Deck 5: Unleash the Cops

Question 1

The police-population ratio is meaningless as a measure of police effectiveness.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

Providing suspects with a Miranda warning results in a net effect of a significant loss of convictions.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

A major concern about COMPSTAT's effectiveness in NYC is that

A) its findings cannot be replicated
B) it ignores the importance of community relations
C) the police did not fully understand how to use the computer system
D) there is no way to show that the crime drop was due to COMPSTAT and not to other factors

Answer 3

D

Question 4

The idea of putting more police on the street is very popular with

A) conservatives
B) Caucasians
C) African Americans
D) all of the above
E) none of the above

Question 5

The majority of arrests are made by detectives who solve the crime based on leads from the victim or a witness.

Question 6

One of the myths about policing is that

A) patrol is the backbone of policing
B) single-officer patrols are most efficient
C) hiring more police means more patrol officers will be on the street
D) police create a phantom effect

Question 7

The goal of predictive policing is to

A) focus police efforts geographically and on social problems
B) prevent crimes by foreseeing when and where they will happen
C) reduce crime by targeting specific repeat offenders
D) increase the police/population ratio in socially disorganized areas

Question 8

Nationally, there are 2.2 sworn officers per 1,000 people in the United States.

Question 9

Felony suspects are typically young, well educated, and savvy at manipulating bureaucracies.

Question 10

There is reason to believe that the exclusionary rule has professionalized police.

Question 11

Effectively, predictive policing differs little from

A) smart policing techniques that involve careful planning
B) the effects of residual deterrence
C) using common sense to prevent crime
D) crackdowns and stop-and-frisk policies

Question 12

The Kansas City Preventive Patrol experiment proved that the level of police patrol correlates to a deterrent effect.

Question 13

Regarding the standard measure of the level of police protection

A) it is computed by dividing the annual number of crimes by the number of sworn officers
B) the figure is meaningless because it does not tell us how departments utilize their officers
C) the police/population ratio is consistent nationwide due to a federal mandate
D) research indicates that the larger number of sworn officers per 1,000 population, the safer the city

Question 14

Problem-oriented policing is a get tough approach to policing characterized by a short burst of intensive law enforcement involving many arrests of "problem" people.

Question 15

The Cincinnati Initiative to Reduce Violence was more effective in the long term than the Boston Gun Project because it

A) focused on a lower-crime area
B) created an organizational structure designed to ensure its continuity
C) maintained long-term relationships between police officers and gang members
D) relied on careful planning and a focus on specific people, locations and crimes

Question 16

A review of 27 studies on the relationship between the number of police officers and the crime rate found

A) in 20% of studies more police correlated with lower crime rates
B) in 45% of studies more police correlated with higher crime rates
C) in 55% of studies more police correlated with higher crime rates
D) in 95% of studies more police correlated with lower crime rates

Question 17

Crackdowns are a modern innovative policing strategy that are focused and draw on partnerships with noncriminal justice agencies.

Question 18

The strategy of "pulling levers" refers to

A) using all potential violations by the target
B) removing all barriers to police activity
C) working with community leaders to reduce crime
D) increasing the police/population ratio in social disorganized areas

Question 19

Despite the Miranda warning a substantial proportion of suspects waive their rights and confess to police.

Question 20

Faster response time would not produce more arrests because police are called to few crimes in progress.

Question 21

Deterrence requires which of the following factors?

A) legitimate opportunities and serious penalties
B) perceived threat and rational decision-making
C) quick positive feedback and slow negative feedback
D) all of the above
E) none of the above

Question 22

Solving crimes depends more on _____(1)_____ than on _____(2)_____.

A) (1) faster response time (2) the number of sworn officers in a department
B) (1) the policing strategy (2) existing relationships between the victim and offender
C) (1) characteristics of the crime (2) the number of detectives
D) (1) the clearance rate (2) blood samples and hair specimens

Question 23

A short burst of intensive law enforcement, involving many arrests, directed toward a particular area or a particular crime is known as what?

A) problem-oriented policing
B) Crackdown
C) SMART policing
D) Deterrent

Question 24

Faster police response potentially makes a difference in ____ percent of crime calls:

A) ten
B) three
C) twenty-five
D) .01

Question 25

Some issues associated with the antidrug crackdown known as Operation Pressure Point were

A) crime displacement into neighboring communities and police misconduct
B) adaptation of drug dealers to the police strategies and the cost effectiveness of arrests
C) the replacement of arrested offenders with another motivated offender
D) all of the above

Question 26

The key to solving crimes and making arrests is?

A) response time
B) media coverage
C) information on a specific suspect
D) detectives

Question 27

The Kansas City experiment found that

A) the level of patrol has no effect on crime
B) more police can reduce crime, but it is costly
C) single-officer patrols are more efficient than two-officer patrols
D) crime rates are correlated with police/population ratios

Question 28

In assessing the deterrent effect of CCTV, it was most effective for

A) property crimes overall
B) violent crimes overall
C) property crimes in specific locations
D) violent crimes with significant others

Question 29

Problems of crackdowns noted in the chapter include which of the following?

A) they have been found to actually decrease deterrence
B) they do not achieve the goals of community policing
C) they are unfocused and encourage police misconduct
D) they are expensive and do not result in more arrests

Question 30

In the Kansas City experiment, _____(1)_____ beats received no routine patrol while _____(2)_____ beats received two or three times the normal level of patrol.

A) (1) control (2) proactive
B) (1) proactive (2) reactive
C) (1) reactive (2) control
D) (1) reactive (2) proactive

Question 31

Residual deterrence refers to

A) the invisibility of police patrols since they are spread so thin
B) the absence of a deterrent effect from policing where one would be expected
C) the myth that two-officer patrol are safer than single-officer patrols
D) the tendency to think there are more police patrolling because we remember seeing them

Question 32

A Hot Spots experiment in Jersey City, NJ resulted in

A) reduced crime in the targeted areas, but increased crime in the surrounding neighborhoods
B) an increase in violent gun crimes among young men
C) no significant changes
D) decreased crime in both the targeted areas and surrounding neighborhoods
E) none of the above

Question 33

Faster response time will NOT produce more arrests because

A) police are called to few crimes in progress and in many cases the victim can identify the suspect because they are acquaintances
B) faster response time is correlated with an increase in police vehicle crashes which actually slows response time
C) nationwide averages indicate that police already arrive on scene within seven minutes of being dispatched to a call
D) it is detectives and their collection of blood, hairs and fibers that solve crimes not the speed with which patrol officers arrive on scene

Question 34

Stop-and-frisk policies have the following impact on the social ledger:

A) they erode trust in the police
B) they increase poverty and homelessness
C) they contribute to community growth
D) they improve police-community relations

Question 35

Select from the following the most accurate statement.

A) the typical case gets an average of about 40 hours of detective work
B) detectives solved 86 percent of cases where a suspect was immediately identified and cleared an additional 12 percent through fingerprints, blood samples and hair specimens
C) between 80 and 90 percent of all arrests are made by detectives instead of patrol officers
D) between 60 and 80 percent of all arrests are made by patrol officers instead of detectives

Question 36

Policing strategies that involve careful planning, are data driven, and focus on particular crimes, locations, and suspects are known as

A) COPS
B) COMPSTAT
C) Smart policing
D) Zero

Question 37

The major significance of the smart policing initiatives is

A) their routine use of crackdowns and faster response time
B) their evidence that police activity can diminish crime
C) their focus on zero-tolerance strategies and holding precinct commanders accountable for crime trends in their area by providing immediate crime data through regular meetings
D) their use of hiring, innovative and technology grants in order to increase the number of college-educated and well-paid police officers

Question 38

The extensive use of CCTV as a crime fighting tool is used where?

A) United States
B) England
C) Canada
D) France

Question 39

The usefulness of fingerprints in solving crimes is indicated by what factual evidence?

A) New York City police obtain usable prints in only about 10 percent of all burglaries
B) suspects in Long Beach, CA are identified through fingerprints in 75% of cases
C) the FBI database contains fingerprints of only 200 million individuals
D) fingerprints have only increased the clearance rate from 12% to 15%

Question 40

The program that mobilized officials from housing fire and public works to target drug hot spots in Oakland, CA is what type of policing program?

A) scanning, analysis, response, assessment
B) Crackdown
C) zero tolerance
D) problem oriented

Question 41

The exclusionary rule mainly impacts what type of cases?

A) commercial robbery
B) drug possession
C) robbery
D) sexual assault

Question 42

The purpose of the exclusionary rule is to

A) protect suspects against self-incrimination
B) deter police misconduct and protect individuals from it
C) strengthen the relationship between police and prosecutors
D) make improperly seized evidence inadmissible in federal court

Question 43

According to Walker, suspects may waive their Miranda rights because they

A) are skilled at manipulating the criminal justice system
B) feel they have been wrongfully arrested
C) feel guilty or hope to get a better deal in a plea bargain
D) are intoxicated

Question 44

One of the reasons the exclusionary rule has such limited impact is that

A) most defendants agree to a plea bargain before relying on this loophole
B) most judges are on the side of the police not the defendant
C) a good lead about a suspect solves more crimes than physical evidence
D) it does not apply until a suspect is questioned rather than at the time of an arrest

Question 45

The Miranda warning must be given

A) whenever a suspect is in custody
B) once probable cause is determined
C) at the moment of arrest
D) before questioning

Question 46

According to Walker, a major drawback to drone use is

A) that the expense does not justify their use
B) their potential to increase crimes of theft and larceny
C) the carbon footprint left by the drones
D) the inefficiency of the lost contact between the police and the public

Question 47

The exclusionary rule was established in which Supreme Court case?

A) United States v.Leon
B) Miranda v.Arizona
C) Mapp v.Ohio
D) New York v.Quarles

Question 48

Most defense lawyers do not file motions to suppress the evidence because

A) they do not believe their motions will be accepted
B) they have little time to devote to any one case
C) they do not accept the validity of the exclusionary rule
D) none of the above

Question 49

According to Harris, the problem with the fingerprint identification system in the U.S.is that

A) it is illegal to collect fingerprints in several states
B) the FBI database holds the fingerprints of only a small percentage of the population
C) there is no official standard for the number of corresponding points to match prints
D) the Miranda law prevents timely collection of evidence

Question 50

The positive impact of the exclusionary rule

A) was offset by weakened relationships between police and prosecutors
B) has improved the professionalism of police work
C) is that it increased the number of convictions made through improperly seized evidence
D) there is no positive impact of the exclusionary rule

Question 51

The impact of the exclusionary rule

A) is pervasive considering the fact that 80% of school children recognize it
B) ranges from 48-90% of cases
C) is stronger in violent cases but is more limited in cases of property crime
D) is limited because few motions to suppress physical evidence are made and even fewer are successful

Question 52

The net effect is that Miranda results in a "loss" of convictions how frequently?

A) less than 5% of the time
B) between 10% and 15% of the time
C) between 20% and 25% of the time
D) half of the time

Question 53

The Miranda warning

A) is used in roughly 80% of cases, but is only used successfully in 10%
B) provides a remedy for the rule set fourth in the 4th Amendment to the Constitution
C) includes a right to remain silent and the right to a retained or appointed attorney
D) includes a right to an attorney of the suspect's choice

Question 54

Research on Miranda in operation shows that many suspects __________ their Miranda rights.

A) clearly understand
B) acted on
C) demanded protection for
D) waived

Question 55

Critics of Miranda argue that we should NOT look at the number of _____(1)_____ but at the number of _____(2)_____ due to Miranda or violations of it.

A) (1) confessions police do not get (2) convictions overturned
B) (1) convictions overturned (2) confessions police do not get
C) (1) confessions police get (2) confessions police do not get
D) (1) convictions overturned (2) convictions

Question 56

When it comes to invoking the exclusionary rule, judges

A) vary in their willingness to use it
B) are almost all willing to use it
C) in 49 of 50 states are unwilling to use it
D) choose to disregard it

Question 57

According to conservatives, procedural rules

A) are necessary to fight crime
B) have handcuffed the police
C) are a cost-effective way to selectively incapacitate chronic offenders
D) encourage police corruption