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Course Introduction
Introduction to Law Enforcement provides students with a comprehensive overview of the foundational principles, functions, and structures of law enforcement agencies. The course explores the history and evolution of policing, the organization of law enforcement at the local, state, and federal levels, and the various roles and responsibilities of officers in modern society. Students will examine key issues such as community policing, ethics, the criminal justice process, and the challenges faced by law enforcement professionals. Through discussions and case studies, learners gain insight into the legal, social, and ethical considerations that shape law enforcement practices and public safety.
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The Police in America An Introduction 8th Edition by Samuel Walker
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Chapter 1: Police and Society
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Q1) George Kelling and Catherine Coles argue that
A)more SWAT teams are needed because of the threat of terrorism in large American cities.
B)penalties for crimes must be reduced.
C)penalties for criminal behavior must be increased.
D)tough enforcement on minor crimes directly contributes to a significant reduction is serious crime.
Answer: D
Q2) Most police work can be described as order maintenance or peacekeeping.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) Before we had the modern police, citizens were the primary agents of social control.How was behavior regulated?
A)comments, warnings, and rebukes
B)making arrests by taking the person to a judge
C)spending time in jail
D)all of these
Answer: A
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Chapter 2: The History of the American Police
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Q1) The first police officers were generally friendly, knowledgeable about their neighborhood, and helpful.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) The police today are a product of their
A)biology.
B)race.
C)sex.
D)history.
Answer: D
Q3) Which of the following statements characterizes the professionalization movement of police reform through the 1960s?
A)The reformers sought to define policing as a profession.
B)The reformers sought to eliminate the influence of politics on policing.
C)The reformers argued in favor of hiring qualified chief executives to head police departments.
D)all of these
Answer: D
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Chapter 3: The Contemporary Law Enforcement Industry
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Q1) Why is the legal status of the sheriff unique?
A)In most states it is a constitutional office.
B)They are almost always appointed by the governor.
C)They are not involved in partisan politics.
D)They have more authority than city departments.
Answer: A
Q2) U.S.Department of Justice SMART Policing Initiative grants are designed to encourage
A)local agencies to show reduced crime statistics.
B)covering extraordinary policing expenses.
C)local police to focus their resources on places and people that are most responsible for crime and violence.
D)the local agency must have a disproportionate level of violent crime
Answer: C
Q3) What is the most important role of state governments regarding law enforcement?
A)to require that agencies be accredited
B)to require the licensing or certification of all sworn officers
C)to insist on high attrition rates
D)to enforce sanctions on police with poor performance indicators
Answer: B
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Chapter 4: Police Organizations
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Q1) A police union is an
A)organization designed to inhibit the abilities of civil service agencies.
B)industry geared toward profiting from the low job satisfaction experienced by a majority of police officers.
C)organization legally authorized to represent police administrators in providing police officers with needed equipment.
D)organization legally authorized to represent police officers in collective bargaining.
Q2) Which of the following is a responsibility of civil service agencies?
A)developing strategies to involve the community in policing
B)developing disciplinary procedures for personnel
C)conducting the training academies for new personnel
D)developing new community policing strategies
Q3) What happens when the police union and management cannot agree on a contract?
A)They move to impasse procedures.
B)The police go on strike.
C)A bond vote takes place to determine police benefits.
D)The city initiates hiring procedures for new personnel.
Q4) How are the police different the military?
Q5) What are the nine characteristics of a modern bureaucracy?
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Chapter 5: Police Of cers I: Entering Police Work
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Q1) The appeal of jobs in a police department often depends on
A)the state of the economy and how the pay and benefits compare to other jobs.
B)the breadth and depth of the character investigation.
C)whether or not the organization conducts drug testing.
D)whether or not the organization conducts polygraph examinations.
Q2) Which of the following is the only predictive factor that correlates with future positive on-the-job performance?
A)IQ
B)success at previous jobs
C)recruit training score
D)none of these are correct
Q3) Although police officers fall under civil service rules and police union contracts, they do not enjoy a high degree of job security.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Very few police departments grant education incentive pay to encourage their officers to continue their education.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 6: Police Of cers II: on the Job
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Q1) A surprising find by the National Center for Women in Policing is that female police officers are more likely to use excessive force than males.
A)True
B)False
Q2) A national evaluation of police early warning systems finds that women officers are less likely than male officers to be identified as potential "problem" officers as a result of citizen complaints and use-of-force incidents.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The opportunity for a police officer to move to other police departments with the same or higher rank is
A)the normal way to get promoted.
B)accepted in most police departments.
C)somewhat limited.
D)extremely limited.
Q4) Explain how the "code of silence" affects a police department.
Q5) What were the findings of the Police Foundation study of policewomen on patrol?
Q6) Explain the concept of a police subculture.
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Chapter 7: Patrol: the Backbone of Policing
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Q1) James Q.Wilson points out that discretion decreases as one moves down the organizational hierarchy.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Most calls to the police station are for serious criminal matters.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The style of policing that implements the criminal justice process as frequently as possible and offenders, regardless of their circumstances or the severity of their offense seldom escape sanction, is termed
A)watchman
B)legalistic
C)service
D)community-oriented
Q4) What is the easiest way for a patrol officer to avoid work?
A)procrastinate with report writing
B)delay reporting completion of a call
C)take extra lunch time
D)turn off the two-way radio
Q5) What are some of the reasons why citizens delay calling the police?
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Chapter 8: Peacekeeping and Order Maintenance
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Q1) There are at least 5 documented cases where officers have contracted HIV/AIDS from saliva.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Why do vice crimes present special enforcement problems?
A)They are victimless crimes.
B)So many people are involved in these types of crimes.
C)They are not illegal in all states.
D)Vice crimes are tough to prosecute
Q3) Which model holds that police intervention can defuse potentially violent situations and prevent them from escalating into criminal violence?
A)community cooperation model
B)police knowledge model
C)crime prophylactic model
D)social work model
Q4) The demeanor of a suspect has no effect on the police decision to arrest that suspect.
A)True
B)False
Q5) What are the four citizen expectations, as proposed by John C.Meyer?
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Chapter 9: The Police and Crime
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Q1) The event referred to as an arrest has four dimensions.Which dimension is defined by the following: "an individual is arrested or in custody when deprived of his/her liberty by legal authority"?
A)behavioral
B)legal
C)official
D)subjective
Q2) A PERF study of burglary and robbery investigations found that about 25 percent of all burglary cases receive slightly less than _______ of investigative work.
A)2 hours work
B)4 hours work
C)6 hours work
D)8 hours work
E)10 hours work
Q3) What are the five basic steps in a preliminary investigation?
Q4) Contrary to popular belief, detective work is neither glamorous nor exciting.
A)True
B)False
Q5) What are three reasons that a police officer might unfound a crime?
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Chapter 10: Innovations in Police Strategy
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Q1) Bayley warns that changing the police role runs the risk of involving the police in A)crime.
B)crime analysis.
C)unions.
D)politics.
Q2) Physical disorder includes such issues as
A)street corner gangs.
B)street corner drug sales.
C)vandalism.
D)public drinking.
Q3) The strategy for police to primarily focus on disorder and minor crimes is called A)minor crime enforcement.
B)zero tolerance policing.
C)problem oriented policing.
D)aggressive peace policing.
Q4) The crime-attack role in policing only developed over the last 50 years.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 11: Police Discretion
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Q1) The immediate work setting influences officer compliance with written policy.
A)True
B)False
Q2) While addressing incidents, such as domestic violence, that are largely hidden from public view, police officers can more easily ignore policy and the reporting requirement.This type of incident is called
A)course of action work.
B)sub action police work.
C)low level work.
D)low visibility work.
Q3) Research has shown that police are more likely to make arrests in A)affluent neighborhoods.
B)middle class neighborhoods.
C)low-income neighborhoods.
D)gay and lesbian communities.
E)rural areas.
Q4) James Q.Wilson commented that discretion increases as one moves down the organizational hierarchy.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 12: Legitimacy and Community Relations
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Q1) The purpose of having a diverse work force within a police organization is
A)to end unlawful employment discrimination.
B)to improve the quality of police services, as minority officers will better able to relate to minority citizens and will not engage in discriminatory behavior.
C)that adding minority officers will alter the police subculture and affect the attitudes and behavior of other officers.
D)All of these are reasons to have a diverse work force.
Q2) The most important misperception of public attitudes experienced by police officers results from
A)police protection.
B)new media reports.
C)selective contact.
D)too little enforcement.
Q3) Relative to their numbers in the population
A)whites are arrested more than African Americans.
B)African Americans are arrested more than whites.
C)women are arrested more than African American males.
D)Latinos are arrested less than white females.
Q4) What is the different between under-protection vs.over-enforcement?
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Chapter 13: Police Corruption
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Q1) According to Carter and Barker, ____________ includes actions that tends "to injure, insult, trespass upon human dignity ...and/or violate an inherent legal right" of a citizen
A)police violence
B)police profiteering
C)abuse of authority
D)occupational deviance
E)police perks
Q2) A situation where only a few officers are independently engaged in corrupt acts is known as the
A)rotten pocket disorder.
B)partial deviance factor.
C)conduct unbecoming issue.
D)rotten apple theory.
Q3) The Knapp Corruption Commission coined the term "grass eater" as defined by
A)officers who passively accept what is offered to them.
B)officers who aggressively demand favors.
C)investigative divisions who only investigate narcotics corruption cases.
D)administrators who do not take a serious approach to police corruption.
Q4) What are the six costs of police corruption?
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Chapter 14: Accountability of the Police
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Q1) A newspaper report described the midnight shift in the Suffolk County Police Department as the
A)thin blue line between us and them.
B)the combat zone.
C)Ft.Apache.
D)last residence of heroes.
E)lost battalion.
Q2) The program COMPSTAT was originally developed in A)Philadelphia.
B)Milwaukee.
C)New York City.
D)Dallas.
Q3) The purpose of Risk Management (RM) systems is to
A)provide assistance to officers with performance issues.
B)systematically collect data on litigation costs, analyze the causes of the lawsuits, and takes steps to reduce or eliminate the causes.
C)assess the risk of not applying for departmental accreditation.
D)measure the risk of losing federal funding.
Q4) What are consent decrees, and what has been their impact on police departments?
Q5) What are the key elements of the COMPSTAT program discussed in this chapter?
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Chapter 15: The Future of Policing in America
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Q1) Traditionally, one of the most time-consuming activities engaged in by police agencies is the management of paperwork.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Traditionally, state and local agencies had no authority to enforce federal laws.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The era of policing knowledge in which the discipline has enormously expanded its knowledge base is known as the
A)Era of Experiential Learning.
B)Foundation of Knowledge.
C)DARE Research.
D)Research revolution.
Q4) Today, about ten percent of all personnel employed by local, county, and state law enforcement agencies are civilians.
A)True
B)False
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