Deck 15: Emerging Issues

Question 1

Collaboration, privatization, federalization, and militarization are all __________.

A) issues that previously affected policing
B) issues that have never impacted policing
C) issues that are relevant to policing currently and in the future
D) none of the above

Answer 1

C

Question 2

Crime trends, cyber crime, eyewitness identification, and shrinking budgets are __________.

A) all examples of historical policing issues
B) all examples of contemporary policing issues
C) all examples of issues that police departments will soon face
D) none of the above

Answer 2

B

Question 3

_____ indicates how much range there is between low-income and high-income individuals or families.

A) The poverty rate
B) Income inequality
C) Immigration
D) Migration

Answer 3

D

Question 4

The police must address the concerns of many different groups. Which of the following is NOT one such group?

A) Mothers Against Drunk Driving
B) Mayors
C) Prisoners
D) Business groups

Question 5

The group of people who are _____ hears old accounts for 15% of the U.S. population.

A) 18-24
B) over 65
C) 25-40
D) 12-17

Question 6

Which region went from 5 percent of the nation's population to 23 percent between 1900 and 2000?

A) Northeast
B) South
C) West
D) Midwest

Question 7

The _____ is measured as the percentage of adults seeking work who are not successful in gaining employment.

A) Unemployment rate
B) Poverty rate
C) Income inequality
D) None of the above

Question 8

What is the capacity of different units and different agencies to be able to communicate between each other and share digital information?

A) Transnational network
B) Interoperability
C) AFIS
D) None of the above

Question 9

This area of the country is the most densely populated and has the highest percentage of its population living in metropolitan areas:

A) Northeast
B) South
C) West
D) Midwest

Question 10

The Boston Police Department, immediately following the Boston Marathon bombings, used _____ to communicate with the public for help in apprehending the fugitives.

A) GPS
B) Walkie-talkies
C) Lie detectors
D) Social media

Question 11

Because of this, police departments are able to keep closer track of officers and patrol cars:

A) Militarization
B) GIS
C) GPS
D) None of the above

Question 12

Which of the following is a FALSE statement about millennials?

A) They are less likely to be married
B) They are less likely to be college graduates
C) They have more financial burdens
D) They are less likely to be military veterans

Question 13

Which of the following is NOT one of the "common and problematic" outcomes of police dealing with mentally ill people?

A) Arrest
B) Ignoring the problem
C) Use of deadly force

Question 14

Which of the following is a specific technological breakthroughs might be game-changers in the near or medium-term future?

A) Drug detection
B) Rapid DNA testing
C) Intoxication detection and measurement
D) All of the above.

Question 15

An unmanned aerial vehicle is also known as a _____.

A) Taser
B) Cruiser
C) license plate reader
D) drone

Question 16

Which of the following are viewed as potential "game changers" in the near or medium-term future if they turn out to be scientifically feasible and practical to use?

A) Weapon detection
B) Intoxication detection and measurement
C) Rapid DNA testing
D) All of the above

Question 17

Which of the following is included in cyber crime?

A) The computer as a tool for the commission of a crime
B) The computer as a target
C) The computer as incidental to the crime itself
D) All of the above

Question 18

Which of the following is true concerning intelligence-led policing?

A) It has been the model of policing in the United Kingdom and Australia since the 1990s.
B) It emphasizes the use of real-time crime analysis.
C) It may be described as Compstat on steroids.
D) All of the above statements are true.

Question 19

LGBT people make up less than _____ of the U.S. population.

A) 3%
B) 4%
C) 2%
D) 1%

Question 20

Which trend does not have an impact on counterterrorism?

A) Privatization
B) Federalization
C) Militarization
D) They all have an impact

Question 21

Police departments are institutionalized organizations.

Question 22

By the middle of the 21^st century, African Americans be the majority population in the U.S.

Question 23

The population of the West grew faster than the population in each of the other three regions of the country in every decade of the twentieth century.

Question 24

Due to the nature of the police function, including authority and discretion, a major challenge is to avoid discriminating against people and groups just because their origin, skin color, beliefs, or orientations are different from the majority in society.

Question 25

The poverty rate is less precise than the unemployment rate, since defining how much income puts one in or above poverty is subjective.

Question 26

By the middle of the twenty-first century, no racial or ethnic group will constitute a majority in the United States.

Question 27

Today in the United States there are three times more public police officers than there are private security agents.

Question 28

Weapon detection, drug detection, and drug identification are all examples of potential technological breakthroughs that may prove to be "game changers" in the future if they are scientifically feasible and practical to use.

Question 29

The term interoperability refers to the capacity of different units and different agencies to communicate between each other and also share digital information.

Question 30

The primary impetus behind body-worn cameras has been police officer accountability, especially in use of force incidents.

Question 31

Interoperability refers to the capacity of different units and different agencies to remain isolated from one another and unable to share digital information between each other.

Question 32

Traditionally, the regular military has had a very broad role in crime control and law enforcement responsibilities within the US borders.

Question 33

Crimes in which the computer is incidental to the criminal activity could include using a computer to keep financial records of illegal business activities or sending a threatening email message to someone.

Question 34

The number of mass shootings in the U.S. has fallen since 2012.

Question 35

A key economic measure is income inequality, which indicates how much range
there is between low-income and high-income individuals or families.

Question 36

The number of mass shootings in the U.S. has fallen since 2012.

Question 37

Community-policing is the only police strategy that incorporates the problems encountered by the poor into decision-making by the police.

Question 38

The most important technological contribution to officer safety has been the Taser.

Question 39

Collaboration, privatization, federalization, and militarization were trends that affected policing in recent decades but that will not be relevant in the future.

Question 40

The Posse Comitatus Act gives military personnel the same powers as the police.

Question 41

Select three of the changes in American society and discuss how these changes have affected policing.

Question 42

Discussion two long-term trends and how they will affect policing.

Question 43

List several of the provisions of the USA Patriot Act of 2001.

Question 44

Discuss some of the changes in demographics in the United States during the 20th century.

Question 45

Discuss how deinstitutionalization impacts policing.

Question 46

Matching
-Privatization

A) Technology that helps keep track of officers and patrol cars
B) The passage of more federal criminal laws, giving wider jurisdiction to federal prosecutors and law enforcement
C) The range between low income and high-income individuals or families
D) Includes devices to detect weapons and drugs, cameras that can record illegal behavior, listening devices that can intercept illicit conversations, and biometric techniques that can identify wanted persons
E) A type of technology that creates fewer privacy issue problems since it tends to focus on crimes that have already occurred
F) A drone
G) The trend toward private security
H) A shrinking of the traditional separation of the police and the military
I) The percentage of adults seeking work who are not successful in gaining employment
J) Can include police partnerships with the community or joint activities with schools, social service agencies, and other types of service providers

Question 47

Matching
-Global positioning systems

A) Technology that helps keep track of officers and patrol cars
B) The passage of more federal criminal laws, giving wider jurisdiction to federal prosecutors and law enforcement
C) The range between low income and high-income individuals or families
D) Includes devices to detect weapons and drugs, cameras that can record illegal behavior, listening devices that can intercept illicit conversations, and biometric techniques that can identify wanted persons
E) A type of technology that creates fewer privacy issue problems since it tends to focus on crimes that have already occurred
F) A drone
G) The trend toward private security
H) A shrinking of the traditional separation of the police and the military
I) The percentage of adults seeking work who are not successful in gaining employment
J) Can include police partnerships with the community or joint activities with schools, social service agencies, and other types of service providers

Question 48

Matching
-Income inequality

A) Technology that helps keep track of officers and patrol cars
B) The passage of more federal criminal laws, giving wider jurisdiction to federal prosecutors and law enforcement
C) The range between low income and high-income individuals or families
D) Includes devices to detect weapons and drugs, cameras that can record illegal behavior, listening devices that can intercept illicit conversations, and biometric techniques that can identify wanted persons
E) A type of technology that creates fewer privacy issue problems since it tends to focus on crimes that have already occurred
F) A drone
G) The trend toward private security
H) A shrinking of the traditional separation of the police and the military
I) The percentage of adults seeking work who are not successful in gaining employment
J) Can include police partnerships with the community or joint activities with schools, social service agencies, and other types of service providers

Question 49

Matching
-Militarization

A) Technology that helps keep track of officers and patrol cars
B) The passage of more federal criminal laws, giving wider jurisdiction to federal prosecutors and law enforcement
C) The range between low income and high-income individuals or families
D) Includes devices to detect weapons and drugs, cameras that can record illegal behavior, listening devices that can intercept illicit conversations, and biometric techniques that can identify wanted persons
E) A type of technology that creates fewer privacy issue problems since it tends to focus on crimes that have already occurred
F) A drone
G) The trend toward private security
H) A shrinking of the traditional separation of the police and the military
I) The percentage of adults seeking work who are not successful in gaining employment
J) Can include police partnerships with the community or joint activities with schools, social service agencies, and other types of service providers

Question 50

Matching
-Federalization

A) Technology that helps keep track of officers and patrol cars
B) The passage of more federal criminal laws, giving wider jurisdiction to federal prosecutors and law enforcement
C) The range between low income and high-income individuals or families
D) Includes devices to detect weapons and drugs, cameras that can record illegal behavior, listening devices that can intercept illicit conversations, and biometric techniques that can identify wanted persons
E) A type of technology that creates fewer privacy issue problems since it tends to focus on crimes that have already occurred
F) A drone
G) The trend toward private security
H) A shrinking of the traditional separation of the police and the military
I) The percentage of adults seeking work who are not successful in gaining employment
J) Can include police partnerships with the community or joint activities with schools, social service agencies, and other types of service providers

Question 51

Matching
-Unemployment rate

A) Technology that helps keep track of officers and patrol cars
B) The passage of more federal criminal laws, giving wider jurisdiction to federal prosecutors and law enforcement
C) The range between low income and high-income individuals or families
D) Includes devices to detect weapons and drugs, cameras that can record illegal behavior, listening devices that can intercept illicit conversations, and biometric techniques that can identify wanted persons
E) A type of technology that creates fewer privacy issue problems since it tends to focus on crimes that have already occurred
F) A drone
G) The trend toward private security
H) A shrinking of the traditional separation of the police and the military
I) The percentage of adults seeking work who are not successful in gaining employment
J) Can include police partnerships with the community or joint activities with schools, social service agencies, and other types of service providers

Question 52

Matching
-Crime-detection technology

A) Technology that helps keep track of officers and patrol cars
B) The passage of more federal criminal laws, giving wider jurisdiction to federal prosecutors and law enforcement
C) The range between low income and high-income individuals or families
D) Includes devices to detect weapons and drugs, cameras that can record illegal behavior, listening devices that can intercept illicit conversations, and biometric techniques that can identify wanted persons
E) A type of technology that creates fewer privacy issue problems since it tends to focus on crimes that have already occurred
F) A drone
G) The trend toward private security
H) A shrinking of the traditional separation of the police and the military
I) The percentage of adults seeking work who are not successful in gaining employment
J) Can include police partnerships with the community or joint activities with schools, social service agencies, and other types of service providers

Question 53

Matching
-Crime-solving technology

A) Technology that helps keep track of officers and patrol cars
B) The passage of more federal criminal laws, giving wider jurisdiction to federal prosecutors and law enforcement
C) The range between low income and high-income individuals or families
D) Includes devices to detect weapons and drugs, cameras that can record illegal behavior, listening devices that can intercept illicit conversations, and biometric techniques that can identify wanted persons
E) A type of technology that creates fewer privacy issue problems since it tends to focus on crimes that have already occurred
F) A drone
G) The trend toward private security
H) A shrinking of the traditional separation of the police and the military
I) The percentage of adults seeking work who are not successful in gaining employment
J) Can include police partnerships with the community or joint activities with schools, social service agencies, and other types of service providers

Question 54

Matching
-Collaboration

A) Technology that helps keep track of officers and patrol cars
B) The passage of more federal criminal laws, giving wider jurisdiction to federal prosecutors and law enforcement
C) The range between low income and high-income individuals or families
D) Includes devices to detect weapons and drugs, cameras that can record illegal behavior, listening devices that can intercept illicit conversations, and biometric techniques that can identify wanted persons
E) A type of technology that creates fewer privacy issue problems since it tends to focus on crimes that have already occurred
F) A drone
G) The trend toward private security
H) A shrinking of the traditional separation of the police and the military
I) The percentage of adults seeking work who are not successful in gaining employment
J) Can include police partnerships with the community or joint activities with schools, social service agencies, and other types of service providers

Question 55

Matching
-Unmanned aerial vehicle

A) Technology that helps keep track of officers and patrol cars
B) The passage of more federal criminal laws, giving wider jurisdiction to federal prosecutors and law enforcement
C) The range between low income and high-income individuals or families
D) Includes devices to detect weapons and drugs, cameras that can record illegal behavior, listening devices that can intercept illicit conversations, and biometric techniques that can identify wanted persons
E) A type of technology that creates fewer privacy issue problems since it tends to focus on crimes that have already occurred
F) A drone
G) The trend toward private security
H) A shrinking of the traditional separation of the police and the military
I) The percentage of adults seeking work who are not successful in gaining employment
J) Can include police partnerships with the community or joint activities with schools, social service agencies, and other types of service providers