Deck 3: Law Enforcement Agencies and Their Organization

Question 1

What is a key difference between police organizations and all other organizations?

A) Usually, only police are allowed to carry concealed deadly weapons in public places.
B) Usually, only police have legitimate arrest power and authority to use force.
C) Usually, only police can confiscate property from private citizens.
D) Usually, only police are authorized to provide security for private citizens.

Answer 1

B

Question 2

Which law enforcement employees are empowered to make arrests?

A) only staff
B) only officers, corporals, and sergeants
C) only frontline officers
D) only line officials

Answer 2

D

Question 3

What is the chain of command?

A) the limitations that come with having a supervisory role in law enforcement
B) the supervisory channel within a law enforcement organization
C) the number of subordinates supervised by a law enforcement officer
D) the organization of sworn personnel (as opposed to non -sworn personnel)

Answer 3

B

Question 4

Which stateʹs modern police agency has served as a model for a number of other states?

A) Texas
B) Massachusetts
C) Pennsylvania
D) California

Question 5

Which of the following happened last, chronologically?

A) The White House Police Force is created.
B) The Secret Service is expanded to include visiting heads of state.
C) The Secret Service is expanded to include the vice president.
D) The White House Police Force is placed under the Secret Service.

Question 6

Which of these is NOT part of the mission of the U.S. Marshals Service (USMS)?

A) judicial security
B) fugitive investigation
C) witness security
D) tax collection

Question 7

What is one way that private police can temporarily gain the same authority as public police?

A) through being deputized
B) through completing training
C) through special circumstances
D) through giving up their exemptions

Question 8

Contingency theory allows overall organizational approaches to be

A) flexible rather than standardized.
B) contingent upon the task at hand.
C) chosen by rank-and-file officers.
D) planned well in advance.

Question 9

What can private police do that would be unethical for employees of law enforcement agencies?

A) sleep while on duty
B) work proactively to prevent crime
C) follow a client-driven mandate
D) use force to stop a crime in progress

Question 10

The systems perspective on organizations is rooted in

A) the science of biology.
B) the model used in the military.
C) theories of Frederick W. Taylor.
D) the study of mechanical systems.

Question 11

What is the name for acquiring and using security products and services in areas like crime control, investigation, and risk management by non -sworn personnel?

A) private security
B) private policing
C) private investigation
D) private detection

Question 12

Which of the following is NOT part of the mission of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA)?

A) investigation of people and organizations involved in illegal distribution of controlled substances
B) investigation of people and organizations involved in illegal growing of controlled substances
C) investigation of people and organizations involved in illegal manufacture of controlled substances
D) investigation of people and organizations involved in illegal use of controlled substances

Question 13

Which of the following remained in the Justice Department rather than moving to the newly formed Department of Homeland Security (DHS)?

A) the Federal Bureau of Investigation
B) the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center
C) the Federal Protective Service
D) the Transportation Security Administration

Question 14

Prior to the restructuring, which of the following was true of U.S. law enforcement at the federal level?

A) There were fewer federal law enforcement agencies.
B) There was significant overlap in activities of law enforcement.
C) Growth in the number of law enforcement agencies was out of control.
D) Agencies were housed in a number of different departments.

Question 15

What is the name of the concept of leadership that allows subordinates a role in decision -making and planning?

A) participatory management
B) span of control
C) boundary-less policing
D) administrative justification

Question 16

All of the following are part of the Department of Homeland Security except which one?

A) U.S. Coast Guard
B) U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP)
C) U.S. Secret Service
D) U.S. Forest Service

Question 17

What was the original purpose of the Secret Service?

A) to stop foreign spies
B) to suppress counterfeit currency
C) to protect the president
D) to guard government buildings

Question 18

Whose research identified the characteristics of an effective bureaucratic organization?

A) Sir Robert Peel
B) O. W. Wilson
C) Max Weber
D) Frederick W. Taylor

Question 19

What requirement was introduced in the 1968 Gun Control Act?

A) that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives be part of the Department of Justice
B) that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives be part of the Department of the Treasury
C) that all manufacturers, importers, and dealers of firearms obtain a Federal Firearms License
D) that all manufacturers, importers, and dealers of firearms meet new labeling standards

Question 20

Which of the following is not a focus of private policing?

A) focus on loss prevention
B) focus on detection, apprehension, and punishment
C) focus on private justice
D) focus on protection of private property

Question 21

ʺStaffʺ is a synonym for ʺnon -sworn personnelʺ in police organizations.

Question 22

Private police are bound by the same legal requirements as public police are.

Question 23

The Secret Service used to be part of the Treasury Department.

Question 24

All FBI agents work out of the main office in the J. Edgar Hoover Building on Pennsylvania Avenue in
Washington, D.C.

Question 25

Money laundering is the process criminals or criminal organizations use to disguise illicit proceeds by introducing them into the stream of legitimate commerce and finance.

Question 26

The U.S. Supreme Court has sanctioned the activities of private police.

Question 27

The U.S. Marshals Service (USMS) is the oldest law enforcement agency in the United States.

Question 28

In general, private police donʹt care about what happens in public places.

Question 29

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives investigates cases of arson.

Question 30

Private police are focused on private justice rather than public justice.

Question 31

State agencies employ more law enforcement personnel than do local police departments.

Question 32

Like city police chiefs, sheriffs are appointed by local officials.

Question 33

Public police can receive perks from citizens without harming their ethical position.

Question 34

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) works with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and
Explosives to ensure that the labels on alcoholic beverages do not contain misleading information.

Question 35

The of law enforcement agencies in America continually changes due to the creation of new agencies
and the merging and elimination of existing agencies.

Question 36

Most arms of the federal government have some sort of enforcement component.

Question 37

Every incorporated municipality in the United States has the authority to create a police force.

Question 38

In at least one national emergency, the National Guard has been given arrest authority.

Question 39

In the decentralized model of state law enforcement, the duties of criminal investigations and state highway patrol are combined.

Question 40

Local police agencies include municipal police departments, campus police departments, transit police, and sheriffʹs departments.

Question 41

In many states, ordinary citizens can people for misdemeanors committed in their presence.

Question 42

Match each federal law enforcement agency with its description.
Column 1: Customs and Border
Protection (CBP)
Column 2: agency that combines the U.S.
Border Patrol with portions of
the U.S. Customs Service and the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service

Question 43

The Homeland Security Act of 2002 created the cabinet -level department now called the Department of
Security.

Question 44

The Office of Investigations, Office of Detention and Removal Operations, Federal Protective Service, and
Office of Intelligence are the four main branches of and Customs Enforcement.

Question 45

The higher up the chain of command a person is, the span of control that person has.

Question 46

A law enforcement agent who works in a specialized agency, e.g., for fish and wildlife departments, airports, hospitals, schools, mass transit systems, and railroads, are known as belonging to jurisdiction law enforcement agencies.

Question 47

Private police are from the Fourth Amendment, the Miranda rule, and entrapment restrictions.

Question 48

Match each federal law enforcement agency with its description.
Column 1: Drug Enforcement
Administration (DEA)
Column 2: agency tasked with enforcing controlled-substance laws and regulations

Question 49

The two missions of the Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) are facilitating legitimate trade and travel, and fighting .

Question 50

Match each federal law enforcement agency with its description.
Column 1: Federal Bureau of
Investigation (FBI)
Column 2: the investigative arm of the
U.S. Department of Justice

Question 51

Groups of qualified officers drawn from all ranks that work together to solve organization problems are called
circles.

Question 52

Individuals become U.S. Marshals by appointment.

Question 53

Match each federal law enforcement agency with its description.
Column 1: U.S. Marshals Service (USMS)
Column 2: the oldest American law enforcement agency, with a mission that includes judicial security and fugitive investigation and apprehension

Question 54

The model of state law enforcement that is more similar to a traditional municipal police agency is the
policing model.

Question 55

Match each federal law enforcement agency with its description.
Column 1: Immigration and Customs
Enforcement (ICE)
Column 2: the largest investigative component of the Department of Homeland Security, focusing on illegal immigration

Question 56

Private police and their employers might be less interested in a criminal when there are easier and less costly ways to solve the problem.

Question 57

Because most police organizations follow the military model in some but not all respects, they are said to be
military in structure.

Question 58

Match each federal law enforcement agency with its description.
Column 1: Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF)
Column 2: an arm of the U.S. Department of Justice responsible for
tax-collection, enforcement, and regulation

Question 59

The AMTRAK Police, the Diplomatic Security Service, and the Internal Revenue Service -Criminal Investigation
Division are all law enforcement agencies.

Question 60

The dramatic restructuring and consolidation of many federal law enforcement agencies in the twenty -first century followed directly from the events of .

Question 61

Order the police force chain of command from lowest to highest rank, with first being the highest and sixth being the lowest.
Column 1: Deputy Chief
Column 2: third

Question 62

Order the police force chain of command from lowest to highest rank, with first being the highest and sixth being the lowest.
Column 1: Captain
Column 2: fifth

Question 63

Summarize Weberʹs five principles of effective bureaucracy.

Question 64

How is the FBIʹs mission relevant to local policing?

Question 65

Order the police force chain of command from lowest to highest rank, with first being the highest and sixth being the lowest.
Column 1: Lieutenant
Column 2: sixth

Question 66

What are the possible advantages and disadvantages, for a community, of deciding not to have an active police
force, and instead contracting with a private security firm (depending on the local sheriffʹs department) or
contracting with a county sheriffʹs department?

Question 67

Order the police force chain of command from lowest to highest rank, with first being the highest and sixth being the lowest.
Column 1: Commander
Column 2: fourth

Question 68

What are the benefits of private security and private policing?

Question 69

How do the police organization charts on pages 51 -52 exemplify Weberʹs first two principles of effective bureaucratic organizations?

Question 70

Order the police force chain of command from lowest to highest rank, with first being the highest and sixth being the lowest.
Column 1: Assistant Chief
Column 2: second

Question 71

Order the police force chain of command from lowest to highest rank, with first being the highest and sixth being the lowest.
Column 1: Chief of Police
Column 2: first