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Police Effectiveness MCQ

Third party policing is the responsibility of preventing crime using ________.

Community organizations

Civil remedies

Both of these

None of these

Answer

Correct Answer: Both of these

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Storefront offices are _____ locations to centralized police headquarters where the public can report problems.

Alternative

Storefront

Public

All of these

Answer

Correct Answer: Alternative

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______ preventive patrol is a general crime control strategy whereby police officers randomly patrol their beats.

Routine

Random

Selected

Regular

Answer

Correct Answer: Routine

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Rapid response time is a general crime control strategy holding the assumption that ______ to calls faster results in crime control.

Acting

Responding

Replying

Answering

Answer

Correct Answer: Responding

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Proactive policing are the policing strategies that are intended to prevent or reduce crime and that are not ______.

Active

Inactive

Reactive

None of these

Answer

Correct Answer: Reactive

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Police ______ is the ability of police organizations to meet the challenges presented to them, to satisfy the public’s demands for service, and to solve problems within their communities.

Efficiency

Strength

Productivity

Effectiveness

Answer

Correct Answer: Effectiveness

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A program or organization that teaches residents how to identify and report suspicious activity to the police is called ______.

Hotspot

Neighborhood report

Neighborhood watch

None of these

Answer

Correct Answer: Neighborhood watch

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_______ is a component of general crime control where arrest is used to keep crime from occurring or recurring.

Necessary arrest

Mandatory arrest

Possible arrest

Obligatory arrest

Answer

Correct Answer: Mandatory arrest

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Hot spots are places in which the occurrence of crime is so frequent that it is _______.

Unpredictable

Highly predictable

Uncountable

None of these

Answer

Correct Answer: Highly predictable

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A _______ application of reactive strategies to suppress crime is known as Generalized crime control strategies.

One size fits nobody

One size fits all

One size fits nothing

One size fits many

Answer

Correct Answer: One size fits all

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Focused deterrence is focusing on a specific ______ or problem to reduce crime.

Area

Town

Population

Community

Answer

Correct Answer: Population

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Diffusion of _______ is a decrease in crime in areas immediately surrounding areas receiving proactive policing.

Crime

Practice

Pattern

Benefits

Answer

Correct Answer: Benefits

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Crime _______ is an event where crime moves from one location receiving proactive policing to another location.

Movement

Repositioning

Localization

Displacement

Answer

Correct Answer: Displacement

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Broken Windows is a theory that disorder in communities leads to fear and withdrawal from public spaces and a decrease in levels of informal ______ which ultimately leads to serious crime.

Dominance

Social control

Political control

Power

Answer

Correct Answer: Social control

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