Deck 10: Investigations

Question 1

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

A) proactive investigations of future crime by detectives
B) follow-up investigations of past crimes by patrol officers
C) retroactive investigations of past crimes by detectives
D) cold-case investigations

Answer 1

C

Question 2

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

Answer 2

True

Question 3

Crime analysis goes hand-in-hand with community-oriented policing and problem-oriented policing.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

When Mark Willman and John Snortum duplicated the Rand and PERF findings in a study of detective work in 1984,they found that in cases reported to a suburban police department,most cases that were solved when:

A) the victim identified the perpetrator in a photo line-up
B) the perpetrator was identified as a "person of interest"
C) the perpetrator confessed
D) the perpetrator was identified at the scene of the crime

Question 5

In a Managing Criminal Investigations (MCI)program,patrol officers play very limited roles in the investigation of past crimes.

Question 6

The WashACT serves as a model nationwide in conducting training in the area of human trafficking.

Question 7

Decoy operations are most effective for combating the crimes of robbery,purse snatching,and other larcenies from the person; burglaries; and thefts of and from automobiles.

Question 8

The single most important determinant of whether or not a case will be solved is the information the victim supplies to the ____________________.

A) detective
B) immediately responding patrol officer
C) dispatcher
D) supervisor

Question 9

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

Question 10

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

Question 11

During the 1990s,the crime rates across the country:

A) went up in aggregate
B) went down at an unprecedented rate
C) remained constant
D) went up for some crimes and down for others

Question 12

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

Question 13

Cybercrimes trends change regularly and quickly,which can make them difficult for law enforcement to keep up with.

Question 14

The Rand study was called ____________________.

A) The Criminal Investigation Process.
B) Today's Criminal Investigators.
C) Patrolling the Streets.
D) Crime in America.

Question 15

The investigative process begins with:

A) a call to 911.
B) assignment by the sergeant.
C) a citizen complaint.
D) the patrol officer.

Question 16

Undercover investigations are rarely used by federal law enforcement agencies.

Question 17

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

Question 18

One of the primary purposes of police patrol is to prevent crime by creating a sense of:

A) security
B) omniscience
C) omnipresence
D) community awareness

Question 19

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.

Question 20

In smaller departments,detectives tend to be generalists.

Question 21

The Rand report said that half of all detectives could be replaced without negatively influencing:

A) recidivism reduction
B) crime clearance rates
C) offender rehabilitation
D) undercover programs

Question 22

Marvin Wolfgang discovered that most predatory street crime in the United States is committed by:

A) only a few criminals
B) convicted felons
C) sex offenders
D) individuals under the influence of drugs

Question 23

Nationally,police are only able to clear ____________________ percent of all property crimes reported to them.

A) 19
B) 46
C) 65
D) 87

Question 24

What system has greatly improved the surveillance of offenders?

A) Johansen system
B) adult monitoring system (AMS)
C) probation positioning enhancement system (PPES)
D) global positioning system (GPS)

Question 25

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

A) Is there a witness?
B) Is a suspect named or known?
C) Will the complainant cooperate?
D) all of these choices

Question 26

The MCI program is designed to put most of an investigator's time and effort into:

A) all misdemeanors that have a chance to be solved.
B) only very important cases and cases that actually can be solved.
C) only cases in which the complainant agrees to cooperate.
D) none of these choices.

Question 27

The vast majority of all arrests are made:

A) at the scene of the crime
B) within 48 hours
C) within 2 weeks
D) within 1 month

Question 28

Detectives in a centralized squad are considered ____________________.

A) specialists
B) generalists
C) in field training
D) felony-only detectives

Question 29

Programs concentrating investigative resources on career criminals are called:

A) targeting programs.
B) proactive programs.
C) repeat offender programs.
D) anti-career criminal programs.

Question 30

The case of Carlie Brucia was solved in part due to:

A) testimonial evidence of her sister
B) the use of surveillance cameras
C) the use of DNA analysis
D) the implementation of a GPS tracking system

Question 31

Decoy operations are most effective in detecting and arresting all of the following except:

A) robbers
B) purse snatchers
C) persons committing larcenies from autos
D) murderers

Question 32

In a case enhancement program,detectives:

A) debrief suspects to obtain further information
B) assist arresting officers in preparing a case for court
C) engage in liaison with the district attorney
D) all of these choices

Question 33

Nationally,police are able to clear only____________________ percent of all violent crimes reported to them.

A) 16.5
B) 46.8
C) 65.8
D) 87.1

Question 34

Dressing as and playing the role of a potential crime victim is known as:

A) a decoy operation
B) an envoy operation
C) a convoy operation
D) targeting

Question 35

The National Advisory Commission on Criminal Justice Standards and Goals recommended that detectives should be assigned only to preliminary investigations of:

A) misdemeanors.
B) crimes of violence.
C) very serious or complex preliminary investigations.
D) all of these choices.

Question 36

The National Advisory Commission on Criminal Justice Standards and Goals recommended that ____________________ should be directed to conduct thorough preliminary investigations.

A) detectives
B) supervisors
C) nonsworn personnel
D) patrol officers

Question 37

The idea that detective work is glamorous,exciting,and dangerous,as it is depicted in the movies and on television,is called the:

A) detective mystique.
B) detective role.
C) detective model.
D) detective initiative.

Question 38

The use of analytical methods to obtain pertinent information on crime patterns and trends that can then be disseminated to officers on the street is called ____________________.

A) criminal profiling
B) CompStat
C) crime mapping
D) crime analysis

Question 39

The MCI program involves all of the following except:

A) case screening.
B) solvability factors.
C) case enhancement.
D) enhanced patrol techniques.

Question 40

Detectives in a decentralized squad are considered ____________________.

A) specialists
B) generalists
C) in field training
D) felony-only detectives

Question 41

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

A) special acquired-technique squad (SATS)
B) hot-case squad
C) cold-case squad
D) geriatric unit

Question 42

____________________ 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.

A) Stings
B) Stakeouts
C) Decoys
D) Inventories

Question 43

The advances of __________technology have led to the increase in the use of cold-case squads to solve crimes.

Question 44

In __________ operations,officers dress as,and play the role of,potential victims-drunks,nurses,business people,tourists,prostitutes,blind people,isolated subway riders,and the like.

Question 45

Entrapment is a(n)____________________ defense.

A) perfect
B) good faith
C) equitable
D) affirmative

Question 46

Plainclothes officers' efforts to blend into an area and attempt to catch a criminal are called:

A) coercing
B) blending
C) shadowing
D) marking

Question 47

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.

A) 26
B) 49
C) 70
D) 90

Question 48

ROPs concentrate on __________

Question 49

__________ operations are undercover police operations in which police officers pose as criminals in order to arrest law violators; for example,they might be used to apprehend thieves and recover stolen property.

Question 50

A(n)__________ is the hidden surveillance of a location or person; for example,a group of heavily armed officers might hide in an area of a store or building to wait for an impending holdup.

Question 51

__________ are responsible for the vast majority of all arrests.

Question 52

A legal defense that holds that police originated the criminal idea or initiated the criminal action is called:

A) civil code
B) entrapment
C) police solicitation
D) entanglement

Question 53

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 __________.

Question 54

The Rand study of the investigative process resulted in a proposal regarding a more effective way to investigate past crimes.The program outlined in this proposal is called __________

Question 55

Which of the following state is considered the "epicenter" of the prescription fraud drug trade?

A) ​Florida
B) ​Colorado
C) ​California
D) ​New York