criminal justice ch 4

Which of the following statements best describes police involvement in enforcing the law?

A) The police spend the majority of their time involved in law enforcement activities.

B) The police are able to enforce all laws.

C) The police are expected to support the law.

D) Most police officers are involved in intensive, ongoing crime-fighting activities.

Answer: C

________ is a proactive approach to the problem of crime.

A) Crime prevention

B) Criminal investigation

C) Police management

D) Span of control

Answer: A

The broken windows model of policing focuses on which element of the police mission?

A) Enforcing and supporting the law

B) Investigating crimes and apprehending offenders

C) Providing needed enforcement-related services

D) Preserving the peace

Answer: D

Which federal agency is responsible for managing the database of DNA profiles of offenders?

A) Drug Enforcement Administration

B) U.S. Secret Service

C) U.S. Customs

D) Federal Bureau of Investigation

Answer: D

Currently, the main priority of the Federal Bureau of Investigation is ________.

A) transnational organized crime

B) white-collar crime

C) terrorism

D) violent crime

Answer: C

The first modern state police agency was created in which state?

A) South Carolina

B) Pennsylvania

C) Georgia

D) North Carolina

Answer: B

The centralized model of state policing ________.

A) is no longer commonly used in the United States

B) is characteristic of state police in the southern United States

C) combines criminal investigations with patrol of state highways

D) frequently requires states to have a number of adjunct state-level law enforcement agencies

Answer: C

Which agency head is most likely to be an elected official?

A) The chief of a big city police department

B) The director of a federal law enforcement agency

C) The county sheriff

D) The chief of a small municipal police department

Answer: C

Which local law enforcement official is responsible for serving court papers, maintaining security within courtrooms, and running the county jail?

A) Sheriff

B) Police chief

C) Precinct captain

D) Prosecutor

Answer: A

Which of the following is a characteristic of a fusion center?

A) Fusions centers are generally run by the FBI.

B) Fusion centers conduct investigations.

C) Fusion centers are state and locally focused.

D) Fusion centers deal exclusively with issues related to terrorism.

Answer: C

Which of the following is a reason for the rapid growth of the private security sector in the U.S.?

A) Increasing rates of overall crime

B) An increase in acts of domestic terrorism

C) State fiscal crises

D) Reduced trust in public police

Answer: C

What is Interpol's main purpose?

A) To serve as a global judicial institution with international jurisdiction complementing national legal systems around the world

B) To collect and disseminate intelligence among the member nations of the European Union

C) To act as a clearinghouse for information on offenses and suspects believed to operate across national boundaries

D) To increase globalization of criminal justice

Answer: C

As a patrol officer in an urban police department, Luke is mainly involved in ________ activities.

A) staff

B) support

C) line

D) criminal

Answer: C

________ describes the order of authority within a police department.

A) Organizational hierarchy

B) Span of control

C) Personnel priorities

D) Chain of command

Answer: D

Sarah is a police sergeant who is responsible for supervising six patrol officers. This number represents Sarah's ________.

A) operational role

B) chain of command

C) span of control

D) management hierarchy

Answer: C

The political era of American policing was characterized by ________.

A) police officers running for political office

B) police, citizens, and politicians developing a close working relationship

C) police serving the interests of politicians

D) politicians funding police research

Answer: C

The ________ era of policing was characterized by an increasing focus on quality-of-life offenses and the broken windows model of policing.

A) new

B) community

C) political

D) reform

Answer: B

A police chief instructs officers to write tickets for any motorists who are going at least one mile per hour above the speed limit. This department is most likely operating under the ________ style of policing.

A) watchman

B) reform

C) legalistic

D) service

Answer: C

Police-community relations (PCR) ________.

A) recognizes that the police derive their legitimacy from the community they serve

B) emphasizes the need for less citizen participation in law enforcement

C) encourages increased police emphasis on the apprehension of offenders

D) has been used exclusively in metropolitan areas

Answer: A

Officer Markus has just been informed that he is being semi-permanently assigned to a particular neighborhood and is expected to become familiar with the neighborhood, it's residents, and their problems and concerns. This is an example of ________ policing.

A) intensive

B) neighborhood

C) block

D) team

Answer: D

Which police strategy emphasizes an increased capacity to deal with crimes that are NOT well controlled by traditional methods?

A) Problem-solving policing

B) Strategic policing

C) Community policing

D) Team policing

Answer: B

A police officer asks residents to clean up litter, remove graffiti, and install better lighting in a nearby park that is known for extensive drug dealing. Such a request is characteristic of what type of policing?

A) Strategic

B) problem-solving

C) rural

D) crime-fighting

Answer: B

The results of the 1974 Kansas City experiment on preventive patrol suggest that ________.

A) preventable crimes will decrease when patrol frequency is increased

B) preventable crimes will increase in areas where the police do not patrol

C) citizens' fear of crime will decrease in areas where the police reduce patrol frequency

D) preventable crimes are not affected by police patrol

Answer: D

The "evidence" in evidence-based policing refers to ________.

A) information obtained from witnesses to the crime

B) fingerprints found at the crime scene

C) scientific evidence

D) information acquired from social media

Answer: C

According to the Kansas City study on response time, the reason why rapid police response to citizen reports of crime does NOT increase the number of arrests is that ________.

A) there are not enough police officers on the street to respond to all calls

B) police departments do not train officers well

C) citizens do not report the event to the police until a considerable amount of time passes

D) police officers do not drive fast enough to get to the crime scene

Answer: C

The ability of police officers to make choices such as whether or not to investigate is known as ________.

A) chain of command

B) span of control

C) professionalism

D) discretion

Answer: D

The police spend the majority of their time enforcing the law and fighting crime.

Answer: FALSE

The peacekeeping role of the police involves a focus on quality-of-life offenses.

Answer: TRUE

The broken windows model of policing is most relevant to the service provision role of the police.

Answer: FALSE

All federal law enforcement agencies are under the jurisdiction of the Department of Justice.

Answer: FALSE

A decentralized state police agency often operates two agencies: a highway patrol and a state bureau of investigation.

Answer: TRUE

City police chiefs are most commonly elected public officials.

Answer: FALSE

The central purpose of fusion centers is information sharing.

Answer: TRUE

One reason for the growth in private security is an increase in workplace crime.

Answer: TRUE

Interpol agents are able to make arrests in member countries.

Answer: FALSE

Administration, training, and budgeting are examples of a police department's line operations.

Answer: FALSE

During the reform era, police focused on professional crime fighting and on capturing offenders.

Answer: TRUE

Unity of command refers to the number of personnel or units supervised by a particular commander.

Answer: FALSE

Order maintenance is the primary concern of departments marked by a service style of policing.

Answer: FALSE

Strategic policing includes a focus on nontraditional kinds of criminals.

Answer: TRUE

Community policing is poorly suited to the increased responsibilities police departments today have in developing counterterrorism intelligence.

Answer: FALSE

Scientific police management emphasizes the development of modern crime labs for the analysis of criminal evidence collected at crime scenes.

Answer: FALSE

The Kansas City experiment found that increasing the level of preventive patrol had no effect on citizens' fear of crime.

Answer: TRUE

Police use discretion to exercise choice in their activities.

Answer: TRUE