According to the text, methamphetamine labs pose all the following risks except:
a. injury from explosions.
b. child endangerment.
c. environmental hazards.
d. the ability to travel without danger to the “cook.”
According to the text, dimensions of trust are:
a. priorities, competency, dependability, and respect.
b. citizenship, shared power, lawful assemblies, and shared concerns.
c. cooperation, effectiveness, shared concerns, and organization.
d. crime control, responsibility, service, and reliability.
The Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) estimated the economic cost of
drug abuse to be $193 billion, which included all of the following except:
a. use of resources to address health issues.
b. use of resources to address crime issues.
c. consequences to include withdrawal from the workforce.
d. consequences to include family issues.
The Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act, also known as the Sex Offender
-Registration and Notification act (SORNA), went into effect in:
a. 2004.
b. 2006.
c. 2005.
d. 2007.
According to the text the most prevalent form of bullying is:
a. electronic.
b. physical.
c. relational.
d. verbal.
In crime-specific planning, the response is the responsibility of the:
a. criminal justice system..
b. community.
c. victim
d. all of the above
Which weapons of mass destruction do most experts predict terrorists will use?
a. nuclear
b. biological
c. explosives
d. computers
A needs assessment should include:
a. the department only.
b. the community only.
c. both the department and the community.
d. neither the department nor the community.
According to the text, police and the media share a common goal of:
a. serving the public.
b. enforcing the law.
c. protecting information.
d. being transparent.
DARE programs are aimed at:
a. preschool age children.
b. elementary age school children.
c. middle-school or junior high children.
d. high-school and college students.
In 1833, ____________ became the first city to pay both day and night watchmen.
a. Boston
b. New York
c. Philadelphia
d. New England
Drug abatement statutes, as stated in the text, make it easier to do all the following
except:
a. shut down crack houses.
b. regulate the sale of cold tablets containing pseudoephedrine.
c. pay for drug dealers’ attorneys.
d. seize drug traffickers’ illegally obtained assets.
On October 26, 2001, this law was signed into law by President George W. Bush,
giving police unprecedented ability to search, seize, detain, or eavesdrop in their pursuit
of possible terrorists:
a. US-VISIT Act.
b. Homeland Security Act.
c. USA PATRIOT Act.
d. Executive Order 21.
According to the text, the definition of a problem draws attention to six required
elements of a problem. The acronym is:
a. PEEPER.
b. CHEERS.
c. SARA.
d. HUDDLE
All of the following are strategies to limit liability should a witness be harmed except:
a. promising only those security services that can reasonably be provided.
b. documenting all offers of assistance and all efforts to protect witnesses.
c. making sure the city attorney is involved in the process.
d. taking reports of intimidation seriously and engaging in the defined process for
protecting witnesses.
The problems that have been associated with police research have been related to:
a. the lack of department support of the research.
b. the lack of community involvement in the research.
c. the current exclusionary style of conducting research by academics who are more
interested in generating publications than in providing useful information for
departments.
d. none of the above
Terrorism by nature is:
a. religious.
b. political.
c. racial.
d. territorial.
Conflict:
a. is always dysfunctional.
b. can stimulate people to grow and change.
c. never diffuses defensiveness; it only makes it worse.
d. is symbiotic.
Using advanced technology to fight crime includes using:
a. red-light cameras.
b. passive alcohol sensors.
c. ignition interlocks.
d. all of the above
Which of the following is true regarding a strategic plan?
a. It is independent of, and should not be restricted by, a department’s budget.
b. It should extend a maximum of two years, by which time most departments have
fully implemented community policing.
c. It should specify desired outcomes and include an annual assessment of the
effectiveness of crime prevention efforts.
d. all of the above
Futurists operate under three fundamental premises. Which of the following is not one
of those principles?
a. The future is not predictable.
b. The future is not predetermined.
c. Future outcomes can be influenced by individual choice.
d. The future is static.
According to the text, the typical youth-related crime prevention programs include all
of the following except:
a. police athletic leagues.
b. Officer Friendly.
c. National Night Out.
d. DARE.
Team policing and community policing can share the following characteristics, except:
a. a neighborhood focus.
b. decentralized decision making.
c. community input.
d. centralized decision making.
The commonly used police practice of choosing among possible courses of action or
inaction when dealing with lawbreakers is known as:
a. detachment.
b. discretion.
c. the fairness doctrine.
d. the patronage system.
Forman contends that community policing has not reached its full potential because a
critical group has largely been left out of the new policing model. Who is this critical
group?
a. young adults
b. youths
c. both a and b
d. none of the above
Safe Start was developed to prevent and reduce the impact of family and community
-violence on young children. What age group was the program developed for?
a. birth to 6
b. birth to 3
c. birth to 10
d. none of the above
The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution guarantees the right:
a. against search and seizure.
b. against-self incrimination.
c. against cruel and unusual punishment.
d. to free speech.
To reduce crime and the fear of crime, the Hartford Experiment involved:
a. organizing citizens to improve their neighborhoods.
b. changing the physical environment.
c. changing the delivery of police services.
d. all of the above
Reflective sunglasses, handcuffs, and gun-tie tacks can contribute to a ______________
police image.
a. positive
b. professional
c. negative
d. compliant
Flat organizations have:
a. fewer staff departments.
b. fewer sergeants.
c. fewer patrol officers.
d. all of the above
The magnet phenomenon occurs when a phone number or address is associated with a
crime simply because it was a convenient number or address to use.
The Community Policing Consortium recommends that the entire workforce be directly
involved in the visioning and planning processes.
Human trafficking always involves interstate transportation of victims and federal law
enforcement agencies are always involved.
Decentralization goes hand-in-hand with empowerment.
Providing help to victims originated as a grassroots effort in the 1990s to help battered
women.
Describe the USA PATRIOT Act and its purpose.
Answer:
Answer varies.
The Anglo-Saxons grouped their farms around small, self-governing villages that
policed themselves. This informal arrangement required every male to enroll for police
purposes in agroup of 10 families, known as a __________.
________________ is the development of an overall strategy that will review the
present state of the organization, envision the future state of the organization, and
devise a meANS of moving from one to the other.
Using the SARA model, the step that involves learning the problem’s causes, scope, and
-effects is _______________.
________________ is defined by the FBI as “terrorism that initiates, or threatens to
initiate, the exploitation of or attack on information systems.”
The smallest number of citizens and organizations needed to support and sustain a
-community policing initiative is called critical mass.
The Boston Foot Patrol Project found that increasing or decreasing foot patrol staffing
had no impact on violent crimes.
________________ is one of the most common violent crime on American college
-campuses.
Target hardening refers to making potential objectives of criminals more difficult to
obtain.
_______________ provide basic or remedial education, training, work incentives, and
jobs for gang members.
According to the text, The Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) is
-committed to promoting law enforcement – _________________ partnerships.
Crime statistics are the only way to sufficiently evaluate the effectiveness of the
community policing strategy.
A prejudice that inhibits objectivity and can evolve into hate.