Deck 1: Evolution of Police Administration

Question 1

The rise of unified, full-time police departments in America was influenced by events in:

A) France.
B) England.
C) The former Soviet Union.
D) Ireland.

Answer 1

England.

Question 2

What is the name of the first full-time police agency in London?

A) London Metropolitan Police
B) English Special Forces
C) British Crime Council
D) London Police Department

Answer 2

London Metropolitan Police

Question 3

A tightly controlled political party headed by a boss or small autocratic group whose purpose is to repeatedly win election s for personal gain, often through graft and corruption, is known as:

A) Patronage.
B) Partisan government.
C) Machine politics.
D) Mob-influenced politics.

Answer 3

Machine politics.

Question 4

Who is the father of modern law enforcement?

A) August Vollmer
B) Robert Peel
C) O.W. Wilson
D) J. Edgar Hoover

Question 5

What efforts did Vollmer utilize to improve the caliber of police personnel?

A) Police training
B) Psychological testing
C) Recruiting college students
D) All of the above

Question 6

Particularly after 1965, the hallmark of attempts to promote police professionalization centered on:

A) Civilian review boards.
B) A code of ethics
C) Standards of admission
D) Education

Question 7

One of the major conclusions of the Kansas City Preventive Patrol Study was:

A) Response time varied greatly with the level of routine patrol.
B) Citizens' fear of crime was altered by the level of routine patrol.
C) Level of patrol was directly correlated with the incidence of traffic accidents.
D) A statistically weak correlation between reported crime and level of routine patrol.

Question 8

The ________ described how investigations in major metropolitan police agencies were organized and managed. This study recommended a larger role for police officers in conducting preliminary investigations.

A) Kansas City Patrol Experiment
B) NIJ Proactive Patrol Study
C) RAND Criminal Investigation Study
D) FBI Investigation Report

Question 9

During the 1960s, money was made available from ________ to start junior college and university criminal justice programs.

A) CALEA
B) NOBLE
C) PERF
D) LEAA

Question 10

The independent accrediting authority for law enforcement is:

A) IACLEA.
B) NOBLE.
C) AALE.
D) CALEA.

Question 11

Which of the following is not cited as a benefit to law enforcement accreditation?

A) Personnel costs can be reduced
B) Liability insurance costs can be reduced
C) Community pride and confidence in the agencies is stimulated
D) Can be used as a tool in attracting new businesses to a community

Question 12

Which of the following was in impact on policing as a result of WWII?

A) The Pendleton Act
B) An increase in educational requirements for police
C) The adoption of residency requirements for police
D) A shortage of experienced officers

Question 13

What is the name of the persons who, during WWII, patrolled to make sure that no lights were showing during "black outs"?

A) Air raid wardens
B) Carpetbaggers
C) Muckrackers
D) Civil patrol

Question 14

What law enforcement administrator studied under Gus Vollmer and wrote the "Bible" of police administration?

A) Benjamin "Pap" Singleton
B) Sir Robert Peel
C) O.W. Wilson
D) George Kelling

Question 15

Following World War II, more women were hired as police officers, working specifically with what category of offenders?

A) Bank robbers.
B) Juvenile delinquents.
C) Homeless veterans.
D) All of the above.

Question 16

Which of the following is not a criterion for a profession?

A) An organized body of theoretically grounded knowledge
B) A code of ethics
C) Prestige
D) A strong work value

Question 17

The Pendleton Act of 1883 sought to eliminate:

A) Merit selection.
B) The political spoils system.
C) The "good old boy" government
D) Testing for promotion.

Question 18

Prohibition was established by passage of:

A) USA PATRIOT Act.
B) Pendleton Act.
C) Volstead Act.
D) Temperance Act.

Question 19

Which of the following is not part of what the text refers to as the "trilogy"?

A) Kansas City Preventive Patrol Experiment
B) Rand Criminal Investigation Study
C) Team Policing
D) Community Oriented Policing

Question 20

What agency was formed to archive and disseminate the rapidly growing body of criminal justice knowledge being generated by research?

A) NCIC.
B) FCIC.
C) NIBRS.
D) NCJRS.

Question 21

A ________ is someone who smuggled illegal alcohol during prohibition.

Question 22

The rise of unified, full-time police departments in America was influenced by events in ________.

Question 23

Illegal bars called ________ were established during prohibition.

Question 24

The Ku Klux Klan was formed by ________ veterans who were bored.

Question 25

The Ku Klux Klan took over some of the duties of ________, who hunted down fugitive slaves.

Question 26

During the 1950s and 1960s, some southern police departments addressed the problem of the ________, in which minority police officers were treated inferiorly than white officers.

Question 27

The Law Enforcement Education Program provided up to $2,400 a year to help defray ________ costs.

Question 28

The formulation of the federal ________ created an easily accessible body of cutting-edge information for criminal justice students, scholars, and practitioners.

Question 29

Community oriented policing is the development of police strategies and programs in partnership with ________ in order to deliver custom-tailored police services to problems.

Question 30

Evidence-based policing is based on ________ that suggests which strategies in policing provide the most successful outcomes.

Question 31

How did Gus Vollmer contribute to policing?

Question 32

Of what importance is the closing of the frontier in 1890?

Question 33

How is politics defined? Why can't it be kept out of police agencies?

Question 34

Why is the concept of a police profession so important?

Question 35

Match the person from Column 1 to his description in Column 2. Each item in Column 2 will be used only once.

-Cesar Chavez

A) WCTU activist who gained notoriety for ripping alcohol kegs open with her axe
B) Driving force behind the London Metropolitan Police
C) Bank robber killed in Chicago by FBI agents in 1934, marking the end of the lawless era
D) Farm worker and civil rights activist who fought for better working conditions and pay for migrant pickers
E) Chief of several jurisdictions and wrote Police Administration, which is often regarded as the "Bible" of police administration
F) Carried out Oklahoma City bombing as a means of getting revenge for Ruby Ridge and Waco
G) Distinguished leader in the Civil Rights movement
H) Father of modern law enforcement
I) Former Tennessee slave who promoted founding African American townships in Kansas after the Civil war
J) U.S. President assassinated by a frustrated patronage seeker, giving momentum to the passage of the Pendleton Act

Question 36

Match the person from Column 1 to his description in Column 2. Each item in Column 2 will be used only once.

-John Dillinger

A) WCTU activist who gained notoriety for ripping alcohol kegs open with her axe
B) Driving force behind the London Metropolitan Police
C) Bank robber killed in Chicago by FBI agents in 1934, marking the end of the lawless era
D) Farm worker and civil rights activist who fought for better working conditions and pay for migrant pickers
E) Chief of several jurisdictions and wrote Police Administration, which is often regarded as the "Bible" of police administration
F) Carried out Oklahoma City bombing as a means of getting revenge for Ruby Ridge and Waco
G) Distinguished leader in the Civil Rights movement
H) Father of modern law enforcement
I) Former Tennessee slave who promoted founding African American townships in Kansas after the Civil war
J) U.S. President assassinated by a frustrated patronage seeker, giving momentum to the passage of the Pendleton Act

Question 37

Match the person from Column 1 to his description in Column 2. Each item in Column 2 will be used only once.

-James Garfield

A) WCTU activist who gained notoriety for ripping alcohol kegs open with her axe
B) Driving force behind the London Metropolitan Police
C) Bank robber killed in Chicago by FBI agents in 1934, marking the end of the lawless era
D) Farm worker and civil rights activist who fought for better working conditions and pay for migrant pickers
E) Chief of several jurisdictions and wrote Police Administration, which is often regarded as the "Bible" of police administration
F) Carried out Oklahoma City bombing as a means of getting revenge for Ruby Ridge and Waco
G) Distinguished leader in the Civil Rights movement
H) Father of modern law enforcement
I) Former Tennessee slave who promoted founding African American townships in Kansas after the Civil war
J) U.S. President assassinated by a frustrated patronage seeker, giving momentum to the passage of the Pendleton Act

Question 38

Match the person from Column 1 to his description in Column 2. Each item in Column 2 will be used only once.

-Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr.

A) WCTU activist who gained notoriety for ripping alcohol kegs open with her axe
B) Driving force behind the London Metropolitan Police
C) Bank robber killed in Chicago by FBI agents in 1934, marking the end of the lawless era
D) Farm worker and civil rights activist who fought for better working conditions and pay for migrant pickers
E) Chief of several jurisdictions and wrote Police Administration, which is often regarded as the "Bible" of police administration
F) Carried out Oklahoma City bombing as a means of getting revenge for Ruby Ridge and Waco
G) Distinguished leader in the Civil Rights movement
H) Father of modern law enforcement
I) Former Tennessee slave who promoted founding African American townships in Kansas after the Civil war
J) U.S. President assassinated by a frustrated patronage seeker, giving momentum to the passage of the Pendleton Act

Question 39

Match the person from Column 1 to his description in Column 2. Each item in Column 2 will be used only once.

-Carry Nation

A) WCTU activist who gained notoriety for ripping alcohol kegs open with her axe
B) Driving force behind the London Metropolitan Police
C) Bank robber killed in Chicago by FBI agents in 1934, marking the end of the lawless era
D) Farm worker and civil rights activist who fought for better working conditions and pay for migrant pickers
E) Chief of several jurisdictions and wrote Police Administration, which is often regarded as the "Bible" of police administration
F) Carried out Oklahoma City bombing as a means of getting revenge for Ruby Ridge and Waco
G) Distinguished leader in the Civil Rights movement
H) Father of modern law enforcement
I) Former Tennessee slave who promoted founding African American townships in Kansas after the Civil war
J) U.S. President assassinated by a frustrated patronage seeker, giving momentum to the passage of the Pendleton Act

Question 40

Match the person from Column 1 to his description in Column 2. Each item in Column 2 will be used only once.

-Timothy McVeigh

A) WCTU activist who gained notoriety for ripping alcohol kegs open with her axe
B) Driving force behind the London Metropolitan Police
C) Bank robber killed in Chicago by FBI agents in 1934, marking the end of the lawless era
D) Farm worker and civil rights activist who fought for better working conditions and pay for migrant pickers
E) Chief of several jurisdictions and wrote Police Administration, which is often regarded as the "Bible" of police administration
F) Carried out Oklahoma City bombing as a means of getting revenge for Ruby Ridge and Waco
G) Distinguished leader in the Civil Rights movement
H) Father of modern law enforcement
I) Former Tennessee slave who promoted founding African American townships in Kansas after the Civil war
J) U.S. President assassinated by a frustrated patronage seeker, giving momentum to the passage of the Pendleton Act

Question 41

Match the person from Column 1 to his description in Column 2. Each item in Column 2 will be used only once.

-Sir Robert Peel

A) WCTU activist who gained notoriety for ripping alcohol kegs open with her axe
B) Driving force behind the London Metropolitan Police
C) Bank robber killed in Chicago by FBI agents in 1934, marking the end of the lawless era
D) Farm worker and civil rights activist who fought for better working conditions and pay for migrant pickers
E) Chief of several jurisdictions and wrote Police Administration, which is often regarded as the "Bible" of police administration
F) Carried out Oklahoma City bombing as a means of getting revenge for Ruby Ridge and Waco
G) Distinguished leader in the Civil Rights movement
H) Father of modern law enforcement
I) Former Tennessee slave who promoted founding African American townships in Kansas after the Civil war
J) U.S. President assassinated by a frustrated patronage seeker, giving momentum to the passage of the Pendleton Act

Question 42

Match the person from Column 1 to his description in Column 2. Each item in Column 2 will be used only once.

-Benjamin "Pap" Singleton

A) WCTU activist who gained notoriety for ripping alcohol kegs open with her axe
B) Driving force behind the London Metropolitan Police
C) Bank robber killed in Chicago by FBI agents in 1934, marking the end of the lawless era
D) Farm worker and civil rights activist who fought for better working conditions and pay for migrant pickers
E) Chief of several jurisdictions and wrote Police Administration, which is often regarded as the "Bible" of police administration
F) Carried out Oklahoma City bombing as a means of getting revenge for Ruby Ridge and Waco
G) Distinguished leader in the Civil Rights movement
H) Father of modern law enforcement
I) Former Tennessee slave who promoted founding African American townships in Kansas after the Civil war
J) U.S. President assassinated by a frustrated patronage seeker, giving momentum to the passage of the Pendleton Act

Question 43

Match the person from Column 1 to his description in Column 2. Each item in Column 2 will be used only once.

-August "Gus" Vollmer

A) WCTU activist who gained notoriety for ripping alcohol kegs open with her axe
B) Driving force behind the London Metropolitan Police
C) Bank robber killed in Chicago by FBI agents in 1934, marking the end of the lawless era
D) Farm worker and civil rights activist who fought for better working conditions and pay for migrant pickers
E) Chief of several jurisdictions and wrote Police Administration, which is often regarded as the "Bible" of police administration
F) Carried out Oklahoma City bombing as a means of getting revenge for Ruby Ridge and Waco
G) Distinguished leader in the Civil Rights movement
H) Father of modern law enforcement
I) Former Tennessee slave who promoted founding African American townships in Kansas after the Civil war
J) U.S. President assassinated by a frustrated patronage seeker, giving momentum to the passage of the Pendleton Act

Question 44

Match the person from Column 1 to his description in Column 2. Each item in Column 2 will be used only once.

-O.W. Wilson

A) WCTU activist who gained notoriety for ripping alcohol kegs open with her axe
B) Driving force behind the London Metropolitan Police
C) Bank robber killed in Chicago by FBI agents in 1934, marking the end of the lawless era
D) Farm worker and civil rights activist who fought for better working conditions and pay for migrant pickers
E) Chief of several jurisdictions and wrote Police Administration, which is often regarded as the "Bible" of police administration
F) Carried out Oklahoma City bombing as a means of getting revenge for Ruby Ridge and Waco
G) Distinguished leader in the Civil Rights movement
H) Father of modern law enforcement
I) Former Tennessee slave who promoted founding African American townships in Kansas after the Civil war
J) U.S. President assassinated by a frustrated patronage seeker, giving momentum to the passage of the Pendleton Act

Question 45

Discuss how events in England in the 1800s influenced the development of policing in the United States.

Question 46

Why do you think most police departments have adopted the military model of policing?

Question 47

Assume you were a police officer in the 1960s. List three turbulent events during this time and discuss the impact upon police and their communities.