Exam 7: Minorities in Policing

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibited all job discrimination based on: __________, __________, __________, __________, or __________

If a certain examination results in the vast majority of females failing that test while the vast majority of males pass it, that exam can be said to have __________ on females.

A Bureau of Justice Statistics publication reported that in 2007, ____________________ percent of sworn personnel in local police departments were women.

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 ____________________.

The most controversial method of ending job discrimination is:

The first African American police officers were appointed in what city?

In the early days of female policing, women were normally used in only three actual police-related jobs. They were __________, __________, and __________.

The type of discrimination that is the indirect result of policies or practices that are not intended to discriminate but do, in fact, discriminate is called ____________________ discrimination.

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

The simultaneous expectation by white officers that African American officers will give members of their own race better treatment and hostility from members of the African American community who consider black officers to be traitors to their race is known as ____________________.

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

What organization represented African American police officers in New York City?

_____ is the unequal treatment of persons in personnel decisions (hiring, promotion, and firing) on the basis of their race, religion, national origin, gender, or sexual orientation.

Previous forms of physical ability testing for police jobs generally have been replaced by __________ tests.

What percentage of our police departments today consists of women? African Americans? Hispanics? How do these numbers compare to earlier years?

Discuss the problems women and other minorities still face in policing.

As late as the mid-1970s, female officers in some jurisdictions experienced different sets of rules from those for male officers.

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

Which of the following is not consistent with the findings of Professor Sean Grennan in his study of patrol teams in New York City?

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