Deck 3: Values and Administrative Dilemmas

Question 1

It may be impossible to know with certainty if God exists.But if you gamble, and bet on the wrong side, there may be hell to pay.This gamble is known as .

Answer 1

Pascal's wager

Question 2

refers to efforts to control the police and hold them responsible for their behavior.

Answer 2

Police accountability

Question 3

The Police Officers' Code of Conduct is an example of

A)external ethics.
B)internal ethics.
C)the central ethical dilemma.
D)ethics training.

Answer 3

A

Question 4

Stealth driving is an example of

A)citizen oversight.
B)standard operating procedure.
C)moral leadership.
D)inappropriate behavior.

Question 5

Managers may find that attempts to control line officers' behavior by using oversight mechanisms leads to resistance and secretive behavior.Attempts to maintain control by hiring morally righteous officers can backfire if the officer's morality overrides standard operating procedures.For administrators, this two-pronged impasse is the .

Question 6

include the chain of command, internal affairs, and written standard operating procedures.

Question 7

The internal solution to ethical accountability hides the problem of __________, meaning police officers may circumvent the organizational rules to do what they believe is right.

A)oversight mechanisms
B)accountability
C)good ends
D)ombudsmen

Question 8

Typical police recruits

A)already have strong moral commitments to the occupation of policing.
B)have some moral commitment but are open to change.
C)expect to learn ethics from the department.
D)never really thought about it before.

Question 9

The characteristic of police work that makes it impossible to control with bureaucratic procedures is the day-to-day

A)civil litigations.
B)unpredictability.
C)stealth driving.
D)routine.

Question 10

Problems of corruption in police departments often seem to be resolved only temporarily, recurring in a pattern known as a .

Question 11

is the practice of operating a patrol car in dark areas at night without turning on the headlights.

Question 12

The sense of moral responsibility that officers carry within them is their ethics.

Question 13

When we say a police department is an upside-down bureaucracy, we mean that

A)line officers deserve higher salaries than chiefs.
B)police work has clear, "bottom line" outputs to measure activity.
C)chiefs have total control over the behavior of line officers.
D)the organization's values are vested in the decisions made by line officers.

Question 14

Written codes and departmental policies represent administrative ethics that are to police officers.

Question 15

Police reform movements are usually efforts to develop new procedures to improve

A)political clout.
B)accountability.
C)salaries.
D)due process.

Question 16

A police organization has a body of written policies, codes of conduct officers are expected to know and follow, which are collectively known as its .

Question 17

Civil service protections limit the ability of chiefs to hire, reward, or punish officers.

Question 18

Ethics codes are external to police officers, produced by administrators.

Question 19

External use of oversight to control behavior will cause street-level officers resort to

Question 20

Line officers see commanders as holding them back, interfering with their ability to achieve good ends.

Question 21

Early twentieth century reformers envisioned a law enforcement strategy that contained two elements: narrowing of police function to law enforcement, and

A)controlling officers.
B)making the chief accountable to the mayor.
C)implementing ethics training.
D)eliminating the rotten apples.

Question 22

In the twenty-first century, oversight of police behavior has been enhanced by

A)ethics training.
B)reality TV shows like "Cops" and "Reno 911."
C)the widespread use of video cameras and camcorders.
D)more accurate lie-detector tests.

Question 23

Hopkins's war theory of crime control stated that

A)police believe they are waging a war on crime and that any means are justified to win.
B)crime is more difficult to control in a country that is at war.
C)the military should be employed to control crime in certain areas.
D)police commanders are responsible for crimes committed by their "troops."

Question 24

In 1929, President Hoover established the National Commission on Law Observance, also known as

A)the President's Commission on Civil Rights.
B)the President's Commission on Law Enforcement and the Administration of Justice.
C)the Wickersham Commission.
D)the Christopher Commission.

Question 25

Which of the following is a dilemma in terms of the accountability of police organizations

A)The predictable nature of police work.
B)Lack of ethics and commitment on the part of line officers.
C)Assertive efforts of the chief can backfire.
D)all of the above

Question 26

Internal ethics means that

A)ethical standards should be established by the internal affairs department.
B)officers carry within themselves a sense of what constitutes ethical behavior.
C)ethical behavior within a department that is different from what an officer does when he is off duty.
D)one group's ethics are different from outsiders' ethics.

Question 27

Due to the unpredictability of police work, rigid bureaucratic controls

A)help officers get situations under control.
B)increase the officers' sense of security.
C)increase effectiveness and decrease managerial frustration.
D)none of the above

Question 28

The unpredictability of police work and the moral commitment many officers have to the noble cause

A)undermine accountability.
B)encourage noble-cause corruption.
C)are endemic to police organizations.
D)all of the above