Deck 7: Field Operations: Foundations

Question 1

Crime prevention and deterrence, apprehension of offenders, creation of a sense of community security and satisfaction, provision of non-crime related services, and traffic control are the __________.

A) methods of administration
B) goals of administration
C) 40% goals of patrol
D) 65% methods of enforcement

Answer 1

C

Question 2

_____ involve taking reports and providing information and assistance to the public.

A) Order maintenance
B) Law enforcement
C) Social services
D) All of the above

Answer 2

C

Question 3

In the San Diego study of one- or two-officer cars, what did the research conclude?

A) One-person cars produced more arrests.
B) One-person cars received more citizen complaints.
C) One-person cars were more expensive.
D) All of the above.

Answer 3

A

Question 4

Which of the following is true of the foot-patrol beat?

A) It should be limited to the business areas of the city.
B) It should be small enough that it can be covered at least once or twice per shift.
C) It should be designed to provide traffic control and crowd control.
D) All of the above.

Question 5

What should the police incorporate in their battle against terrorist acts?

A) Target-oriented activities
B) Event analysis
C) Intensify traffic enforcement
D) All of the above

Question 6

What are the two most important variables for determining resource allocation?

A) Number of officers and money
B) Population and number of officers
C) Location and time
D) Money and population

Question 7

Which of the following is true of directed patrol?

A) It is more proactive
B) It is based on crime and problem analysis
C) It uses uncommitted time for a specified activity
D) All of the above

Question 8

Which of the following is a FALSE statement about foot patrol?

A) It has an initial deterrence benefit, but effects decay rapidly
B) It had an impact on lower-level disorder or property crimes
C) It had no impact on violent crimes
D) It has had some crime prevention benefit when implementing the strategy within smaller geographic areas

Question 9

Intensive, short-term increases in officer presence and arrests for specific types of offenses or for all offenses in specific areas defines what term?

A) Directed patrol
B) Risk management
C) Hot spots
D) None of the above

Question 10

Which of the following has been referred to as the "backbone of policing"?

A) Investigation
B) Community policing
C) Corruption
D) Patrol

Question 11

Which of the following is NOT one of the goals of patrol?

A) Crime prevention and deterrence
B) Apprehension of offenders
C) Investigation
D) Traffic control

Question 12

In addition to the development of the UCR, ___ changed the nature of the patrol officer.

A) the computer
B) use of the patrol car
C) the firearm
D) statistical analysis

Question 13

Police in Baltimore experimented with the ___ telephone number and saw a decrease in unnecessary calls to the police.

A) 411
B) 911
C) 311
D) 211

Question 14

Which of the following is a way to deal with the different status of detectives and patrol officers?

A) Treat detectives with more respect that patrol officers
B) Have detectives specialize in certain types of cases,
C) Use a community-policing model
D) Pay detectives twice what patrol officers make
E) e.g., robbery

Question 15

An officer who performs a variety of different activities is __________.

A) a specialist
B) a strategist
C) a generalist
D) a publicist

Question 16

Which of the following has traditionally been regarded as the most important patrol function?

A) Community involvement
B) Crime suppression
C) Terrorism prevention
D) Event analysis

Question 17

According to a Bureau of Justice Statistics national survey, which of the following statements is true regarding police pursuits?

A) All local police departments have a written police on pursuit-driving.
B) More departments have a restrictive policy compared to any other type of policy.
C) Over 15% of the departments discouraged all vehicle pursuits.
D) All of the above statements are true.

Question 18

What are the two primary functions of police field operations?

A) Traffic and undercover
B) Patrol and service
C) Law enforcement and traffic
D) Patrol and investigation

Question 19

Which database holds hundreds of thousands of scanned fingerprints?

A) AFIS
B) CODIS
C) LEIN
D) All of the above

Question 20

What is the most frequently used method for resource determination?

A) Intuitive approach
B) Comparative approach
C) Proactive approach
D) Reactive approach

Question 21

To overcome problems in the equal allocation of resources, many smaller departments have adopted alternate scheduling.

Question 22

Order maintenance may or may not involve a violation of the law.

Question 23

Target oriented policing is the concept used by officers to assess likely targets in their districts.

Question 24

All patrol officers are generalists and specialists.

Question 25

The intuitive approach for resource allocation involves comparing one or more cities, using a ratio of police officers per 10,000 population unit.

Question 26

As a general rule, the greater the number of problems or calls for service, the smaller the size of the beat and thus the more concentrated the resources.

Question 27

Traffic control accounts for the most contacts with the public.

Question 28

Forensic evidence has inherent limitations as a method of solving crime.

Question 29

Police officers are specialists who respond to crimes serious enough to warrant an investigation.

Question 30

A case is considered solved once the detective provides evidence to support a conviction in court.

Question 31

One-person assignment generally appears to be the most appropriate for the vast majority of investigative work.

Question 32

Traffic control may be fall under law enforcement, order maintenance, or social services.

Question 33

Crime suppression had traditionally been regarded as the most important patrol function.

Question 34

The size of a foot-patrol beat should be small enough that it can be covered at least three or four times per shift.

Question 35

Even while massive increases in arrests may reduce violence in the short run, they may also increase crime in the long run.

Question 36

Detectives conduct the initial or preliminary investigation into a crime.

Question 37

Crime Gun Intelligence Centers are free-standing and do not collaborate with any other agencies.

Question 38

CODIS is a data bank that contains millions of fingerprints.

Question 39

Event analysis suggests that the police should be aware of important celebrations, ideologies, and anniversaries of known activists, terrorists, or groups and attempt to determine whether these events may be connected to a possible terrorist act.

Question 40

Residual deterrence refers to when crime reduction stops immediately after a crackdown has ceased.

Question 41

What are law enforcement and order maintenance? How are they different?

Question 42

Discuss several of the studies mentioned in the text concerning guns and gang violence. How did these projects go about reducing gun-related violence? Were they successful in achieving this goal?

Question 43

Explain the how the Kansas City Preventive Patrol Experiment worked and discuss the findings of the study.

Question 44

Explain how does the concept of directed patrol and hot spots and hot times works.

Question 45

Matching
-Law enforcement

A) May or may not involve a violation of the law, during which officers tend to use alternatives other than arrests
B) Police maintain an awareness of dates, celebrations, etc. that may lead to law enforcement situations
C) Crimes that are racially of sexually motivated
D) Concept used by officers to access likely targets in their district
E) When police follow a suspect who is trying to escape from them
F) Involves activities in which police make arrests, issue citations
G) Is more proactive, uses uncommitted time for a specified activity, and is based on crime and problem analysis
H) Involve taking reports and providing information and assistance to the public
I) Emphasizes police-initiated activities by officers and departments
J) Traditionally regarded as the most important patrol function

Question 46

Matching
-Event analysis

A) May or may not involve a violation of the law, during which officers tend to use alternatives other than arrests
B) Police maintain an awareness of dates, celebrations, etc. that may lead to law enforcement situations
C) Crimes that are racially of sexually motivated
D) Concept used by officers to access likely targets in their district
E) When police follow a suspect who is trying to escape from them
F) Involves activities in which police make arrests, issue citations
G) Is more proactive, uses uncommitted time for a specified activity, and is based on crime and problem analysis
H) Involve taking reports and providing information and assistance to the public
I) Emphasizes police-initiated activities by officers and departments
J) Traditionally regarded as the most important patrol function

Question 47

Matching
-Directed patrol

A) May or may not involve a violation of the law, during which officers tend to use alternatives other than arrests
B) Police maintain an awareness of dates, celebrations, etc. that may lead to law enforcement situations
C) Crimes that are racially of sexually motivated
D) Concept used by officers to access likely targets in their district
E) When police follow a suspect who is trying to escape from them
F) Involves activities in which police make arrests, issue citations
G) Is more proactive, uses uncommitted time for a specified activity, and is based on crime and problem analysis
H) Involve taking reports and providing information and assistance to the public
I) Emphasizes police-initiated activities by officers and departments
J) Traditionally regarded as the most important patrol function

Question 48

Matching
-Crime suppression

A) May or may not involve a violation of the law, during which officers tend to use alternatives other than arrests
B) Police maintain an awareness of dates, celebrations, etc. that may lead to law enforcement situations
C) Crimes that are racially of sexually motivated
D) Concept used by officers to access likely targets in their district
E) When police follow a suspect who is trying to escape from them
F) Involves activities in which police make arrests, issue citations
G) Is more proactive, uses uncommitted time for a specified activity, and is based on crime and problem analysis
H) Involve taking reports and providing information and assistance to the public
I) Emphasizes police-initiated activities by officers and departments
J) Traditionally regarded as the most important patrol function

Question 49

Matching
-Police pursuits

A) May or may not involve a violation of the law, during which officers tend to use alternatives other than arrests
B) Police maintain an awareness of dates, celebrations, etc. that may lead to law enforcement situations
C) Crimes that are racially of sexually motivated
D) Concept used by officers to access likely targets in their district
E) When police follow a suspect who is trying to escape from them
F) Involves activities in which police make arrests, issue citations
G) Is more proactive, uses uncommitted time for a specified activity, and is based on crime and problem analysis
H) Involve taking reports and providing information and assistance to the public
I) Emphasizes police-initiated activities by officers and departments
J) Traditionally regarded as the most important patrol function

Question 50

Matching
-Social services

A) May or may not involve a violation of the law, during which officers tend to use alternatives other than arrests
B) Police maintain an awareness of dates, celebrations, etc. that may lead to law enforcement situations
C) Crimes that are racially of sexually motivated
D) Concept used by officers to access likely targets in their district
E) When police follow a suspect who is trying to escape from them
F) Involves activities in which police make arrests, issue citations
G) Is more proactive, uses uncommitted time for a specified activity, and is based on crime and problem analysis
H) Involve taking reports and providing information and assistance to the public
I) Emphasizes police-initiated activities by officers and departments
J) Traditionally regarded as the most important patrol function

Question 51

Matching
-Order maintenance

A) May or may not involve a violation of the law, during which officers tend to use alternatives other than arrests
B) Police maintain an awareness of dates, celebrations, etc. that may lead to law enforcement situations
C) Crimes that are racially of sexually motivated
D) Concept used by officers to access likely targets in their district
E) When police follow a suspect who is trying to escape from them
F) Involves activities in which police make arrests, issue citations
G) Is more proactive, uses uncommitted time for a specified activity, and is based on crime and problem analysis
H) Involve taking reports and providing information and assistance to the public
I) Emphasizes police-initiated activities by officers and departments
J) Traditionally regarded as the most important patrol function

Question 52

Matching
-Bias crime

A) May or may not involve a violation of the law, during which officers tend to use alternatives other than arrests
B) Police maintain an awareness of dates, celebrations, etc. that may lead to law enforcement situations
C) Crimes that are racially of sexually motivated
D) Concept used by officers to access likely targets in their district
E) When police follow a suspect who is trying to escape from them
F) Involves activities in which police make arrests, issue citations
G) Is more proactive, uses uncommitted time for a specified activity, and is based on crime and problem analysis
H) Involve taking reports and providing information and assistance to the public
I) Emphasizes police-initiated activities by officers and departments
J) Traditionally regarded as the most important patrol function

Question 53

Matching
-Proactive

A) May or may not involve a violation of the law, during which officers tend to use alternatives other than arrests
B) Police maintain an awareness of dates, celebrations, etc. that may lead to law enforcement situations
C) Crimes that are racially of sexually motivated
D) Concept used by officers to access likely targets in their district
E) When police follow a suspect who is trying to escape from them
F) Involves activities in which police make arrests, issue citations
G) Is more proactive, uses uncommitted time for a specified activity, and is based on crime and problem analysis
H) Involve taking reports and providing information and assistance to the public
I) Emphasizes police-initiated activities by officers and departments
J) Traditionally regarded as the most important patrol function

Question 54

Matching
-Target oriented

A) May or may not involve a violation of the law, during which officers tend to use alternatives other than arrests
B) Police maintain an awareness of dates, celebrations, etc. that may lead to law enforcement situations
C) Crimes that are racially of sexually motivated
D) Concept used by officers to access likely targets in their district
E) When police follow a suspect who is trying to escape from them
F) Involves activities in which police make arrests, issue citations
G) Is more proactive, uses uncommitted time for a specified activity, and is based on crime and problem analysis
H) Involve taking reports and providing information and assistance to the public
I) Emphasizes police-initiated activities by officers and departments
J) Traditionally regarded as the most important patrol function