Ch.6 Policing, Innovations, And Controversies Exam Questions

Chapter 6: Policing, Innovations, and Controversies

Test Bank

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 6 - Question 1

1) Which of the following is what we know with substantial confidence about police use of force?

a. Use of force typically occurs at the higher end of the physical spectrum

b. Police use force infrequently

c. Use of force typically occurs whenever an officer feels like it

d. Use of force appears to be unrelated to an officer’s personal characteristics

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 6 - Question 2

2) According to this case, deadly force may only be used if a suspect poses a threat to the lives of police officers or bystanders.

a. Tennessee v. Garner

b. Furman v. Georgia

c. Chimel v. California

d. Gideon v. Wainwright

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 6 - Question 3

3) According to the International Association of Chiefs of Police this is, “the amount of effort required by police to compel compliance from an unwilling subject.”

a. Use of force

b. Posse comitatus

c. Double marginality

d. Compliance compulsion

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 6 - Question 4

4) The militarization of the police and the war-on-crime analogy are the most apparent in these divisions of law enforcement agencies.

a. DARE teams

b. SWAT teams

c. K-9 teams

d. SORT teams

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 6 - Question 5

5) Which is not a key element of the policeman's working personality?

a. Symbolic assailant

b. Solidarity

c. Danger

d. Social inclusion

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 6 - Question 6

6) This term refers to the mind-set of police who must deal with danger, authority, isolation, and suspicion while appearing to be efficient.

a. Zero-tolerance

b. Restorative justice

c. Broken windows

d. Policeman’s working personality

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 6 - Question 7

7) The expectation of how much and what type of force an officer will use in a given situation varies according to several factors. Which is one of these factors?

a. Time of day

b. Whether the officer is alone or working with a partner

c. The size and sex of the suspect

d. All of the above

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 6 - Question 8

8) How is excessive use of force by the police problematic?

a. Legal liability

b. Physical injury or death

c. Loss of citizen respect

d. All of the above

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 6 - Question 9

9) According to Graham v. Connor, which aspect of the Fourth Amendment governs police use of force during an arrest?

a. The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects

b. Probable cause

c. Objective reasonableness

d. Oaths and affirmations

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 6 - Question 10

10) A SWAT team is not likely to do this.

a. Provide security for visiting dignitaries

b. Rescue hostages

c. Run routine DUI checkpoints

d. Protect police officers engaged in crowd control

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 6 - Question 11

11) The first time that people of color worked as police officers in the U.S. was in 1805 in this city.

a. NYC

b. Atlanta

c. New Orleans

d. San Francisco

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 6 - Question 12

12) This term refers to the multiple outsider status of women and minority police officers.

a. Double inclusion

b. Double role

c. Double standard

d. Double marginality

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 6 - Question 13

13) Which is a strategy to evaluate and control police officers’ use of force?

a. Immediate fire offending officers

b. Encourage members of the community to sue

c. Body cameras

d. Ethics education

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 6 - Question 14

14) According to Black’s Law Dictionary this is, “The entire population of a county above the age of 15, which a sheriff may summon to his assistance in certain cases as to aid him in keeping the peace, in pursuing and arresting felons, etc.”

a. Use of force

b. Posse comitatus

c. National Guard Act

d. Stare decisis

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 6 - Question 15

15) How has police militarization affected the nature of law enforcement?

a. It has improved relations between the police and the community

b. Private policing has decreased

c. Police identity has been reoriented from community policing practices

d. All of the above

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 6 - Question 16

16) In what year was the first law enforcement officer feloniously killed in the line of duty in the United States?

a. 1892

b. 1902

c. 1792

d. 1922

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 6 - Question 17

17) Which is not an aspect of policing that is associated with the risk of suicidal ideation (thinking about suicide)?

a. Alcohol use/abuse

b. Trauma from critical incidents

c. Shift work

d. mindfulness

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 6 - Question 18

18) Which is not a strategy to reduce police stress?

a. Increase the paramilitary focus of the police

b. Ensure that officers are getting enough sleep

c. Increase the use of community policing

d. Make unattractive shifts more desirable for officers by increasing pay

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 6 - Question 19

19) Which is not a strategy to reduce police stress?

a. Cameras encourage confrontations because the individuals who are being recorded want to be on Youtube

b. Cameras strengthen police accountability by documenting encounters between officers and the public

c. Recordings help administrators conceal internal agency problems

d. All of the above

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 6 - Question 20

20) Which is not a method or device that police use to conduct surveillance on the public?

a. Dogs

b. Cell-phone trackers

c. Microphones set up throughout a jurisdiction or city

d. drones

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 6 - Question 21

21) This is useful for generating leads in cases in which biological evidence is recovered from a crime scene.

a. INDIS

b. NODIS

c. CODIS

d. TETRIS

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 6 - Question 22

22) In 1972, this commission released its report on New York City police corruption.

a. The Wickersham Commission

b. The Warren Commission

c. The Knapp Commission

d. The Rand Commission

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 6 - Question 23

23) This slang term described officers who actively sought situations that could produce financial gain.

a. Grass-eaters

b. Bobbies

c. Meat-eaters

d. flaking

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 6 - Question 24

24) This slang term described police officers who accepted bribes but did not actively pursue them.

a. Coppers

b. Grass-eaters

c. Dropsies

d. Meat-eaters

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 6 - Question 25

25) What job-related problems might a police officer's family experience?

a. The dangers associated with police work

b. A change in the officer’s personality

c. Isolation of the officer

d. All of the above

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 6 - Question 26

26) The family members of police officers rarely experience stress.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 6 - Question 27

27) In the distant past, minorities never worked in law enforcement.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 6 - Question 28

28) The original intent of the Posse Comitatus Act was to end the use of federal troops to monitor state elections in the former Confederate states.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 6 - Question 29

29) The "lawful use of force" is mandated by law and easily understood.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 6 - Question 30

30) Research has found that the stress of police work is highly related to alcohol abuse.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 6 - Question 31

31) Suicide is not an occupational hazard for police officers.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 6 - Question 32

32) No official statistics are kept on the prevalence of police corruption, so it is difficult to estimate how much occurs.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 6 - Question 33

33) The police mission is considerably more narrow than the military mission.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 6 - Question 34

34) Police officers are tasked with protecting citizens from foreign threats.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 6 - Question 35

35) The threat of death or physical injury is a daily possibility in police work.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 6 - Question 36

36) The occupational culture of the police develops specific personality characteristics within officers.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 6 - Question 37

37) Traditionally, there have been major distinctions between the roles of the police and those of the military.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 6 - Question 38

38) A high percentage of officer suicides involve the officer’s own service gun.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 6 - Question 39

39) Police officers are systematically trained and culturally reinforced to consider everyone a potential assailant until they can size up the situation and determine that an individual poses no threat.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 6 - Question 40

40) The FBI keeps no statistics on the number of law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty.

a. True

b. False