WorksheetsUnit 2 Professional Policing study guide
Total questions: 38
Worksheet time: 2hrs 52mins
Crime Stoppers was first established in Albuquerque, New Mexico in July 1976
True
False
What year was Crime Stoppers established in Texas
1951
1980
1981
1967
How long did it take for the first case to be solved using Crime Stopper?
2 days
24 hours
8 hours
3 days
Most Crime Stopper Organizations are _____ governed by a civilian board of director
For profit
Informally
Organizations
None profit
The three methods to ensure a tipster remains anonymous which of the following is NOT one?
Call or Text
Send email
Use Tip App
Write a letter
The coordinator should avoid accepting in-person or _______ tips to ensure the tipster’s anonymity
Unreliable
Face-to-Face
Phone calls
Noe of the answer are correct
In a properly conducted Crime Stoppers program, a tipster is _____for information, and not for anything else.
Thanked
Rewarded
Arrested
Paid
Tue or False: Certified organizations are eligible to receive funds from probation fees, which are used to pay rewards and cover operational expenses.
True
False
Tips are considered “_______” under law and may not be released, under penalty of law
Governmental information
Legal information
privileged information
Direct Information
What is the penalty for misused information if done to obtain monetary gain or anther benefit?
State Jail Felony
Class B Misdemeanor
3rd Degree Felony
Class A Misdemeanor
What US Supreme Court case acknowledged that an anonymous, uncorroborated tip can be used as the basis for a stop and/or search for weapons if the tip has a sufficient level of detail to give rise to a reasonable suspicion of criminal activity.
Engel v. Vitale
Navarette v California
Goss v. Lopez
Cooper v. Aaron
Crime Stoppers tips must generally be corroborated or verified through other sources when obtaining a warrant, and indeed to preserve anonymity under the law, must generally not be included in the submitted evidence at all.
True
False
What is the penalty for Misused information
Class A Misdemeanor
State Jail Felony
Class C Misdemeanor
Fine 1,000 or imprisonment of a year
The Texas Crime Stoppers Council members are appointed by the ______ and are required to represent a variety of relevant viewpoints, including a law enforcement coordinator.
President
District Attorney
Governor
Mayor
_______ Is term referring to the situation where an informant who has already given law enforcement officials
Channeling
Conveying
Transmit
Funneling
Funneling is not a _______ way of receiving a Crime Stoppers
Legal
Appropriate
Safe
Acceptable
Crime Stoppers organizations may only forward tips to _________ regarding school-related non-criminal behavior that does not constitute a danger to public safety or an individual.
School District Employees
Assigned Principle and Staff
Authorized School Staff
School Volunteer Group
_______ Æthelberht's code outlines an elaborate series of payments, connected with the notion of leodgeld – or wergild (a man's price, or blood-price), through which kindred could be compensated by the initial wrongdoer for injuries resulting from robberies, brawls or fights
Frankpledge
Tithe
Hundred
Wergild
_________ was an official position which began in Saxon times, when the reeve was empowered to hold court and try local civil and criminal matters.
Shire
Hundred
Shire Reeve
None of the answers are correct
_______ is ten + thing, which is to say, a thing (an assembly) of the households who live in an area that comprises ten hides
Hundred
Tithe
Wergild
Shire
_______ is the body of law derived from judicial decisions of courts and similar tribunals.
Flrankpledge
Shire
Tithe
Common law
The word SHIRE, denoting an "official charge" a "district under a governor", and a "care". In UK usage, shire became synonymous with county, an administrative term introduced to England through the Norman Conquest, in A.D. 1066.
True
False
The Norman King, ________, (1066AD) quickly modified the mutual pledge system to aid in the consolidation of his power.
Proto -Germanic
Henry Fielding
Robert Peel
William the Conqueror
__________ Robert Peel introduced the Metropolitan Police Act 1829, which prompted a rigorous and less discretionary approach to law enforcement.
Mayor
Governor
Home Secretary
Counselor
In _____ an Act of _______ was passed "for better regulating the Night Watch" of the City of London which specified the number of paid constables that should be on duty each night.
1973 Metropolitan
1970 Parliamentary
1737 Parliament
1675 Confederacy
Henry Fielding established the Bow Street Runners in______.
1675
1879
1949
1749
By the end of the _______, the constable system had developed into the system of rural law enforcement common to all of England.
1900-1940s
1900s
13th Century
None of the answers are correct
Which of the following is NOT part of Robert Peels 9 Policing Principles?
To seek and preserve public favor by not pandering to public opinion
To use physical force only when persuasion and is not sufficient. Seek and preserve public favor
To prevent crime and prevent crime and disorder and secure and maintain Respect
To Prompt a more discretionary approach and engage with community more offten
The members of the tithing, by a system known as_______
Sire Reeve
Tithe
Frankpledge
Leodgeld
In England a hundred was the division of a shire for military and judicial purposes under the common law, which could have varying extent of common feudal ownership, from complete suzerainty to minor royal or ecclesiastical prerogatives and rights of ownership.
True
Flase
America has it roots in European methods. Which one of the following is NOT part of the concepts
Bobby
Municipality
Common law
Sherif
the "Watch," or private-for-profit policing, which is called "_________” (Spitzer, 1979).
The Big Stick
Constables
Enforcement Officers
Watchmen
The first formal slave patrol was created in the Carolina colonies in 1704 (Reichel 1992). Slave patrols had three primary functions, which of the following is not one of them
Chase down/apprehend and return to slave owners
Bring slaves before Magistrate to punish and brand
Provide organized terror to prevent slave revolts
Maintain discipline for slave workers subject to summary justice
Who was known as the “Father of Texas”
Sir Robert Peel
Stephen F. Austin
William the Conqueror
Henry Fielding
Texas became a free and independent republic after the Battle of ________ in 1836
Gettysburg
San Guadalupe
San Austin
San Jacinto
All Rangers are involved in criminal investigations, no matter how high they climb in the hierarchy
True
False
The Texas Rangers are a division within the ___________.
Department of Homeland Security
Texas Department Of Transportation
Texas department of Public Safety
Texas Federal Government Department
Which of the following is NOT one of the Traditional Police Service Model
Citizen and Employee Expectation
Reactive Specialized units
Use of Criminal justice system
Incident Driven
