Exam 6: The Police Image and Policing the Image

The U.S. homicide rate would show significant growth in the late-______ reaching a peak in the early-1990s.

The Rodney King jury was composed of mostly:

______ are invaluable in publicizing public safety alerts in real time as well as responsibilizing the public or encouraging them to take up quasi-police work themselves.

Members of the news media are thought to release messages to the public, which have been approved by police agencies.

Photography Is Not a Crime is a group with the expressed purpose of filming the police, provide training, organizational and tactical instruction, legal assistance, and even mobile phone applications to members of the public interested in the same.

______ declared a "war on drugs."

What is the CSI effect?

Marxist-inspired critical criminologists argue all of the following individuals set the agenda for public debate about crime except:

The ______'s motivational Monday tweets provided a tremendous example of a social media failure and more broadly how policing fails to control its own image.

In 2004, ______% of a nationally representative sample of adult Americans voiced a "great deal" of confidence in police.

Cops first appeared on the Fox network in ______.

Interpersonal crimes are consistently underreported in relation to official statistics.

Fear of crime is rational and reasonable.

Scholars have claimed that in today's society, we operate in a new visibility. What is new visibility and do you agree with the scholars?

Numerous writers have examined the proposition that the media creates a false picture of crime.

In 2016, U.S. Customs and Border Protection asked visitors to the United States to voluntarily provide each of their social media user names along with other identifying information. Do you believe that this is a violation of ones privacy and/or rights? Why or why not?

One study found that about ______% of people interviewed got their news from television.

The media are solely to blame for inciting fear of crime.

What are "false" images and how can "false" images impact the way the public views law enforcement officials?

Some studies have also found that ______ overestimate the proportion of crimes solve.