Deck 3: Traditional Policing

Question 1

___________is arguably the most significant priority to most American police agencies.

A) Media
B) Service
C) Communication
D) Patrol

Answer 1

Patrol

Question 2

Even if we could suddenly double the size of our nation's police force, the number of police officers per citizens would remain quite small.

A) 500
B) 1,000
C) 5,000
D) 10,000

Answer 2

10,000

Question 3

Researchers identified which one of the following advantages of college education for police officers?

A) College starts the students learning about a chain of command.
B) College ingrains responsibility and appreciation for people's rights.
C) College ensures students will learn to survive on less money.
D) College will increase their authoritative nature so they will be ready for police work.

Answer 3

College ingrains responsibility and appreciation for people's rights.

Question 4

Private police stress ___________means over detection and apprehension to control crime and disorder.

A) preventive
B) retribution
C) proactive
D) reactive

Question 5

Some people are convinced that the ___________ sector can do better than the public sector when it comes to the provision of security and criminal justice services.

A) dice
B) private
C) multiple
D) middle

Question 6

Which is true according to a RAND study?

A) Investigators spend little time reviewing reports
B) The single most important determinant of whether or not a case will be solved is the response time of the investigator.
C) An investigator spends more time identifying the perpetrator than he does in post- clearance processing.
D) Latent fingerprints rarely provide the only basis for identifying a suspect.

Question 7

The simple fact that there are far more people than patrol officers makes it unlikely that ___________reduces crime.

A) revolving shifts
B) random patrol
C) directed patrol
D) differential response

Question 8

The 311 number was developed as an option to handling nonemergency calls. 21)

Question 9

Spending more money to add police officers to our nation's police forces appears to have a noticeable effect on crime rates.

Question 10

President Bush's Violent Crime Control Act of 1994 resulted in the hiring of some 100,000 police officers in the latter part of the 1990s.

Question 11

Very few domestic violence incidents take place in view of the police?

Question 12

The Kansas City Preventive Patrol Experiment found that the level of patrol had no effect on crimes that are suppressible by patrol.

Question 13

A significant critique of the Kansas City Experiment was that patrol cars entered reactive beats to respond to calls, which means that they basically created a police presence.

Question 14

In the policing crime context, the problem that policing may affect crime and that crime may also affect the number of police is called simultaneity bias.

Question 15

President Clinton's Violent Crime Control Act resulted in the hiring of ___________police officers.

Question 16

A large portion of 911 calls to police are for non-___________.

Question 17

___________policing tends to favor random and preventive patrol.

Question 18

Private police are nongovernmental, so they are not bound by the same legal requirements as ___________police.

Question 19

How could citizens be utilized more effectively in crime control?

Question 20

How could private security officers be utilized better for crime control?