Ch5 Test Questions & Answers Police Organization, Operation,

Chapter 5: Police Organization, Operation, and the Law

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Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 5 - Question 1

1) Which is a difference between the police and the military that make supervising the police a different, and in many ways more difficult, job than supervising the military?

a. Discretion

b. Visibility

c. Authority

d. All of the above

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 5 - Question 2

2) Which activity most often brings police officers into face-to-face contact with citizens?

a. Traffic duties

b. Criminal investigation

c. Answering calls for service

d. Foot patrol

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 5 - Question 3

3) What would happen if the police attempted to enforce all the laws?

a. The mass of cases would obscure the most serious offenders.

b. The workload would swamp the criminal justice system.

c. All of the above

d. None of the above

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 5 - Question 4

4) This concept describes the decisions that police officers make about which laws to enforce, how much to enforce them, when to let some offenses slide, and when to devote attention to truly significant offenses.

a. Discretion

b. Policing style

c. Authority

d. Visibility

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 5 - Question 5

5) This is a reason based on known facts to think that a criminal offense has occurred.

a. Reasonable doubt

b. Suspicion

c. Probable cause

d. Stare decisis

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 5 - Question 6

6) This doctrine defines what constitutes a search.

a. Privacy

b. Trespass

c. Open-fields

d. Plain-view

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 5 - Question 7

7) This case held that people, not places, are protected from government intrusion whenever they have a reasonable expectation of privacy.

a. Terry v. Ohio

b. Katz v. United States

c. Illinois v. Gates

d. Florida v. Bostick

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 5 - Question 8

8) Which criterion must be met for the discovery of evidence to fall outside the Fourth Amendment's definition of a search?

a. The item must be in plain view of the officer.

b. The officer must lawfully be in the place where he discovered the evidence.

c. The incriminating nature of the evidence must be immediately apparent.

d. All of the above

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 5 - Question 9

9) In this case, the Supreme Court found that probable cause for a search does not demand proof beyond a reasonable doubt.

a. Katz v. United States

b. Batson v. Kentucky

c. Illinois v. Gates

d. Terry v. Ohio

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 5 - Question 10

10) The right to privacy does not extend to these even if officers are trespassing.

a. Flying aircraft

b. Moving automobiles

c. Open fields

d. Closed closets

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 5 - Question 11

11) In this case, the Supreme Court found that police have the right to search suspects to ensure their own safety if they think that the suspects are armed.

a. Nye County v. Plankinton

b. Terry. V. Ohio

c. Katz v. United States

d. Illinois v. Gates

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 5 - Question 12

12) Which of the following is not one of the major exceptions to the requirement that officers obtain warrants before conducting a search?

a. Whole house searches

b. Consent searches

c. Searches incident to arrest

d. Vehicle searches

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 5 - Question 13

13) Which one is an example of a special-needs search?

a. Inmate search

b. Juror search

c. House search

d. Automobile search

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 5 - Question 14

14) Which term describes when law enforcement officers take potential evidence in a criminal case?

a. Seizure

b. Grabbable area

c. Stop and frisk

d. stop

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 5 - Question 15

15) This temporary detention is legally a seizure of an individual.

a. Stop

b. Seizure

c. Incarceration

d. frisk

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 5 - Question 16

16) In this case, the Supreme Court determined that the test of what constitutes seizure is whether the suspect is free to decline an officer's request for a search and terminate the encounter.

a. Batson v. Kentucky

b. Florida v. Bostick

c. Marx v. California

d. Terry v. Ohio

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 5 - Question 17

17) This describes an incident in which the police show a sign of authority and the suspect submits.

a. Stop-and-frisk

b. Show-of-authority stop

c. Actual-seizure stop

d. Reasonable stop standard

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 5 - Question 18

18) In this case, the Supreme Court found that an arrest warrant allows only the search of a suspect's person and the immediate vicinity. Further searches require a warrant.

a. In re Gault

b. Chimel v. California

c. Terry v. Ohio

d. People v. Aphaylath

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 5 - Question 19

19) This is suspicion based on facts or circumstances that justifies stopping and sometimes searching an individual thought to be involved in illegal activity.

a. Reasonable suspicion

b. Reasonable stop standard

c. Probable cause

d. All of the above

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 5 - Question 20

20) Which is not a goal of police patrol?

a. To collect crime statistics

b. To enhance feelings of public safety

c. To deter crime

d. To make officers available for service

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 5 - Question 21

21) This is the most visible function of police.

a. Paperwork

b. Training

c. Patrol

d. All of the above

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 5 - Question 22

22) Which type of patrol can expand the range that officers can cover, allowing officers to patrol areas where motor vehicles are prohibited, and keeping officers in touch with the community?

a. Car patrol

b. Foot patrol

c. Bicycle patrol

d. None of the above

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 5 - Question 23

23) Which is a peacemaking or order-maintenance problem that the police may be called for?

a. Metal illness issues

b. Domestic disputes

c. Crowd control

d. All of the above

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 5 - Question 24

24) This is suspicion of illegal activity based on a person’s race, ethnicity, or national origin rather than on actual illegal activity or evidence of illegal activity.

a. Racial profiling

b. Racial preference

c. Racial predetermination

d. Racial priority

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 5 - Question 25

25) The procedural law that controls the activities of law enforcement is derived from this Amendment.

a. Fourth

b. First

c. Eighth

d. Sixth

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 5 - Question 26

26) The police do not make an arrest every time they are legally authorized to do so.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 5 - Question 27

27) The structure of law enforcement agencies is dissimilar to that of military units.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 5 - Question 28

28) The Fourth Amendment strictly limits the discretion police officers have in searching for and seizing evidence.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 5 - Question 29

29) Stops are searches. Frisks are seizures.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 5 - Question 30

30) An arrest is more invasive than a stop.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 5 - Question 31

31) One of the primary ways that law enforcement officials gather information about crime is from offenders.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 5 - Question 32

32) The Fifth Amendment, the Sixth Amendment, and the First Amendment are the constitutional amendments related to interrogation.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 5 - Question 33

33) According to Bittner, one of the reasons that the military model was attractive to police planners was the lack of other models of organization.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 5 - Question 34

34) Police officers exercise little discretion in their daily routines.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 5 - Question 35

35) Police-work is controlled by procedural laws.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 5 - Question 36

36) There is an unstated understanding between the police and the public that a pattern of non-enforcement is permissible.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 5 - Question 37

37) "Police officer as soldier" is a good way to think about how the police do their job.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 5 - Question 38

38) Enforcing traffic laws is one of the least-dangerous aspects of police work.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 5 - Question 39

39) Far more searches are conducted without warrants than with legally secured warrants.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 5 - Question 40

40) All laws, rules, and regulations that specify how the police can go about investigation, interrogation, and arrest need not be consistent with the Supreme Court’s interpretation of the Fourth Amendment.

a. True

b. False