Exam 6: Challenges to Effective Policing

Which of the following type of crime tends to have the lowest clearance rates by law enforcement?

Describe how forensic experts use ballistics to solve crimes.

Most police departments require that you be a U.S. citizen in order to become a police officer.

Which of the following may be determined through the use of ballistics?

Which of the following is NOT considered to be forensic evidence?

Criminal investigations that are not cleared after a certain amount of time are called:

__________ is the segment of a police recruit's training in which he or she is removed from the classroom and placed on the beat, under the supervision of a senior officer.

Explain the difference between general and directed patrol and give a real world example of each. How do these types of patrolassist police officers in the successful completion of their duties?

According to the San Diego Police Department's use of force matrix, if a suspect's behavior is one of active resistance, the officer may do which of the following?

The most serious police corruption occurs when police take bribes.

A cold hit is the establishment of a connection between a suspect and a crime in the absence of an ongoing criminal investigation

The primary police investigator of crimes is called a __________.

Officers authorized to make arrests and use force are called:

The purposes of police patrols are to prevent and deter crime and also to provide social services.

The rules or standards of behavior governing a profession; aimed at ensuring the fairness and rightness of actions are called __________.

In most states, the use of nondeadly force is regulated by the concept of __________ which allows the use of nondeadly force when a person would assume that such force was necessary.

Explain the four categories of ethical dilemmas typically facing a police officer and give a real world example of each.

According to the U.S. Supreme Court, police officers may use deadly force if they have probable cause to believe that the fleeing suspect poses a threat of serious injury or death to the officers or others.

Why is DNA fingerprinting so useful in criminal investigations?

Which of the following elements of ethics addresses the issue that the law provides rigid guidelines for how police officers must act and how they cannot act, but it does not offer guidelines for how officers should act in many circumstances?