Deck 7: Core Police Functions

Question 1

Modern crime prevention aims to do all of the following except

A) reduce crime and criminal opportunities.
B) prevent all criminal activity.
C) lessen the publicʹs fear of crime.
D) lower the potential rewards of crime.

Answer 1

B

Question 2

Before providing appropriate field treatment and emergency care transportation, an officer at an accident scene must

A) restore normal road operation.
B) reconstruct the accident.
C) triage the injured.
D) ascertain the accidentʹs cause.

Answer 2

C

Question 3

Which of these is a key value of using hostage negotiators in a crisis situation?

A) In a majority of cases, they can bring about a bloodless end to the situation.
B) They can often arrange an exchange and get an officer inside.
C) The time it takes to negotiate gives the suspect a chance to calm down.
D) Suspects usually are desperate for someone to talk to.

Answer 3

C

Question 4

The type of patrol associated with deterrence theory is

A) directed patrol.
B) foot patrol.
C) saturation patrol.
D) preventive patrol.

Question 5

If an officer uses discretionary authority that results in disparate treatment of minorities, he or she is engaging in using

A) justification.
B) subjugation of defendantsʹ rights.
C) racial profiling.
D) theory of liability.

Question 6

The cost of achieving public order through police action is a combination of cost in tax dollars and

A) an increase in violent crime.
B) a reduction in civil liberties.
C) slower emergency response.
D) short staffing for investigations.

Question 7

Foot patrol and automobile patrol have opposite effects in terms of officer mobility and community rapport, with a middle ground being found in

A) air patrol.
B) water patrol.
C) bicycle patrol.
D) special-terrain vehicle patrol.

Question 8

Once a motorist has been stopped, an officer can legitimately do all of the following as described except which?

A) Order the driver out of the vehicle without justification.
B) Seize any items that are in ʺplain view.ʺ
C) Frisk the driver as a result of safety concerns.
D) Search the passenger compartment without consent.

Question 9

What is the second most common activity of patrol officers?

A) traffic stops
B) routine incident response
C) emergency response
D) preventive patrols

Question 10

The majority of 911 calls are directed to

A) fire services.
B) emergency medical services.
C) the police.
D) wrong numbers.

Question 11

Collecting trace evidence may be challenging for all of these reasons except which one?

A) It is minute or nearly invisible.
B) Someone has tried to remove it.
C) It requires technology to detect it.
D) It gets old very quickly.

Question 12

What are quality-of-life offenses?

A) infractions so serious that they undermine quality of life
B) infractions that occur solely within private property
C) infractions that cause fear and terror
D) infractions that demoralize residents by creating disorder

Question 13

What police function includes targeting illegal street racers and keeping an eye out for road rage?

A) preventive patrols
B) the traffic function
C) the response role
D) peacekeeping

Question 14

Which of these factors is a limit to the effectiveness of the officer in automobile patrols?

A) the automobileʹs maintenance requirements
B) the high cost of gasoline
C) the distraction of the act of driving
D) the expense of a fully equipped vehicle

Question 15

Hot spots and hot times are associated with which type of patrol?

A) K9-assisted patrol
B) focused patrol
C) directed patrol
D) saturation patrol

Question 16

The earliest patrol method used in Americaʹs early cities was

A) foot patrol.
B) bicycle patrol.
C) mounted patrol.
D) horse-and-buggy patrol.

Question 17

How do most police officers spend the majority of their time?

A) answering non-emergency calls, controlling traffic, and writing tickets
B) working on long, involved, and dangerous undercover cases
C) building community relations and engaging in crime prevention
D) investigating crimes and apprehending offenders

Question 18

Hot spots and hot times are identified

A) by undercover investigation.
B) through crime mapping.
C) with focused patrols.
D) by tipoffs from informants.

Question 19

A focused patrol might target certain

A) problems.
B) locations.
C) times.
D) all of the above

Question 20

Police officers dressed in riot gear during a high -profile public protest

A) make a riot more likely to happen.
B) create a sense of alarm and fear.
C) exemplify a reactive approach.
D) demonstrate a proactive step.

Question 21

The events of September 11, 2001, brought about changes in concerns about racial profiling, with a new focus on black motorists.

Question 22

Mounted patrols are particularly effective for crowd control.

Question 23

When an emergency occurs, it takes priority over all other police work until order is restored.

Question 24

Peacekeeping differs from law enforcement in not being as clearly defined by statute.

Question 25

A high number of undercover assignments in an officerʹs career is associated with all of these problems except which one?

A) drug use
B) alcohol abuse
C) disciplinary action
D) taking bribes

Question 26

A substantial and visible police presence has a fairly uniform effect on deterring all categories of criminal activity.

Question 27

When the public and police officers identify the role of police as enforcing the law, they capture the essence of
what it means to be a police officer.

Question 28

A rational theory of a crime is based on

A) analogical reasoning.
B) deductive reasoning.
C) inductive reasoning.
D) syllogistic reasoning.

Question 29

Ballistics is the study of

A) blood typing.
B) the analysis of paper documents.
C) firearms identification.
D) handwriting identification.

Question 30

The characteristics of undercover policing suggest that it would appeal to individuals who

A) work best under close supervision.
B) are keen on following the rules.
C) prefer to work with a partner.
D) are seeking a thrill.

Question 31

Verbrecherpech is likely to result in

A) a criminal making a confession.
B) a criminal making a telling mistake.
C) a criminal returning to the scene of the crime.
D) a criminal removing evidence from the crime scene.

Question 32

When was fingerprinting first used in a criminal justice context?

A) in first-century Rome
B) in the nineteenth century in the American West
C) in the nineteenth century in England
D) in the early twentieth century in NYC

Question 33

Pathologists, toxicologists, anthropologists, and psychiatrists are types of

A) crime scene investigators.
B) detectives.
C) forensic experts.
D) sleuths.

Question 34

Most citizens see patrol officers more often than they see detectives.

Question 35

What was the key event that made firearms identification a science?

A) its successful use to extract a confession by Henry Goddard
B) its successful use in a criminal case by Paul Jeserich
C) its development of the bullet comparison microscope by Calvin Goddard
D) the establishment of a forensics laboratory by August Vollmer

Question 36

Pursuits are more likely to cause injuries when multiple police agencies are involved.

Question 37

The most significant problem with anthropometry was which of the following?

A) It was inaccurate.
B) It was complicated.
C) Compiling data was hard.
D) It could not be used for prevention.

Question 38

Quality-of-life programs are criticized on the basis of it being inappropriate for government to take a law-enforcement approach to social and economic problems.

Question 39

Preventative patrol involves canvassing neighborhoods in an effort to identify crimes in progress and stop them.

Question 40

The majority of calls to the police involve situations that might lead to arrest and eventual prosecution.

Question 41

Developing a theory of the crime happens during the preliminary investigation steps.

Question 42

Successful undercover operations have been run via a partnership with law enforcement, activists, and media.

Question 43

Barriers to entryways, door alarms, and security lighting are all techniques for crime .

Question 44

When a large number of officers flood an area to catch criminals and deter would -be offenders, it is the type of directed patrol known as patrol.

Question 45

Criminalistics is about as old as policing itself.

Question 46

The scientific study and evaluation of evidence associated with the commission of a crime is .

Question 47

A concentrated area of significant criminal activity is referred to as a spot.

Question 48

August Vollmerʹs partnership with the University of California, Berkeley, encouraged a number of scientists to become interested in criminal investigations.

Question 49

A more common name for the study that was once called dactylography is .

Question 50

Police pay is such that undercover officers are rarely enticed by the money that changes hands in the illegal drug trade.

Question 51

Because they usually dress in street clothes, many detectives might as well be working undercover.

Question 52

Mystery novels and television shows offer a simplified view of detective work and the goals of police investigation.

Question 53

ʺCalling the copsʺ is considered to be the cornerstone of policing in a society.

Question 54

Minute or nearly invisible evidence of a crime that would escape all but the most skilled investigators is known as evidence.

Question 55

An officerʹs success in keeping the peace on his beat is defined by support of commerce and a lack of .

Question 56

Traffic stops based on more than one motive are stops.

Question 57

The perspective that ʺcrime will be less likely when the potential for getting caught outweighs any likely benefits of breaking the lawʺ is known as theory.

Question 58

Another name for the quality-of-life offenses that are minor law violations is crimes.

Question 59

The ʺanticipation, recognition, and appraisal of a crime risk and initiation of action to remove or reduce itʺ is a
definition of crime .

Question 60

The time it takes for police officers to respond to calls for service is called the time.

Question 61

Place the investigation steps in the left-hand column in the correct sequence using the order in the right -hand column.
Column 1: securing the scene
Column 2: second

Question 62

Place the investigation steps in the left-hand column in the correct sequence using the order in the right -hand column.
Column 1: searching for evidence
Column 2: fourth

Question 63

Place the investigation steps in the left-hand column in the correct sequence using the order in the right -hand column.
Column 1: reconstructing the crime
Column 2: ninth

Question 64

Place the investigation steps in the left-hand column in the correct sequence using the order in the right -hand column.
Column 1: measuring, photographing, and videotaping the crime scene
Column 2: third

Question 65

Explain the sequence of steps an officer should take during traffic accident investigation.

Question 66

Place the investigation steps in the left-hand column in the correct sequence using the order in the right -hand column.
Column 1: recording all statements given for later inclusion in the written report
Column 2: seventh

Question 67

A study showed that the Metro -Dade Police Department altered the incidence of pursuits through a change of
policy. Explain how this use of police discretion differs from discretionary decisions made by an officer on
patrol.

Question 68

Effective drug enforcement would be if solely uniformed officers performed it.

Question 69

Summarize the types of crimes that preventive patrol is unlikely to deter.

Question 70

How is civil disobedience similar to and different from other forms of law breaking?

Question 71

Place the investigation steps in the left-hand column in the correct sequence using the order in the right -hand column.
Column 1: continuing the investigation
Column 2: eighth

Question 72

Place the investigation steps in the left-hand column in the correct sequence using the order in the right -hand column.
Column 1: focusing the investigation
Column 2: tenth

Question 73

Place the investigation steps in the left-hand column in the correct sequence using the order in the right -hand column.
Column 1: attending to emergencies
Column 2: first

Question 74

Place the investigation steps in the left-hand column in the correct sequence using the order in the right -hand column.
Column 1: questioning victims, witnesses, possible witnesses, and suspects
Column 2: sixth

Question 75

What are the investigative goals, and how do they relate to each other?

Question 76

Explain the overview of the broken windows model in terms of a ʺdomino effect.ʺ

Question 77

Place the investigation steps in the left-hand column in the correct sequence using the order in the right -hand column.
Column 1: identifying, collecting, and examining physical evidence
Column 2: fifth

Question 78

Only physical evidence that is useful in a court of law to prove or disprove facts fits the category of
evidence.