Deck 11: Maintaining Integrity and Professional Standards

Question 1

Inappropriate and illegal behaviors exist in policing because of all of the following reasons EXCEPT:

A) it is a highly discretionary profession
B) it is a coercive activity that routinely takes place in private settings
C) it is perceived as legitimate by citizens
D) it occurs out of sight of supervisors and witnesses

Answer 1

C

Question 2

Police behavior that is accepted in many departments but considered acts of misconduct in others involves:

A) bribe taking
B) extortion
C) excessive use of force
D) receiving tips and discounts

Answer 2

D

Question 3

The principles of democratic policing include all of the following EXCEPT:

A) The police ability to perform their task is dependent upon the quality of their leadership and training.
B) Police must be accountable to the law rather than to the government.
C) Police must give top operational priority to servicing the needs of individual citizens and private groups.
D) Police should be transparent in their activities.

Answer 3

A

Question 4

Police ________________ involves activities inconsistent with expected norms, values, or ethics from both a societal and police perspective.

A) malfeasance
B) corruption
C) misconduct
D) deviance

Question 5

The use of inappropriate or illegal means to obtain legitimate ends is:

A) police crime
B) nonfeasance
C) noble cause corruption
D) street justice

Question 6

When police officers steal from an arrestee, traffic accident victim, or crime victim, they are committing:

A) corruption of authority
B) a shakedown
C) opportunistic theft
D) a fix

Question 7

The Knapp Commission investigation of corruption in the NYPD identifies two types of corrupt officers as:

A) profit or property snatchers
B) sharks and players
C) grass eaters and meat eaters
D) abusers and beaters

Question 8

Offenses by on-duty officers that involve the use of excessive force, psychological abuse, or discrimination based on citizens' membership in a class have been classified by Kane and White (2009) as:

A) on-duty abuse
B) profit motive crimes
C) off-duty crimes against persons
D) obstruction of justice

Question 9

Police departments that are characterized by small numbers of individual officers or groups of officers who engage in unorganized corruption were identified as __________________ departments by Sherman (1974).

A) Type I
B) Type II
C) Type III
D) Type IV

Question 10

The control of police employee deviance requires all of the following EXCEPT:

A) constant attention
B) collection and analysis of data
C) confronting the reality of practice
D) creation of a quick response team to investigate incidents

Question 11

The major categories of standards defining police behavior include all of the following EXCEPT:

A) ethical
B) governmental
C) organizational
D) legal

Question 12

Standards that are derived from organizational policy, procedures, rules, and regulations of the department and from peer expectations are known as:

A) legal standards
B) organizational standards
C) ethical
D) CALEA standards

Question 13

Research has consistently identified ________________ as the most important factors in the development of good or bad individual police officers:

A) initial training and testing at the entry-level police academy
B) the department's integrity training and standards
C) current operational techniques and patrol supervision
D) adjustment to day-to-day operational experiences and the manner in which officers rationalize their behavior

Question 14

A department's culture of integrity and accountability can be institutionalized and sustained by all of the following EXCEPT:

A) close internal supervision through reduction of the span of control
B) maintaining a climate of transparency
C) an internal affairs process
D) inspections and discipline

Question 15

A department's culture of integrity should focus on all of the following relationships EXCEPT:

A) police to the community
B) management to officers
C) officers to the political structure
D) officers to officers

Question 16

The internal affairs function is responsible for all of the following with regard to maintenance of the department's professional integrity EXCEPT:

A) inspecting and controlling
B) preventing and detecting
C) investigation of allegations of employee misbehavior and violation of professional standards
D) policy development and case adjudication

Question 17

All of the following statements about complaints are true EXCEPT:

A) all complaints to the department must always be made in writing
B) it is an allegation made by any person that an employee or the department has behaved inappropriately
C) service complaints may not require an investigation but will require an effective and timely reponse
D) complaints are a source of critical information for the management of the department's external and internal environments

Question 18

An allegation of a violation of law by an employee is known as a______________ complaint.

A) criminal
B) service
C) administrative
D) legal

Question 19

All of the following are possible dispositions of a complaint EXCEPT:

A) unfounded
B) exonerated
C) reassigned
D) not sustained

Question 20

Internal affairs should interview complainants and witnesses within 48 hours of a complaint being reported.

Question 21

A review and audit conducted by administrators to analyze and monitor the alignment of the department's policy and procedures with unit and individual performance is a procedural inspection.

Question 22

Early warning systems are data-based management information systems designed to identify officers who are becoming problematic and subject them to an intervention to correct their future performance.

Question 23

Integrity is the most important characteristic of a police department and the foundation of police legitimacy in the eyes of the public.

Question 24

Recent research on police misconduct and corruption has concluded that instead of being isolated activities, they are aspects of the influential culture that exists within police departments.

Question 25

The Green Cove Springs Police Department's core value of "professionalism" is defined as unwavering, legal, ethical, and moral standards in the lives we lead.