Chapter 6 Quiz

1. Which of the following special operational task performed by local police departments uses the fewest full-time officers?

• Bomb/explosive response

• Picking up fugitives/search warrants

• Monitoring individuals in reentry/under surveillance

• Tactical operations

Which element of policing has had a high level of publicly scrutiny?

• Use of force

• Training and development of public partnerships

• Use of public resources

• Proper training for tactical operations

Society tend to face tension between which two?

• Governmental responsibility and public safety

• Order and liberty

• Order and chaos

• Individual responsibility and public safety

Which agency is responsible for the care and custody of federal inmates?

• County sheriff

• Municipal police department

• State police

• Federal Bureau of Prisons.

The police placing more emphasis on impersonal rules, laws, and discipline was an effort to gain

• accountability

• legitimacy

• equality

• shared governance

Which of the following sets of policing strategies focuses on identifying patterns of criminal

• Problem-oriented policing and terrorism-oriented policing

• Intelligence-led policing and problem-oriented policing

• Community policing and terrorism-oriented policing

• Problem-oriented policing and community policing

7. As the community policing model gained momentum in the 1980s and 1990s, another policing strategy known as began to attract increased attention and emphasized the interrelationships among what might otherwise appear to be disparate events

• incident-based policing

• neighborhood watch

• legal-based policing

• problem-oriented policing

Problem-oriented policing could be described as

• connecting the dots between otherwise unrelated criminal incidents

• taking a holistic approach to recurrent problems

• emphasizing the importance of using a team approach to deal with crime

• all of these could describe problem-oriented policing

Which of the following policing strategies would be best applied to proving assistance to a local public high school in its creation of an emergency plan?

• Intelligence-led policing

• Terrorism-oriented policing

• Community based policing

• Problem-oriented policing

Which of the following is a true statement about the “political era”

• The police sometimes grant immunity from arrest to those in power.

• Corruption and extortion become tradition in many departments

• Police officers would seek out every opportunity to make money.

• All of the above