Deck 6: The Police Image and Policing the Image

Question 1

Some studies have also found that ______ overestimate the proportion of crimes solve.

A) newspaper readers
B) online readers
C) television viewers
D) all of these

Answer 1

A

Question 2

The strange case of the ______ crime program Canal Livre provides a particularly outrageous example of how violent crime and hence the fear of crime is packaged as newsworthy commodity.

A) American
B) Spanish
C) Portuguese
D) Brazilian

Answer 2

D

Question 3

Marxist-inspired critical criminologists argue all of the following individuals set the agenda for public debate about crime except:

A) politicians.
B) the media.
C) the public.
D) criminal justice officials.

Answer 3

C

Question 4

The readers/viewers of popular ______ have the highest levels of fear of crime may simply reflect their actual risk of victimization.

A) newspapers
B) online blogs
C) television news shows
D) all of these

Question 5

Readers of tabloid newspapers may be of ______

A) lower socioeconomic or class standing.
B) a minority race.
C) higher socioeconomic or class standing.
D) an older age.

Question 6

______ males had cause to be especially fearful of interactions with police.

A) Caucasian
B) Asian American
C) Mexican American
D) African American

Question 7

Despite making up only 2% of the U.S. population, ______ between the ages of 15 and 34 accounted for more than 15% of all those killed by police.

A) White males
B) Black males
C) White females
D) Black females

Question 8

The rate of death for Black males was ______ times higher than for White men of the same age.

A) 3
B) 5
C) 7
D) 9

Question 9

One study found that about ______% of people interviewed got their news from television.

A) 24
B) 38
C) 52
D) 66

Question 10

As much as ______ of the American public accessing news through social media.

A) 30
B) 40
C) 60
D) 70

Question 11

The U.S. homicide rate would show significant growth in the late-______ reaching a peak in the early-1990s.

A) 1940s
B) 1950s
C) 1960s
D) 1970s

Question 12

In 2004, ______% of a nationally representative sample of adult Americans voiced a "great deal" of confidence in police.

A) 23
B) 48
C) 64
D) 86

Question 13

When forced to choose between employing more police and making broader structural reforms, ______ of the respondents believed that attacking social and economic inequalities associated with crime and increased funding for education and job training programs to be the best approach to the many problems of crime (Gallup, 2010).

A) 32%
B) 49%
C) 51%
D) 64%

Question 14

Support for broad social and economic approaches to crime control increase among select demographics with 72% of those with some post-graduate education.

A) high school education
B) some college education
C) a college education
D) post-graduate education

Question 15

Dragnet served as a key public relations tool, if not propaganda arm for the Los Angeles Police Department during some of its most controversial years.

A) Dragnet
B) Cops
C) How To Catch a Predator
D) CSI

Question 16

______ declared a "war on drugs."

A) Lyndon B. Johnson
B) Richard Nixon
C) Bill Clinton
D) Barack Obama

Question 17

Cops first appeared on the Fox network in ______.

A) 1980
B) 1989
C) 1991
D) 1994

Question 18

Cops proved tremendously popular among ______ viewers.

A) young
B) middle-age
C) old
D) all of these

Question 19

______ are invaluable in publicizing public safety alerts in real time as well as responsibilizing the public or encouraging them to take up quasi-police work themselves.

A) Facebook/Print media
B) Facebook/Television news
C) Facebook/Twitter
D) Facebook/Snapchat

Question 20

As of 2016, U.S. Customs and Border Protection asks visitors to the United States to voluntarily provide _______.

A) the name of their health insurance provider
B) their social media usernames
C) their cell phones
D) their computers and tablets

Question 21

The most common artifacts of police trophy shots, such as ______, are powerful symbols.

A) weapons
B) drugs
C) money
D) all of these

Question 22

The ______'s motivational Monday tweets provided a tremendous example of a social media failure and more broadly how policing fails to control its own image.

A) Los Angeles PD
B) New York PD
C) Chicago PD
D) Miami PD

Question 23

The Rodney King jury was composed of mostly:

A) Caucasian jurors.
B) African American jurors.
C) male jurors.
D) female jurors.

Question 24

The Obama administration committed approximately ______ million dollars to equip police with body-worn cameras and to study their effectiveness.

A) 25
B) 50
C) 75
D) 100

Question 25

In recent years, the police have sought to embrace and exploit the media in pursuit of a positive, pro-police image and an impression of:

A) authority and legitimacy.
B) legitimacy and accountability.
C) authority and accountability.
D) authority, accountability, and legitimacy.

Question 26

The police image is how police are viewed in particular cultural and historical contexts.

Question 27

Prior to the advent of the internet, police agencies communicated with the public in what has been characterized as a bottom-up fashion.

Question 28

Numerous writers have examined the proposition that the media creates a false picture of crime.

Question 29

Interpersonal crimes are consistently underreported in relation to official statistics.

Question 30

From this vantage, crime is viewed as an ideological construct that protects the powerful and further marginalizes the powerless.

Question 31

Fear of crime is rational and reasonable.

Question 32

Media coverage of crime and deviance is rarely grounded in fact.

Question 33

Fear of crime shares a causal relationship police force size and strength.

Question 34

Studies have shown that deploying more police officers and street patrols is likely to significantly reduce crime.

Question 35

The police press release is a powerful tool for communicating the service's preferred message.

Question 36

Photography Is Not a Crime is a group with the expressed purpose of filming the police, provide training, organizational and tactical instruction, legal assistance, and even mobile phone applications to members of the public interested in the same.

Question 37

The media are solely to blame for inciting fear of crime.

Question 38

"Thin Blue Line" holds that police are all that stands between the law-abiding public and wholesale violence and anarchy.

Question 39

Research on police and media relations has found that the relationship to be a one-way communication channel.

Question 40

Members of the news media are thought to release messages to the public, which have been approved by police agencies.

Question 41

What is the CSI effect?

Question 42

Scholars have claimed that in today's society, we operate in a new visibility. What is new visibility and do you agree with the scholars?

Question 43

Discuss the relationship between the picture of crime and social media according to Box (1983). Do you agree with Box's (1983) argument regarding the picture of crime and social media?

Question 44

In 2016, U.S. Customs and Border Protection asked visitors to the United States to voluntarily provide each of their social media user names along with other identifying information. Do you believe that this is a violation of ones privacy and/or rights? Why or why not?

Question 45

What are false images and how can false images impact the way the public views law enforcement officials?