Deck 9: Patrol Operations

Question 1

Distracted drivers are able to multi-task effectively while driving.

Answer 1

False

Question 2

The Kansas City study demonstrated that adding or taking away police patrols from an area made no difference within the community.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

Police departments are restricting the use of pursuits and using alternative methods to catch the individuals who attempt to elude police officers.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

The Newark foot patrol study concluded that foot patrols do not make citizens feel safer.

Question 5

Decoy operations involve using occupied vehicles in strategic locations to give the perception of omnipresence.

Question 6

Rapid response to 911 calls works better in discovery crimes than in involvement crimes.

Question 7

Predictive policing involves linking data and clues to potential suspects or victims by identify at-risk groups, individuals, and locations.

Question 8

According to research, red light cameras that target traffic violators seem to reduce the occurrence of traffic violations at that location.

Question 9

Research during the past 20 years has pointed out that we can depend on television portrayals for realistic examples of police work.

Question 10

Typically, the larger urban departments such as New York, Chicago, Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles have deployed two-officer cars, and most suburban and rural departments prefer one-officer cars.

Question 11

At the conclusion of the Kansas City study, everyone in the community knew that an experiment regarding policing had been conducted in his or her community.

Question 12

Police officers are never allowed to use potentially deadly force (e.g., ramming a vehicle) to end a high-speed chase of a suspect, even if the suspect's actions risk the safety of other drivers and pedestrians.

Question 13

The Kansas City study indicated that our traditional three cornerstones of policing might not be the most effective way to do police work.

Question 14

According to Jonathan Adkins, the next big issue in highway safety is speed enforcement.

Question 15

The premise of smart policing is that agencies themselves are in the best position to know their specific crime problems.

Question 16

A specific type of saturation patrol is a crackdown, which generally targets a specific violation of the law, such as a traffic violation.

Question 17

Data on what occurs when an officer encounters a citizen-when the officer is either on an assignment from the dispatcher or on self-initiated activities-can best be retrieved from researcher observations.

Question 18

____________________ is/are the most expensive part of a police department's budget.

A)Fuel costs
B)Equipment
C)Personnel
D)Liability insurance

Question 19

It is impossible to conduct a controlled experiment to study the effectiveness of certain types of police patrol.

Question 20

One of the newest forms of aggressive driving known to post a public safety threat is motorcycle swarms.

Question 21

In differential response to calls for service, responses to citizens' calls to 911 are matched to the type and ____________________ of the calls.

A)severity
B)location
C)numerical order
D)time of day

Question 22

Which of the following was not one of the beats established in the Kansas City study?

A)Reactive
B)Proactive
C)Control group
D)Variable testing group

Question 23

Which of the following is not one of the basic components of response time?

A)Time between the crime and the call to the police
B)Time required for the police to process the call
C)Travel time from receipt of the call to arrival at the scene
D)Time it takes for the perpetrator to flee the scene

Question 24

What agency is usually held up as a model for dealing with the mentally ill, due to its combined CIT and co-responder program?

A)Seattle Police Department
B)San Francisco Police Department
C)Houston Police Department
D)Charleston Police Department

Question 25

The most important and visible part of police work to the public is/are ____________________.

A)detective operations
B)public appearances by the police chief
C)patrol
D)crime prevention

Question 26

Officers who patrol specific locations at specific times to address a specific crime problem are called ____________________ patrol.

A)split-force
B)task force
C)routine
D)directed

Question 27

During what decade was the efficiency of foot patrols challenged?

A)1960s
B)1970s
C)1980s
D)1990s

Question 28

According to the California Highway Patrol study, the most prevalent reason drivers fail to stop during a high-speed pursuit is ___________.

A)the driver is in a stolen vehicle
B)the driver wants to avoid a DWI or drug arrest
C)the driver wants to avoid a traffic ticket
D)the driver is afraid of or dislikes the police or enjoys the excitement of a chase

Question 29

Random patrol is commonly believed by police administration to create a sense of ________.

A)semipresence
B)omnipresence
C)nonpresence
D)None of the above.

Question 30

The police department's generalist is the _________.

A)detective
B)patrol officer
C)sergeant
D)chief

Question 31

____________________ patrol is a solution to the problem of directed patrol units often getting interrupted by calls for service, which can affect the performance of their assignments.

A)Routine
B)Task force
C)Split-force
D)Foot

Question 32

Which of the following does not describe the typical police pursuit, as studied by the California Highway Patrol?

A)It occurs during the day.
B)It starts as a traffic violation.
C)It ends without an accident 70 percent of the time.
D)It covers only a mile or so.

Question 33

Which of the following is a functional category of routine patrol as defined by Gay, Schell, and Schack?

A)Calls for service
B)Preventative patrol
C)Administrative tasks
D)All of the above

Question 34

Which of the following are the two major methods of patrol deployment?

A)Motorized patrol and foot patrol
B)Crime patrol and bicycle patrol
C)Bicycle patrol and motorized patrol
D)Bicycle patrol and foot patrol

Question 35

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's distracted driving educational slogan is _______.

A)"Text Today-Jail Tomorrow"
B)"TWD = Ticket"
C)"One text or call could wreck it all."
D)"Drive-Pull over-Text"

Question 36

Departments that ____________________ may benefit most from differential response.

A)suffer from financial difficulties that make it hard to hire more officers
B)have more than 100 officers
C)have fewer than 50 officers
D)are located in rural areas with few officers to cover a large amount of territory

Question 37

Who is the author of the classic Varieties of Police Behavior: The Management of Law and Order in Eight Communities?

A)James Q.Wilson
B)June Nelson
C)Anthony Bouza
D)Ernest Verdeschi

Question 38

In 2003, nearly all police departments had pursuit policies, and ____________________ percent of local police agencies had restrictive pursuit policies.

A)12
B)16
C)37
D)61

Question 39

One of the authors of the classic text Police Administration was _________.

A)George Herman Ruth
B)Patrick V.Murphy
C)O.W.Wilson
D)James Q.Wilson

Question 40

In the proactive group in the Kansas City study, the police presence was __________.

A)doubled or tripled
B)eliminated
C)reduced
D)increased 10 times

Question 41

The two basic kinds of tactical operations are __________ patrol tactics and __________ patrol.

Question 42

A ____________________ system allows nonemergency calls to be redirected or referred to other agencies.

A)311
B)411
C)511
D)611

Question 43

__________ is a method of deploying police officers that gives them responsibility for all policing activity by requiring them to walk around a defined geographic area.

Question 44

Most departments utilize __________.

A)a take-home car program
B)person-owned vehicles (POVs)
C)fleet vehicles
D)preowned vehicles

Question 45

In effect, the Kansas City study failed to demonstrate that adding or taking away police patrols from an area made any difference within the ___________.

A)community
B)control group
C)police department
D)experimental group

Question 46

The Kansas City study occurred in the ________.

A)1960s
B)1970s
C)1980s
D)1950s

Question 47

The aggressive saturation patrol operation in Washington, D.C., run by Chief Cathy Lanier is called _____.

A)Operation ICE
B)Operation Delta
C)Operation Alpha
D)All Hands on Deck

Question 48

The impression of always being there is called __________.

Question 49

Academic studies regarding response time indicate that ____________.

A)citizens generally cannot or do not report crimes immediately
B)the perpetrator will be caught if the police arrive within two minutes of the call
C)the perpetrator will be caught if the police arrive within five minutes of the call
D)rapid response is most important in discovery crimes

Question 50

A successful example of a directed patrol program that achieved positive results was the ____________________ gun experiment.

A)Kansas City, Missouri
B)Los Angeles, California
C)Houston, Texas
D)Detroit, Michigan

Question 51

A thorough study conducted in Newark regarding foot patrols concluded that adding foot patrol _____.

A)increased crime
B)decreased crime
C)had no effect on crime
D)decreased crime when foot patrol was added only in the business district

Question 52

When researchers examined the reinstitution of foot patrol in Newark and Flint, they arrived at the conclusion that when foot patrol is added in neighborhoods _____.

A)levels of fear decrease significantly
B)levels of fear increase significantly
C)levels of fear remain the same
D)the police who patrol on foot have less job satisfaction, more fear, and lower morale than do officers who patrol in automobiles

Question 53

The calls radioed to patrol officers, or assignments given to police patrol units by 911 dispatchers, reveal the types of problems for which people call the police and the types of problems ___________.

A)the police feel deserve a response by patrol units
B)that are important to administration
C)encountered by citizens daily
D)that the local government wants handled

Question 54

During what decade did the foot patrol return to policing?

A)1960s
B)1970s
C)1980s
D)1990s

Question 55

Which of the following is not one of the goals of patrol as defined by Gay, Schell, and Schack?

A)Increased traffic citations
B)Providing sense of community security
C)Crime prevention and deterrence
D)Recovery of stolen property

Question 56

Agencies that cover a large geographical area, such as sheriff's departments and state patrols, utilize _______.

A)a take-home car program
B)person-owned vehicles (POVs)
C)fleet vehicles
D)preowned vehicles

Question 57

Which of the following is not one of the three traditional ways police work is done in the United States?

A)Retroactive investigation of past crimes by detectives
B)Random routine patrol
C)Proactive investigations
D)Rapid response to calls by citizens to 911

Question 58

Using available scientific research to implement crime-fighting strategies and department policies is called __________ policing.

Question 59

Who coined the term omnipresence?

A)James J.Fyfe
B)O.W.Wilson
C)Patrick V.Murphy
D)James Q.Murphy

Question 60

Smart911 allows individuals to voluntarily _____________ their phone numbers and enter associated personal, medical, and disability information into a secure website.

Question 61

_______________ is a new and dangerous prank that has become more prevalent in recent years.

Question 62

The__________ telephone system allows police departments to call citizens in the entire jurisdiction or in a particular neighborhood to disseminate emergency information to residents.

Question 63

How did the Kansas City study affect the prevailing views of random routine patrol?

Question 64

What have studies shown about the variables affecting rapid response time and the value of rapid police response to citizens' calls to 911?

Question 65

__________ is the backbone of policing.

Question 66

Explain why the increasing legalization of marijuana across the country is the next big issue in highway safety.

Question 67

Did the advantages of motor patrols versus foot patrols outweigh the disadvantages? Why or why not?

Question 68

Explain the concept of differential response to calls for service and how it can benefit police departments.

Question 69

Should police officers patrol by themselves or in pairs? Why?

Question 70

Explain what swatting is and how it affects police officers and the public.

Question 71

Discuss the challenges researchers face in designing experiments to evaluate the effectiveness of police work and their potential impact on the communities being studied.

Question 72

Discuss the pros and cons of predictive policing, including its potential biases.

Question 73

We will always need some type of rapid police response to citizens' calls to 911, even though we have to realize that a __________ response is highly unrealistic.

Question 74

Describe the three cornerstones of traditional police work and how they influence the daily activities of the average U.S.police officer.

Question 75

The classic study of random routine patrol was the __________ study.

Question 76

What are the main goals of patrol and how do they relate to the concept of omnipresence?

Question 77

Discuss the pros and cons of police departments using fleet vehicles for patrol versus issuing each officer a personal vehicle.

Question 78

Prior to the 1970s, much of what we knew about police patrol was written by __________.

Question 79

Police special weapons and tactical teams are popularly known as __________.

Question 80

A method in which the patrol force is split and half respond to calls for service and the other half performs directed patrol activities is called __________ patrol.