Deck 2: Values, Hiring, and Early Organizational Experiences

Question 1

The claims that officers come from diverse backgrounds, thus, new recruits learn what it means to be committed to police work.

Answer 1

values-learned-on-the-job perspective

Question 2

The value predisposition perspective holds that

A)when officers are hired, their moral commitments are already in place.
B)an officer's values will depend on the position he or she holds within the department.
C)values have no impact on the decision to hire or not to hire.
D)an officer has already lost his or her values before noble-cause corruption occurs.

Answer 2

A

Question 3

Pre-hiring procedures for police candidates include tests for knowledge, physical agility, emotional stability, and

A)ethnicity.
B)value neutrality.
C)honesty.
D)I.Q.

Answer 3

C

Question 4

Which of the following is true of a line officer's task environment

A)It is predictable.
B)Standard operating procedure makes clear what a line officer should do there.
C)Chiefs have little control over what line officers do there.
D)a and b only

Question 5

The background check and testing used to assess the qualifications of recruits for police work are .

Question 6

Police represent the way moral values are channeled into specific professional experiences.

Question 7

The decision to intervene in a suspicious circumstance or to use force to gain compliance are examples of

A)value transmission.
B)noble-cause corruption.
C)police discretion.
D)reasonable suspicion.

Question 8

Procedures designed to screen out those who don't have the "right way of thinking" about police work result in .

Question 9

War stories and anecdotes that contradict or undermine the primary message of a given instruction or lesson refers to .

Question 10

Discretionary judgments of line officers are viewed as an unregulated form of decision-making, that with proper policy, can be controlled by the organization is the ".

Question 11

When an officer makes a decision about when to intervene in a suspicious circumstance,

Question 12

Early socialization experiences in departments

A)introduce recruits to new value system.
B)reinforce values recruits already have.
C)have become largely value-neutral.
D)have little effect on an officer's moral career.

Question 13

When an officer uses force to gain compliance, the officer is, by the general definition,

Question 14

Police officers tend to come from a culture of policing.This means that

A)they are sympathetic to the police because of their backgrounds.
B)they have lived in a police state.
C)they are motivated to reform police departments.
D)they have studied criminal justice in college.

Question 15

Values are carried from broader society to police work by a process called .

Question 16

Ford's analysis of war stories used in police training demonstrated that local cultural values are transmitted through

A)officers' predispositions.
B)intentional and purposeful instruction.
C)latent content
D)manifest content.

Question 17

The claims that officers are not screened for their value predispositions, except for general factors of honesty, psychological stability, and criminal history.

Question 18

In order to make a seizure, an officer must have __________, which means that a set of facts and circumstances would induce a reasonably intelligent person to believe that a particular individual had committed a specific crime.

A)reasonable suspicion
B)interdiction training
C)noble cause justification
D)probable cause

Question 19

Morals represent the principles of right and wrong that a person is taught during his or her upbringing.

Question 20

According to the text, the most important influence on a new recruit is

A)the Field Training Officer.
B)a college education.
C)formal ethics training.
D)organizational standards.

Question 21

When officers are introduced to local police culture, they learn

A)to trust only other officers
B)practical rules of thumb for maintaining harmony with other cops
C)to keep a low profile and avoid making waves
D)all of the above

Question 22

The member of the police department who is most vulnerable to organizational pressure is

A)the chief.
B)the Field Training Officer.
C)the newly promoted Sergeant.
D)the new recruit.

Question 23

Most contemporary ethics education and training

A)continues after pre-service training.
B)is integrated throughout an officer's career.
C)occurs in college classes or POST academy training.
D)is required to be taken by active duty officers every three years.

Question 24

Recruits are tested to see if their values include

A)commitment to follow the letter of the law.
B)loyalty and commitment to the noble cause.
C)willingness to report a fellow officer for wrongdoing.
D)telling the truth in all circumstances.

Question 25

The American Bar Foundation survey of 1956 found that at each stage of an individual's encounter with the criminal justice system the outcome was determined by a decision that was essentially

A)discretionary.
B)within formal administrative protocols.
C)cut and dried.
D)impulsive.

Question 26

One of the ethical dilemmas noted by many observers of the police is that the training officer

A)really has very little influence on new recruits.
B)may lack sufficient field experience.
C)sometimes undercut administrative efforts to control line-level behavior.
D)sometimes put the enforcement of administrative rules over the safety of an inexperienced officer.