Ch11 Policing And Multiculturalism Test Questions & Answers

CHAPTER 11:

POLICING AND MULTICULTURALISM

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS

1. Under what was known as the Frankpledge System, citizens raised the __________ upon being victimized, which generated a response from every able bodied male in the community.

a. call for vigilantism

b. round ‘em up

c. hue and cry

d. Amber Alert

2. London magistrate Sir Henry Fielding is credited with creating the ___________, a precursor to the first formal police department.

a. Bow Street Runners

b. London Metropolitan Police Force

c. Police of the Metropolis

d. London Bounty Hunters

3. The London Metropolitan Police was led by:

a. Timothy Elms

b. David Cole

c. Henry Fielding

d. Sir Robert Peel

4. __________ were laws designed to nullify the rights granted to newly freed slaves in the U.S.

a. Slave Laws

b. Black Codes

c. Corrective Justice Statutes

d. Protection Laws

5. The three eras of policing include all of the following, EXCEPT the _________ era.

a. political

b. community

c. reform

d. antagonistic

6. __________, or the practice of rewarding friends, created early police departments that often reflected the communities they served.

a. Civil service

b. Patronage

c. Communalism

d. Expatriation

7. The ___________ (also known as the Kerner Commission) was created to study the causes behind the rioting of the 1960s.

a. National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders

b. President’s Commission on Law Enforcement and Administration of

Justice

c. President’s Crime Commission

d. Justice For All Commission

8. As determined in the Supreme Court case ___________, the exclusionary rule prohibits the introduction in court of illegally seized materials.

a. Miranda v. Arizona

b. Gideon v. Wainwright

c. Mapp v. Ohio

d. Terry v. Ohio

9. Community policing involves decentralizing the organizational structure of a police department and implementing three primary components, including all of the following, EXCEPT _________-oriented policing.

a. strategic

b. problem

c. neighborhood

d. incident

10. Government agencies that receive public funds and all private employers must have affirmative action plans. Affirmative action plans require employers to do all of the following, EXCEPT:

a. conduct a census of current employees

b. ensure that at least 10% of administrative positions are held by females or

minorities

c. identify underutilization or concentration of minorities and women

d. develop a recruiting plan to correct any underutilization of minorities or

women

11. Too often, women and minorities in policing experience the __________, or an abstract barrier preventing certain groups and/or individuals from moving beyond entry-level positions.

a. glass ceiling

b. permeable horizon

c. vertical roadblock

d. wall of isolation

12. The __________ explanation of police use deadly force holds that disproportionate shootings of African American residents are more likely to occur where racial or economic differences are greatest, because of the threat resultant from the divisions between the groups.

a. reactive

b. political threat

c. cognitive dissonance

d. extremism

TRUE/FALSE QUESTIONS

1. The term “underpolicing” refers to the police denying equal protection to racial and ethnic minorities in the U.S. by failing to protect them from violent racist actions by Whites.

2. The history of formal policing dates back to the development of the Police of the Metropolis, the name for the police department established in London in 1829.

3. The London Metropolitan Police Act, passed in 1829, disbanded all formalized policing in London.

4. In the early American South, slave patrols were prohibited from entering the dwelling of slaves.

5. Limited technology and walking beats are representative of the community era of policing.

6. Prohibition had a significant effect on policing during the reform era.

7. The Watts (CA) riot was initiated by a traffic stop.

8. In the Supreme Court case Terry v. Ohio, the Court mandated that all defendants are entitled to representation.

9. The Christopher Commission was assembled in the wake of the Rodney King incident in response to claims of Los Angeles police officer misbehavior.

10. The police subculture promotes a distinct working personality that encourages solidarity, authoritarianism, and sometimes the exclusion of female and minority officers.

11. Alice Stebbins Well was the first African American female to head a large municipal police department.

12. It is argued that some Black officers suffer from double marginality, meaning that they are viewed as traitors by some in the black community, while their White officer colleagues may distrust them.