History of Policing
Investigation Technology
Police Dept. Technology
Officer and Cop Car Technology
Civilian Technology
100
This telephone company created and supported the concept of having a 911 telephone number for emergencies.
What is AT&T
100
Record management systems, automated fingerprint identification systems, and crime analysis systems all example of this.
What are technologies used in police investigations?
100
These are the types of activities that are conducted at the police department.
What are booking criminal activity, auto accidents, or any other reports that an on duty officer may have to complete in their daily duties.
100
This is the average life span (amt. of miles) of a typical patrol car.
What is 75,000-120,000 miles?
100
These devices are used to track your location via satellite. Their abbreviation is GPS. What does GPS stand for?
What is Global Positioning System.
200
This program, NCIC,is one of the most important computer based systems invented in American policing. (What does NCIC stand for)
What is National Crime Information Center
200
This system is currently used by the FBI to investigate violent crimes, and works to compares new cases to those held in the database on 188 variables relating to MO and outputs the top ten most similar cases.
What is the Violent Criminal Apprehension System (ViCAP)? ViCAP is used to investigate violent crimes, such as murders, missing persons, and unidentified bodies.
200
This is a downside to relying on computers to store and sort all police records
What is a computer database crash?
200
This is known as the highest degree of force used by a police officer?
What is a GUN
200
This abbreviation, RFID stands for?
What is Radio Frequency Identification.
300
This is the first era in the history of policing.
What is the Political Era
300
When investigating a traveling offender, it is important for technology to do this.
What is coordinate communication between agencies and share case information?
300
This software, CAD, is used to create forms and records for the many tasks an on duty Officer may have.
What is a Computer Aided Design program
300
This program, Automatic License Plate Recognition provides police with cameras that can accurately record a license plate when there is 180 mph differential between the police vehicle and other vehicles. How does this information help police?
What is finding drivers with warrants and solving Amber Alerts?
300
This device stores the information saved on your contacts and text messages on your phone. It can also be used by the police to acquire the same information.
What is a sim card.
400
This president launched efforts to support the development and use of technology for American policing during the end of the 1960's
What is President Lynden B. Johnson
400
Ideally, this should be able to generate a list of possible suspects, identify crime patterns in a given area, and provide a graphics display capability.
What is an information technology for investigating crime, especially burglary and shoplifting.
400
This software, RMS, creates a standardized form that is very professional in style and much more efficient when submitting to courts and insurance companies.
What is a Record Management System
400
This company was founded by Ex-Ford Executives, and was created specifically with the goal to produce a niche-vehicle for law enforcement. What company is this?
What is Carbon Motors?
400
This method of GPS identifies a consumer by identifying their distance from three locations.
What is triangulation.
500
This person perfected the fingerprinting and telegraphing systems at a crime lab in Berkley, California
Who is August Vollmer?
500
These publicly available resources are not specialized for police investigations, but are used by police for the wealth of personal information they contain.
What are social networking sites? What is MySpace and Facebook?
500
This software program works as a wants & warrants program that enhances officer’s duties by being able to identify numerous things to a certain person. The system can check license plates, VIN numbers, firearms, and driver’s licenses; and link them to any one person.
What is vision tek
500
This location is usually where a suspect is taken after an arrest by a police officer?
What is county Jail
500
The police require this in order to attain information saved by companies that manage GPS devices.
What is permission from a magistrate judge. (warrant would be incorrect)
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