Which of the following is called a special jurisdiction agency?
a. Port Authority police
b. college police
c. parks and wildlife police
d. all of the above
In some jurisdictions, reserve officers are paid, and in some they are not.
a. True
b. False
Which constitutional amendment states that “no warrants shall issue, but upon probable
cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be
searched, and the persons or things to be seized”?
a. First
b. Fourth
c. Fifth
d. Sixth
The Latin term__________means “the power of the county.”
a. terra nullius
b. in flagrante delicto
c. corpus delecti
d. posse comitatus
___________________ theory holds that crime is basically “imitative”we learn crime
the same way that we learn other behavior.
a. Cultural deviance
b. Control
c. Differential association
d. Leftist realism
Any police-initiated activity that relies on a person’s race or ethnic background as a
basis for suspicion in involvement in criminal activity is called:
a. noble cause policing.
b. situational stereotype policing.
c. biased-based policing.
d. dispositional policing.
Data on what occurs when an officer encounters a citizen when the officer is either on
an assignment from the dispatcher or on self-initiated activitiescan best be retrieved
from researcher observations.
a. True
b. False
The 1994 Crime Bill provided that all new police officers hired in the United States
would be paid entirely by federal funding.
a. True
b. False
Which of the following is nota nonlethal weapon being used by the police today?
a. chemical sprays
b. irritant sprays
c. Tasers
d. lasers
The Miranda ruling set out certain guidelines that the police must follow during
interrogation; however, an exception to the Miranda warning allows questions to be
asked:
a. to ensure the immediate safety of the public.
b. regarding citizenship.
c. about discarded narcotics.
d. of a person under the age of 21.
Which of the following is notan exception to the search warrant requirement?
a. a crime scene
b. a border search
c. exigent circumstances
d. plain view
According to the author, the police should be seen by the community as:
a. an army of occupation.
b. mercenaries.
c. part of the community.
d. impartial enforcers of the law.
Social media played a significant part in the Boston Marathon bombings investigation.
a. True
b. False
In smaller departments, detectives tend to be generalists.
a. True
b. False
NCIC means:
a. National Crime Investigation Center.
b. National Criminal Information Center.
c. National Crime Information Center.
d. National Criminal Investigation Center.
Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was designed to prohibit job discrimination
based on all but which of the following?
a. race and color
b. sexual orientation
c. national origin
d. gender
One factor that identifies a police shooting as ‘suicide by cop” is that the suicidal
subject must confront law enforcement to the degree that the officer or officers are
compelled to react with deadly force to defend themselves or others from serious bodily
injury or death.
a. True
b. False
Officers who express a loss/increase in appetite usually have an eating disorder?
a. True
b. False
Dr. Neal Trautman proposes a solution to the problem of the Code of Silence with his:
a. Additional Training Regimen
b. Basic Misconduct Survey Study
c. Code of Silence Argument
d. Code of Silence Antidote
A Bureau of Justice Statistics publication reported that in 2007,
____________________ percent of sworn personnel in local police departments were
women.
a. 11.9
b. 15.3
c. 3.9
d. 21.2
The authors of the seminal article “Broken Windows’: Police and Neighborhood Safety”
were O. W. Wilson and Wesley K. Skogan.
a. True
b. False
A basic personality test administered by many police departments is the:
a. PRCI
b. Niederhoffer’s Personality Scale
c. BPI
d. MMPI
The use of analytical methods to obtain pertinent information on crime patterns and
trends that can then be disseminated to officers on the street is called
____________________.
a. criminal profiling
b. CompStat
c. crime mapping
d. crime analysis
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.
a. True
b. False
The primary legal and prosecutorial arm of the U.S. government is the:
a. Civil Rights Division.
b. Criminal Division.
c. Department of Justice.
d. National Institute of Justice.
The National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders, also known as the
___________, released a report stating, “Our nation is moving toward two societies,
one black, one white, separate and unequal.”
a. Wickersham Commission
b. Kefauver Commission
c. Crime Commission
d. Kerner Commission
The refusal of some police officers to report fellow officers’ misconduct is called:
a. the uniform code of silence
b. the blue wall of silence
c. the police omerta
d. blue loyalty
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.
a. True
b. False
According to research, what subgroup was more likely to use constructive coping
relating to stress?
a. African-American males and African-American females
b. white females and African-American females
c. white males and African-American males
d. white males and white females
Which agency is usually the first responder to a scene of a terrorist crime?
a. the local law enforcement agency
b. U.S. Secret Service
c. U.S. Marshals
d. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
Which of the following is not part of a community policing operation?
a. kiosks
b. mini-stations
c. storefront substations
d. motorcycle traffic control
The U.S. Department of Justice maintains administrative control over four major
federal law enforcement agencies. They are __________, __________, __________,
and __________.
Police administrators and police officers see value in having an educated police force.
Discuss the reasons why officers, and those applying for a police job should have
higher education. If this will be a requirement of a department, should tuition
reimbursement be offered? Why or why not?
Answer:Answer varies.
National security letters are information requests issued by local officials who certify
that the information is relevant to an international terrorism or foreign intelligence
investigation.
In 1985, the U.S. Supreme Court dealt with police use of deadly force, declaring the
__________unconstitutional.
Gun and bullet evidence is analyzed by the section of the crime lab.
The traditional principles of management have been described using the acronym
_____________.
Discuss the many ways in which the computer is revolutionizing police work.
Answer:Answer varies.
Discuss what ethical leadership is and how it is demonstrated.
Answer:Answer varies.
ViCAP stands for __________.
The average probationary period for police officers ranges from __________.
The seminal article in the Atlantic Monthly that many believe was responsible for the
modern state of community policing was written by __________ and __________.
Discuss the role of local law enforcement in the enforcement of immigration statutes.
Answer:Answer varies.
Explain whether you believe the Officer Next Door program is effective? If the Officer
Next Door program is effective should the program be implemented in only
metropolitan communities? What would be the smallest community for which this
program could be beneficial? Defend your position.
Answer:Answer varies.
Identify and cite five cases involving the police and search and seizure. Describe how
these cases led to the current search and seizure rules in the United States.
Answer:Answer varies.
is the science of identifying, collecting, preserving, documenting, examining, analyzing,
and presenting evidence from computers, computer networks, and other electronic
devices.
The impression of always being there is called __________.
__________ means that employers must take active steps to ensure equal employment
opportunity and to redress past discrimination.
Explain the effect that the case of Guardians Association of New York City Police
Department v. Civil Service Commission of New York had on police selection. What
important issues were raised in this decision?
Answer:Answer varies.
Discuss the latest innovations in the examination of fingerprints.
Answer:Answer varies.