Deck 13: Technology Is Moving Faster and Faster As Is Its Influence on Police Operations

Question 1

Predicting the future of technology in law enforcement is a challenge due to the rapid rate of change in technology (some would call it a tsunami of change) and the simultaneous invention of new operating modes for policing. Making any useful predictions for more than about into the future becomes more speculative than scientific, and anything much further out becomes a guess.

A) 5 years
B) 1 year
C) 3 years
D) 4 years

Answer 1

C

Question 2

There are two driving forces that influence change in policing. The two categories of drivers leading to the adoption of new technology are:

A) Political motivations and budgets that police must adapt
B) Changes in policing models and the environmental factors that police must deal with as the nature of crime and society changes
C) Legal changes that impact the various methods of policing used by most agencies
D) None of the above

Answer 2

B

Question 3

The policing where resources are assigned to patrol or monitor the locations where the highest number of serious crimes occur is known as:

A) Hot Dot policing
B) Hot Spot Policing
C) Hot trends Policing
D) None of the above

Answer 3

B

Question 4

Braga and Weisburd are best known for

A) Community Oriented Policing
B) Problem Oriented Policing
C) Broken Windows Theory
D) Location based Policing

Question 5

According to the Police Executive Research Forum, the financial crisis that the nation has experienced since 2007 has resulted in the reduction of about of the nation's police officers.

A) 10%
B) 15%
C) 20%
D) 25%

Question 6

Geographic information systems (GIS), are available today in the public cloud and can be used in support of mission critical functions such as:

A) Intelligence systems
B) Traffic Systems
C) CAD and RMS systems
D) Jail Management and Booking Systems

Question 7

Data recovery and redundancy is critical to police agencies to achieve redundancy agencies:

A) Cannot use cloud computing
B) Multiple clouds can be used for redundancy purposes
C) Redundancy can only be achieved through RAID technology
D) None of the above

Question 8

In a study by the IJIS Institute in 2012, of the police executives responding express concerns about the risks of cloud computing and articulated the specifics that made them apprehensive.

A) 20%
B) 50%
C) 80%
D) None of the above

Question 9

What has held back the proliferation of video in law enforcement work, at least for those applications that might be termed mobile, is the lack of available:

A) Bandwidth
B) Funding
C) Smaller video cameras
D) Definition quality

Question 10

In the PERF study of technology in policing conducted in 2012, % of police agencies claimed that they were already streaming video from fixed surveillance cameras to police vehicles, and _% of the responding agencies planned to do so within the next 5 years.

A) 12% and 98%
B) 23% and 81%
C) 20% and 80%
D) 25% and 75%

Question 11

Social media has become extremely popular with the criminal element of our society. This element has used social media to:

A) Warn member of drug cartels about the location of police roadblocks
B) Flash mobs in Michigan use Facebook and Twitter to gather the mob quickly to attack and devastate a fast food establishment.
C) Terrorists in Mumbai made heavy use of social media in coordinating the attacks there
D) All of the above

Question 12

Social media presents challenges to law enforcement such as:

A) Knowing which media they should belong too
B) Legal issues regarding the right of police to use information gleaned from a person's Facebook or other personal postings
C) Ensuring officers are not on one of the social media networks for security reasons
D) None of the above

Question 13

A new class of software called "crowd sourcing", is designed to:

A) Ensure quality crowd control
B) Encourage collaboration across employees and customers/the public
C) Assists in the identification of meeting participants
D) None of the above

Question 14

Ray Kurzweil suggests that we may see:

A) Computers systems that exceed human brain capacity
B) Driverless cars in public use before the end of this decade
C) Both A and B
D) Neither A nor B

Question 15

There exists a very distinct linkage between innovations in technology and innovations in police operations.

Question 16

Spatial Analysis has not taken hold in the criminal justice environment but may do so in the future.

Question 17

At a recent conference, several police chiefs reported on the fact that they had abolished the beat concept in favor of allocating resources to probable locations as a function of the time of day.

Question 18

Police departments and law enforcement in general has been slow to migrate to the use of cloud computing for things other than email and other administrative functions.

Question 19

If the commercial model holds true in the law enforcement world, then it is reasonable to expect that the largest agencies might be attracted to the construction of their own private cloud, while smaller agencies are more likely to eventually embrace the public cloud model unless coalitions of agencies combine to create their own private or community clouds.

Question 20

There is often an assumption that cloud computing is something for large agencies to pursue.

Question 21

A live video feed requires many times more bandwidth than the exchange of data.

Question 22

Atlanta, Georgia police are hoping to monitor 762 cameras integrating police and private security camera locations.

Question 23

While social media has exploded throughout society, police are yet to make use of this technology.

Question 24

In the wake of disappearing police departments and staff reductions, police agencies throughout the country are much more receptive to sharing resources, finding ways to economize, and collaborate in a way that everyone is "better off for it."