Deck 1: Police History

Question 1

The members of the military appointed by Roman Emperor Augustus to protect the palace and the emperor were called the:

A) Royal Guard.
B) Praetorian Guard.
C) Roman Guard.
D) Praefectus Urbi.

Answer 1

B

Question 2

Early American police were responsible for cleaning streets,caring for the homeless,and operating emergency ambulance services,in addition to their law enforcement duties.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

The concept of the sheriff can be traced back to the Praetorian Guard.

Answer 3

False

Question 4

Who formed the Bow Street Runners?

A) Henry Fielding
B) Sir Robert Peel
C) Patrick Colquhoun
D) Colonel Charles Rowan

Question 5

The system of mutual pledge was employed as a strategy for maintaining stability in England and providing a method for people living in villages to protect one another.

Question 6

The man who is credited with establishing London's first large-scale,civil police department in 1829 is Sir Robert Peel.

Question 7

In the first half of the first decade of the 2000s,crime reductions continued to occur nationwide as the police adopted or continued aggressive crime-fighting techniques.

Question 8

London's first large-scale,civil police department consisted of more than 5,000 men.

Question 9

Women have always been considered as capable of performing the same type of patrol duties as men.

Question 10

The first state police agency was the Texas Rangers.

Question 11

Who is generally credited with establishing the first police department in London,England?

A) Henry Fielding
B) Sir Robert Peel
C) Patrick Colquhoun
D) Sir Charles Rowan

Question 12

The word police comes from the Latin word politia,which means "civil administration."

Question 13

Escobedo v.Illinois was the U.S.Supreme Court case that applied the exclusionary rule to all states in the United States.

Question 14

John Edgar Hoover is known as the father of American policing.

Question 15

Sir Charles Rowan founded the Bow Street Runners.

Question 16

The police represent the__________power of government and not the military power of government.

A) civil
B) administrative
C) political
D) collective

Question 17

The person known as the father of American policing is:

A) O.W.Wilson.
B) Robert Peel.
C) August Vollmer.
D) John S.Dempsey.

Question 18

The first organized American police department (1838)in the North was created in what city?

A) Chicago
B) New York City
C) Philadelphia
D) Boston

Question 19

In early U.S.colonial society,citizens were responsible for protecting themselves and maintaining an orderly society.

Question 20

The Knapp Commission was appointed by mayor of New York to investigate corruption in the NYPD ​as a result of articles published in the New York Times.

Question 21

By the 1880s,what private national detective agency had offices in nearly two dozen cities?

A) Brinks National Security
B) Pinkerton's National Detective Agency
C) Wells Fargo Detection Services
D) Rocky Mountain Detective Association

Question 22

Which U.S.Supreme Court case was responsible for applying the exclusionary rule to all state courts in America?

A) Mapp v.Ohio
B) Miranda v.Arizona
C) Escobedo v.Illinois
D) Brown v.Mississippi

Question 23

The Statute of Winchester established the office of ___________,who was responsible for organizing and supervising the watch.

A) county sheriff
B) parish constable
C) city marshal
D) police chief

Question 24

Which U.S.Supreme Court case defined the constitutional right to counsel at police interrogation?

A) Mapp v.Ohio
B) Miranda v.Arizona
C) Escobedo v.Illinois
D) Brown v.Mississippi

Question 25

___________ were assistants to the constables and walked the streets removing vagrants.

A) Beadles
B) Deputies
C) Marshals
D) Roamers

Question 26

The director of the FBI from 1924 to his death in 1972 was:

A) Tom Ridge.
B) J.Edgar Hoover.
C) Robert Gray.
D) O.W.Wilson.

Question 27

The Latin term__________means "the power of the county."

A) terra nullius
B) in flagrante delicto
C) corpus delecti
D) posse comitatus

Question 28

What legislation became law in 1920 and established National Prohibition?

A) Olmstead Act
B) Homestead Act
C) Volstead Act
D) Federal Judiciary Act of 1789

Question 29

Which Massachusetts governor fired all the striking police officers during the Boston police strike and later became president of the United States?

A) Woodrow Wilson
B) Calvin Coolidge
C) Theodore Roosevelt
D) Ronald Reagan

Question 30

What U.S.Supreme Court decision held that a black slave could not sue in court for his freedom because he was a piece of property,not a citizen?

A) Dred Scott v.Sandford
B) Mapp v.Ohio
C) Brown v.Board of Education of Topeka
D) Mabury v.Madison

Question 31

The only law enforcement officers available on the American frontier were the__________and the __________.

A) county sheriff,town marshal
B) county marshal,town sheriff
C) chief of police,county sheriff
D) military provost,town marshal

Question 32

The first state police agency was the:

A) Arizona Rangers.
B) New Mexico Mounted Patrol.
C) Texas Rangers.
D) Nevada Posse.

Question 33

In 1929,President Herbert Hoover created the National Commission on Law Observance and Enforcement.This commission was known as the:

A) Wickersham Commission.
B) Kefauver Commission.
C) Crime Commission.
D) Kerner Commission.

Question 34

Who served as chief of police in Berkeley and instituted many practices that started to professionalize the U.S.police,including incorporating university training as a part of police training?

A) O.W.Wilson
B) August Vollmer
C) Raymond Blaine Fosdick
D) Edgar Hoover

Question 35

A form of community self-protection developed by King Alfred the Great in the latter part of the ninth-century was/were the:

A) Vigiles.
B) hue and cry.
C) shire-reeve.
D) mutual pledge.

Question 36

What did the U.S.Supreme Court focus on during the 1960s?

A) expanding governmental authority
B) police rights
C) individual rights
D) corporate rights

Question 37

What statute made it a crime not to assist the night watch?

A) Posse Comitatus Act of 1879
B) Federal Judiciary Act of 1789
C) Statute of Winchester
D) Volstead Act

Question 38

The Federal Judiciary Act of 1789 created the:

A) bobbies.
B) office of the U.S.marshal.
C) FBI.
D) New York City Police Department.

Question 39

Many historians and scholars indicate that__________in the American South were the precursor to modern highway patrols.

A) Praetorian Guard
B) slave patrols
C) thief-takers
D) Vigiles

Question 40

Who is noted for developing modern management and administrative techniques for policing?

A) James Q.Wilson
B) Richard Sylvester
C) O.W.Wilson
D) Patrick V.Murphy

Question 41

The first specialized investigative unit in Rome was called __________,which means "trackers of murder."

Question 42

Which U.S.Supreme Court case resulted in the police requirement that persons who are in police custody and will be interrogated must be advised of their constitutional rights?

A) Mapp v.Ohio
B) Miranda v.Arizona
C) Escobedo v.Illinois
D) Brown v.Mississippi

Question 43

One of the duties of the ________ was performing duties such as lighting street lamps,clearing garbage from the streets,and putting out fires.

A) ​thief-takers
B) ​watchmen
C) ​shire-reeve
D) ​magistrates

Question 44

In 1991,what Los Angeles incident inflamed police-community relations?

A) Charles Manson's arrest
B) the L.A.shootout
C) reinstatement of the death penalty
D) Rodney King beating

Question 45

__________ established the first large-scale,uniformed,paid,civil police force in London.

Question 46

The most turbulent eras for American policing were the:

A) 1920s and 1930s.
B) 1940s and 1950s.
C) 1960s and 1970s.
D) 1980s and 1990s.

Question 47

William J.Bratton completely reengineered the New York City Police Department to make reducing crime its primary objective.What vehicle did he use to accomplish this mission?

A) SWAT
B) use of helicopters
C) CompStat
D) community policing

Question 48

The National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders,also known as the ___________,released a report stating,"Our nation is moving toward two societies,one black,one white,separate and unequal."

A) Wickersham Commission
B) Kefauver Commission
C) Crime Commission
D) Kerner Commission

Question 49

__________ was the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation from its inception until his death in 1972.

Question 50

__________ was a form of societal control where citizens grouped together to protect each other.

Question 51

The form of social organization or mutual pledge created by King Alfred the Great in England that consisted of 10 families grouped together to protect one another and assume responsibility for the acts of the group's members was called a

Question 52

__________ is the author of the classic text on policing entitled Police Administration.

Question 53

The __________ were the members of the military appointed by Roman Emperor Augustus to protect the palace and the emperor.

Question 54

What law gives law enforcement new ability to search,seize,detain,or eavesdrop in their pursuit of possible terrorists?

A) Posse Comitatus Act
B) USA Patriot Act
C) Statute of Winchester
D) Volstead Act

Question 55

Which New York City police officer's tales of corruption led to the Knapp Commission?

A) David Owens
B) Whitman Knapp
C) Frank Serpico
D) Julius LaRosa

Question 56

The Metropolitan Police was organized around the _____________,in which officers were assigned to relatively small permanent posts and were expected to become familiar with them and the people residing there,thereby making the officer a part of neighborhood life.

A) ​watch and ward
B) ​neighborhood
C) ​beat system
D) ​judicial system