Police History
The man who is credited with establishing London’s first large-scale, civil police department in 1829.
Who is Sir Robert Peel?
The highest rank within a police department.
What is the Chief of Police?
This portion of the police officer examination process ensures individuals can do the job.
What is the medical exam?
The process in which some police officers refuse to report fellow officers’ misconduct.
What is the blue wall of silence?
This constitutional amendment protects against unreasonable searches and seizures.
What is the 4th Amendment?
The first decision maker in the criminal justice system and often the most important.
Who is a police officer?
Nearly half of all 911 calls originate from this device.
What is a cell phone?
This event, which occurred in Boston in 1919, was one of the most significant events in the history of policing, and it increased interest in police reform.
What is the Boston Police Strike?
These individuals are considered the backbone of police departments.
Who are police officers?
This is on-the-job training for recruits who recently graduated from the police academy.
What is field training?
The moral dilemma officers face where they can use illegal means to achieve a greater good.
What is the "Dirty Harry" problem?
The first ten amendments to the United States Constitution have a legal name.
What is the Bill of Rights?
The availability of a choice of options or actions one can take in a situation.
What is discretion?
This county was the first in the United States to use reverse 911.
What is DuPage County?
This legislation gave law enforcement the ability to search, seize, detain, or eavesdrop in their pursuit of possible terrorists.
What is the USA Patriot Act?
The management concept that says that each individual in an organization is supervised by one immediate supervisor or boss who in turn reports to a higher supervisor.
What is Chain of Command?
The courts do not typically support this as part of the police hiring process.
What are height and weight requirements?
Proactive investigation of corruption in which investigators provide opportunities for officers to commit illegal acts.
What is an integrity test?
Evidence that may lead a reasonable person to believe that a crime has been committed and that a certain person committed the crime.
What is probable cause?
The operational style of an officer who elects to make arrests for every and any violation.
Who is the law enforcer?
This form of forensic biology is referred to as the genetic fingerprint.
What is DNA?
This 13th-century policing system required all men in town to serve on the night watch.
What is the watch and ward?
The number of officers or subordinates a supervisor can supervise.
What is span of control?
Most police departments will reject a candidate for employment if they have this.
What is a felony conviction?
This Greek philosopher wrote the classic Nicomachean Ethics.
Who is Aristotle?
This standard of proof is necessary for police officers to conduct stops and frisks.
What is reasonable suspicion?
The operational style of an officer who elects to settle lawful violations without formal intervention.
What is the watchman style?
This index system contains DNA profiles from subjects convicted of serious felonies.
What is CODIS?
This Roman army unit could be considered the first actual police officers.
What is the Pratorian Guard?
The process of removing sworn officers from non-enforcement jobs and replacing them with non-sworn personnel.
What is civilianization?
This stage of the police selection process receives the most litigation.
What is the written exam?
The Knapp Commission’s report distinguished between these two types of corrupt officers.
What is grass-eaters and meat-eaters?
The interpretation of the Fourteenth Amendment by the U.S. Supreme Court holds that evidence seized in violation of the U.S. Constitution cannot be used in court against a defendant.
What is the exclusionary rule?
The U.S. Supreme Court case that ended the use of deadly force to prevent the escape of a fleeing felon.
What is Tennessee v. Garner?
The branch of forensic science examines hairs, fibers, and paints.
What is criminalistics?