Departments that ____________________ may benefit most from differential response.
a. suffer from financial difficulties that make it hard to hire more officers
b. have more than 100 officers
c. have fewer than 50 officers
d. are located in rural areas with few officers to cover a large amount of territory
Which of the following is responsible for the protection of the president, vice president,
and their families?
a. U.S. Marshals Service
b. Federal Bureau of Investigation
c. Federal Protective Service
d. Secret Service
What legislation became law in 1920 and established National Prohibition?
a. Olmstead Act
b. Homestead Act
c. Volstead Act
d. Federal Judiciary Act of 1789
The Federal Judiciary Act of 1789 created the:
a. bobbies.
b. office of the U.S. marshal.
c. FBI.
d. New York City Police Department.
James Q. Wilson said that the single most striking fact about the attitudes of citizens,
both black and white, toward the police is that these attitudes generally are:
a. apathetic.
b. negative.
c. positive.
d. ambivalent.
What U.S. state employs the most full-time state and local law enforcement personnel?
a. Texas
b. New York
c. California
d. New Jersey
The largest special jurisdiction agency in the United States is:
a. Dallas Area Rapid Transit.
b. Philadelphia Public School Police.
c. Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.
d. California Parks and Wildlife.
The highly organized rank structure for sworn members of a department is known as:
a. functional command.
b. chain of command.
c. unity of command.
d. supervision ratio.
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
Which of the following is responsible for the investigation of counterfeiting of U.S.
currency?
a. FBI
b. Secret Service
c. Internal Revenue Service
d. Organized Crime and Racketeering Unit
Thewas created in 2005 to unite America’s national security intelligence under one
umbrella. It wasbased on the 9/11 Commission report, which recommended the creation
of a single intelligence director for the United States.
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the Sixth Amendment right to counsel applies to a
suspect no matter what case
is involved.
a. True
b. False
The terms racial profiling and driving while black have become commonplace.
a. True
b. False
According to research, red-light cameras that target traffic violators seem to reduce the
occurrence of traffic violations at that location.
a. True
b. False
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
What is the most prevalent type of corruption in law enforcement today?
a. “rotten apples”
b. biased-based policing
c. police deception
d. noble cause corruption
Most police officers feel that the public:
a. does not support the police.
b. appreciates the police.
c. respects but does not like the police.
d. has no opinion regarding the police.
Police generally have much less discretion than other officials in the criminal justice
system.
a. True
b. False
The police have a subculture that is not substantially different from that found in other
occupations in society.
a. True
b. False
When excessive force is used with the public and there is a significant disparity
between the level of compliance by the person and the level of force used by the officer,
the use of force is considered to be:
a. police misconduct.
b. police malfeasance.
c. police mistreatment.
d. police brutality.
In differential response to calls for service, responses to citizens’ calls to 911 are
matched to the type and ____________________ of the calls.
a. severity
b. location
c. numerical order
d. time of day
Another name for Neighborhood Watch programs is:
a. Crime Watch.
b. Block Watch.
c. Community Alert.
d. all of these choices
Prior to the Rand study, it was common for police departments to have policies and
procedures in place that emphasized:
a. proactive investigations of future crime by detectives
b. follow-up investigations of past crimes by patrol officers
c. retroactive investigations of past crimes by detectives
d. cold-case investigations
Police civil liability means that a police officer may be sued under civil law concepts
such as negligence and torts.
a. True
b. False
The calls radioed to patrol officers, or assignments given to police patrol units by 911
dispatchers, reveal the types of problems for which people call the police and the types
of problems:
a. the police feel deserve a response by patrol units
b. that are important to administration
c. encountered by citizens daily
d. that the local government wants handled
The federal government program that gave grants for police officers to attend college
was called:
a. GRAD.
b. LEEP.
c. DIPLOMA.
d. GAIN.
Courts typically have supported the need for maximum weight standards or a
height-to-weight proportion ratio.
a. True
b. False
The Alaskan Village Public Safety Officer (VPSO) program provides all Alaskan
villages with an armed police presence.
a. True
b. False
Which of the following cities 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
Community-oriented policing strategies have proven successful in:
a. only cities with a population over 50,000.
b. only cities with a population over 100,000.
c. only cities with a population over 500,000.
d. cities of all sizes.
When officers reach the assessment process in the SARA model of problem-solving,
officers:
a. plan further strategic movements.
b. evaluate community policing.
c. evaluate the effectiveness of the response.
d. evaluate incident-driven policing.
Academic studies regarding response time indicate that:
a. citizens generally cannot or do not report crimes immediately
b. the perpetrator will be caught if the police arrive within two minutes of the call
c. the perpetrator will be caught if the police arrive within five minutes of the call
d. rapid response is most important in discovery crimes
If the majority of females fail a test while the vast majority of males pass it, that exam
can be said to have a(n) __________ on females.
Wilson and Kelling’s ___________________ theory suggests if an area of the
community is allowed to deteriorate without some remedy, crime will increase.
Using available scientific research to implement crime-fighting strategies and
department policies is called __________ policing.
The ability and opportunity to transfer from one police department to another is called
__________.
Michael K. Brown says that the police subculture is based on three major principles:
honor, loyalty, and __________.
The National Commission on Law Observance and Enforcement is more popularly
known as the __________ Commission.
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibited all job discrimination based on: __________,
__________, __________, __________, or __________
One of three threats identified by the FBI is the threat to international radical
extremists, such as those who attacked the World Trade Center in 1995.
A study of the psychological effects of _________________ on involved officers
revealed that the short-term effects of these incidents seem to entail the same
psychological limp acts experienced by officers involved in most critical incidents.
How effective are women as patrol officers as compared to their male counterparts?
Answer:Answer varies.
Discuss how community policing strategies are being used in the fight against terror
and the ways in which community policing can contribute to homeland security.
Answer:Answer varies.
According to the text, Hrand Saxenian, a former professor at Harvard’s Business
School, determined that __________ is the single most important criterion in the police
selection process.
A Terry stop is also known as ______________________.
Describe the two methods used to measure the amount of crime in the United States,
and discuss the differences between them.
Answer:Answer varies.
According to the text, if a competent job analysis is performed, the knowledge, skills,
and abilities necessary for performance in that department are judged to be
__________.