Deck 7: Issues in Policing

Question 1

Which of the following is what we know with substantial confidence about police use of force?

A)The impact of differences in police organizations.
B)Police use force infrequently.
C)The incidence of wrongful use of force.
D)Use of force appears to be unrelated to an officer's personal characteristics.

Answer 1

B

Question 2

According to this case, deadly force may only be used if a suspect poses a threat to the lives of police officers or bystanders.

A)Tennessee v. Garner.
B)Furman v. Georgia.
C)Chimel v. California.
D)Gideon v. Wainwright.

Answer 2

A

Question 3

In this case, the Supreme Court ruled that police can use evidence collected with a warrant even if officers do not knock before entering a home.

A)Hudson v. Michigan.
B)Furman v. Georgia.
C)Tennessee v. Garner.
D)Gideon v. Wainwright.

Answer 3

A

Question 4

The militarization of the police and the war-on-crime analogy are the most apparent in these divisions of law enforcement agencies.

A)DARE teams.
B)SWAT teams.
C)K-9 teams.
D)SORT teams.

Question 5

Which is not a key element of the policeman's working personality?

A)The symbolic assailant.
B)Solidarity.
C)Danger.
D)Social inclusion.

Question 6

This term refers to the mind-set of police who must deal with danger, authority, isolation, and suspicion while appearing to be efficient.

A)Zero tolerance.
B)Restorative justice.
C)Broken windows.
D)Policeman's working personality.

Question 7

The police and the military have the following things in common.

A)Uniforms, ranks, chains of command.
B)Uniforms, ranks, recruiting.
C)Uniforms, ranks, style of control.
D)Uniforms, ranks, use of discretion.

Question 8

Klockars called the overzealous use of force the .

A)Dirty Harry problem.
B)Crime Dog problem.
C)Debbie Harry problem.
D)Terminator problem.

Question 9

Unlike many occupations, the threat of physical injury or death is a possibility.

A)Monthly.
B)Yearly.
C)Daily.
D)Rare.

Question 10

A SWAT team is not likely to .

A)Provide security for visiting dignitaries.
B)Rescue hostages.
C)Run routine DUI checkpoints.
D)Protect police officers engaged in crowd control.

Question 11

Which were two of the primary arguments against encouraging women to be police officers?

A)Women were not physically strong enough and could not handle the stress of police work.
B)Women were not physically strong enough and brought different psychological attributes to police work.
C)Women were not physically strong enough and could not properly shoot guns.
D)Women were not physically strong enough and would be unable to wear the uniforms.

Question 12

The first time that black people worked as police officers in the United States was in 1805 in .

A)New York City.
B)Houston.
C)New Orleans.
D)San Francisco.

Question 13

This term refers to the multiple outsider status of women and minority police officers.

A)Double inclusion.
B)Double role.
C)Double standard.
D)Double marginality.

Question 14

The goal of community policing is to .

A)Address specific types of offenders.
B)Address specific problem areas.
C)Arrest as many people as possible.
D)Strengthen the bond between the police and the community.

Question 15

Problem-oriented policing .

A)Places officers on foot patrols or on bicycles.
B)Targets situations in which crime occurs.
C)Makes arrests for all minor violations.
D)Makes few or no arrests.

Question 16

Problem-oriented policing is more than community policing.

A)Reactive.
B)Inactive.
C)Proactive.
D)Active.

Question 17

Community policing is much like the of policing.

A)Service style.
B)Legalistic style.
C)Watchman style.
D)Zero-tolerance style.

Question 18

A criticism of zero-tolerance policing is that it .

A)Is discriminatory.
B)Is that it is not much different from regular policing.
C)Does not make enough arrests.
D)Violates the rights of those without power.

Question 19

This policing strategy attempts to harness community resources and residents to help stop crime and maintain order.

A)Community policing.
B)Problem-oriented policing.
C)Zero-tolerance policing.
D)Legalistic policing.

Question 20

This community policing program encourages residents to cooperate in providing neighborhood security.

A)Broken windows.
B)Neighborhood Watch.
C)DARE.
D)SWAT.

Question 21

This perspective states that untended property or deviant behavior will attract crime.

A)Broken windows.
B)Labeling.
C)Open fields.
D)Broken homes.

Question 22

Which is not a criticism of broken windows?

A)There are concerns for the rights of all citizens.
B)Crime may only be displaced.
C)In reality, it is too difficult to practice.
D)It's a misreading of how communities were policed in the past.

Question 23

The FBI has a top-10 list of the most stressful events for police officers. Which is not one of these?

A)Working the night shift.
B)The loss of the job.
C)Shooting someone in the line of duty.
D)Suicide of an officer who is a close friend.

Question 24

According to Arrigo and Garsky, one way that police officers can deal with stress is through .

A)Keeping problems to themselves.
B)Drinking alcohol.
C)Police mentoring.
D)All of the above.

Question 25

In 1972, this commission released its report on New York City police corruption.

A)The Wickersham Commission.
B)The Warren Commission.
C)The Knapp Commission.
D)The Rand Commission.

Question 26

This slang term described officers who actively sought situations that could produce financial gain.

A)Grass-eaters.
B)Bobbies.
C)Meat-eaters.
D)Flaking.

Question 27

This slang term described police officers who accepted bribes but did not actively pursue them.

A)Coppers.
B)Grass-eaters.
C)Dropsies.
D)Meat-eaters.

Question 28

Which is a way that narcotics law enforcement can invite police corruption, according to Manning and Redlinger?

A)Using sting operations.
B)Making arrests.
C)Arrogation of seized property.
D)None of the above.

Question 29

policing and _ policing are influenced by broken-windows theory.

A)Community; legalistic-style.
B)Community; problem-oriented.
C)Problem-oriented; watchman-style.
D)Service-style; watchman-style.

Question 30

What job-related problems might a police officer's family experience?

A)The dangers associated with police work.
B)A change in the officer's personality.
C)The shifts officers must work.
D)All of the above.

Question 31

Historically, which is a major source of police corruption?

A)Prostitution.
B)Substance prohibition.
C)Illegal gambling.
D)All of the above.

Question 32

The style of policing had its limitations, especially in affording equal justice to all citizens.

A)Service.
B)Legalistic.
C)Watchman.
D)All of the above.

Question 33

The Boston Gun Project (Project Ceasefire) and Oakland, California's, Specialized Multi-Agency Response Team are applications of which type of policing?

A)Problem oriented.
B)Zero tolerance.
C)Community.
D)Watchman style.

Question 34

The family members of police officers rarely experience stress.

Question 35

In the distant past, minorities never worked in law enforcement.

Question 36

Local police and the FBI never work together in situations that require the use of force.

Question 37

The police sometimes structure situations to give crime an opportunity to occur.

Question 38

The "lawful use of force" is mandated by law and easily understood.

Question 39

Sex and race are important issues in the study of law enforcement.

Question 40

Community policing is different from the watchman style in many important ways.

Question 41

The patrol car is absolutely necessary to community policing.

Question 42

Problem-oriented policing allows law enforcement agencies to address crime on a more systemic level than traditional policing.

Question 43

Problem-oriented policing has different goals and techniques from community policing.

Question 44

Problem-oriented policing has a crime-prevention mission as well as a crime-responding mission.

Question 45

Zero-tolerance policing is a refinement of the watchman style of policing.

Question 46

The broken-windows perspective provides the theoretical angle behind traditional policing.

Question 47

The threat of death or physical injury is a daily possibility in police work.

Question 48

The occupational culture of the police develops specific personality characteristics within officers.

Question 49

Law enforcement is the primary institution in civil society that is authorized to use force against citizens.

Question 50

A high percentage of officer suicides involve the officer's own service gun.

Question 51

List the goals of community policing, problem-oriented policing, and zero-tolerance policing.

Question 52

Discuss one of two historical roles of black people as police officers.

Question 53

Discuss two of three conditions under which physical force is considered legitimate, according to Bittner.

Question 54

What does the term "suicide by cop" refer to? What alternative term has been suggested and why?

Question 55

List three ways in which the police subculture might influence an officer's drinking of alcohol.

Question 56

What are three problems with the way that police suicide rates are calculated according to Robert Loo?

Question 57

Discuss the role of the patrol car in community policing.

Question 58

Discuss a problem with community policing related to community social status or wealth.

Question 59

Discuss Zimbardo's experiment that led to broken-windows theory.

Question 60

Why is the inclusion of women and minorities in police work more than a matter of politics?