Reports
d. FBI Crime Clock
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
The primary instrument governing employment equality, as well as all equality, in U.S.
society is the ____________________ Amendment to the United States Constitution.
a. First
b. Second
c. Fourteenth
d. Twenty-first
The National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders is also known as the:
a. Warren Commission
b. O”Connor Commission
c. Kerner Commission
d. Johnson Commission
According to Herman Goldstein, traditional policing is:
a. incident driven
b. community driven
c. patrol driven
d. service driven
According to the Department of Justice, of the more than 26,000 complaints of
excessive force against officers reported in 2002, the most common disposition was:
a. the complaints were unfounded
b. the officers were exonerated
c. the complaints were sustained and the officers were disciplined
d. the investigation turned up insufficient evidence to prove the allegation
A form of community self-protection developed by King Alfred the Great in the latter
part of the nineteenth-century England was/were the ___________.
a. Vigiles
b. hue and cry
c. shire-reeve
d. mutual pledge
Which of the following is not one of the goals of patrol as defined by Gay, Schell, and
Schack?
a. increased traffic citations
b. providing sense of community security
c. crime prevention and deterrence
d. recovery of stolen property
What city has actively recruited openly gay police officers and has a large number of
openly gay officers relative to the city’s population?
a. San Francisco
b. Milwaukee
c. San Diego
d. Key West
What act established the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) within the
Department of Transportation to protect the nation’s transportation systems and ensure
freedom of movement for people and commerce?
a. Johnson Act of 2003
b. Homeland Security Act
c. Rogers Act
d. Aviation and Transportation Security Act
The Supreme Court case that established the concept that hiring requirements must be
job related was:
a. Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka
b. Brown v. Mississippi
c. Griggs v. Duke Power Company
d. United States v. Paradise
Recently, social media has played a valuable role in the crime fight as well as _____
between the police departments and their clients.
a. catching criminals
b. crime suppression programs
c. government intrusion
d. building relationships
This case ruled that a person in police custody must be advised of his or her
constitutional rights prior to interrogation or the information obtained can be excluded.
a. Brown v. Mississippi
b. McNabb v. United States
c. Escobedo v. United States
d. Miranda v. Arizona
Most of the tension between police officers and members of minority groups has
focused on police relationships with:
a. Hispanics
b. Asians
c. African Americans
d. women
In 1929, President Herbert Hoover created the National Commission on Law
Observance and Enforcement. This commission was known as the:
a. Wickersham Commission
b. Kefauver Commission
c. Crime Commission
d. Kerner Commission
The Guardian Angels group was formed by:
a. Curtis Sliwa
b. Richard Hill
c. Rick Patterson
d. Logan Stout
Which of the following ranked highest in programs most requested by police officers
according to an FBI training needs survey of almost 2,500 police departments?
a. more firearms training
b. programs to handle personal stress and physical fitness programs
c. physical fitness programs and more firearms training
d. programs on how to deal in a less stressful manner with supervisors
What name is used for a loyalty test given to rookie officers by the training officer and
other officers?
a. Mama Rosa’s test
b. Miami test
c. B-Pad test
d. Junction Boy test
The use of the Taser was upheld in court in:
a. Nolte v. United States
b. King v. Taser, Inc.
c. Michenfelder v. Sumner
d. Scott v. Maryland
The stress produced by the daily need to confront the tragedies of urban life, such as the
need to deal with derelicts, criminals, and the mentally disturbed, and the need to
engage in dangerous activity to protect a public that appears to be unappreciative of the
police, is classified as:
a. external stress
b. organizational stress
c. personal stress
d. operational stress
What U.S. Supreme Court decision held that a black slave could not sue in court for his
freedom because he was a piece of property, not a citizen?
a. Dred Scott v. Sandford
b. Mapp v. Ohio
c. Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka
d. Mabury v. Madison
Today, ____________________ of the major U.S. cities have some form of citizen
oversight in place.
a. a few
b. about half
c. none
d. most
What is the philosophy of empowering citizens and developing a partnership between
the police and the community to work together to solve problems?
a. community policing
b. zero-tolerance policing
c. political-based policing
d. neighborhood policing
Which of the following is an example of the ethical standards established to determine
how police officers should act?
a. organizational value systems or codes of ethics designed to educate and guide the
behavior of those who work in the organization
b. the Law Enforcement Code of Ethics
c. an oath of office
d. all of these choices
Police officers who participate in more passive types of police corruption are referred to
as:
a. meat-eaters
b. grass-eaters
c. dirt-eaters
d. bug-eaters
Which U.S. Supreme Court case was responsible for applying the exclusionary rule to
all state courts in America?
a. Mapp v. Ohio
b. Miranda v. Arizona
c. Escobedo v. Illinois
d. Brown v. Mississippi
With incident-driven policing, officers tend to respond to similar incidents at the same
location:
a. once
b. as tactical response units
c. with problem-solving tactics
d. numerous times
In 2008, ____________________ was linked to fires that gutted five
multimillion-dollar model homes, which were marketed as “built green” in Seattle,
Washington.
a. ABORTS
b. CTs
c. ABC
d. ELF
__________ operations are undercover police operations in which police officers pose
as criminals in order to arrest law violators; for example, they might be used to
apprehend thieves and recover stolen property.
Academic research has shown that female officers can do patrol work effectively and
are well received by the public.
The U.S. law enforcement industry is tremendously diverse and fragmented.
The entire criminal justice system is based on the concept of discretion.
The average probationary period for police officers ranges from __________
Most police departments now train their officers in the use of force using the
__________
In __________ operations, officers dress as, and play the role of, potential
victimsdrunks, nurses, business people, tourists, prostitutes, blind people, isolated
subway riders, and the like.
Inducing an individual to commit a crime he or she did not contemplate for the sole
purpose of instituting an arrest and criminal prosecution against the offender is called
__________
__________ DNA is very useful in solving cold cases due to its hardiness and ability
not to break down easily.
The terms racial profiling and driving while black have become commonplace.
Police officers are allowed to use the level of force necessary to counter a suspect’s
resistance and get the suspect to comply with a lawful order.
The phenomenon in which a person wishing to die deliberately places an officer in a
life-threatening situation, causing the officer to use deadly force against that person, is
known as __________
Define police brutality and give several recent examples of it.
Answer:
Answer varies.
The four major U.S. cabinet departments that administer most federal law enforcement
agencies and personnel are__________, __________, __________, and __________
Police special weapons and tactical teams are popularly known as __________