Deck 15: Tracking and Surveillance

Question 1

A bait car is used by police officer's conducting surveillance operations to follow an offender.

Answer 1

False

Question 2

A body wire is an audio device that can be secreted on a person.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

Cable television networks that broadcast commercial entertainment are an example of Closed Circuit Television (CCTV).

Answer 3

False

Question 4

Entrapment is a criminal defense.

Question 5

An undercover buy operation is an example of interactive surveillance.

Question 6

Light amplification technology takes advantage of the fact heat can be seen at as infrared light.

Question 7

Passive surveillance is essentially just watching.

Question 8

Covert surveillance is always passive surveillance.

Question 9

Anything a person does in public is open to surveillance without a court order or warrant.

Question 10

As the size of video cameras has decreased their capabilities have increased.

Question 11

A bait car is a vehicle that has a remotely activated ________ that allows the offender to start the vehicle and move it a few feet before the police automatically turn the vehicle engine off.

A) execute switch
B) stop switch
C) off switch
D) kill switch

Question 12

Some agencies have installed ________ as a less expensive way of realizing the crime prevention value of Closed Circuit Television (CCTV).

A) dummy cameras
B) larger cameras
C) dynamic cameras
D) commercial grade cameras

Question 13

When police officers are involved in undercover operations they are with offenders and often apart from their fellow police officers. A ________ allows the officer to call for help or use a code word that means he or she needs help.

A) digital wire
B) thermal wire
C) body wire
D) infrared wire

Question 14

Light amplification technology takes the small amount of light from the surrounding area and converts the ________ that make up the light energy into electrons.

A) thermal signature
B) light waves
C) thermal waves
D) protons

Question 15

The use of digital photographic traffic enforcement devices often raises questions about ________ and storage.

A) fairness
B) expense
C) reliability
D) tampering

Question 16

Being ________ refers to the engineering process of considering not only potential environmental conditions as they affect the equipment, but other physical aspects of the conditions of use.

A) ruggedized
B) expensive
C) recyclable
D) commercial

Question 17

A visual record of what happened can be important, but it has limitations. Much of the real-time video graphic evidence takes place outside the ________.

A) camera frame
B) police building
C) legal constraints
D) police vehicle

Question 18

Radar readings, vehicle speed, brake usage and air bag deployment can be converted to ________ and correlated and recorded along with visual images from an in-car camera.

A) real-time information
B) useful information
C) digital information
D) none of the above

Question 19

Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) is a ________ that are broadcast on a ________ network.

A) noncommercial; public
B) noncommercial; private
C) commercial; public
D) commercial; private

Question 20

The line of reasoning that supports the use of ________ as a crime prevention tool can be traced back to ________.

A) Closed Circuit Television (CCTV); Normative Sponsorship Theory
B) Body Wires; Normative Sponsorship Theory
C) Body Wires; Rational Choice Theory
D) Closed Circuit Television (CCTV); Rational Choice Theory

Question 21

Which of the following is not among the top three uses of Closed Circuit Television (CCTV)?

A) Investigations
B) Evidence documentation
C) Liability reduction
D) Crime reduction

Question 22

Light amplification technology is also known as:

A) infrared imagining
B) thermogram intensification
C) light intensification
D) thermal imagining

Question 23

Which of the following is NOT a form of passive surveillance?

A) An undercover officer using a body wire
B) Watching a location using a thermal imaging device
C) Closed Circuit Television (CCTV)
D) Electronically tracking a vehicle

Question 24

The basis for all remote vehicle tracking is

A) Closed Circuit Television (CCTV)
B) Global Positioning Satellite (GPS) Technology
C) Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Technology
D) Automatic Vehicle Locator (AVL) Technology

Question 25

Which of the following is a specially designed software/hardware combination used by law enforcement officials to track and locate cellular telephones?

A) Echelon
B) Magic Lantern
C) Triggerfish
D) Carnivore

Question 26

Which of the following is a type of photography used by Photo Red Light Systems?

A) Digital
B) Video
C) 35mm
D) all of the above

Question 27

The act of a law enforcement official enticing or convincing someone to commit a crime when he or she has expressed a desire not to do so best describes:

A) Ambushing
B) Entrapment
C) Duping
D) Snaring

Question 28

Which of the following is true about thermal imaging technology?

A) Most consumer products use this technology.
B) It used the portion of the light spectrum that is emitted as heat instead of light.
C) The hotter an object is, the dimmer the image.
D) all of the above

Question 29

Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) has become so pervasive that police officers should be continuously cognizant of sources of alternative:

A) exculpatory evidence
B) digital evidence
C) audio evidence
D) video evidence

Question 30

Surveillance technology that consists of a transmitter, low-power source and antenna best describes:

A) Closed Circuit Television (CCTV)
B) Light Amplification Imaging
C) Thermal Imagining
D) Body Wire