Deck 6: An Introduction to Intelligence

Question 1

The detection and investigation of crime, along with the pursuit and apprehension of criminals, require reliable intelligence

Answer 1

True

Question 2

When assisting the investigator, the intelligence analyst concentrates on the collection and dissemination of information about fellow detectives.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

It is important for intelligence analysts and tactical crime analysts to have a mastery of how a criminal investigation proceeds

Answer 3

True

Question 4

The patrol officer responding to a crime must determine whether a tactical situation exists

Question 5

A tactical situation is one in which crimes or criminal situations are involved (for instance, if the perpetrator took a hostage or is barricaded in a nearby building)

Question 6

There are three broad categories of evidence that investigators attempt to locate

Question 7

Among the categories of evidence that investigators attempt to locate is Miranda warnings

Question 8

During a criminal investigation, there are two basic kinds of proof needed to establish the guilt or innocence of a suspect; 1) Direct evidence and 2) Circumstantial evidence

Question 9

Circumstantial evidence means evidence that shows the perpetrator's DNA

Question 10

The biggest challenge in an investigation is when the offender is unknown

Question 11

Experienced investigators will avoid hunches or developing leads or suspects based on intuition

Question 12

The integrity and ethics of the investigator plays no role in ruling out suspects when they are innocent, along with ruling in suspects when there is evidence suggesting guilt

Question 13

Real-time crime analysis has proven to be an effective crime fighting tool that aids in ongoing and follow-up investigations.

Question 14

There are myriad databases available to the police these days, especially to the crime analyst or intelligence expert who knows how and when to access those databases.

Question 15

Charles R. Swanson and his colleagues (2012) propose that there is a continuous six-step process used by intelligence centers; the first step is: Planning and direction

Question 16

In assisting the investigator, the intelligence analyst concentrates on the ______________ of information about criminals.

A) Forensic examinations
B) Collection and dissemination
C) Patrol officer's collecting
D) Prosecutor's need to gather all kinds

Question 17

It is important for intelligence analysts and tactical crime analysts to have a mastery of how a criminal investigation proceeds in order to ______________.

A) Show detectives they appreciate how hard investigation work is
B) Impress the police chief
C) Provide the kind of intelligence investigators need to close cases
D) Earn a raise

Question 18

To better appreciate the investigative process, it is useful for crime analysts to be aware of the essential qualities of a ______________.

A) Criminal investigator
B) Private eye
C) Police chief
D) Information technologist

Question 19

Crime analysts should recognize that among the qualities of successful investigators is:

A) Willingness to work short hours
B) The ability to use their hunches and intuition
C) Willingness to monitor their own use of inductive and deductive reasoning to try to avoid distortions and fallacies
D) The ability to become callous and cynical

Question 20

Typically, the preliminary investigation, often carried out by a uniformed officer, includes one of the following steps in addition to interviewing victims:

A) Holding a press conference
B) Taking selfies with victims
C) Ignoring the chain of custody related to evidence
D) Assessing the need for emergency care

Question 21

If the responding office, usually a patrol officer, determines that a tactical situation exists, then that officer should:

A) Handle it on his or her own
B) call for backup or for the assistance of specialized units
C) Notify social services
D) Write up a report of what is going on

Question 22

It is important that responding officers maintain control of the crime scene. This means, among other things, that the officers:

A) Make sure that the victim is safe and cared for and that the evidence is secured
B) Take down names of people take photos with cellphones
C) Issue an arrest warrant for the perpetrator
D) Start testing the evidence

Question 23

A _______ may be assigned to the case and may even show up at the crime scene before the patrol officer leaves.

A) Prosecuting attorney
B) Judge
C) Detective or criminal investigator
D) Crime analyst

Question 24

Among the duties or procedures utilized by the senior investigator are interviewing the victim again or interviewing other witnesses, conducting or supervising the neighborhood canvass, or _______.

A) Ordering the patrol officer to get coffee
B) Filing a report closing the case
C) Interrogating the suspect if he or she is in custody
D) Talking to the crowd

Question 25

There are three broad categories of evidence that investigators attempt to locate. Those categories are Corpus delicti, Associative and ______________.

A) Fingerprint
B) Tracing
C) Forensic
D) Tire tracks

Question 26

Corpus delicti evidence is evidence that will help substantiate the elements of the _______.

A) Crime
B) Victim's plight
C) Duties of the police
D) Law

Question 27

Associative evidence is evidence that ______________ a suspect to the scene or the victim, or ______________the scene or victim to the suspect.

A) Establishes a motive for
B) Connects
C) Disconnects
D) Clears

Question 28

Evidence, such as a video of the perpetrator from a surveillance camera that helps to identify the offender, is referred to this kind of evidence:

A) Associative
B) Solid
C) Tracing
D) Forensic

Question 29

During a criminal investigation, there are two basic kinds of proof needed to establish the guilt or innocence of a suspect; one type is direct evidence and the other type of proof is _______.

A) Special
B) Made up evidence
C) Far-fetched
D) Circumstantial

Question 30

Direct evidence involves testimony by eyewitnesses who have information to offer about the crime through one of their ______________.

A) Powers of fantasy
B) Five senses
C) Dreams
D) Hearsay stories

Question 31

Circumstantial evidence is evidence from which inferences can be drawn and can include ______________ evidence.

A) Spiritual
B) Historical
C) Literary
D) Physical

Question 32

The biggest challenge in an investigation is when the offender is _______.

A) Known
B) A celebrity
C) Unknown
D) Wealthy

Question 33

In the cases where the offender is unknown, the investigator must develop the basic investigative leads to attempt to discover the ______________ of the perpetrator.

A) Blood type
B) Race
C) Address
D) Identity

Question 34

When the offender is unknown, the basic lead, in many instances, may come from the _______.

A) Victim
B) Jailhouse snitch
C) Neighborhood gossip
D) Anonymous tip

Question 35

Experienced investigators will avoid hunches or developing leads or suspects based on intuition; instead, they realize that developing leads comes about best when they use their know-how, their cognitive processes and their ability ______________.

A) To pay informants
B) To work a case rapidly
C) To coerce confessions
D) To work the crowd at the crime scene

Question 36

Victims-and witnesses-who give evidence, include eyewitness identification of the offender, can be mistaken, have their facts all wrong, or be attempting to ______________.

A) Get in good with the police
B) Get their name in the paper
C) Earn a reward
D) Cause trouble for some innocent party

Question 37

Real-time crime analysis has proven to be an effective crime fighting tool that aids in ______________.

A) Convicting the innocent
B) Ongoing and follow-up investigations
C) Opening cold cases
D) Solving crimes before they happen

Question 38

There are myriad ______________ available to the police these days, especially to the crime analyst or intelligence expert who knows how and when to access those _______.

A) Databases
B) Crime shows on TV
C) True confession books
D) Snitches

Question 39

Among the national databases available to the crime analyst are AEXIS, NIBRIN, NDPIX, NAMUS and _______.

A) CSI
B) NCIS
C) NCIC
D) CVS

Question 40

Charles R. Swanson and his colleagues (2012) propose that there is a continuous six-step process used by intelligence centers; those six steps start with Planning and direction and end with _______.

A) Reevaluation
B) Sending a report to the media
C) Disseminating information to only certain subscribers
D) Collecting data from underground sources

Question 41

There are any number of reports that an intelligence unit can produce for a police department; among the kinds of reports that an intelligence unit could provide for criminal investigators, perhaps the most important are criminal profiles, geographic profiles, time-event charts and ______________.

A) Weather reports
B) Link analysis
C) Lists of suspects
D) Phone directories

Question 42

The premise of geographic profiling is that given a sufficient number of crimes, with adequate information for analysis, a ______________ of the area in which the offender's residence is located can be calculated.

A) Pushpin map
B) Roadmap
C) Probabilistic map
D) Major highway map

Question 43

A time-event chart depicts in graphic form the ______________ of an individual's or a group's activities.

A) Chronology
B) Day-to-day analysis
C) Exact route
D) Diary

Question 44

Link analysis refers to ???______________ among people or organizations.

A) Probing into the intimacies
B) Recording gossip
C) Listening to gossip
D) Analyzing relationships