Deck 2: The Development of the Modern Police Institution: Controlling the Dangerous Classes

Question 1

Among the most noteworthy changes in policing after the establishment of the London Metropolitan Police Department included:

A) Policing came under the control of the state.
B) The police stood as "buffers" between the rich and the masses.
C) Crime and rioting increased.
D) All of the above

Answer 1

D

Question 2

The Metropolitan Police of London:

A) Stressed the crime prevention role of the police.
B) Was strongly influenced by Sir Robert Peel.
C) Replaced the constabulary system as the dominant method of policing.
D) All of the above

Answer 2

D

Question 3

Robert Blauner used the concept "internal colonization" to describe what happened to African- Americans during the 1960s. By this he meant all but which one of the following?

A) There is a forced, involuntary entry.
B) The colonizers carry out policies which constrain, transform, or destroy the culture of the colonized.
C) Government bureaucracies and the legal system try to improve their status by helping them enter into the mainstream of America.
D) The colonized have the experience of being managed and manipulated by outsiders who look down upon them.

Answer 3

C

Question 4

The concept of "kin-police' refers to:

A) An earlier example of the "beat" patrolman
B) A form of self-policing in local communities.
C) Another word for the constabulary form of policing.
D) A form of policing in America after the Civil War.

Question 5

Among the reforms accomplished during the Progressive Era that concerned policing included which of the following?

A) The emergence of a federal role in policing.
B) The Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs.
C) The establishment of the civil service system
D) a and c only

Question 6

A study of the Buffalo police shows that during the late 19th century,

A) Population increased at a rate faster than the size of the police force.
B) Crime rose at a rate faster than did the size of the police force.
C) The size of the police force increased at a rate greater than the increase of both the general population and the crime rate.
D) None of the above is true.

Question 7

During the Progressive Era, such reforms as the regulation of the railroad and the communications industry, were supported by:

A) Business leaders.
B) Educational groups.
C) Reformers.
D) All of the above

Question 8

Among the duties of the constable, prior to the emergence of full-time policing, included which of the following?

A) The prevention of crime by ferreting out potential criminals.
B) Responding to calls by citizens for assistance.
C) Breaking up strikes and protests among workers.
D) All of the above

Question 9

In the United States, during the days of slavery, the police system in the Southern states was established to:

A) Control slaves and prevent any protests they might engage in.
B) Protect cotton from poachers.
C) Prevent illegal immigration from Mexico
D) Protect residents from British Retribution

Question 10

The earliest known police system existed in:

A) Babylonia
B) Greece
C) Rome
D) England

Question 11

One of the major problems faced by big business during the early part of the 20th century was the threat of a socialist movement. Among the responses of corporations included:

A) The emergence of a "public relations" industry to "sell the capitalist story to the masses."
B) Increasing employment opportunities for immigrants.
C) The "manufacture of consent."
D) Introducing the minimum wage law
E) a and c only

Question 12

In early English society, villagers responding to the tythingman's "hue and cry" were often given rewards. This system was called:

A) Watch and ward.
B) Frankpledge
C) Mutual pledge
D) Preventive policing

Question 13

The "Progressive Era" can best be described in the following way (s):

A) There was a movement aimed to rid the nation of widespread corruption in the cities and to "restore representative government."
B) There was a movement to make state governments more responsive to the people and as instruments of social welfare, rather that subservient to corporations.
C) There was a national movement to attempt to subject railroads, industrial corporations, and banks to effective public control.
D) All of the above.

Question 14

The London Metropolitan Police was in part modeled after:

A) The Boston Police
B) The Bow Street Runners
C) The police of the Roman Empire
D) The American slave patrols

Question 15

About when was police corruption first identified as a serious problem?

A) In World War II.
B) In the 19th century.
C) With the findings of the Wickersham Commission in 1931.
D) With the findings of the Knapp Commission in the 1970s

Question 16

Among the forms of policing in Europe existing prior to the formation of the London Metropolitan Police included which of the following?

A) Constables.
B) Sheriffs.
C) Vigiles.
D) All of the above
E) a and c only

Question 17

Most arrests by the police of the 19th century in the U.S. were for which of the following types of offenses?

A) robberies
B) "public order" offenses
C) crimes against "morality"
D) burglaries

Question 18

A major impetus to the formation of a full-time police force in the United States during the 19th century was:

A) Riots and disorders.
B) An increase in the number of prostitutes.
C) An increase in violent crime.
D) The rise of organized crime.

Question 19

Which of the following is not an example of police reforms during the Progressive Era?

A) Centralization.
B) Changes in technology.
C) The re-establishment of the constabulary form of policing.
D) New crime prevention techniques.

Question 20

In the 19th century, the "public" police department concentrated their efforts on maintaining social order, the "private" police departments concentrated primarily on:

A) Assisting "public" police with street crime.
B) Protecting government buildings.
C) Helping poor people who were accused of crimes.
D) Protecting the private property of the capitalist class.

Question 21

Critically evaluate the movement known as the "Progressive Era."

Question 22

Discuss some of the major factors that led to the formation of professional policing in the United States and England during the 19th century.

Question 23

What was COINTELPRO?

Question 24

In what ways are the war on gangs and war on drugs illustrations of the theme of this book, controlling the dangerous classes?

Question 25

The growth of full-time policing in the 19th century stemmed mainly from the problem of drugs.

Question 26

Following the formation of the London Metropolitan Police in 1829 there was an increase in police efforts to crack down on serious crimes, such as robbery and murder.

Question 27

A study of the Buffalo police shows that crimes of violence constituted a major problem facing the police in that city.

Question 28

Special "gang units" within most police departments today seem to be little more than the result of efforts to obtain federal funds, rather than any objective threat of gang crime. Short answer/essays

Question 29

There is evidence linking the CIA with drugs getting into the United States after World War II.

Question 30

Crimes of the state are vigorously prosecuted by the United States government.

Question 31

COINTELPRO was a program begun during the Progressive Era having to do with the counting of intellectual property issues in urban policing.

Question 32

The breakup of the Black Panther Party during the late 1960s and early 1970s was led by the FBI.

Question 33

The Tythingman was a kind of policeman which existed in England prior to the Norman invasion.

Question 34

In what ways have the police functioned as agents of class control?

Question 35

Explain the persistence of corruption within police departments for more than a century.

Question 36

The concept of "kin-police" refers to a "mutual pledge" system.