Deck 21: Emerging and Future Technologies

Question 1

Biometrics is the science of automatically identifying vehicles involved in a collision.

Answer 1

False

Question 2

A Universal Product Code (UPC) is the barcode created to facilitate the checkout process and inventory control in grocery stores.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

Many offenders on probation or parole have surrendered significant portions of their Fourth Amendment Rights.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

A Personal Locator Beacon ultimately alerts the military if it is activated.

Question 5

Role playing and simulation games can be used to predict future trends.

Question 6

Passive Wave Millimeter imaging can see through your clothing.

Question 7

Optical Character Recognition software cannot be used for license plate scanning.

Question 8

Biometric information can be used to prevent unauthorized access.

Question 9

An individuals retinal vein patterns are not unique.

Question 10

Fingerprints and facial patterns are considered unique behavioral characteristics.

Question 11

When a Personal Locator Beacon (PLB) is activated, the ________ control center is Suitland, Maryland, notifies a designated contact point in the state wherein the PLB was activated.

A) NAVSTAR
B) PLBSTAR
C) NAVSAT
D) SARSAT

Question 12

Hand geometry, fingerprint scanning and facial recognition technology are examples of ________ technology.

A) biohuman
B) humanmetric
C) bioscience
D) biometric

Question 13

A/An ________ survey is a qualitative method of predicting future events. Through questionnaires and polls of people with specialized knowledge it reaches qualitative conclusions about possible future trends.

A) forecasting
B) Oracle
C) Delphi
D) none of the above

Question 14

A potential future application of radio frequency ________ technology is embedding them into handguns so that the handguns can only be fired by their owner.

A) alert
B) remote
C) chipping
D) control

Question 15

Biometrics is the science of automatically identifying individuals based on ________ or behavioral characteristics.

A) special
B) physiological
C) unique
D) personal

Question 16

With Facial Recognition Technology, measurements are taken between ________ or features on the human face.

A) peak points
B) defined points
C) nodal points
D) high points

Question 17

Although ________ is/are a unique human identifier, it is not included as a biometric science because of the current inability to automatically capture and scan a sample.

A) DNA
B) fingerprints
C) thermal patterns
D) human speech

Question 18

Some agencies are using ________ technology for the tagging and control of evidence.

A) barcode
B) biometric
C) Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
D) none of the above

Question 19

Currently, the only ________ technologies are widely used to terminate a vehicle pursuit.

A) biometric
B) chemical
C) mechanical
D) electrical

Question 20

Police officers assigned to footbeats or bicycle patrol can only carry a limited amount of equipment. Because of the equipment limitations they did not routinely have direct access to remote databases. For police officers in these types of assignments the ________ is being used like the in-car computer, give the police officers direct access to databases.

A) Lap top computer
B) Personal Digital Assistant (PDA)
C) Personal Computer (PC)
D) none of the above

Question 21

Which of the following terms best describes tracking people through their transactions?

A) Dataveillance
B) Covert Surveillance
C) Transactional Surveillance
D) Overt Surveillance

Question 22

Which of the following terms best describes a system that notifies a Public Safety Answering Point (PASP) if a privately owned and appropriately equipped vehicle is involved in a traffic accident?

A) Automatic Collision Notification (CAN) Technology
B) Automatic Accident Locator (AAL) Technology
C) Automatic Vehicle Locator (AVL) Technology
D) Automatic Collision Locator (ACL) Technology

Question 23

Which of the following best describes the process of small electronic tags being embedded directly into consumer products?

A) Radio Frequency Tagging (RFT) Technology
B) Frequency Chipping Technology (FCT)
C) Chipping Technology (CT)
D) Chipping Goods

Question 24

Which technology measures changes in the Earth's magnetic field caused by metallic objects? As people walk through a portal or gateway they are scanned and the results of the scan are compared against a database that contains the magnetic disruption of the Earth's field by a certain weapon.

A) Magnetic Wave Measuring (MWM)
B) Magnetic Gradient Measuring (MGM)
C) Passive Magnetic Millimeter (PMM) Scanning
D) Passive Millimeter Wave (PMW) Scanning

Question 25

What are two broad categories for the use of biometric information?

A) Access Information and Remote Control
B) Access Control and Remote Control
C) Access Control and Remote Identification
D) Access Control and Physical Identification

Question 26

Which of the following terms best describes technology that is a highly compact communications system that provides video feed, two-way communications, vital signs monitoring, and may have a Global Positioning Satellite (GPS) feature?

A) Remote Individual Communications System (RICS)
B) Remote Personal Communication System (RPCS)
C) Remote Control Personal System (RCPS)
D) Remote Control Information System (RCIS)

Question 27

Which of the following terms best describes a biometric technology that uses the measurement of nodes?

A) Gait
B) Facial Recognition
C) Hand Geometry
D) Thermal

Question 28

Which of the following terms best describes a technology that can scan license plate numbers and automatically query a database?

A) Optical Character Recognition
B) License Reader Technology
C) License Plate Technology
D) none of the above

Question 29

Which of the following technologies best describes the use of biometric technology that is used during the book process of offenders?

A) Livescan
B) Fingerscan
C) Realscan
D) Printscan

Question 30

The mandated use of commercial products that could enable a police officer to remotely shut-off a vehicles engine would probably have a positive impact on which of the following?

A) Auto thefts
B) Police pursuits
C) both A and B
D) neither A nor B