Deck 9: Patrol Operations

Question 1

Which of the following is not one of the three traditional ways we do police work in the United States?

A) retroactive investigation of past crimes by detectives
B) random routine patrol
C) proactive investigations
D) rapid response to calls by citizens to 911

Answer 1

C

Question 2

One of the newest forms of aggressive driving known to post a public safety threat is motorcycle swarms.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

It is impossible to conduct a controlled experiment to study the effectiveness of certain types of police patrol.

Answer 3

False

Question 4

The premise of smart policing is that agencies themselves are in the best position to know their specific crime problems.

Question 5

Police officers are never allowed to use potentially deadly force (e.g.,ramming a vehicle)to end a high-speed chase of a suspect,even if the suspect's actions risk the safety of other drivers and pedestrians.

Question 6

The Kansas City study demonstrated that adding or taking away police patrols from an area made no difference within the community.

Question 7

Typically,the larger urban departments such as New York; Chicago,Washington; D.C.; and Los Angeles have deployed two-officer cars,and most suburban and rural departments prefer one-officer cars.

Question 8

According to research,red-light cameras that target traffic violators seem to reduce the occurrence of traffic violations at that location.

Question 9

Rapid response to 911 calls works better in discovery crimes than in involvement crimes.

Question 10

According to Jonathan Adkins,the next big issue in highway safety is speed enforcement.

Question 11

Predictive policing involves linking data and clues to potential suspects or victims by identify at-risk groups,individuals,and locations.

Question 12

Research during the past 20 years has pointed out that we can depend on television portrayals for realistic examples of police work.

Question 13

The Newark foot patrol study concluded that foot patrols do not make citizens feel safer.

Question 14

A specific type of saturation patrol is a crackdown,which generally targets a specific violation of the law,such as a traffic violation.

Question 15

The Kansas City study indicated that our traditional three cornerstones of policing might not be the most effective way to do police work.

Question 16

Distracted drivers ​are able to multi-task effectively while driving.

Question 17

Decoy operations involve using occupied vehicles in strategic locations to give the perception of omnipresence.

Question 18

Police departments are restricting the use of pursuits and using alternative methods to catch the individuals who attempt to elude police officers.

Question 19

Data on what occurs when an officer encounters a citizen- when the officer is either on an assignment from the dispatcher or on self-initiated activities-can best be retrieved from researcher observations.

Question 20

At the conclusion of the Kansas City study,everyone in the community knew that an experiment regarding policing had been conducted in his or her community.

Question 21

Which of the following is a functional category of routine patrol as defined by Gay,Schell,and Schack?

A) calls for service
B) preventative patrol
C) administrative tasks
D) all of these choices

Question 22

In the proactive group in the Kansas City study,the police presence was:

A) doubled or tripled
B) eliminated
C) reduced
D) increased 10 times

Question 23

Agencies that cover a large geographical area,such as sheriff's departments and state patrols,utilize:

A) a take-home car program
B) person-owned vehicles (POVs)
C) fleet vehicles
D) preowned vehicles

Question 24

Which of the following was not one of the beats established in the Kansas City study?

A) reactive
B) proactive
C) control group
D) variable testing group

Question 25

The police department's generalist is the:

A) detective
B) patrol officer
C) sergeant
D) chief

Question 26

A ____________________ system allows nonemergency calls to be redirected or referred to other agencies.

A) 311
B) 411
C) 511
D) 611

Question 27

Random patrol is commonly believed by police administration to create a sense of:

A) semipresence.
B) omnipresence.
C) nonpresence.
D) none of these choices.

Question 28

According to the California Highway Patrol study,the most prevalent reason drivers fail to stop during a high-speed pursuit is:

A) the driver is in a stolen vehicle
B) the driver wants to avoid a DWI or drug arrest
C) the driver wants to avoid a traffic ticket
D) the driver is afraid of or dislikes the police or enjoys the excitement of a chase

Question 29

Which of the following is not one of the goals of patrol as defined by Gay,Schell,and Schack?

A) increased traffic citations
B) providing sense of community security
C) crime prevention and deterrence
D) recovery of stolen property

Question 30

In 2003,nearly all police departments had pursuit policies,and ____________________ percent of local police agencies had restrictive pursuit policies.

A) 12
B) 16
C) 37
D) 61

Question 31

Academic studies regarding response time indicate that:

A) citizens generally cannot or do not report crimes immediately
B) the perpetrator will be caught if the police arrive within two minutes of the call
C) the perpetrator will be caught if the police arrive within five minutes of the call
D) rapid response is most important in discovery crimes

Question 32

Most departments utilize:

A) a take-home car program
B) person-owned vehicles (POVs)
C) fleet vehicles
D) preowned vehicles

Question 33

The Kansas City study occurred in the:

A) 1960s.
B) 1970s.
C) 1980s.
D) 1950s.

Question 34

One of the authors of the classic text Police Administration was:

A) George Herman Ruth
B) Patrick V.Murphy
C) O.W.Wilson
D) James Q.Wilson

Question 35

____________________ is/are the most expensive part of a police department's budget.

A) Fuel costs
B) Equipment
C) Personnel
D) Liability insurance

Question 36

In effect,the Kansas City study failed to demonstrate that adding or taking away police patrols from an area made any difference within the:

A) community.
B) control group.
C) police department.
D) experimental group.

Question 37

Which of the following does not describe the typical police pursuit,as studied by the California Highway Patrol?

A) It occurs during the day.
B) It starts as a traffic violation.
C) It ends without an accident 70 percent of the time.
D) It covers only a mile or so.

Question 38

Who coined the term omnipresence?

A) James J.Fyfe
B) O.W.Wilson
C) Patrick V.Murphy
D) James Q.Murphy

Question 39

The most important and visible part of police work to the public is/are ____________________.

A) detective operations
B) public appearances by the police chief
C) patrol
D) crime prevention

Question 40

Which of the following is not one of the basic components of response time?

A) time between the crime and the call to the police
B) time required for the police to process the call
C) travel time from receipt of the call to arrival at the scene
D) time it takes for the perpetrator to flee the scene

Question 41

Which of the following are the two major methods of patrol deployment?

A) motorized patrol and foot patrol
B) crime patrol and bicycle patrol
C) bicycle patrol and motorized patrol
D) bicycle patrol and foot patrol

Question 42

The classic study of random routine patrol was the __________ study.

Question 43

__________ is a method of deploying police officers that gives them responsibility for all policing activity by requiring them to walk around a defined geographic area.

Question 44

The calls radioed to patrol officers,or assignments given to police patrol units by 911 dispatchers,reveal the types of problems for which people call the police and the types of problems:

A) the police feel deserve a response by patrol units
B) that are important to administration
C) encountered by citizens daily
D) that the local government wants handled

Question 45

During what decade did the foot patrol return to policing?

A) 1960s
B) 1970s
C) 1980s
D) 1990s

Question 46

The states of New York and Connecticut modeled a distracted driver campaign after the "Click It or Ticket" seat belt campaign.The slogan for the distracted driver campaign was:

A) "Text Today-Jail Tomorrow"
B) "TWD = Ticket"
C) "Phone in one hand.Ticket in the other."
D) "Drive-Pull over-Text"

Question 47

Departments that ____________________ may benefit most from differential response.

A) suffer from financial difficulties that make it hard to hire more officers
B) have more than 100 officers
C) have fewer than 50 officers
D) are located in rural areas with few officers to cover a large amount of territory

Question 48

What agency is usually held up as a model for dealing with the mentally ill,due to its combined CIT and co-responder program?

A) ​Seattle Police Department
B) ​San Francisco Police Department
C) ​Houston Police Department
D) ​Charleston Police Department

Question 49

Who is the author of the classic Varieties of Police Behavior: The Management of Law and Order in Eight Communities?

A) James Q.Wilson
B) June Nelson
C) Anthony Bouza
D) Ernest Verdeschi

Question 50

__________ is the backbone of policing.

Question 51

The aggressive saturation patrol operation in Washington,D.C.,run by Chief Cathy Lanier is called:

A) Operation ICE
B) Operation Delta
C) Operation Alpha
D) All Hands on Deck

Question 52

When researchers examined the reinstitution of foot patrol in Newark and Flint,they arrived at the conclusion that when foot patrol is added in neighborhoods:

A) levels of fear decrease significantly
B) levels of fear increase significantly
C) levels of fear remain the same
D) the police who patrol on foot have less job satisfaction,more fear,and lower morale than do officers who patrol in automobiles

Question 53

A thorough study conducted in Newark regarding foot patrols concluded that adding foot patrol:

A) increased crime
B) decreased crime
C) had no effect on crime
D) decreased crime when foot patrol was added only in the business district

Question 54

The two basic kinds of tactical operations are __________patrol tactics and __________patrol.

Question 55

A successful example of a directed patrol program that achieved positive results was the ____________________ gun experiment.

A) Kansas City
B) Los Angeles
C) Houston
D) Detroit

Question 56

We will always need some type of rapid police response to citizens' calls to 911,even though we have to realize that a __________ response is highly unrealistic.

Question 57

Officers who patrol specific locations at specific times to address a specific crime problem are called ____________________ patrol.

A) split-force
B) task force
C) routine
D) directed

Question 58

During what decade was the efficiency of foot patrols challenged?

A) 1960s
B) 1970s
C) 1980s
D) 1990s

Question 59

____________________ patrol is a solution to the problem of directed patrol units often getting interrupted by calls for service,which can affect the performance of their assignments.

A) Routine
B) Task force
C) Split-force
D) Foot

Question 60

In differential response to calls for service,responses to citizens' calls to 911 are matched to the type and ____________________ of the calls.

A) severity
B) location
C) numerical order
D) time of day

Question 61

Prior to the 1970s,much of what we knew about police patrol was written by __________.

Question 62

Smart911 allows individuals to voluntarily _____________ their phone numbers and enter associated personal,medical,and disability information into a secure website.

Question 63

Using available scientific research to implement crime-fighting strategies and department policies is called __________ policing.

Question 64

The__________ telephone system allows police departments to call citizens in the entire jurisdiction or in a particular neighborhood to disseminate emergency information to residents.

Question 65

The impression of always being there is called __________.

Question 66

Police special weapons and tactical teams are popularly known as __________.

Question 67

A method in which the patrol force is split and half respond to calls for service and the other half performs directed patrol activities is called __________ patrol.

Question 68

_______________ is a new and dangerous prank that has become more prevalent in recent years.