Introduction to Policing Exam Preparation Guide
Course Introduction
Introduction to Policing offers students an overview of the foundational principles, roles, and responsibilities of policing in contemporary society. The course explores the evolution and structure of police organizations, the functions of law enforcement officers, and the relationships between police and the communities they serve. Key topics include ethical standards, use of force, recruitment and training, and the impact of laws and policies on police practices. Through case studies and current events, students develop an understanding of challenges facing modern policing, including crime prevention, public perception, and the importance of accountability and reform.
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Chapter 1: Police History
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Q1) The first specialized investigative unit in Rome was called "questors," which means:
A)finders of criminals
B)capturers
C)enforcers
D)trackers of murders
Answer: D
Q2) The Unites State's largest and most famous police department is the:
A)New York Police Department
B)Chicago Police Department
C)Los Angeles Police Department
D)Capitol Police Department
Answer: A
Q3) List and discuss the different types of police agencies as outlined in the current chapter.
Answer: Student answers will vary but should at least mention Federal, State and Local agencies.
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) The U.S.Department of Justice maintains administrative control over four major federal law enforcement agencies.They are the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Drug Enforcement Administration, U.S.Marshals Service, and _________________________.
Answer: Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco Firearms and Explosives ATF BATFE
Q2) 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)
Q3) Historically, ____________________ police departments were developed to deal with the growing crime in non-urban areas of the country.
Answer: state
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) The number of officers or subordinates a supervisor can supervise effectively is called:
A)chain of command
B)organizational index
C)span of control
D)effective level of supervision
Answer: C
Q3) Of the choices below, the standard order of civil service ranks within a police department from lowest to highest are:
A)officer, sergeant, lieutenant, captain, chief
B)corporal, officer, sergeant, lieutenant, captain, chief
C)captain, officer, sergeant, corporal, lieutenant, chief
D)officer, sergeant, corporal, lieutenant, captain, chief
Answer: A
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Chapter 4: Becoming a Police Officer
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Q1) According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, approximately _____ of police departments require some type of college requirement.
A)15%
B)17%
C)50%
D)80%
Q2) The ability to interpret, understand, and manage one's own and others' emotions is called _____________.
Q3) Considered a "learning position" for potential police candidates while they are pursuing their education:
A)police dispatcher
B)police cadet
C)public service attendant
D)community service attendant
Q4) Most police agencies require vision that is correctable to 20/20.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Describe some of the ways in which a candidate for police employment can locate police job openings.
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Chapter 5: The Police Role and Police Discretion
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Q1) The police role is extremely ambiguous.
A)True
B)False
Q2) 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
Q3) In 1985, the fleeing felon rule was declared unconstitutional by the U.S.Supreme Court in the landmark case of _____.
A)Mapp v.Ohio
B)Lawrence v.Texas
C)Tennessee v.Garner
D)Terry v.Ohio
Q4) According to Siegel and Senna, "Crime Fighters" enforce the law by the book.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 6: Police Culture, Personality, and Stress
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Q1) Police officers murdered in the line of duty are more likely to be killed with firearms than any other cause.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which of the following is not one of the four general categories of police stress discovered by researchers?
A)external stress
B)organizational stress
C)personal stress
D)command stress
Q3) What is stress? Name some factors causing stress in policing.
Q4) Assaults on police officers most commonly involve
Q5) Discuss the killings of police officers.What are the trends in the killing of police officers during the past three decades?
Q6) The attitude by police that there is no hope for the world and a view of humanity at its worst is known as ____________________.
Q7) What are some of the methods being used by police departments today to deal with stress?
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Q8) What is the police culture or subculture and how does it manifest itself?
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Chapter 7: Minorities in Policing
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Q1) Homosexuals have not been discriminated against in police hiring practices.
A)True
B)False
Q2) _____ of sworn personnel in local police departments are African American.
A)11.9%
B)20.7%
C)5.2%
D)18.9%
Q3) The first African American police officer was appointed in what city?
A)Chicago
B)New York
C)New Orleans
D)Miami
Q4) Recent years have seen a significant increase in the numbers of women in administrative positions and serving as chiefs and sheriffs.
A)True
B)False
Q5) The first important job discrimination case was ____________________.
Q6) How have affirmative action policies affected white males in hiring and promotional policies?
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Chapter 8: Police Ethics and Police Deviance
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Q1) In recent years, an increasing number of lawsuits against police officers have been brought to federal courts on civil rights grounds.These federal suits are known as:
A)1983 suits
B)Federal Interstate Compacts
C)Civil Rights Act of 1965
D)Civil Rights Act of 1991
Q2) A(n)__________ is the proactive investigation of corruption in which investigators provide opportunities for officers to commit illegal acts.
A)integrity test
B)agility test
C)bait test
D)shock test
Q3) ____________________ is the study of what constitutes good or bad conduct.
Q4) Which is not a type of liability officers and departments need to be aware of?
A)civil liability
B)administrative liability
C)criminal liability
D)all are liabilities to the officer and department
Q5) Explain biased-based policing.
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Chapter 9: Patrol Operations
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Q1) An alternative to random routine patrol is directed patrol.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Identify and describe some alternative responses to crime that law enforcement can use rather than rapid response to calls.
Q3) Differential response to calls for service is a policy that abandons the traditional practice of responding to all calls for service.In differential response, responses to citizens' calls to 911 for service are matched to the _____ of the calls.
A)importance or severity
B)location
C)numerical order
D)time of day
Q4) A common method of transportation used by police officers in many different jurisdictions around the country is the bike patrol.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Officers patrol specific locations at specific times to address specific crime problems:
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Chapter 10: Investigations
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Q1) Inducing an individual to commit a crime he or she did not contemplate for the sole purpose of instituting a criminal prosecution against the offender is called
Q2) Dressing as and playing the role of a potential crime victim is known as:
A)decoy operations
B)envoy operations
C)convoy operations
D)targeting
Q3) The use of analytical methods to obtain pertinent information on crime patterns and trends that can then be disseminated to officers on the street is called _____.
A)criminal profiling
B)CompStat
C)crime mapping
D)crime analysis
Q4) Repeat offender programs (ROPs) are based on the fact that only a few criminals are responsible for most of the predatory street crime in the United States.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 11: Police and the Community
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Q1) One of the most significant problems facing the police during the past three decades has been the tension, and often outright hostility, between the police and minority group citizens.Most of this tension has focused on relationships between ________________and the police.
Q2) Young people are not a target for police community relations because of the level of immaturity of today's youth.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The Police Explorer program is aimed at youths interested in:
A)camping and sleeping out of doors
B)police work
C)traveling to foreign cities
D)none of the above
Q4) Police departments across the United States have created bias units to investigate crimes that are the result of racial, religious, ethnic, or sexual-orientation hatred.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Approximately 10 to 15 percent of jail inmates have a ___________ illness.
Q6) The Hispanic community is composed of many different ____________.
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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) Name and discuss three features of the 1994 Crime Bill.
Q3) The biggest recent threat to community policing and, consequently, the biggest criticism of the initiatives that have taken place concern the current inability to keep police departments fully staffed and to keep the money flowing to these initiatives.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Community policing is a relatively new concept in policing.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Problem-solving policing can be attributed to:
A)James Q.Wilson
B)Lee P.Brown
C)George Kelling
D)Herman Goldstein
Q6) The president responsible for the 1994 Crime Bill was ____________________.
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Chapter 13: Police and the Law
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Q1) This case allowed certain searches incident to arrest:
A)Chimel v.California
B)Terry v.Ohio
C)United States v.Matlock
D)Abel v.United States
Q2) The ____________________ is an interpretation of the Fourteenth Amendment by the U.S.Supreme Court that holds that evidence seized in violation of the U.S.Constitution cannot be used in court against a defendant.
Q3) The Supreme Court ruled in Burdeau v.McDowell that _____ applies only to the actions of government agents and does not apply to private citizens or security employees.
A)county ordinances
B)local ordinances
C)state statutes
D)the Bill of Rights
Q4) This case established the exclusionary rule in federal courts:
A)Weeks v.United States
B)Wolf v.Colorado
C)Rochin v.California
D)Mapp v.Ohio
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Chapter 14: Computers, Technology, and Criminalistics in Policing
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Q1) Discuss the latest innovations in the examination of fingerprints.
Q2) AFIS means:
A)automated fingerprint identification system
B)automatic fingerprint identification system
C)automated fingerprint information system
D)automatic fingerprint information system
Q3) What is DNA contamination, and how does it occur?
Q4) Reverse 911 allows the police to contact the community in the event of an emergency to provide pertinent information.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Mitochondrial DNA isn't as useful for identification as nuclear DNA.
A)True
B)False
Q6) The examination of skeletal remains is called:
A)forensic toxicology
B)forensic pathology
C)forensic physical anthropology
D)forensic odontology
Q7) In law enforcement, CAD stands for ____________________. Page 16
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Chapter 15: Homeland Security
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Q1) ____________________ is enforcement efforts made against terrorist organizations.
Q2) The ____________________ is the lead federal agency in the response to and investigation of terrorism.
Q3) Terrorism committed by citizens of the United States in the United States is called ____________________.
Q4) Every act of terrorism occurring within the United States remains_______ in nature.
Q5) Describe some of the U.S.government's immediate responses to the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
Q6) This agency is responsible for preventing terrorists and terrorist weapons from entering the United States while facilitating the flow of legitimate trade and travel:
A)U.S.Secret Service
B)Federal Emergency Management Agency
C)U.S.Customs and Border Protection
D)U.S.Transportation Security Administration
Q7) Describe and discuss the major changes in the FBI's priorities since 9/11.
Q8) Define and discuss terrorism.
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