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Deoxyribonucleic acid is otherwise known as:
a. DMA
b. DEA
c. DYA
d. DNA
The majority of recent studies have found that the police "working personality" comes
from:
a. the officer's teenage years
b. the socialization process in the police academy, field training, and patrol experience
c. the officer's early experiences as a child
d. the officer's adulthood
This new center focuses on anti-terrorism and in comprised of federal, state and local
employees.
a. Fission
b. Center for anti-terrorism
c. Fusion
d. Homeland Security
The stress produced by the daily need to confront the tragedies of urban life, such as
dealing 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
According to the _____ model, the investigation of almost all felonies and some
misdemeanors was the sole responsibility of the detective division.
a. decoy investigation
b. blending investigation
c. proactive investigation
d. retroactive investigation
Groups or individuals who operate without foreign direction within the United States
and target elements of the U.S. government or citizens are called:
a. counterterrorists
b. cyberterrorists
c. domestic terrorists
d. intelligence
Which is not indicative of the police personality?
a. hostility
b. insecurity
c. cynicism
d. social conscience
Crime Stoppers is a program in which:
a. police operate decoy programs where they dress like possible crime victims
b. police open up storefronts and pose as criminals who buy stolen property
c. the police ask television and radio stations to publicize a "crime of the week" and
citizens call tips into a special police phone number
d. all of the above
What is used in the examination of blood, semen, and other body fluids?
a. ballistics
b. serology
c. criminalistics
d. chemistry
e. document analysis
In 1991, what Los Angeles incident inflamed police community relations?
a. Charles Manson arrest
b. the L.A. shootout
c. reinstatement of the death penalty
d. Rodney King beating
The Executive Sessions on Policing, which studied community policing and
problem-solving policing, were held at what university?
a. Stanford
b. Yale
c. University of Miami
d. Harvard
The first supervisor in the police chain of command is the:
a. detective
b. captain
c. lieutenant
d. sergeant
According to your text, the most common form of violence that police officers
encounter is:
a. domestic violence
b. aggravated assault
c. murder
d. rape
William J. Bratton completely reengineered the New York City Police Department to
make reducing crime its primary objective. What vehicle did he use to accomplish this
mission?
a. creating SWAT
b. adding helicopters to the police force
c. CompStat
d. community policing
Community policing has its roots in:
a. England
b. Chicago
c. New York
d. California
In "Broken Windows" and Police Discretion, Wilson and Kelling note that the
community policing model _____ the use of police discretion among officers at all
levels of the organization.
a. reduces and limits
b. contracts and discourages
c. expands and encourages
d. both a and b are correct
According to Herman Goldstein, traditional policing is:
a. incident driven
b. 911 driven
c. patrol driven
d. service driven
All are branches of forensic science except:
a. criminalistics
b. forensic toxicology
c. forensic medicine
d. all are branches of forensic science
DARE is a program aimed at:
a. senior citizens
b. children
c. Americans with physical disabilities
d. all Americans
Who is in charge at a crime scene?
a. captain
b. lieutenant
c. sergeant
d. detective or investigator
Which of the following is not indicative of the police culture?
a. trust
b. clannishness
c. honor
d. individuality
Law enforcement is primarily the responsibility of:
a. state police agencies
b. local police agencies
c. national police agency
d. private security
The evidence seems to suggest that proactive, aggressive police strategies are
________in reducing crime, at least in target areas.
a. indifferent
b. not effective
c. effective
d. showing mixed results
Select the correct answer regarding police educational requirements.
a. Most departments require a four-year college degree.
b. Most departments require a two-year college degree.
c. Most departments require some college.
d. Most departments do not require any college but require a high school degree or its
equivalent.
Which is not a type of office corruption according to the author?
a. taking bribes
b. taking gratuities
c. theft or burglary
d. choosing not to arrest an individual who they know
The first African American police officer was appointed in what city?
a. Chicago
b. New York
c. New Orleans
d. Miami
The analysis of poisons and other toxic substances in a person's body is called:
a. forensic toxicology
b. forensic pathology
c. forensic physical anthropology
d. forensic odontology
Problem-solving policing can be attributed to:
a. James Q. Wilson
b. Lee P. Brown
c. George Kelling
d. Herman Goldstein
Which Massachusetts governor fired all the striking police officers during the Boston
Police Strike and later became president of the United States?
a. Woodrow Wilson
b. Calvin Coolidge
c. Theodore Roosevelt
d. Ronald Reagan
The most common problems for police officers during this shift are disorderly and
intoxicated people at home and on the street, domestic violence, disorderly tavern
patrons, commercial burglaries, prostitution, and drug sales.
a. day
b. evening
c. midnight
d. weekends
Most local police and sheriff's departments have a policy regarding nonlethal force, and
almost all departments authorize the use of one or more nonlethal weapons.
In early U.S. colonial society, citizens were responsible for protecting themselves and
maintaining an orderly society.
Michael K. Brown says that the police subculture is based on three major principles:
honor, loyalty, and ____________________.
Today, many agencies have replaced Hogan's Alley programs with
____________________.
Academic research has shown that female officers can do patrol work effectively and
are well received by the public.
Most police agencies require vision that is correctable to 20/20.
The authors of the seminal article "Broken Windows: Police and Neighborhood Safety"
were James Q. Wilson and George Kelling.
Evidence exists that the U.S. public believes to a great extent that our police are good
and ethical and do the right thing.
Some experts question whether activities that officers engage in under community
policing are really an officer's responsibility.
____________________ prints are fingerprint impressions left at a crime scene.
Thirty-five out of fifty states require DNA samples from convicted from sex offenders
and murderers.
Entrapment is defined as inducing an individual to violate a criminal statute he or she
did not contemplate violating, for the sole purpose of arrest and criminal prosecution.
As late as the mid-1970s, women were often still allowed to work only with juvenile
offenders, and in many cities female officers could not ride in patrol cars after dark.
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.
Historically, state police departments were developed to deal with growing crime in
nonurban areas of the country, which was attributable to the increasing mobility of
Americans, the proliferation of cars, and the ease of travel.
The largest state law enforcement agency is the Texas Highway Patrol.
