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Policing Organizations and Practices MCQ

Policing Organizations and Practices MCQ

 

1. The operational strategy known as ________ seeks to reduce chronic offending in the community.

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Correct Answer: Problem solving

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2. _____ is known as policy that involves taking data from sources and using the analysis to anticipate, prevent, and respond more effectively to future crime.

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Correct Answer: Predictive Policing

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3. _____ is defined as policing model that is used to help identify problems. Stands for scanning, analysis, response, and assessment.

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Correct Answer: SARA

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4. _____ is theory that suggests that when lesser acts of disorder are left unattended in a neighborhood, there is an increased risk for serious crime to breed

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Correct Answer: Broken Windows Theory

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5. Is order Maintenance Policing policy that directs police to handle minor incidents and crimes in an effort to prevent larger crimes in the future?

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Correct Answer: True

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6. _____ is known as a practice that first began in the NYPD that focuses on the comparison of different crime statistics to guide policing decisions.

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Correct Answer: CompStat

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7. _____ is defined as a type of crime-mapping technology that is used to track geographic patterns in criminal activity that can, in turn, be used both to predict future patterns of crime and to make decisions about the deployment of officers.

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Correct Answer: Geographic Information Systems

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8. _____ is Process by which information about crime locations is used to identify patterns of crime to assist in the deployment of officers.

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Correct Answer: Crime Mapping

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9. Is hot Spots Policing type of directed patrol that uses crime-mapping technologies to identify areas where crime is most likely to occur?

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Correct Answer: True

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10. _____ is known as a police practice that targets a specific area of a city due to crime rates.

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Correct Answer: Directed Patrol

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11. _____ is defined as police study that found that changes to police presence did not have a significant effect on crime or change citizen satisfaction levels with the police.

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Correct Answer: Kansas City Preventive Patrol Experiment

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12. _____ is style of policing that allowed officers to cruise randomly throughout the streets and provide a visible police presence.

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Correct Answer: Random Patrols

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13. Is patrol Officer most common classification of sworn officers. Serve as first responders?

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Correct Answer: True

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14. _____ is known as a sworn police officer who manages a case throughout the investigative process.

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Correct Answer: Detective

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15. _____ is defined as first rank in a police organization that carries supervisory duties.

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Correct Answer: Sergeant

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16. _____ is police supervisors who are tasked with many administrative functions for line officers, such as equipment, training, and staffing.

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Correct Answer: Lieutenant

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17. Is police Captain upper-level manager within the police organization; often serves as the lead officer for a specialized unit or may be involved in a specific administrative task, such as the hiring of new officers?

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Correct Answer: True

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18. _____ is known as upper-level management position in policing in which the person is responsible for a specific subdivision of the police organization.

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Correct Answer: Assistant Chief

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19. _____ is defined as second-highest-ranking office that reports directly to the chief of police.

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Correct Answer: Deputy Police Chief

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20. _____ is leader of the police organization. Chiefs are typically appointed by the mayor of a city, often in consultation with the city council.

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Correct Answer: Police Chief

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21. Is chain of Command process that provides guidance for each group by placing a direct supervisory rank immediately ahead of it?

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Correct Answer: True

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22. _____ is known as local-level police departments that have geographic jurisdiction limited to a specific city or region.

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Correct Answer: Municipal Police

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23. _____ is defined as agency that is responsible for running the local county jail. Also provides security for the local courthouse, serves warrants and subpoenas, and provides patrol services.

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Correct Answer: County Sheriff

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24. _____ is accounts for the majority of all law enforcement agencies

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Correct Answer: Local Law Enforcement

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25. Is highway Patrol also known as state law enforcement agency?

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Correct Answer: True

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26. _____ is known as often defined as highway patrols. Provides investigative and emergency assistance to local agencies.

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Correct Answer: State Law Enforcement

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27. _____ is defined as twenty-first century policing involving technological innovations that have altered the daily lives of officers on the street.

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Correct Answer: Information Era

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28. _____ is a time period in which the primary strategy involved the use of foot patrols to better connect with community members, which allowed for increased numbers of crimes to be solved and improved relationships between the police and community.

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Correct Answer: Community Problem-Solving Era

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29. Is reform Era began in the 1920s as the foundation for modern policing. Agencies focused on controlling crime by apprehending offenders and deterring would-be violators?

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Correct Answer: True

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30. _____ is known as describes the first era of policing that existed from the 1840s to the early twentieth century. Began with the emergence of professional police departments that had close ties with local politicians

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Correct Answer: Political Era

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31. _____ is defined as Policy that allows police to briefly detain an individual if they believe the individual may be engaging in illegal behavior and to pat down the individual’s exterior clothing if they believe the individual may have a weapon.

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Correct Answer: Stop and Frisk

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32. Crime data is the only source of information in predictive-policing models.

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Correct Answer: False

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33. The earliest example of policing in the United States is found back in 1631 in Boston, with the development of a volunteer night watch.

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Correct Answer: True

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34. Which of the following SARA stages asks for both the police and members of the community to identify issues that they are concerned with and the consequences of these problems?

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Correct Answer: Scanning

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35. Which of the following cities made history with the first full-time paid law enforcement organization in 1712?

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Correct Answer: Boston

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36. Research shows that policewomen are particularly successful within models of predictive policing.

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Correct Answer: False

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37. Research has shown that problem-oriented policing and SARA are effective models in reducing crime and disorder within communities.

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Correct Answer: True

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38. Sergeants are responsible for ensuring that the appropriate number of officers are delegated to a particular neighborhood.

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Correct Answer: False

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39. Which of the following became the foundation for modern policies in the 1920s?

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Correct Answer: Law

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40. ______ are the most visible component of the criminal justice system.

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Correct Answer: Police officers

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41. The community policy model emphasizes which of the following skills?

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Correct Answer: Interpersonal

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