Public Safety Systems & Agencies

What percentage of law enforcement agencies use community policing?

• 87 percent

• 56 percent

• 94 percent

• 62 percent

Which best describes "predictive policing"?

• Developing ways to identify areas of high risk for crime

• Basing policing decisions on previous knowledge about offenders

• Law enforcement working closing with the community

• Using probable cause to determine the reasonable use of force

Search and seizures are regulated by which amendment?

• Fourth

• Fifth

• Sixth

• Eighth

Which of the following is NOT on the use-of-force continuum?

• Vocal commands

• Physical restraint

• Lethal force

• Auditory methods

Why were state police successful according to the presentation?

• Because they effectively ended strikes

• Because they were unable to be corrupted by the mafia

• Because they were able to track criminals across city jurisdictions

• Because they were responding to specific problems with smuggling

Which of the following is a role of emergency medical response teams?

• To assess medical emergencies and transport patients to proper medical facilities

• To control, prevent or clean up hazardous materials

• To fight fires and rescue occupants of burning structures

• To gather information about crimes

Where were first aid techniques first created and implemented?

• Highways

• Battlefields

• Hospitals

• Prisons

Who was Edward Dalton?

• The first person to bring ambulance services to civilians

• The Surgeon General of the US Army in 1862

• The individual who founded the first professional forced called the Bow Street Runners

• The man who passed the Metropolitan Police Act to professionalize police in England

Which of the following was NOT a suggestion made by the National Academy of Science's report on accident deaths?

• Improving first aid training of the general public

• Regulating the dispatch services

• Wearing seatbelts and not driving distracted

• Standardizing the ambulance service equipment

Which of the following is NOT true about the Great Chicago Fire?

• It occurred in October

• It occurred in 1735

• It killed 300 people

• It left 100,000 people homeless