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Ethics and Decision-Making MCQ

Is racial profiling occurs when an officer considers race as part of a decision to take, or not to take, law enforcement action; legally, an officer can consider race only as part of a specific, reliable suspect description tied to a particular crime?

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Correct Answer: True

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_____ is known as arbitrary and fixed numbers of citations or stops (or some other measure of activity) that officers are required to meet on a periodic basis

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Correct Answer: Quotas

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_____ is defined as standards of conduct based on moral and professional principles that influence a variety of actions taken or not taken by police officers on and off duty

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Correct Answer: Police ethics

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_____ is a police officer’s exercise of individual choices or judgments concerning possible courses of action

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Correct Answer: Police discretion

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Is nonfeasance the reluctance of generally honest police officers to report misconduct committed by their peers; this reluctance on the part of honest officers has been identified as one of the factors perpetuating this issue and is often the result of the influence of the police subculture?

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Correct Answer: True

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_____ is known as investigative committee formed in 1972 by the city of New York in response to allegations of large-scale corruption among NYPD officers; set the stage for many cities and states in the years that followed

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Correct Answer: Knapp Commission

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_____ is defined as term coined by the Knapp Commission to refer to officers who engage in minor acts of corrupt practices (acceptance of gratuities, etc.) and passively accept the wrongdoings of other officers

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Correct Answer: Grass eaters

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_____ is the study of right and wrong, duty, responsibility, and personal character—all of these concepts have an implicit modifier—“moral”—attached to them; ethics is concerned with moral duty, what is morally right and wrong

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Correct Answer: Ethics

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Is code of conduct revised as of 2005, this code was formed and adopted by the International Association of Chiefs of Police, which sets forth standards of conduct for police officers on and off duty?

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Correct Answer: True

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_____ is known as police practice that results from enforcement of the law based on any number of personal and occupational-based biases

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Correct Answer: Biased enforcement

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The basic model of ethical decision making ____

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Correct Answer: Is not accurately described by any of these.

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Which of the following is NOT one of the possible consequences of police using discretionary authority unethically or improperly?

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Correct Answer: Increased savings for taxpayers

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Leaders set the tone for the entire organization; therefore, without a strong commitment that stresses the importance of ______ by the chief executive officer and his or her entire command staff, instances of unethical and perhaps illegal practices are sure to follow.

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Correct Answer: Ethical decision-making

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Officers who engage in minor corrupt practices and passively accept the wrongdoings of other officers are called ______.

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Correct Answer: Grass eaters

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A disadvantage to removing discretion is that the law effectively might have a “view-widening” effect; the police may be constrained to make an arrest when it is not really be necessary.

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Correct Answer: True

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Forward-thinking police departments view the media as an adversary from which they must conceal as much of the truth as possible.

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Correct Answer: False

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Officers’ performance evaluations are based in part on ______, which may cause some officers to engage in biased enforcement practices.

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Correct Answer: The number of tickets and arrests

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Racial profiling occurs when an officer considers race as part of a specific, reliable suspect description tied to a particular crime.

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Correct Answer: False

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In 1972, the Knapp Commission discovered that the majority of New York City police officers aggressively sought out opportunities to engage in unethical conduct.

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Correct Answer: False

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The reluctance of honest officers to report the misconduct committed by their peers is referred to as ______.

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Correct Answer: Nonfeasance

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______ may best be described as the study of right and wrong, duty, responsibility, and personal character.

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Correct Answer: Ethics

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