Community Policing Exam Review
Course Introduction
Community Policing is a course that explores the philosophy, strategies, and practices of building collaborative partnerships between law enforcement agencies and the communities they serve. The course examines the historical development and theoretical underpinnings of community policing, emphasizing problem-solving approaches, crime prevention, and public trust. Students will analyze case studies, engage with contemporary issues such as diversity, ethical considerations, and technological advancements, and develop practical skills for fostering communication, mutual respect, and cooperation between police and community members. This course prepares students for effective engagement and partnership-building in modern policing environments.
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An Introduction to Policing 7th Edition by John S. Dempsey
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Chapter 1: Police History
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Q1) A form of community self-protection developed by King Alfred the Great in the latter part of the nineteenth-century England was/were the ___________.
A) Vigiles
B) hue and cry
C) shire-reeve
D) mutual pledge
Answer: D
Q2) The first organized American police department (1838) in the North was created in what city?
A) Chicago
B) New York City
C) Philadelphia
D) Boston
Answer: D
Q3) Richard Hill is known as the father of American policing.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 2: Organizing Public Security in the United States
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Q1) The largest county police department (not a sheriff's office) in the United States is the Miami-Dade County, Florida, department, which has how many sworn officers?
A) 3,120
B) 2,390
C) 2,644
D) 3,350
Answer: A
Q2) The investigative arm of the U.S. Army is the NCIS.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) Law enforcement officers in this state must routinely face the problem of not having immediate backup in most situations.
A) Maine
B) Wyoming
C) Rhode Island
D) Maryland
Answer: B
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Chapter 3: Organizing the Police Department
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Q1) No matter the size of the agency, the chain of command starts with the
Answer: chief of police
Q2) The concept of dividing the tasks of an organization according to personnel, area, time, and function or process is called __________
Answer: division of labor
Q3) Most government employees at the federal, state, and local levels are managed by a civil service system.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q4) Shared leadership attained renewed interest in the 1980s and 1990s in response to:
A) the court case of Tennessee v. Garner
B) New York City's successful implementation
C) the riots in Los Angeles
D) Japanese industry's success
Answer: D
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Chapter 4: Becoming A Police Officer
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Q1) Hrand Saxenian, a former professor at Harvard's Business School, determined that __________ is the single most important criterion in the police selection process.
Q2) The period of time that a department has to evaluate a new officer's ability to perform his or her job effectively is called the __________.
Q3) The typical police officer of today is ____________________ than previous generations of police officers.
A) better educated
B) less educated
C) similarly educated
D) none of these choices
Q4) Courts have traditionally upheld police department no-smoking policies.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Which of the following is not considered when selecting police applicants?
A) education
B) physical abilities
C) vision
D) criminal history of parents
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Chapter 5: The Police Role and Police Discretion
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Q1) The first decision maker in the criminal justice system and often the most important is:
A) the judge
B) the defense attorney
C) the police officer
D) the prosecutor
Q2) Robert Lilly's research concluded that the majority of police calls are in reference to:
A) burglaries
B) thefts
C) information
D) social services
Q3) What is the basic difference between the crime-fighting role and the order-maintenance role of the police?
Q4) Sheehan and Cordner state that the two primary goals and objectives of police departments are:
A) maintaining order, and protecting life and property
B) preventing crime and arresting offenders
C) preventing crime and maintaining order
D) protecting life and property, and preventing crime
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Chapter 6: Police Culture, Personality, and Police Stress
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Q1) The majority of recent studies have found that the law enforcement "working personality" stems from the officer's:
A) teenage years
B) socialization process in the police academy, field training, and patrol experience
C) early socialization experiences as a child
D) inherent personality from birth
Q2) Discuss the killings of police officers.
Q3) Which of the following does John Violanti offer as a factor that might explain the high rates of suicide among police officers as a result of stress?
A) access to firearms
B) constantly being exposed to human misery
C) shift work, social strain, and marital difficulties
D) all of these choices
Q4) Which is not a trait of the police personality?
A) authoritarianism
B) suspicion
C) cynicism
D) liberalism
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Chapter 7: Minorities in Policing
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Q1) The Equal Employment Opportunity Act of 1972 (EEOA):
A) expanded the jurisdiction and strengthened the powers of the EEOC
B) allowed employees of state and local governments to file employment discrimination suits with the EEOC
C) made the provisions of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, including Title VII, applicable to state and local governments
D) all of these choices
Q2) Alice Stebbins Wells was the first woman appointed to the ____________________ Police Department.
A) Dallas
B) New York
C) Los Angeles
D) Chicago
Q3) Which of the following was not one of the duties relegated to early female police officers?
A) issuing parking tickets
B) guarding female prisoners
C) performing routine clerical tasks
D) patrolling
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Chapter 8: Police Ethics and Police Deviance
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Q1) The Greek philosopher who wrote the classic Nicomachean Ethics was:
A) Aristotle
B) Plato
C) Socrates
D) Onassis.
Q2) The most notable commission established to investigate allegations of police corruption was the __________ Commission in New York City in 1970.
Q3) Police officers who are assigned to internal affairs divisions are highly respected by other police officers in a department.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Corruption and misconduct in law enforcement are generally restricted to local police. Federal law enforcement agents rarely succumb to the temptation of corruption or misconduct.
A)True
B)False
Q5) The National Commission on Law Observance and Enforcement is more popularly known as the __________ Commission.
Q6) __________ are the rather broad moral principles that govern all conduct.
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Chapter 9: Patrol Operations
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Q1) Which of the following is a functional category of routine patrol as defined by Gay, Schell, and Schack?
A) calls for service
B) preventative patrol
C) administrative tasks
D) all of these choices
Q2) 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
Q3) At the conclusion of the Kansas City study, everyone in the community knew that an experiment regarding policing had been conducted in their community.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Police special weapons and tactical teams are popularly known as __________
Q5) Discuss the value of evidence-based policing.
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Chapter 10: Investigations
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Q1) The National Advisory Commission on Criminal Justice Standards and Goals recommended that ____________________ should be directed to conduct thorough preliminary investigations.
A) detectives
B) supervisors
C) nonsworn personnel
D) patrol officers
Q2) The advances of __________technology have led to the increase in the use of cold-case squads to solve crimes.
Q3) Inducing an individual to commit a crime he or she did not contemplate for the sole purpose of instituting an arrest and criminal prosecution against the offender is called
Q4) Discuss some of the strengths and weaknesses involved in the use of multiagency task forces.
Q5) The two basic types of decoy operations are __________ and __________
Q6) The single most important determinant of whether or not a crime is solved is the quality of work performed by the detectives.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 11: Police and Their Clients
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Q1) According to the author, the police-community relations (PCR) movement had a tremendous effect on the philosophy and culture of most police departments.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Describe the difference between public relations and police-community relations.
Q3) __________ is a program given by police officers in which the officers teach students in their own classrooms about the dangers of drug abuse.
Q4) The Police Explorer program is aimed at senior citizens.
A)True
B)False
Q5) The Guardian Angels were formed in what city?
A) Houston
B) Dallas
C) New York City
D) San Diego
Q6) An experiment was conducted in __________ to determine the deterrent effect of various methods of handling domestic violence, including mandatory arrest.
Q7) Explain the role that social media is playing in police-community relations.
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Chapter 12: Community Policing: The Debate Continues
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Q1) In a resident officer program, a police officer works in the same neighborhood he or she lives in.
A)True
B)False
Q2) A __________ is an organization composed of individuals from various federal, state, county, and municipal law enforcement agencies in an area through which these individuals facilitate the gathering and sharing of intelligence information and the evaluation of this information.
Q3) Many large cities that are faced with rising crime problems are eager to hire administrators who are familiar with CompStat and "broken windows" policing and who came up under this successful police chief:
A) Jimmy Johnson
B) Daryl Gates
C) William Bratton
D) Rick Patterson
Q4) Discuss the successes of the New York Police Department and its experience with community policing.
Q5) Many believe that the modern state of community policing began with a seminal 1982 article entitled __________
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Chapter 13: Police and the Law
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Q1) Evidence that may lead a reasonable person to believe that a crime has been committed and that a certain person committed it is known as __________
Q2) The Crime Index Offenses Cleared section of the UCR lists the __________ for Index crimes.
Q3) Why do Dickerson v. United States and cases following this decision constitute important case law?
Q4) The pattern of brutality and violence historically used by the police to obtain confessions by suspects is known as the __________
Q5) Describe the development of the requirement that one be advised of one's constitutional rights prior to police interrogation when in police custody. Cite and discuss several U.S. Supreme Court cases to show the changes in police interrogation procedures over time.
Q6) The questioning of a person in police custody regarding his or her participation in a crime is called __________
Q7) A police officer can search without a warrant if consent is given by a person having authority to give such consent.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 14: Computers, Technology, and Criminalistics in Policing
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Q1) Which of the following systems have not increased the ability of departments to control and monitor their patrol functions through the CAD and MDT?
A) RMS
B) GIS
C) AVL
D) ADP
Q2) Discuss the many ways in which the computer is revolutionizing police work.
Q3) List the major sections of a police crime lab and discuss the evidence each examines.
Q4) Computers have not yet been used for patrol allocation operations.
A)True
B)False
Q5) It is impossible to change one's fingerprints.
A)True
B)False
Q6) The __________ is a handheld electronic stun gun that discharges a high-voltage, low-amperage, pulsating current via tiny wires and darts, which can be fired from up to 15 feet away.
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Q7) __________ prints are fingerprint impressions left at a crime scene.
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Chapter 15: Homeland Security
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Q1) What act established the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) within the Department of Transportation to protect the nation's transportation systems and ensure freedom of movement for people and commerce?
A) Johnson Act of 2003
B) Homeland Security Act
C) Rogers Act
D) Aviation and Transportation Security Act
Q2) The ____________________ has the statutory mission to serve as the U.S. government's knowledge bank on international terrorism and to provide the Department of State with required statistical information.
A) NCTC
B) NCIC
C) TCIC
D) ACISC
Q3) The __________ gives law enforcement personnel new abilities to search, seize, detain, and eavesdrop in their pursuit of possible terrorists.
Q4) The bombing in Centennial Olympic Park at the Atlanta Olympics Games is an example of which type of terrorism?
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