Deck 2: The Police Effect on Crime

Question 1

Chicago's Violence Initiative Strategy Evaluation (VISE)program is best characterized as a classic model of

A) community policing.
B) problem-oriented policing.
C) Compstat.
D) crackdowns.

Answer 1

C

Question 2

Conclusions from the Kansas City Preventive Patrol Experiment should be drawn

A) somewhat conservatively.
B) very conservatively.
C) somewhat liberally.
D) none of these choices-no conclusions can be drawn.

Answer 2

B

Question 3

The results of the Minneapolis Domestic Violence Experiment indicate that if an incident is resolved by an arrest,occurrences of calling the police to a subsequent instance of abuse will be at what percentage?

A) 0 percent
B) 10 percent
C) 50 percent
D) 90 percent

Answer 3

B

Question 4

Pessimism regarding the potential police impact on crime was reinforced by the

A) Kansas City Gun Reduction Experiment.
B) Kansas City Preventive Patrol Experiment.
C) San Diego Field Interrogation Experiment.
D) Newport News Problem-Oriented Policing Evaluation.

Question 5

What time frame is required for place-based extra deployment (hot spot saturation)to have a measurable effect?

A) one month
B) six months
C) one year
D) we do not know

Question 6

The array of proactive crime interdiction efforts launched by Chicago in 2004 produced what reduction in the homicide rate?

A) none
B) 3 percent reduction
C) 10 percent reduction
D) 25 reduction

Question 7

To assert that the police make no difference at all on crime rates is

A) a logical conclusion from the totality of research.
B) our current "best guess."
C) overly cautious.
D) illogical.

Question 8

Pessimism regarding the potential police impact on crime was reinforced by the

A) Campbell Hot Spot Meta-analysis.
B) Vera Institute Court Processing Study.
C) Stanford Research Institute Solvability Study.
D) RAND Criminal Investigation Report.

Question 9

Consistently accumulating evidence indicates the effectiveness of what strategy?

A) crime specific
B) community policing
C) preventive patrol
D) random, routine patrol

Question 10

The Indianapolis Directed Patrol program entailed the assignment of extra patrol units to

A) a single beat.
B) two beats.
C) ten one-block street segments.
D) the south division.

Question 11

Events in Cincinnati in 2001 illustrate the principle that

A) crackdowns work.
B) the effect of crackdowns is short lived.
C) cessation of enforcement begets more crime.
D) correlation does not equal cause and effect.

Question 12

"When proactive enforcement stops,crime surges" is a lesson learned from what city?

A) Cincinnati
B) Houston
C) New York
D) Washington, D.C.

Question 13

Considerable drops in crime were produced by dramatically increased enforcement activity in the 1990s in what city?

A) Philadelphia
B) Houston
C) San Diego
D) Kansas City

Question 14

The stated conclusion of the Kansas City Preventive Patrol Experiment that "routine patrol has no measurable effect on crime" became reinterpreted as

A) preventive patrol does make a difference.
B) proactive patrol does make a difference.
C) the police do not make a difference.
D) police-to-citizen ratios do not make a difference.

Question 15

Macro-analyses of the effect of proactive (aggressive)enforcement indicate that it tends to

A) reduce serious crime.
B) result in increased serious crime.
C) have no effect.
D) reduce property crime but not violent crime.

Question 16

It can be concluded from replications of the Minneapolis Domestic Violence Experiment,which were conducted in six cities,that

A) mediation is nearly always the best resolution.
B) arrest is not necessarily the best resolution.
C) referral to social agencies is fruitless.
D) abuse is an intractable behavior.

Question 17

The results of the San Diego Field Interrogation Experiment indicate that field interrogations

A) reduce crime significantly.
B) reduce crime marginally.
C) have no effect on crime.
D) actually increase crime.

Question 18

Evidence-based analysis indicates that a promising realm of effectiveness includes

A) the cultivation of diffusion.
B) focused, place-based, and proactive characteristics.
C) a community-oriented emphasis.
D) a problem-oriented emphasis.

Question 19

The results of the Minneapolis Domestic Violence Experiment indicate that the best intervention in terms of preventing future abuse is

A) arrest.
B) referral to social services.
C) separating the disputants.
D) mediation.

Question 20

The results of the Indianapolis Directed Patrol program are best characterized by which of the following?

A) unexpected
B) as expected
C) disappointing
D) perplexing