Deck 4: Police Organization, Operation, and the Law

Question 1

Which activity most often brings police officers into face-to-face contact with citizens?

A) Traffic duties
B) Criminal investigation
C) Answering calls for service
D) Foot patrol

Answer 1

Traffic duties

Question 2

What would happen if the police attempted to enforce all the laws?

A) The mass of cases would obscure the most serious offenders.
B) The workload would swamp the criminal justice system.
C) All of the above
D) None of the above

Answer 2

All of the above

Question 3

This concept describes the decisions that police officers make about which laws to enforce, how much to enforce them, when to let some offenses slide, and when to devote attention to truly significant offenses.

A) Discretion
B) Policing style
C) Authority
D) Visibility

Answer 3

Discretion

Question 4

This is suspicion based on facts or circumstances that justifies stopping and sometimes searching an individual thought to be involved in illegal activity.

A) Reasonable suspicion
B) Reasonable stop standard
C) Probable cause
D) All of the above

Question 5

There is an unstated understanding between the police and the public that a pattern of non-enforcement is permissible.