Policing in America Test Bank
Course Introduction
Policing in America offers a comprehensive exploration of the history, structure, functions, and contemporary challenges of law enforcement agencies in the United States. The course examines the evolution of police institutions, the legal and ethical frameworks guiding police work, and the relationship between law enforcement and diverse communities. Key topics include police culture, accountability and oversight, use of force, community policing, and the impact of current events and social movements on policing practices. Students will analyze case studies and policy debates to develop a nuanced understanding of the complexities confronting American policing and its role in promoting justice and public safety.
Recommended Textbook POLICE 2nd Edition by John S. Dempsey
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Chapter 1: Police History
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Q1) The lowest form of social organization or mutual pledge created by King Alfred the Great in England was:
A)tithing
B)hundred
C)shire
D)thousand
Answer: A
Q2) During the eighteenth century, the most common form of American law enforcement was/were:
A)constables in the day and the watch at night
B)the state police
C)the military
D)the hue and cry
Answer: A
Q3) The word police comes from the Latin word "politia," which means:
A)civil administration
B)military administration
C)use of force
D)power of the ruler
Answer: A
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Chapter 2: Organizing Security in the United States
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Q1) The four major U.S.cabinet departments that administer most federal law enforcement agencies and personnel are the Department of Justice, the Department of the Treasury, the Department of Homeland Security, and the
Answer: Department of the Interior
Q2) In 2010, the _____________________inspector general issued a special report stating that the state and local police officers who enforce federal immigration laws through ICE's 287(g) program are not adequately screened, trained or supervised, and the civil rights of the immigrants they deal with are not consistently protected.
Answer: Department of Homeland Security's (DHS)
Q3) The _______ is at the vanguard of the nation's "war on drugs" by engaging in drug interdiction, conducting surveillance operations, infiltrating drug rings, and arresting major narcotics violators.
Answer: Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA)
Q4) The investigative arm of the Navy and Marines is called the __________________.
Answer: Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS)
Q5) The National Park Police also serve at the _____________in New York and the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco.
Answer: Statue of Liberty
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Chapter 3: Organizing the Police Department
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Q1) What is an example of an administrative unit in a police department?
A)records
B)alcohol testing
C)personnel
D)community relations
Answer: C
Q2) The concept that each individual in an organization is directly accountable to only one supervisor is called ____________________.
Answer: unity of command
Q3) _____ is defined as an organization model marked by hierarchy and promotion on professional merit and skill.
A)Keynesian
B)Bureaucracy
C)Privatization
D)Monetarism
Answer: B
Q4) The head of the police agency is usually termed the ___________________.
Answer: Chief of Police
Police Commissioner
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Chapter 4: Becoming a Police Officer
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Q1) Select the correct answer regarding police age requirements.
A)Most departments require beginning officers to be less than 29 years old.
B)Most departments require beginning officers to be less than 35 years old.
C)Most departments have no maximum age limit.
D)Fifty percent of departments have maximum age limits.
Q2) What stage of the police selection process receives the most litigation?
A)background examination
B)written entrance exam
C)physical agility test
D)medical exam
Q3) A form of de facto discrimination resulting from a testing element that discriminates against a particular group, essentially keeping them out of the applicant pool is known as ________ _________.
Q4) Which of the following do some researchers still consider discriminatory to women?
A)background investigation
B)psychological examination
C)physical agility test
D)written entrance exam
Q5) Describe typical educational requirements for police selection.
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Chapter 5: The Police Role and Police Discretion
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Q1) A view of the role of the police that emphasizes keeping the peace and providing social services: _________________.
Q2) The police role is:
A)very ambiguous
B)very clearly defined
C)mainly related to violent crime
D)mainly related to arresting offenders
Q3) The vast majority of arrests the police make are for:
A)violent crimes
B)property crimes
C)financial crimes
D)quality of life crimes
Q4) Which of the following is not one of James Q.Wilson's operating styles?
A)watchman
B)legalistic
C)service
D)aggressive
Q5) What are some of the major factors that influence police discretion?
Q6) A major view of the role of the police that emphasizes crime fighting or law enforcement: ____________________.
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Chapter 6: Police Culture, Personality, and Stress
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Q1) The police subculture is characterized by clannishness, secrecy, and isolation from those not in the group.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Closely associated with the problem of stress in policing is the problem of __________, which seems to worsen over the years.
Q3) Police officers murdered in the line of duty are more likely to be killed with firearms than any other cause.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Some experts say that stress alone probably does not cause illness, but it contributes to circumstances in which diseases may take hold and flourish.
A)True
B)False
Q5) The stress affecting police officers rarely affects their families. A)True
B)False
Q6) What is stress? Name some factors causing stress in policing.
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Chapter 7: Minorities in Policing
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Q1) Describe the methods used by women and other minorities to earn their proper place in U.S.police departments.
Q2) Discuss the many ways that women have been discriminated against in policing.
Q3) Academic research has shown that female officers can do patrol work effectively and are well received by the public.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Until the 1970s, why was it presumed that women were not capable of performing the same type of patrol duty as men?
A)because of their gender and size
B)because they could not testify in court
C)because they were not good drivers
D)because they would side with women in domestic disputes
Q5) ____________________ is the indirect result of policies or practices that are not intended to discriminate but do, in fact, discriminate.
Q6) Homosexuals have not been discriminated against in police hiring practices.
A)True B)False
Q7) The first important job discrimination case was ____________________.
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Chapter 8: Police Ethics and Police Deviance
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Q1) ____________________ is the process by which the actions of the police in such areas as arrests, search and seizure, and custodial interrogation are reviewed by the U.S.court system at various levels in order to ensure the constitutionality of those actions.
Q2) Units within police departments that "police the police" are called ____________________.
Q3) The most notable commission established to investigate allegations of police corruption was the ____________________ Commission in New York City in 1970.
Q4) ____________ means that a police officer may be sued in civil court for improper behavior, using such civil law concepts as negligence and torts.
A)Criminal liability
B)Civil liability
C)Administrative liability
D)Strict liability
Q5) Define police corruption, and give several examples of it.
Q6) Define police brutality, and give several recent examples of it.
Q7) Discuss the emotional toll on officers when going through an internal investigation.
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Chapter 9: Patrol Operations
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Q1) This telephone system allows police departments to call citizens in certain geographic areas and notify them to lock their doors, evacuate, or be aware of a crime problem:
Q2) Explain what the introduction of automobiles to police work did to police-community relations.
Q3) This system allows police departments to call citizens in the entire jurisdiction or limit it to a particular neighborhood where something is occurring:
A)Reverse 911
B)311
C)911
D)Reverse 311
Q4) The Kansas City Study occurred in the _____.
A)1960s
B)1970s
C)1980s
D)1950s
Q5) Discuss the issues arising between deploying one- or two-officer patrol cars.
Q6) The impression of the police always being there is called ____________________.
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Q7) The classic study of random routine patrol was the ____________________.
Chapter 10: Investigations
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Q1) 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
Q2) Undercover investigations are rarely used by federal law enforcement agencies.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Undercover operations target all of the following crimes except:
A)robbery
B)DUI
C)burglary
D)selling stolen goods
Q4) ____________________ are responsible for the vast majority of all arrests.
Q5) The National Advisory Commission on Criminal Justice Standards and Goals recommended that _____ should conduct preliminary investigations of most crimes.
A)detectives
B)supervisors
C)non-sworn personnel
D)patrol officers
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Chapter 11: Police and the Community
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Q1) Businesses in the United States rarely cooperate with the police in crime prevention programs.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Discuss why it is important for police to work with the homeless population, and describe what types of things are being done.
Q3) What is the largest minority group in the United States?
A)Native Americans
B)German Americans
C)African Americans
D)Hispanics
Q4) TRIAD programs are focused on senior citizens.
A)True
B)False
Q5) A good working relationship between businesses and the police benefits:
A)the police department
B)the business
C)the community
D)none of the above
Q6) 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) Discuss the contributions of Herman Goldstein to the concept of problem-solving policing.
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) Define problem-solving policing, and give three specific examples of actual problem-solving policing programs.
Q5) The authors of the seminal article "Broken Windows: Police and Neighborhood Safety" were James Q.Wilson and George Kelling.
A)True
B)False
Q6) ______________________ provide regional training and technical assistance to law enforcement around the country regarding community policing.
Q7) What is the rationale behind problem-oriented policing?
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Q8) How does problem-oriented policing differ from traditional methods of policing?
Chapter 13: Police and the Law
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Q1) This case ruled that a person in police custody must be advised of his or her constitutional rights prior to interrogation or the information obtained can be excluded:
A)Brown v.Mississippi
B)McNabb v.United States
C)Escobedo v.United States
D)Miranda v.Arizona
Q2) Reasonable suspicion is the standard of proof a police officer needs to make an arrest.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Probable cause is the standard of proof a police officer needs to arrest an individual.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Describe the development of the requirement to 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.
Q5) Explain the significance of the Dickerson decision.
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Chapter 14: Computers, Technology, and Criminalistics in Policing
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Q1) The identification of a corpse through dental examination is called:
A)forensic toxicology
B)forensic pathology
C)forensic physical anthropology
D)forensic odontology
Q2) What is used in the examination of guns and bullets?
A)ballistics
B)serology
C)criminalistics
D)chemistry
E)document analysis
Q3) Criminal identification by means of fingerprints is one of the most potent factors in apprehending fugitives who might otherwise escape arrest and continue their criminal activities indefinitely.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Discuss the many ways in which the computer is revolutionizing police work.
Q5) A major problem with DNA today is the growing backlog of DNA cases.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 15: Homeland Security
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Q1) The DHS includes the FBI, CIA, or National Security Agency.
A)True
B)False
Q2) On October 8, 2001, President Bush signed Executive Order 13228, which established the:
A)U.S.Patriot Act
B)War on Terrorism
C)Office of Homeland Security
D)U.S.Anti-Terrorism Act
Q3) Define and discuss terrorism.
Q4) According to your text, there are approximately how many hate groups in the U.S.?
A)350
B)600
C)500
D)750
Q5) Describe and discuss some state and local law enforcement efforts for homeland security.
Q6) How does the USA Patriot Act affect citizens' civil liberties?
Q7) Describe three major international terrorist incidents.
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