Exam 10: Investigations

Prior to the Rand study,it was common for police departments to have policies and procedures in place that emphasized:

____________________ are effective in cases in which the police receive a tip that a crime is going to occur in a commercial establishment or in which the police discover or come upon a pattern.

Which of the following is a solvability factor in the MCI program?

The vast majority of all arrests are made:

Entrapment is a(n)____________________ defense.

An investigative unit that reexamines old cases that have remained unsolved is called a:

Detectives in a decentralized squad are considered ____________________.

In smaller departments,detectives tend to be generalists.

What system has greatly improved the surveillance of offenders?

Jacobson v.United States is a landmark U.S.Supreme Court case related to entrapment.

The single most important determinant of whether or not a crime is solved is the quality of work performed by the detectives.

Repeat offender programs (ROPs)are based on the fact that only a few criminals are responsible for most of the predatory street crime in the United States.

A study by Florida State University released in 2006 found that offenders tracked by GPS were ____________________ percent less likely to abscond or reoffend than those not monitored.

One of the ways detectives use to solve cold cases is DNA analysis.

ROPs concentrate on __________

Inducing an individual to commit a crime he or she did not contemplate for the sole purpose of instituting an arrest and criminal prosecution against the offender is called __________.

Detectives in a centralized squad are considered ____________________.

In recent years,there has been a decrease in the use of multiagency investigative task forces.

Sting operations targeting lewd behavior have often been used around the country,particularly in parks and areas frequented by children.

In a case enhancement program,detectives: