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Police Strategies MCQ

Police Strategies MCQ

 

1. _____ is defined as this strategy enforces the law on petty crimes and disorder through a no-tolerance policy.

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Correct Answer: Zero-Tolerance Policing

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2. _____ is the breakdown of the era of community policing into three genera-tions of development, consisting of innovation, diffusion, and institutionalization.

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Correct Answer: Three Generations

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3. Is team Policing an early 1970s program that assigned officers permanently to neigh-borhoods to work with citizens; a forerunner to community policing?

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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4. _____ is known as police target their resources to specific areas, times, and targets in order to deter crime.

Answer

Correct Answer: Targeted Policing

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5. _____ is defined as the use of patrol officers, often in plainclothes, to respond to potential threats of crime and disorder.

Answer

Correct Answer: Tactical Patrol

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6. _____ is allows officers, based on a reasonable suspicion, to stop and detain a person for purposes of a field investigation.

Answer

Correct Answer: Stop and Frisk

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7. Is split Patrols the policing strategy that involves splitting the police patrol into two groups; one is responsible for calls-for-service, and the other conducts police patrols and investigations?

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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8. _____ is known as police paramilitary units.

Answer

Correct Answer: Special Weapons and Tactics (Swat)

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9. _____ is defined as a variety of special units designed to respond to high-risk situations needing special skills, weapons, and tactics.

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Correct Answer: Special Response Teams

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10. _____ is the use of a high number of officers as a show of force to deal with crime at a specific location, at a specific time, and involving specific people

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Correct Answer: Saturation Patrol

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11. _____ is the four-step model created to instruct police officers on problem-oriented policing; the four steps are scanning, analysis, response, and assessment.

Answer

Correct Answer: SARA Model

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12. Is pulling-Levers Policing a strategy for the implementation of multiple programs at the same time or in succession in order to address a specific problem of crime or disorder?

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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13. _____ is known as a concept for police response widely implemented using the SARA model; it applied problem-solving methods to police work.

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Correct Answer: Problem-Oriented Policing

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14. _____ is defined as the police strategy by which police officers patrol their beats with the intention that their presence would deter crime.

Answer

Correct Answer: Preventive Patrol

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15. _____ is defined as a police strategy that uses empirical data and attempts to make predictions about what crimes are likely to occur, where, and when.

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Correct Answer: Predictive Policing

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16. _____ is broad concepts for how best to deploy the police in order to effectively reduce crime and disorder.

Answer

Correct Answer: Police Strategies

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17. Is police Paramilitary Units specially trained and outfitted police units for use in high-risk situations; commonly called SWAT (Special Weapon and Tactics) teams?

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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18. _____ is known as shows of force by the police to concentrate on specific crime problems, locations, or persons.

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Correct Answer: Police Crackdowns

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19. _____ is defined as a program in Boston that was aimed specifically at reducing youth gun violence by targeting the few offenders who caused most of the problems.

Answer

Correct Answer: Operation Ceasefire

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20. _____ is a federal law that provided funding for state and local police.

Answer

Correct Answer: Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968

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21. Is officer-Initiated Contacts the police function by which police officers initiate investigations rather than waiting for calls-for-service?

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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22. _____ is known as a policing model based on assessment and management of risk by collecting data and convert-ing them into actionable intelligence for the police.

Answer

Correct Answer: Intelligence-Led Policing

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23. _____ is defined as the concentration of police forces on a specific geographic location known to have a high incidence of crime and disorder.

Answer

Correct Answer: Hot Spots Policing

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24. _____ is federally funded and locally staffed shared centers that collect data and share it in real time with the intent of assisting in police investigations.

Answer

Correct Answer: Fusion Centers

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25. Is four Dimensions of Community Policing an interpretation of community policing that includes a philosophy of policing, a strat-egy for policing, a method of tactical deployment, and a means by which to best organize a department?

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Correct Answer: True

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26. _____ is known as the use of data and facts (that is, the evidence) to guide the deployment of police in order to resolve crime and disorder in a community.

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Correct Answer: Evidence-Based Policing

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27. _____ is defined as the movement of the criminal element out of one area and into another when police conduct aggressive policing or crackdowns.

Answer

Correct Answer: Displacement Effect

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28. _____ is police officers select a specific problem area for crime and/or disorder and spend shift downtime in that location.

Answer

Correct Answer: Directed Patrols

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29. _____ is the use of different types of responses for different types of calls in order to deal with a high call volume versus low number of police resources.

Answer

Correct Answer: Differential Police Response

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30. Is crime-Specific Policing a police strategy for targeting specific offenses committed by particular offenders at specific places and times?

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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31. _____ is defined as the strategy, tactics, and techniques used by police departments (and others) to stop terrorist threats and acts.

Answer

Correct Answer: Counterterrorism

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32. _____ is known as a managerial method for holding police managers accountable for the crimes and disorder that occur in their jurisdictions.

Answer

Correct Answer: CompStat

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33. _____ is defined as a philosophy and strategy of policing aimed at bringing the police and community together in partner-ships to address the problems specific to their neighborhoods.

Answer

Correct Answer: Community Policing

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34. _____ is the phone calls placed to the police for which a police officer is dispatched.

Answer

Correct Answer: Calls-For-Service

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35. Is blue Wall of Silence the concept that police officers protect their own and will not divulge any wrongdoing on the part of another officer?

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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36. _____ is known as the use of the law to investigate potential crimes by way of officers’ presence, through heavy enforcement of the law, and stop and frisks

Answer

Correct Answer: Aggressive Patrols

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37. The ______ is built between the police and the people.thin blue line

Answer

Correct Answer: Blue wall

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38. It is in this stage that the officers determine if the chosen course of action was successful, based on the intent of what was meant by successful.

Answer

Correct Answer: Assessment stage

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39. What did the Kansas City Preventive Patrol Experiment find?

Answer

Correct Answer: Crime rates remained stable in all three areas.

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40. The idea that to teach police officers about the various populations they police and to recognize that each population may perceive the police differently and may have different needs is termed ______.

Answer

Correct Answer: Police-community relations

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41. All of the following are considered informal control mechanisms EXCEPT ______.

Answer

Correct Answer: Calling public works or the police when a problem first arises

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42. Team policing involves assigning officers to specific neighborhoods.

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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43. A study conducted in Wilmington, Delaware, found that the split patrol system improved both police call handling and patrol productivity.

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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44. Saturation patrols deploy multiple officers to a specific location.

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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45. ______ are focused on maintaining a visible presence in the community in order to deter criminal behavior and disorderly conduct.

Answer

Correct Answer: Preventive patrols

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46. Calls-for-service are those emergency (911) calls that citizens place to the police.

Answer

Correct Answer: False

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47. Wilson and Kelling argued that neighborhoods have two problems: crime and ______.

Answer

Correct Answer: Fear of crime

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48. Why don’t response times of law enforcement affect solve rates, according to the Kansas City Rapid Response Study?

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Correct Answer: Citizens wait to call the police (average 40 minutes).

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49. The RAND Criminal Investigation Study found that detective work was, in reality, superficial, routine, and nonproductive.

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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50. According to the Kansas City Rapid Response Study, the faster the police respond to a crime, the more likely the crime will be solved.

Answer

Correct Answer: False

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51. The 911 system originated in the ______ in Baltimore, Maryland.

Answer

Correct Answer: 1970s

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