Deck 10: Community Policing and Drugs

Question 1

According to the text, in what decade did large segments of U.S.society started to focus on the drug problem?

A)the 1950s
B)the 1970s
C)the 1960s
D)the 1980s

Answer 1

the 1960s

Question 2

Moore and Kleiman (2003) include which of the following as a drug elimination strategy?

A)prevent children from experimenting with drugs
B)fight drugs on the U.S.border
C)fight drugs in the countries where they are produced
D)all of the above

Answer 2

prevent children from experimenting with drugs

Question 3

High-level enforcement is designed to do what?

A)outlaw drugs
B)focus on consumption
C)attack the top of the drug trafficking hierarchy
D)focus on the legal system

Answer 3

attack the top of the drug trafficking hierarchy

Question 4

Who is responsible for high-level enforcement?

A)federal police
B)state police
C)local police
D)private police

Question 5

What government agency has the primary responsibility to cut off drugs coming into the United States?

A)Drug Enforcement Administration
B)Food and Drug Administration
C)Federal Drug Administration
D)The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives

Question 6

What government agency has the primary responsibility of interdicting drugs that are intermingled with exports coming into the United States?

A)Drug Enforcement Administration
B)Federal Drug Transport Agency
C)U.S.Customs and Border Protection
D)Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives

Question 7

Indiscreet drug trafficking means that police have:

A)moved drug dealers to a different location
B)failed in protecting people who reside in neighborhoods where drug dealers work
C)succeeded in protecting people who reside in neighborhoods where drug dealers work
D)both a and c

Question 8

According to the text, this type of drug trafficking is very likely widespread in many communities and is virtually impossible for the police to stop.

A)indiscreet
B)high-level
C)street level
D)discreet

Question 9

The theory of _________ is based upon the economics of supply and demand and dictates that anything that substantially reduces supply increases price.

A)high-level enforcement
B)retail-level enforcement
C)interdiction
D)apprehension

Question 10

Which law enforcement agencies have the responsibility for combatting high-level drug organizations?

A)U.S.Customs and Border Protection (CBP)
B)Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
C)Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF)
D)all of the above

Question 11

is defined as "abrupt escalations in law enforcement activities that are intended to increase the perceived or actual threat of apprehension for certain offences occurring in certain situations or locations."

A)Raid
B)Crackdown
C)Interdiction
D)Buy-Bust

Question 12

are where officers pose as drug dealers and arrest people who attempt to buy drugs from them.

A)Raids
B)Crackdowns
C)Reverse stings
D)Buy-Busts

Question 13

are specifically localized search and seizure type operations.

A)Raids
B)Crackdowns
C)Reverse stings
D)Buy-Busts

Question 14

In , officers will immediately or within a short time arrest the seller to avoid identity problems or flight.

A)Raids
B)Crackdowns
C)Reverse stings
D)Buy-Busts

Question 15

At the retail level of enforcement, police may use which of the following tactics?

A)multi-jurisdictional task forces
B)drug-free zones
C)drug nuisance abatement
D)all of the above

Question 16

According to the text, community policing requires that we abandon the all-out law enforcement assault on drugs and adopt solutions that focus on problem solving.

Question 17

Most drug use relates to cocaine, and for the most part it has not been associated with crime.

Question 18

In the end, high-level enforcement has little impact on the availability and price of drugs on the street.

Question 19

Retail-level enforcement strategies attempt to reduce "discreet" and "indiscreet" drug dealing, with the latter more susceptible to control.

Question 20

Undercover drug buys consist of officers working undercover who attempt to buy drugs from street dealers in order to make arrests and cases.

Question 21

Informants are people who provide officers with information about drug dealing.

Question 22

Multi-jurisdictional drug task forces consist of large drug enforcement units comprising officers from a number of jurisdictions.

Question 23

Drug nuisance abatement consists of civil remedies and third-party policing.

Question 24

Eighty percent of total U.S.drug control spending is for education and rehabilitation.

Question 25

There are two groups of people that have information about crime: criminals and the people who are unwillingly exposed to these criminal operations.

Question 26

According to the text, traditional undercover operations can gather more and better information about drug dealing with less danger and expense than community policing.

Question 27

One of the primary goals of any police strategy is to reduce the violence and health consequences associated with drug trafficking.

Question 28

Retail-level drug enforcement has used two primary tactics: interdiction and concentrating enforcement and apprehending leaders of drug cartels or organizations.

Question 29

High-level drug enforcement has used two primary tactics: interdiction and concentrating enforcement on and apprehending leaders of drug cartels or organizations.

Question 30

According to the text, police should make harm reduction the criterion by which to guide drug enforcement planning and to evaluate enforcement programming.

Question 31

This question is twofold.One, why did the United States declare a "War on Drugs"? Explain.Second, according to your text, the "War on Drugs" was false.Explain.

Question 32

List and explain the six strategies to guide police administrators in drug reduction.

Question 33

Explain the hierarchy of drug enforcement and its response to what level of drug dealing.

Question 34

What are the drug strategies or tactics used to combat retail-level drug dealing?

Question 35

What are the tactics recommended in the text to suppress juvenile drug use? Explain.