American Policing Systems Exam Practice Tests
Course Introduction
This course offers a comprehensive overview of American policing systems, tracing their historical development, organizational structures, and operational practices. Students will explore the various types of law enforcement agencies at the local, state, and federal levels, examining their distinct roles and jurisdictions. Key topics include the evolution of policing models, community policing philosophies, legal constraints, police culture, and the challenges faced by law enforcement in a diverse and changing society. The course also critically analyzes current issues such as use of force, accountability, and reform efforts, providing students with the knowledge to understand the complexities and dynamics of policing in the United States.
Recommended Textbook POLICE 2nd Edition by John S. Dempsey
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Chapter 1: Police History
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Q1) 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
Answer: B
Q2) Vigiles were originally firefighters in early times and were eventually given law enforcement responsibilities.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) During the 1960's, the largest problem for city police was:
A)corruption
B)urban riots
C)the use of new technology
D)new training requirements
Answer: B
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Chapter 2: Organizing Security in the United States
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Q1) In the United States, what percentage of police departments has 25 or fewer officers?
A)23%
B)37%
C)53%
D)87%
Answer: D
Q2) The latest statistics regarding the number of law enforcement officers in the United States may be obtained from the:
A)Treasury Department
B)Census Bureau
C)National Institute of Justice
D)IRS
Answer: C
Q3) The U.S.____________________ is in charge of the enforcement of the laws regarding counterfeiting of U.S.currency.
Answer: Secret Service
Q4) The investigative arm of the Navy and Marines is called the __________________.
Answer: Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS)
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Chapter 3: Organizing the Police Department
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Q1) Edwin Southerland, who many call "the father of sociology," gave us the classic features of the bureaucracy.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) The number of officers or subordinates a supervisor can supervise effectively is called:
A)chain of command
B)organizational index
C)span of control
D)effective level of supervision
Answer: C
Q3) According to your text, the best example of police power is:
A)the ability to search and seize evidence
B)the ability to take another's life
C)the power of arrest
D)the power to convict a citizen of a crime
Answer: C
Q4) Another name for chain of command is ____________________.
Answer: hierarchy of authority
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Chapter 4: Becoming a Police Officer
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Q1) If a competent job analysis is done, tests in the police screening process are considered to be:
A)occupationally related
B)race/gender neutral
C)discriminate
D)job related
Q2) An adverse impact or a different rate of selection occurs when the selection rate for any gender, race, or ethnic group is less than _____ of the selection rate for the group with the highest selection rate.
A)50%
B)60%
C)80%
D)90%
Q3) On-the-job training of recently graduated recruits from the police academy is called ____________________.
Q4) Describe some of the ways in which a candidate for police employment can locate police job openings.
Q5) Describe typical educational requirements for police selection.
Q6) Detail the criticisms of physical agility testing.
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Chapter 5: The Police Role and Police Discretion
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Q1) The concept of "what do the police do" is known as the ________________.
Q2) A major view of the role of the police that emphasizes crime fighting or law enforcement: ____________________.
Q3) Officer Brown believes his role is keeping the peace and preserving the social order, yet he is very careful not to violate the constitutional rights of individuals.According to Broderick, he would be considered a/an:
A)realist
B)optimist
C)enforcer
D)idealist
Q4) All are current less than lethal tools departments use except:
A)O.C.Spray
B)Expandable Batons
C)Tasers
D)Slapjack
Q5) The criminal justice system involves a tremendous amount of discretion.
A)True
B)False
Q6) The police emphasize their role as ___________.
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Chapter 6: Police Culture, Personality, and Stress
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Q1) Police officers and their families tend to avoid other police officers and their families when they are off duty.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which is not indicative of the police personality?
A)hostility
B)insecurity
C)cynicism
D)social conscience
Q3) Working long hours and overtime produces ________and consequently stress in officers.
Q4) Under stressful circumstances, quantities of______________, a hormone produced by the adrenal glands, are released into the bloodstream.
Q5) Assaults on police officers most commonly involve
Q6) Police officers murdered in the line of duty are more likely to be killed with firearms than any other cause.
A)True
B)False
Q7) Why do police officers socialize together?
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Chapter 7: Minorities in Policing
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Q1) _____ of sworn personnel in local police departments are Hispanic.
A)19.5%
B)22.7%
C)10.3%
D)l.8%
Q2) If a certain examination results in the vast majority of females failing that test while the vast majority of males passed it, that exam can be said to have had a(n) ____________________ on females.
Q3) 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.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibited all job discrimination based on race, color, ____________________, gender, and national origin.
Q5) Explain how minorities still face problems in policing.
Q6) The primary instrument governing employment equality, as well as all equality, in U.S.society is the ____________________ Amendment to the United States Constitution.
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Chapter 8: Police Ethics and Police Deviance
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Q1) Which of the following is not an argument in favor of citizen review?
A)It would improve public trust in law enforcement.
B)It would ensure that justice is done and actual misconduct is punished.
C)It would make police officers more aggressive in enforcing the law.
D)It would provide an independent evaluation of citizen complaints.
Q2) Explain the slippery slope theory and how it relates to gratuities.
Q3) The Knapp Commission's report distinguished between two types of corrupt officers: grass-eaters and dirt-eaters.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Evidence exists that the U.S.public believes to a great extent that our police are good and ethical and do the right thing.
A)True
B)False
Q5) ____________________ are the rather broad moral principles that govern all conduct.
Q6) Define police brutality, and give several recent examples of it.
Q7) The most notable commission established to investigate allegations of police corruption was the ____________________ Commission in New York City in 1970.
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Chapter 9: Patrol Operations
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Q1) Explain how directed patrol differs from the traditional random patrol.
Q2) The impression of the police always being there is called
Q3) Using available scientific research on policing to implement crime-fighting strategies and department policies is known as:
A)differential response
B)scientific management
C)community policing
D)evidence-based policing
Q4) The Kansas City Study indicated that adding or removing police random routine patrol:
A)caused crime to increase
B)caused crime to decrease
C)had no effect on crime
D)eliminated crime altogether
Q5) Explain what the research says about police pursuits and how law enforcement is responding to this information.
Q6) Decoy vehicles are beneficial to the fact as they pose no threat to officer
Q7) ____________________ is the backbone of policing.
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Chapter 10: Investigations
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Q1) The Managing Criminal Investigations program is designed to put most of an investigator's time and effort into:
A)all felonies that have a chance to be solved
B)very important cases only and cases that can actually be solved
C)only cases in which the complainant agrees to cooperate
D)none of the above
Q2) In smaller departments, detectives tend to be generalists.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Before the Rand study The Criminal Investigation Process, explain how crimes would be solved.
Q4) Through the Rand investigation into detectives, it was found that detective's value in the investigative process was _______________.
Q5) In a case enhancement program:
A)a detective debriefs a suspect to obtain further information
B)detectives assist the arresting officer in preparing a case for court
C)a detective engages in liaison with the district attorney
D)all of the above
Q6) Explain the detective mystique and how it has developed.
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Chapter 11: Police and the Community
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Q1) The relationships involved in both human relations and public relations between the police and the community are called ____________________.
Q2) The Police Explorer program is aimed at senior citizens.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Why is it essential that the police maintain positive relationships with the community?
Q4) McGruff, the crime dog, and the "Take a Bite Out of Crime" program is an example of:
A)a police ride-along program
B)a police mass media campaign
C)a police storefront or mini-station program
D)a citizen volunteer program
Q5) What is the largest minority group in the United States?
A)Native Americans
B)German Americans
C)African Americans
D)Hispanics
Q6) Describe the difference between public relations and police community relations.
Q7) The Hispanic community is composed of many different ____________.
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Chapter 12: Community Policing: The Debate Continues
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Q1) ______________________ provide regional training and technical assistance to law enforcement around the country regarding community policing.
Q2) 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
Q3) Problem-solving policing can be attributed to:
A)James Q.Wilson
B)Lee P.Brown
C)George Kelling
D)Herman Goldstein
Q4) Harvard's Executive Sessions on Policing identified three corporate strategies for policing that are presently guiding U.S.policing: (1) strategic policing, (2) community policing, and (3) _________________.
Q5) Discuss the contributions of Herman Goldstein to the concept of problem-solving policing.
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Chapter 13: Police and the Law
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Q1) This case established the exclusionary rule in federal courts:
A)Weeks v.United States
B)Wolf v.Colorado
C)Rochin v.California
D)Mapp v.Ohio
Q2) The questioning of a person in police custody regarding his or her participation in a crime is called ____________________.
Q3) The U.S.Supreme Court has ruled that a warrantless search of a vehicle is valid if the police have probable cause to believe that the car contains evidence that they are seeking.This decision is known as:
A)the Stout doctrine
B)the Carroll doctrine
C)the exclusionary rule
D)fruits of the poisonous tree doctrine
Q4) What is the exclusionary rule? Describe its development.Has it had an impact on the police and the public?
Q5) Cite three cases involving the police and custodial interrogation.Describe how these cases led to the current custodial interrogation rules in the United States.
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Chapter 14: Computers, Technology, and Criminalistics in Policing
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Q1) What is DNA contamination, and how does it occur?
Q2) Gun and bullet evidence is analyzed by the ____________________ section of the crime lab.
Q3) Computer-aided investigation systems are not very effective in the criminal investigation process and are being abandoned by many police departments in the United States.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Handwriting analysis is performed by the ____________________ section of the crime lab.
Q5) A major problem with DNA today is the growing backlog of DNA cases.
A)True
B)False
Q6) AFIS means:
A)automated fingerprint identification system
B)automatic fingerprint identification system
C)automated fingerprint information system
D)automatic fingerprint information system
Q7) What are some of the threats to civil liberties posed by recent technology?
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Chapter 15: Homeland Security
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Q1) 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
Q2) Terrorism committed by citizens of the United States in the United States is called ____________________.
Q3) The ____________________ is the lead federal agency in the response to and investigation of terrorism.
Q4) The DHS includes the FBI, CIA, or National Security Agency.
A)True
B)False
Q5) During the 1970s, _____ extremist groups posed the predominant domestic terrorist threat in the United States.
A)leftist-oriented
B)socialist
C)union
D)right wing
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