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Q: Young African-American men are the most likely people to be killed by police. a. Trueb. False

Q: Police have not developed new weapons in over fifty years. a. Trueb. False

Q: Police can never use deadly force. a. Trueb. False

Q: Many citizens perceive that much of police misconduct may be hidden from public view. a. Trueb. False

Q: The ___________lets officers contract independently with permission.

Q: The __________involves the department paying an officer for off-duty work.

Q: Since September 11, 2001, American police have increasingly focused their activities on ______________.

Q: Pepper spray and nightsticks are considered types of ____________weapons.

Q: __________-recognition technology is a technique that examines the interior of the eye and matches its unique characteristics with information in a database.

Q: ____________ is used to determine an individual's genetic fingerprint.

Q: Police officers only need formal training to understand the aspects of their job.a. Trueb. False

Q: The police officer's job does not demand skills in dealing with people. a. Trueb. False

Q: Andrica is the chief of police for a mid size department. She has recently reviewed the data on how to serve the community better including preventing crime and responding to calls. Andrica would like to incorporate additional strategies to improve all issues, but wants to make sure her officers are willing to buy into a new method.Andrica's department has many social service calls. Officers spend a great deal of time of calls that are service related. Andrica would like to develop this type of community based crime prevention. This is known as _________.a. incident driven policingb. evidence based policingc. community policingd. reactive policing

Q: Andrica is the chief of police for a mid size department. She has recently reviewed the data on how to serve the community better including preventing crime and responding to calls. Andrica would like to incorporate additional strategies to improve all issues, but wants to make sure her officers are willing to buy into a new method.Andrica would also like to change how her officers receive calls. She would like the highest priority calls to go out first. This is an example ofa. differential response system b. incident-driven policing,c. evidence-based policing d. reactive-based policing

Q: Andrica is the chief of police for a mid size department. She has recently reviewed the data on how to serve the community better including preventing crime and responding to calls. Andrica would like to incorporate additional strategies to improve all issues, but wants to make sure her officers are willing to buy into a new method.Andrica has considered buying a drone for surveillance to prevent future crimes from occurring. This would be considered a _________to law enforcementa. proactive b. reactive c. informedd. substantiated

Q: David has worked for his municipal police department for 10 years. He has seen his fair share of homicide and rape victims. He remembers a time when he use to be excited to hear the next call for service. Currently, he dreads to hear the radio calls for assistance. David tries to remember he is keeping his community safe by the job he preforms. He also remembers he has a family of his own he wants to keep safe as well.David has noticed that he has lost ties to all of his friends that are not in law enforcement. He only primarily associates with those who carry a gun and a badge because fellow officers are the only ones who understand what a police officer has to endure. This results in ________.a. morality b. isolation c. authority d. danger

Q: David has worked for his municipal police department for 10 years. He has seen his fair share of homicide and rape victims. He remembers a time when he use to be excited to hear the next call for service. Currently, he dreads to hear the radio calls for assistance. David tries to remember he is keeping his community safe by the job he preforms. He also remembers he has a family of his own he wants to keep safe as well.David also suffers from the stress of a constantly rotating schedule, which force him to work nights, weekends, and holidays. What type of stress does David suffer in regards to his family?a. externalb. organizational c. personald. operational

Q: David has worked for his municipal police department for 10 years. He has seen his fair share of homicide and rape victims. He remembers a time when he use to be excited to hear the next call for service. Currently, he dreads to hear the radio calls for assistance. David tries to remember he is keeping his community safe by the job he preforms. He also remembers he has a family of his own he wants to keep safe as well.David is suffering from stress due to the those involved in the criminal justice system, which he is forced to arrest and help prosecute on a day to day basis. Which type of stress is David suffering from?a. externalb. organizational c. personald. operational

Q: David has worked for his municipal police department for 10 years. He has seen his fair share of homicide and rape victims. He remembers a time when he use to be excited to hear the next call for service. Currently, he dreads to hear the radio calls for assistance. David tries to remember he is keeping his community safe by the job he preforms. He also remembers he has a family of his own he wants to keep safe as well.Since David has worked in his department for 10 years, he has grown accustomed to the symbols, beliefs, and customs of his department. This is often referred to as the _________.a. socialization b. subculturec. working personality d. authority

Q: Alan has always wanted to become a law enforcement officer. He has recently applied to his local sheriff's department. He holds a bachelor's degree from his state university and speaks Spanish as a second language. If hired, he will participate in a 16 week basic law enforcement course before he goes in the field.Which of the following would not be a standard part of Alan's curriculum through BLET?a. weapons use b. CPRc. prison procedure d. legal rules

Q: Alan has always wanted to become a law enforcement officer. He has recently applied to his local sheriff's department. He holds a bachelor's degree from his state university and speaks Spanish as a second language. If hired, he will participate in a 16 week basic law enforcement course before he goes in the field.Based upon Alan's education level, which of the following would not be an area where we would be more successful than a lesser educated law enforcement officer?a. report writingb. less improper use of force c. higher arrestsd. less citizen complaints

Q: Alan has always wanted to become a law enforcement officer. He has recently applied to his local sheriff's department. He holds a bachelor's degree from his state university and speaks Spanish as a second language. If hired, he will participate in a 16 week basic law enforcement course before he goes in the field.How much money can Alan expect to make as a new recruit based upon current data as a non collective bargaining department?a. $33,621 b. $28,376 c. $30,000 d. $34.652

Q: Predict the future of law enforcement within the next 10 years. Take into account budget cuts and the vast increases in technology.

Q: Explain how the broken windows theory impacts aggressive patrol.

Q: ____ is an approach to policing in which officers routinely seek to identify, analyze, and respond to the circumstances underlying the incidents that prompt citizens to call the police.

Q: ______are police employees who have taken an oath and been given powers by the state to make arrests and use necessary force, in accordance with their duties.

Q: The word ________is derived from a French word, patrouiller, which once meant "to tramp about in the mud".

Q: _____ is caused by an officer's racial or gender status among peers, which can create problems in getting along with other officers and adjusting to group values that differ from one's own.

Q: The performance of the police is not based solely on the types of people recruited; it is also shaped by their ________.

Q: Agencies increasingly require recruits to undergo ________, because each officer will ultimately make important discretionary decisions, including those that may determine life and death in stressful situations.

Q: The second aspect of the working personality is the need to exert authority. a. Trueb. False

Q: When a force employs police officers from all demographic groups, the police gain legitimacy because they are seen as reflecting the interests of all people and there may be reductions in race-based disparities affecting who is stopped, searched, or arrested. a. True b. False

Q: The educational level of new police recruits is a factor that influences who applies to be a law enforcement officer. a. Trueb. False

Q: Steve Herbert found a high sense of morality in the law enforcement subculture. Which of the following is not a dilemma to help officers overcome?a. the contradiction between the goal of preventing crime and the officers' inability to do sob. the fact that officers must use their discretion to "handle" situations in ways that do not strictly follow proceduresc. the fact that what is right is not always legald. the fact that they invariably act against at least one citizen's interest, often with recourse to coercive force that can maim or kill

Q: Influential theory about increases in fear and crime within neighborhoods when there is insufficient police attention to seemingly minor public order offenses such as vandalism,loitering, aggressive panhandling, and prostitution. a. learning theoryb. broken windows theoryc. differential learning association d. social control theory

Q: Which of the following is not a characteristic of the SARA strategy for problem solving?a. Scanning the social environment to identify problems b. Analysis of the problem by collecting informationc. Response to the problem by developing and employing remedies d. Assessment of the solutions to make addition recommendations

Q: The ____ raised questions about whether and how police patrol impacts crime and crime rates. Thus police departments have tried various means to use patrol in order to provide service, order maintenance, and to achieve improvements in crime prevention and crime control.a. Charlotte experiment b. Oakland experimentc. New York City experiment d. Kansas City experiment

Q: Police components that directly perform field operations and carry out the basic functions of patrol, investigation, traffic, vice, juvenile, and so on.a. line functionsb. patrol functions c. sworn functionsd. preventative functions

Q: How does the use of technology within the community benefit both the community and police departments in combating crime?

Q: From the perspective of police officer roles and performance infighting crime, what does the term "intelligence" mean? How have there been improvements in this area?

Q: How do budget cuts on law enforcement agencies have an impact on the role of police in the community?

Q: How does isolation help to define the police officer's working personality?

Q: What explanations address why there are fewer female officers in most police departments? Should there be efforts to change this? Why or why not

Q: Different departments allocate their officers in different ways--some departments have more officers on patrol than others, and some departments (such as Houston) stress criminal investigation. What factors might affect these different distributions?

Q: According to research on policing, officers have a significant amount of discretionary time during their shifts. If you were a police administrator, how might you attempt to keep your officers accountable for their time? What style of policing would you promote to reflect your style?

Q: Police departments use several methods to measure police productivity. In light of the shift to community policing (and away from punitive crime control), can measures such as arrests and traffic stops still be used as measures as police productivity? Discuss your answer, and suggest alternatives if appropriate.

Q: Forensic analysis of hair, semen, and blood can only be used to determine guilt--these findings cannot be used to establish the innocence of incarcerated people. a. True b. False

Q: Problem-oriented policing tries to find the underlying causes of crime. a. Trueb. False

Q: The community policing philosophy does not include community residents in decision making. a. Trueb. False

Q: Most police patrol units have two officers. a. Trueb. False

Q: Police help maintain order by enforcing traffic laws. a. Trueb. False

Q: All police departments have equipment to perform DNA analysis. a. Trueb. False

Q: The presence of a patrol officer in a community can be a major factor in reducing crime. a. Trueb. False

Q: Every department has the same number of vice and juvenile units. a. Trueb. False

Q: Quantifying police work is relatively easy. a. Trueb. False

Q: New communications technology within police departments has tended to fragment decision making. a. Trueb. False

Q: Police are mainly reactive when they are dependent on citizen calls reporting criminal activity. a. Trueb. False

Q: Police departments have not responded adequately in addressing the issue of stress. a. Trueb. False

Q: Police officers rarely feel isolated from the public. a. Trueb. False

Q: An occupational environment affects the way a person interprets reality. a. Trueb. False

Q: Police rarely perceive the public as hostile. a. Trueb. False

Q: The nature of police work can make officers very suspicious of citizens whom they encounter. a. Trueb. False

Q: Police officers are expected to obey rules and respect superiors. a. Trueb. False

Q: Even today, research indicates than women may be more subject to sexual harassment as police officers than their male counterparts. a. True b. False

Q: Today, about 1 in 5 officers is a racial or ethnic minority group member. a. Trueb. False

Q: Today, police officers have more formal education than their predecessors a. Trueb. False

Q: The different types of patrol are foot, bicycle, and ______________patrol

Q: Geographic concentrations of crime are called _____________.

Q: Enforcement of vice laws depends on __________police work.

Q: _________assigns resources so as to obtain the largest number of arrests.

Q: ________ and _______are the two largest and most important units in a police department.

Q: The _____is the percentage of crimes known to police that have been solved through an arrest.

Q: When police prioritize calls, this is called _________________.

Q: Generally, police patrol duties in a democracy are organized to be ___________.

Q: __________stress is produced by the paramilitary character of police forces.

Q: The real threats on the job are called ___________stresses.

Q: The two most important elements of the police working personality are ________and _____________.

Q: A police officer's _________is a complex set of emotional and behavioral characteristics

Q: ____is a subdivision of a national culture defined by occupation, ethnicity, class, and residence.

Q: Learning informal practices as well as formal rules is the process of __________.

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