Deck 5: Policing, Innovations, and Controversies

Question 1

According to the International Association of Chiefs of Police this is, "the amount of effort required by police to compel compliance from an unwilling subject."

A) Use of force
B) Posse comitatus
C) Double marginality
D) Compliance compulsion

Answer 1

Use of force

Question 2

The expectation of how much and what type of force an officer will use in a given situation varies according to several factors. Which is one of these factors?

A) Time of day
B) Whether the officer is alone or working with a partner
C) The size and sex of the suspect
D) All of the above

Answer 2

All of the above

Question 3

How is excessive use of force by the police problematic?

A) Legal liability
B) Physical injury or death
C) Loss of citizen respect
D) All of the above

Answer 3

All of the above

Question 4

According to Graham v. Connor, which aspect of the Fourth Amendment governs police use of force during an arrest?

A) The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects
B) Probable cause
C) Objective reasonableness
D) Oaths and affirmations

Question 5

Which is a strategy to evaluate and control police officers' use of force?

A) Immediate fire offending officers
B) Encourage members of the community to sue
C) Body cameras
D) Ethics education

Question 6

According to Black's Law Dictionary this is, "The entire population of a county above the age of 15, which a sheriff may summon to his assistance in certain cases as to aid him in keeping the peace, in pursuing and arresting felons, etc."

A) Use of force
B) Posse comitatus
C) National Guard Act
D) Stare decisis

Question 7

How has police militarization affected the nature of law enforcement?

A) It has improved relations between the police and the community
B) Private policing has decreased
C) Police identity has been reoriented from community policing practices
D) All of the above

Question 8

In what year was the first law enforcement officer feloniously killed in the line of duty in the United States?

A) 1892
B) 1902
C) 1792
D) 1922

Question 9

Which is not an aspect of policing that is associated with the risk of suicidal ideation (thinking about suicide)?

A) Alcohol use/abuse
B) Trauma from critical incidents
C) Shift work
D) mindfulness

Question 10

Which is not a strategy to reduce police stress?

A) Increase the paramilitary focus of the police
B) Ensure that officers are getting enough sleep
C) Increase the use of community policing
D) Make unattractive shifts more desirable for officers by increasing pay

Question 11

Which is not a strategy to reduce police stress?

A) Cameras encourage confrontations because the individuals who are being recorded want to be on Youtube
B) Cameras strengthen police accountability by documenting encounters between officers and the public
C) Recordings help administrators conceal internal agency problems
D) All of the above

Question 12

Which is not a method or device that police use to conduct surveillance on the public?

A) Dogs
B) Cell-phone trackers
C) Microphones set up throughout a jurisdiction or city
D) drones

Question 13

This is useful for generating leads in cases in which biological evidence is recovered from a crime scene.

A) INDIS
B) NODIS
C) CODIS
D) TETRIS

Question 14

The original intent of the Posse Comitatus Act was to end the use of federal troops to monitor state elections in the former Confederate states.

Question 15

Research has found that the stress of police work is highly related to alcohol abuse.

Question 16

Suicide is not an occupational hazard for police officers.

Question 17

No official statistics are kept on the prevalence of police corruption, so it is difficult to estimate how much occurs.

Question 18

The police mission is considerably more narrow than the military mission.

Question 19

Police officers are tasked with protecting citizens from foreign threats.

Question 20

Traditionally, there have been major distinctions between the roles of the police and those of the military.

Question 21

Police officers are systematically trained and culturally reinforced to consider everyone a potential assailant until they can size up the situation and determine that an individual poses no threat.

Question 22

The FBI keeps no statistics on the number of law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty.