Exam 7: Minorities in Policing

Academic research has shown that female officers are well received by the public.

The 1971 Supreme Court case that established the concept that hiring requirements must be job related was

In 1910, which of the following cities appointed the first "officially designated" policewoman?

A substantially different rate of selection resulting from hiring, promotion, and other employment decisions that work to the disadvantage of members of a particular race, gender, or ethnic group is called

Before the 1940s, no black police officers worked in the Deep South; they were eliminated from the hiring process because they

__________ is the indirect result of policies or practices that are not intended to discriminate but do, in fact, discriminate.

Strategies employed by successful female police officers to address workplace discrimination and harassment include avoiding negativity, defining themselves according to their own views, and ____________________.

Which of the following is not one of the possible causes for the acceptance of women in police departments in the late 1960s and early 1970s?

A study conducted by James David in Texas and Oklahoma revealed that arrest rates for men and women police officers are

According to a BJS report, in 2013, ____________________ percent of full-time local law enforcement officers were African Americans.

Some people believe that consent decrees are no longer necessary to increase the numbers of women in law enforcement because

Discuss the similarities and differences between how female and male police officers react to violent confrontations.

In __________, the court ruled that the Baltimore Police Department's height requirement of 5 feet 7 inches was a prima facie case of sex discrimination.

__________________ is the simultaneous expectation by white officers that African American officers will give members of their own race better treatment and hostility that African American officers receive from the African American community because they are perceived as traitors to their race.

How effective are women as patrol officers as compared to their male counterparts?

The first African American police officers were appointed in which of the following cities?

The _______________ Amendment to the U.S.Constitution governs employment equality in U.S.society.

Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was designed to prohibit job discrimination based on all but which of the following?

Is the response of police departments to claims of discrimination by Muslim police officers appropriate? Why or why not?

In the early 1900s, policewomen were often called ____________________ and were employed to bring order and assistance to the lives of women and children.