Deck 5: Policing: History and Structure

Question 1

The Bow Street Runners

A)was an early English law enforcement unit formed by Henry Fielding.
B)was a criminal organization led by Jonathan Wild.
C)was created by the Metropolitan Police Act.
D)was created by the Statute of Winchester.

Answer 1

A

Question 2

The first policewoman served with the

A)New York City Police Department.
B)Chicago Police Department.
C)Los Angeles Police Department.
D)Pennsylvania State Police.

Answer 2

C

Question 3

Which of the following federal law enforcement agencies is under the jurisdiction of the Department of Justice?

A)The Federal Law Enforcement Training Center
B)The U.S.Secret Service
C)The Office of Labor Racketeering
D)The Bureau of Alcohol,Tobacco,Firearms and Explosives

Answer 3

D

Question 4

The ________ was a federal agency that provided huge amounts of funding for research in the 1960s and 1970s and established the tradition of scientific police management.

A)Wickersham Commission
B)Law Enforcement Assistance Administration
C)National Institute of Justice
D)Office of Justice Programs

Question 5

The centralized model of state policing

A)is no longer commonly used in the United States.
B)is characteristic of state police in the southern United States.
C)combines criminal investigations with patrol of state highways.
D)frequently requires states to have a number of adjunct state-level law enforcement agencies.

Question 6

The London Metropolitan Police Service was created by

A)Henry Fielding.
B)Jonathan Wild.
C)Robert Peel
D)Stephen Girard.

Question 7

Which of the following was not a provision of the Statute of Winchester?

A)It required all citizens to respond to the hue and cry.
B)It established a paid police force in London.
C)It required participation in the night watch and day ward.
D)It required citizens maintain weapons in their homes.

Question 8

The Kansas City study of response time found that rapid police response to citizen reports of crime

A)significantly increases the likelihood of suspect arrest.
B)has little effect on the likelihood of suspect arrest.
C)helps solve significantly more crimes.
D)has a positive impact on citizen satisfaction with the police.

Question 9

The "evidence" in evidence-based policing refers to

A)information obtained from witnesses to the crime.
B)fingerprints found at the crime scene.
C)scientific evidence.
D)information acquired from social media.

Question 10

The modern-day sheriff is derived from which early English official?

A)Parish constable
B)Justice of the peace
C)Shire reeve
D)Magistrate

Question 11

________ uses research into everyday police procedures to evaluate current practices and to guide officers and police executives in future decision making.

A)Evidence-based policing
B)Scientific police management
C)Directed patrol
D)The LEAA

Question 12

Because formal law enforcement frequently did not exist on the American frontier,________ were often the only law available to early settlers.

A)night watches
B)shire reeves
C)thief takers
D)vigilantes

Question 13

Which federal agency is responsible for managing the database of DNA profiles of offenders?

A)Drug Enforcement Administration
B)U.S.Secret Service
C)U.S.Customs
D)Federal Bureau of Investigation

Question 14

The results of the 1974 Kansas City experiment on preventive patrol suggest that

A)preventable crimes will decrease when patrol frequency is increased.
B)preventable crimes will increase in areas where the police do not patrol.
C)citizens' fear of crime will decrease in areas where the police reduce patrol frequency.
D)preventable crimes are not affected by police patrol.

Question 15

The 1931 report of the ________ recognized prohibition as unenforceable as well as a catalyst to police corruption.

A)Wickersham Commission
B)National Advisory Commission on Criminal Justice Standards and Goals
C)Knapp Commission
D)President's Crime Commission

Question 16

What impact did the Kansas City studies have on police patrol?

A)Police patrol operations remained unchanged.
B)Police departments eliminated patrol and developed new strategies for dealing with crime.
C)Police developed new forms of directed patrol.
D)Police increased their use of patrol.

Question 17

Which of the following is not one of the functions that federal law enforcement officers are authorized to perform?

A)Maintain order
B)Make arrests
C)Carry firearms
D)Execute search warrants

Question 18

One of the basic principles of the London Metropolitan Police was

A)the need for decentralized policing.
B)the practice of preventive patrol.
C)evidence-based policing.
D)vigilante justice.

Question 19

Currently,the main priority of the Federal Bureau of Investigation is

A)transnational organized crime.
B)white-collar crime.
C)terrorism.
D)violent crime.

Question 20

Which of the following methods of handling a call for service involving a less serious crime would not be implemented in response to the Kansas City study of response time?

A)Taking a report over the phone instead of dispatching a sworn officer to the scene
B)Using non-sworn personnel to take reports
C)Asking the victim to come to the police department to make a report
D)Immediately dispatching an officer from a border district if the officer on the beat is already occupied

Question 21

The growth of modern police forces has been linked to gin riots in England.

Question 22

Early policewomen generally were hired to provide police services to women and children.

Question 23

Private security forces may have been responsible for the

A)recent increase in the crime rate.
B)reduced fear of crime and terrorism.
C)increasing cost of policing.
D)recent decrease in reported crime.

Question 24

The evidence used in evidence-based criminology is the same type of evidence that is used in a criminal trial.

Question 25

The Wickersham Commission report recognized that Prohibition was unenforceable and contributed to police corruption.

Question 26

Which is the largest segment of law enforcement today?

A)Federal law enforcement
B)State-level law enforcement
C)Local law enforcement
D)Private protective services

Question 27

Which agency would NOT be included in the term local police?

A)Sheriff's department
B)Campus police
C)State police
D)Municipal department

Question 28

Which local law enforcement official is responsible for serving court papers,maintaining security within courtrooms,and running the county jail?

A)The chief of police
B)The sheriff
C)The bailiff
D)The precinct captain

Question 29

Vigilantism is the act of taking the law into one's own hands.

Question 30

Prioritizing calls for service,rather than sending police out immediately to all calls,is an example of directed patrol.

Question 31

Which agency head is most likely to be an elected official?

A)The chief of a big city police department
B)The director of a federal law enforcement agency
C)The county sheriff
D)The chief of a small municipal police department

Question 32

Which of the following is not a reason for the rapid growth of the private security sector in the U.S.?

A)State fiscal crises
B)Increasing crime in the workplace
C)Increasing rates of overall crime
D)Increasing fear of crime and terrorism

Question 33

The Law Enforcement Assistance Administration provided education and training for police officers.

Question 34

Scientific police management emphasizes the development of modern crime labs for the analysis of criminal evidence collected at crime scenes.

Question 35

The London Metropolitan Police Service was modeled after a military organization.

Question 36

During the 1960s,the U.S.Supreme Court focused on increasing the powers of the police at the expense of the constitutional rights of criminal defendants.

Question 37

All federal law enforcement agencies are under the jurisdiction of the Department of Justice.

Question 38

When it was first founded,the London Metropolitan Police was very popular because of their effect on crime in London.

Question 39

Any law enforcement agency in the U.S.may receive laboratory services from the FBI free of charge.

Question 40

The Kansas City experiment found that increasing the level of preventive patrol had no effect on crime or fear of crime.

Question 41

The ________ was the first modern police force in the world.

Question 42

Henry Fielding created the ________,an early English police unit.

Question 43

The federal government employs private security personnel.

Question 44

The ________ codified British police practices in 1285 and created the watch and ward system.

Question 45

________ are elected law enforcement officials whose agencies are responsible for county-wide law enforcement.

Question 46

________ policing emphasizes the use of research to guide police work.

Question 47

The NYPD is the largest law enforcement agency in the U.S.

Question 48

Municipal police departments are responsible for operating county jails.

Question 49

Private police outnumber public police officers in the U.S.

Question 50

On the American frontier,the law was enforced primarily by ________.

Question 51

The primary focus of the FBI today is the prevention of ________.

Question 52

A(n)________ police department is a city- or town-based law enforcement agency.

Question 53

One reason for the growth in private security is an increase in workplace crime.

Question 54

The top priority of the FBI today is the prevention of future terrorist attacks.

Question 55

The 1931 ________ report focused on the potential of Prohibition for police corruption.

Question 56

The ________ model of state policing draws a distinction between traffic enforcement and other state-level law enforcement functions.

Question 57

Centralized state police agencies focus primarily on traffic and law enforcement duties on the state's highways.

Question 58

The majority of the infrastructure in the U.S.is protected by public police.

Question 59

________ is a police-management strategy designed to increase the productivity of patrol officers through the scientific analysis and evaluation of patrol techniques.

Question 60

City police chiefs usually are elected public officials.

Question 61

Match the federal law enforcement agency with the government department it falls under.

A)Department of Homeland Security
B)Department of Health and Human Services
C)Department of State
D)Department of Justice
E)Department of the Interior
F)Department of the Treasury
Food and Drug Administration Office of Criminal Investigations

Question 62

Match the federal law enforcement agency with the government department it falls under.

A)Department of Homeland Security
B)Department of Health and Human Services
C)Department of State
D)Department of Justice
E)Department of the Interior
F)Department of the Treasury
Diplomatic Security Service

Question 63

Match the federal law enforcement agency with the government department it falls under.

A)Department of Homeland Security
B)Department of Health and Human Services
C)Department of State
D)Department of Justice
E)Department of the Interior
F)Department of the Treasury
Bureau of Indian Affairs

Question 64

Match the agency type to its level of enforcement activity.

A)Federal
B)State
C)Local
Customs enforcement

Question 65

Match the federal law enforcement agency with the government department it falls under.

A)Department of Homeland Security
B)Department of Health and Human Services
C)Department of State
D)Department of Justice
E)Department of the Interior
F)Department of the Treasury
U.S.Coast Guard

Question 66

Match the federal law enforcement agency with the government department it falls under.

A)Department of Homeland Security
B)Department of Health and Human Services
C)Department of State
D)Department of Justice
E)Department of the Interior
F)Department of the Treasury
Transportation Security Administration

Question 67

Match the federal law enforcement agency with the government department it falls under.

A)Department of Homeland Security
B)Department of Health and Human Services
C)Department of State
D)Department of Justice
E)Department of the Interior
F)Department of the Treasury
U.S.Marshals Service

Question 68

Match the federal law enforcement agency with the government department it falls under.

A)Department of Homeland Security
B)Department of Health and Human Services
C)Department of State
D)Department of Justice
E)Department of the Interior
F)Department of the Treasury
U.S.Bureau of Prisons

Question 69

Match the federal law enforcement agency with the government department it falls under.

A)Department of Homeland Security
B)Department of Health and Human Services
C)Department of State
D)Department of Justice
E)Department of the Interior
F)Department of the Treasury
Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation Division

Question 70

Match the agency type to its level of enforcement activity.

A)Federal
B)State
C)Local
Weigh station operations

Question 71

One reason for the rapid growth of private policing in America is an increase in fear of crime and ________.

Question 72

Match the agency type to its level of enforcement activity.

A)Federal
B)State
C)Local
Tribal police

Question 73

Match the federal law enforcement agency with the government department it falls under.

A)Department of Homeland Security
B)Department of Health and Human Services
C)Department of State
D)Department of Justice
E)Department of the Interior
F)Department of the Treasury
Bureau of Alcohol,Tobacco,Firearms and Explosives

Question 74

In most countries,________ police outnumber ________ police.

Question 75

Match the federal law enforcement agency with the government department it falls under.

A)Department of Homeland Security
B)Department of Health and Human Services
C)Department of State
D)Department of Justice
E)Department of the Interior
F)Department of the Treasury
U.S.Park Police

Question 76

The recent decline in crime may be largely due to the activities of ________.

Question 77

Match the agency type to its level of enforcement activity.

A)Federal
B)State
C)Local
Campus police

Question 78

Match the agency type to its level of enforcement activity.

A)Federal
B)State
C)Local
Highway police

Question 79

Match the federal law enforcement agency with the government department it falls under.

A)Department of Homeland Security
B)Department of Health and Human Services
C)Department of State
D)Department of Justice
E)Department of the Interior
F)Department of the Treasury
Federal Air Marshals Program

Question 80

Match the federal law enforcement agency with the government department it falls under.

A)Department of Homeland Security
B)Department of Health and Human Services
C)Department of State
D)Department of Justice
E)Department of the Interior
F)Department of the Treasury
U.S.Secret Service