Police Organization and Management Exam Review
Course Introduction
This course explores the fundamental principles and practices of police organization and management, focusing on the structure, functions, and operations of law enforcement agencies. Students will examine organizational theories, leadership styles, communication strategies, decision-making processes, and resource management within police departments. The course also addresses challenges faced by modern police organizations, such as community relations, ethical issues, accountability, and the impact of technological advancements. By studying case studies and real-world examples, students will gain a comprehensive understanding of how effective management and organizational strategies contribute to efficient and ethical policing.
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POLICE 2nd Edition by John S. Dempsey
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Chapter 1: Police History
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Q1) What law gives law enforcement new ability to search, seize, detain, or eavesdrop in their pursuit of possible terrorists?
A)Posse Comitatus Act
B)USA Patriot Act
C)Statute of Winchester
D)Volstead Act
Answer: B
Q2) The ______________ of 1919 was one of the most significant events in the history of policing, and it increased interest in police reform.
Answer: Boston Police Strike
Q3) By the 1880s, what private national detective agency had offices in nearly two dozen cities?
A)Brinks
B)Pinkerton
C)Wells Fargo
D)Rocky Mountain Detective Association
Answer: B
Q4) The ____________ is considered the first form of English police officer. Answer: Constable
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Chapter 2: Organizing Security in the United States
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Q1) Most police departments are very small, with about 87 percent employing fewer than 25 sworn officers.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) In the United States, what percentage of police departments has 25 or fewer officers?
A)23%
B)37%
C)53%
D)87%
Answer: D
Q3) At the state level, there are three distinct models of law enforcement agencies. A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q4) Rural and small-town law enforcement agencies engage in ____________________ programs with neighboring agencies and come to one another's aid when necessary.
Answer: mutual assistance
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Chapter 3: Organizing the Police Department
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Q1) The ability and opportunity to transfer from one police department to another is called ____________________.
Answer: lateral transfers or lateral movement
lateral movement or lateral transfers
lateral transfers
lateral movement
Q2) Who is generally in charge of a squad?
A)master patrol officer
B)corporal
C)lieutenant
D)sergeant
Answer: D
Q3) Probable cause is a series of facts that would indicate to a "reasonable person" that a crime is being committed or was committed and that a certain person is committing or did commit it.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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) The background investigation for most police department's usually only looks back five years into the applicant's life and history.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The type of training that is used to update the skills and knowledge base of veteran officers on a constant basis is called ____________________.
Q3) A vast majority of police agencies require a bachelor's degree as a minimum educational requirement.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The police selection process is relatively simple and enables a candidate to become hired as a police officer within several months after taking the entrance examination.
A)True
B)False
Q5) On-the-job training of recently graduated recruits from the police academy is called ____________________.
Q6) List and discuss the major steps in the police selection process.
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Chapter 5: The Police Role and Police Discretion
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Q1) Who arranged for the organization of the first paid, full-time, uniformed police department, conceived of the police role as a conspicuous community-oriented patrol designed more for prevention and deterrence than for enforcement?
A)Henry Fielding
B)Carl B.Klockars
C)Sir Robert Peel
D)Egon Bittner
Q2) The Bigtown Police Department maintains order through informal police intervention, including persuasion and threats, or hassling or roughing up disruptive people instead of formal arrests.According to James Q.Wilson, it would be considered to be a _____ department.
A)watchman
B)legalistic
C)moralistic
D)service
Q3) The primary goal or objective of the police should be to arrest all offenders.
A)True
B)False
Q4) What are some of the major factors that influence police discretion?
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Chapter 6: Police Culture, Personality, and Stress
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Q1) According to Ellen Scrivner, which of the following is not a job-related issue that contributes to family dysfunction in police families?
A)family disruption due to rotating shifts
B)unpredictable work environment
C)the constant exposure of police officers to members of the opposite gender
D)community expectations and demands
Q2) What is stress? Name some factors causing stress in policing.
Q3) A situation in which police officers trust only other police officers and do not aid in the investigation of wrongdoing by other officers is called the:
A)red curtain
B)blue curtain
C)blue shield
D)red shield
Q4) According to research, compared to other professions the police exhibit higher rates of:
A)divorce
B)suicide
C)stress
D)all of the above
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Chapter 7: Minorities in Policing
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Q1) The first important job discrimination case was ____________________.
Q2) The first African American police officer was appointed in what city?
A)Chicago
B)New York
C)New Orleans
D)Miami
Q3) In 1910, the nation's first "officially designated" policewoman was:
A)Alice Stebbins Wells
B)Nora Jean Wilson
C)Hazel L.Davis
D)Ruth Smith
Q4) The simultaneous expectation by white officers that African American officers will give members of their own race better treatment, but that African American officers will also receive hostility from the African American community because they are perceived as traitors to their race is known as:
A)double marginality
B)de facto discrimination
C)adverse impact
D)reverse discrimination
Q5) Discuss the many ways that women have been discriminated against in policing.
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Chapter 8: Police Ethics and Police Deviance
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Q1) Officers who participate in more aggressive types of corruption by seeking out and taking advantage of opportunities of corruption are called:
A)meat-eaters
B)grass-eaters
C)dirt-eaters
D)tree-huggers
Q2) Police administrators will tell you that honesty is the most crucial trait in a police applicant and police officer.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Explain the slippery slope theory and how it relates to gratuities.
Q4) Generally, the citizen oversight boards established to review allegations of brutality by police officers have no power to discipline offending officers.
A)True
B)False
Q5) The National Commission on Law Observance and Enforcement is more popularly known as the ____________________ Commission.
Q6) Explain the areas that are the source for police civil liability.
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Chapter 9: Patrol Operations
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Q1) Most police patrol today is performed by uniformed officers in radio-equipped patrol cars or on foot.
A)True
B)False
Q2) A _____ system allows non-emergency calls to be redirected or referred to other referral agencies or government agencies.
A)311
B)411
C)511
D)611
Q3) Discuss special operations listed in your text that assist law enforcement in providing services to the community.
Q4) According to your text, the NHTSA reported and increase in alcohol-related crashes.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Why do citizens seem to want more police officers on foot patrol rather than in police cars?
Q6) Discuss the value of evidence-based policing.
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Chapter 10: Investigations
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Q1) Before the Rand study The Criminal Investigation Process, explain how crimes would be solved.
Q2) ____________________ involve using various undercover methods to apprehend thieves and recover stolen property.
Q3) Entrapment is defined as inducing an individual to violate a criminal statute he or she did not contemplate violating, for the sole purpose of arrest and criminal prosecution.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Elements of sting operations include all but the following:
A)undercover officer(s)
B)targeted group
C)opportunity to commit a crime
D)all are elements of a sting operation
Q5) Decoy operations are most effective in combating the crimes of robbery, purse snatching, and other larcenies from the person; burglaries; and thefts of and from automobiles.
A)True
B)False
Q6) ROPs concentrate on ____________________.
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Chapter 11: Police and the Community
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Q1) Young people are not a target for police community relations because of the level of immaturity of today's youth.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Crime Stoppers is a program in which:
A)police operate decoy programs where they dress like possible crime victims
B)police open up storefronts and pose as criminals who buy stolen property
C)the police ask television and radio stations to publicize a "crime of the week" and citizens call tips into a special police phone number
D)all of the above
Q3) What is the rationale behind DARE programs?
Q4) Name and describe several community crime prevention programs.Select one which you believe offers the most potential in reducing and preventing crime and explain your rationale.
Q5) An experiment was conducted in ____________________ to determine the deterrent effect of various methods of handling domestic violence, including mandatory arrest.
Q6) The Hispanic community is composed of many different ____________.
Q7) Describe the difference between public relations and 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) The idea of problem-solving policing can be attributed to
Q3) The biggest threat to community policing efforts according to the author is:
A)the community not willing to accept officers
B)the budget of the police department
C)the officers not willing to interact with the community
D)constant calls for service preventing officers from providing community policing services
Q4) The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department used problem-oriented policing to address an increase in robbery victimization among the Hispanic population.Police found most of these crimes occurred:
A)at the theaters
B)near the central parks
C)at little league baseball games
D)in parking lots near laundry facilities
Q5) Name and discuss three features of the 1994 Crime Bill.
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Q6) How does problem-oriented policing differ from traditional methods of policing?
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) If evidence is found to be in violation of the exclusionary rule, it must be ____________________.
Q3) A border search can be made without probable cause, without a warrant, and indeed, without any articulable suspicion at all.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The right to counsel contained within the Miranda ruling applies only when the subject of an interrogation:
A)is in custody
B)is accused of a felony crime
C)has been deemed indigent
D)has made an admission of guilt
Q5) Probable cause is the standard of proof a police officer needs to arrest an individual.
A)True B)False
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Chapter 14: Computers, Technology, and Criminalistics in Policing
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Q1) NCIC stands for ____________________.
Q2) What are some of the threats to civil liberties posed by recent technology?
Q3) The latest in the use of automated crime analysis is the New York City Police Department's ____________________ program.
Q4) Marks made by fingers touching a surface after the ridges have been in contact with a colored material such as blood, paint, grease, or ink are called:
A)inked prints
B)latent prints
C)plastic prints
D)acoustic prints
Q5) For law enforcement purposes, the acronym CAD means:
A)computer-assisted dispatching
B)computer-aided dispatch
C)computer-assisted dispatch
D)centralized audio dispatch
Q6) Latent prints are impressions left on evidence.
A)True
B)False
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Q7) Discuss fingerprint technology.How has it evolved over the years?
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Chapter 15: Homeland Security
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Q1) Every act of terrorism occurring within the United States remains_______ in nature.
Q2) The Department of Homeland Security was established in September 2001.
A)True
B)False
Q3) How does the USA Patriot Act affect citizens' civil liberties?
Q4) Define and discuss terrorism.
Q5) Members of what type of terrorist group include animal rights advocates, supporters of environmental issues, and antiabortion advocates?
A)right wing
B)left wing
C)special interest
D)union extremists
Q6) 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
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