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Course Introduction
This course offers an in-depth exploration of the foundations, structures, and functions of law enforcement agencies within the criminal justice system. Students will examine the historical evolution of policing, organizational models, roles and responsibilities of law enforcement officers, and the legal and ethical challenges they face. Emphasis is placed on contemporary issues such as community policing, technology in enforcement, police accountability, and relationships with diverse communities. Case studies and real-world scenarios provide students with practical insight into the daily operations and critical decision-making processes in modern law enforcement.
Recommended Textbook Policing 2nd Edition by John L. Worrall
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Chapter 1: Origins and Evolution of American Policing
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Q1) When a watchman detected a fire or evidence of criminal activity, he had to sound the and cry.
Answer: hue
Q2) Which of these institutions was the first to be founded?
A) the Federal Bureau of Investigation
B) the Texas Department of Public Safety
C) the Secret Service
D) the U.S. Marshals
Answer: D
Q3) Column 1: Henry Fielding
Column 2: founder of London s first police force, the Bow Street Runners
Answer: founder of London s first police force, the Bow Street Runners
Q4) What was the significant step toward full public policing that occurred in 1735?
A) Two London parishes paid their watchmen out of tax collections.
B) Two London parishes allowed their sheriffs to appropriate tax moneys.
C) Two London parishes set curfews to keep all private citizens inside at night.
D) Two London parishes set up criminal investigative units.
Answer: A
Q5) The first U.S. marshals were appointed by President . Answer: Washington
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Chapter 2: Policing in American Context
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Q1) Which of the following does not affect whether a trial is held?
A) the defendant s plea in response to the charges
B) the grand jury s decision to bring charges
C) the prosecutor s decision to bring charges
D) the severity of the charge, minor or serious
Answer: D
Q2) Under what conditions does a prosecutor decide to bring charges against a suspect?
A) if the crime is severe enough to warrant it
B) if the evidence is persuasive enough to be compelling
C) if the community is disturbed enough to demand justice
D) if the suspect is likely enough to plead guilty
Answer: B
Q3) The elements of the organizational environment for the police include the community, government agencies, other police and criminal justice agencies, and the .
Answer: media
Q4) Column 1: Police officers search the suspect.
Column 2: Second
Answer: Second
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Chapter 3: Law Enforcement Agencies and Their Organization
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Q1) Which of the following remained in the Justice Department rather than moving to the newly formed Department of Homeland Security (DHS)?
A) the Federal Bureau of Investigation
B) the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center
C) the Federal Protective Service
D) the Transportation Security Administration
Answer: A
Q2) Whose research identified the characteristics of an effective bureaucratic organization?
A) Sir Robert Peel
B) O. W. Wilson
C) Max Weber
D) Frederick W. Taylor
Answer: C
Q3) What are the benefits of private security and private policing?
Answer: Answers will vary. Students should note that where private forces are employed, public moneys may be spent in other ways and public officers may turn their attention elsewhere. They should also note possibilities for cooperation and mutual support.
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Chapter 4: Becoming a COP
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Q1) A critical incident is defined as having the potential to cause catastrophic loss of life.
A)True
B)False
Q2) White backlash is the name for a type of reverse discrimination.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Which of these is an example of quid pro quo harassment?
A) A captain on the police force tells an officer that advancement requires sexual favors.
B) A detective on the police force and the dispatcher have an affair.
C) A police chief and a detective who work at the same station start dating.
D) The chief never sends the only female officer on patrols.
Q4) The nature of police work means that leaving right at quitting time may not be an option.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Column 1: the hitting the wall/intervention stage
Column 2: fifth
Q6) The civil service system of government employment contrasts with the old system.
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Chapter 5: Police Sub-Culture
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Q1) The self-confirming nature of culture means that it is what?
A) self-conscious
B) self-reliant
C) self-reinforcing
D) self-centered
Q2) Organizations not only hold institutional values, but also promote them.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Inordinate fear of injury or death is known as
A) hypervigilance.
B) the paradox of policing.
C) the victimization paradox.
D) the sixth sense.
Q4) What other factors besides the five mentioned in the chapter might be sources of police subculture?
Q5) Which of the following is an institutional value that is ubiquitous in policing?
A) personal responsibility
B) centralization
C) decentralization
D) a traditional approach to managing police organizations
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Chapter 6: Police Discretion and Behavior
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Q1) If research demonstrated that policing draws a particular personality type, it would provide evidence of the power of
A) socialization.
B) predisposition.
C) collaboration.
D) sensitivity.
Q2) Which of these would someone with a particularistic perspective believe?
A) Assignment of officers should be based on their personality traits.
B) The differences among police officers exist but should be downplayed.
C) There is no one personality or set of traits that all police officers share.
D) The rules controlling police work limit officers expression of personality.
Q3) An officer s individual conception of what constitutes proper and good police work is known as role .
Q4) Interactions between new hires and both their colleagues and seasoned officers is responsible for
A) formal socialization.
B) informal socialization.
C) development of predispositions.
D) entrenching particularistic traits.
Q5) Publicizing incidents of police abuse and corruption leads people to call for .
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Chapter 7: Core Police Functions
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Q1) Hot spots and hot times are associated with which type of patrol?
A) K9-assisted patrol
B) focused patrol
C) directed patrol
D) saturation patrol
Q2) Pursuits are more likely to cause injuries when multiple police agencies are involved.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The majority of calls to the police involve situations that might lead to arrest and eventual prosecution.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The anticipation, recognition, and appraisal of a crime risk and initiation of action to remove or reduce it is a definition of crime .
Q5) An officer s success in keeping the peace on his beat is defined by support of commerce and a lack of .
Q6) Summarize the types of crimes that preventive patrol is unlikely to deter.
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Chapter 8: Community Policing and Community Involvement
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Q1) According to PERF, community policing consists of three different perspectives: the legitimacy perspective, the problem-solving perspective, and the deployment perspective.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Column 1: deployment
Column 2: seeks to provide closer police proximity
Q3) Which of the following would seek to identify problem areas in crime, and determine creative solutions?
A) community justice
B) problem-oriented policing
C) community policing
D) private policing
Q4) Police officers are resistant to change and often balk at doing things differently.
A)True
B)False
Q5) The citizen police academies have been designed to increase positive of police work.
Q6) The on terror has caused an increased distrust between police and citizens.
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Chapter 9: Policing in the Modern ERA
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Q1) You are a police instructor responsible for providing comprehensive, realistic training to bring trainees up to a new level of responsiveness. You decide you want to find a system that allows you to fire back at the trainees when they are in a simulated combat situation. What would you use?
A) ILP
B) PRISim
C) CAD
D) Compstat
Q2) Compare Compstat and intelligence-led policing, providing three differences and two similarities.
Q3) Which of the following was designed to bring various different federal and local law enforcement agencies together to work nationally on identified threats?
A) IACP
B) JTTF
C) RTTF
D) FINCEN
Q4) is used to help keep track of California gang members.
Q5) Column 1: computer-assisted training
Column 2: realistic simulation training
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Chapter 10: Policing and the Law
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Q1) Which of the following states that in any federal prosecution a confession shall be admissible in evidence if it is given voluntarily?
A) Fifth Amendment
B) due process voluntariness
C) 18 U.S.C. Section 3501
D) Miranda rights
Q2) List and briefly describe the types of searches and seizures without warrants.
Q3) rights are a set of rights that an accused person has during interrogation.
Q4) After a suspect is released from questioning for a certain period of time, he is no longer under the Miranda warning. How long is this period of time?
A) 3 days
B) 7 days
C) 10 days
D) 14 days
Q5) The second requirement of an arrest is that a showing of cause must be made.
Q6) Define and describe the concept of interrogation.
Q7) Column 1: hot pursuit exception
Column 2: allows officers to enter suspected crime areas without warrant when they or others may be endangered
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Chapter 11: Civil Liability and Accountability
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Q1) You teach at a school that has met all requirements by certain regulating educational bodies. It provides your school with credibility. What is this called?
A) standards
B) accountability
C) accreditation
D) compliance
Q2) relief can be requested by plaintiffs, in addition to damages.
Q3) The course of internal investigations never reaches the courts.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Some agencies their citizen-complaint process.
Q5) Which of the following consists of actions that are highly likely to cause injury or damage?
A) state torts liability
B) intentional torts
C) negligence torts
D) liability torts
Q6) Fairness requires that officers under investigation receive protection from inappropriate investigative practices.
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Chapter 12: Deviance, Ethics, and Professionalism
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Q1) What is misusing police authority to receive material reward of gain called?
A) police crime
B) occupational deviance
C) police corruption
D) abuse of authority
Q2) Use corruption is -related police corruption.
Q3) Older officers that have been on duty for many years are more likely to engage in misconduct than a new recruit because they know ways around the law.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Consent decrees are intended to promote within police departments?
A) citizen oversight
B) integrity
C) civilian monitor
D) civilian input
Q5) Column 1: Mollen Commission
Column 2: a commission used to investigate allegations of police corruption in the New York City Police Department
Q6) Police is defined as the misuse of police authority for personal gain.
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Chapter 13: The Use of Force
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Q1) If gaining a suspect s compliance requires the use of strong directive language or minimal force by the police officer, it is likely that the suspect offered
A) no resistance.
B) slight resistance.
C) moderate or high resistance.
D) violent or explosive resistance.
Q2) Column 1: using force capable of killing the suspect Column 2: G
Q3) Changes came to the Los Angeles Police Department after the beating of .
Q4) When can officers be considered verbally abusive?
A) when they use a harsh tone and commands instead of requests
B) when they use swear words or profane language
C) when they say anything that goes beyond standards of acceptability
D) when they speak loudly and insistently
Q5) What is the third degree?
A) when a suspect is hogtied and doused with pepper spray
B) when a suspect is has force used upon him/her prior to questioning
C) when a suspect is subjected to any verbal or psychological abuse
D) when a suspect is assailed with psychological pressure and physical force
Q6) A TASER is an example of a(n) energy device, a class of less -lethal weapons.
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