Unit 2 Professional Policing Practice Exam

As a coordinator receives information, a code number is issued to the tipster. This code number does not ensure anonymity, however it helps track information through investigation, and is used in collecting rewards.

• True

• False

Answer explanation

Slide 13 (Crime Stoppers)

As a coordinator receives information, a code number is issued to the tipster. This code number ensures anonymity, helps track information through investigation, and is used in collecting rewards

Community policing provides a new way for the police to provide decentralized and personalized police service that offers every law-abiding citizen an opportunity to become active in the police process.

• True

• False

Answer explanation

Slide 80

Community policing requires both a philosophical shift in the way that police departments think about their mission and a commitment to the structural changes this new form of policing demands.  Community policing provides a new way for the police to provide decentralized and personalized police service that offers every law-abiding citizen an opportunity to become active in the police process.

When was the first Texas Crime Stoppers organization formed?

• 1978

• 1976

• 1981

• 1967

Answer explanation

Slide 4 (Crime Stoppers)

As a result, the first Crime Stoppers organization was created in Albuquerque in 1976. Two years later in 1978, the first Texas Crime Stoppers organization was formed in El Paso.

_______ was the daytime police.

• Watch

• Ward

• Bobby

• Sheriff

Answer explanation

Slide 24

The northeastern states generally had the “watch and ward” system.  “Watch” was nighttime, while “ward” was daytime police. 

As American policing developed in _______, ____________, and ______________, an entire system of criminal justice began to experience corruption.

• St. Louis, Chicago, and Cleveland

• New York, Boston, and Philadelphia

• Charleston, Memphis, and Washington D.C.

• Portland, Los Angeles, and Compton

Answer explanation

Slide 24

As American policing developed in New York, Boston, and Philadelphia, an entire system of criminal justice began to experience corruption.

Crime Stoppers was first established in _____________ in July _____

• El Paso / 1976

• Dallas / 1981

• Albuquerque / 1976

• Phoenix / 1978

Answer explanation

Slide 3 (Crime Stoppers)

Crime Stoppers was first established in Albuquerque, New Mexico in July 1976 by Detective Greg MacAleese of the Albuquerque Police Department’s Violent Crimes Squad.

________ is essential to Crime Stoppers operations, and has state law on its side to protect a tipsters' anonymity.

• Public Information Act

• Privileged Information

• Anonymity

• Legal Protections

Answer explanation

Slide 17 (Crime Stoppers)

Anonymity is essential to Crime Stoppers operations, and has state law on its side to protect a tipsters’ anonymity.

The conviction of Misuse of Information bars the offender ____ years from state employment.

• 5 years

• 2 years

• 10 years

• 30 years

Answer explanation

Slide 18 (Crime Stoppers)

Misuse of Information

•A Class A misdemeanor generally; or

•A third-degree felony if done to obtain monetary gain or another benefit.

•Anyone convicted of this offense is also barred from state employment for five years.

Which of these best relates to Community Policing?

• Officers focus on racial and ethnic tension issues and encourage increased services

• Officer seldom seen “on the streets”

• Officer is viewed as having a “stake in the community

• Chief of Police reacts to only the law enforcement concerns of special interest groups 

Answer explanation

Refer to chart on Slide 95 for best comprehension.

To solve problems - improved relations with citizens is a welcome byproduct of ______________?

• Community Policing

• Police - Community Relations

Answer explanation

Refer to slide 93 chart for better comprehension

COMMUNITY POLICING

Goal:  Solve problems - improved relations with citizens is a welcome byproduct