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Random
100

Which level of law enforcement operates on a for-profit basis?

Private 

100

Which element of the police mission involves a proactive approach to the problem of crime?

Preventing crime

100

 Which Amendment to the U.S. Constitution provides protection from being arrested without probable cause?

The Fourth Amendment

100

  _____________ is defined as a particular set of values, beliefs, and acceptable forms of behavior characteristic of American police.

The police subculture

100

  __________ is the branch of a police organization tasked with investigating charges of wrongdoing involving members of the department.

Internal Affairs 

200

Currently, the main priority of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is __________.

Counterterrorism 

200

  ___________ is line of authority that extends through all levels of an organization from the highest to the lowest

 Chain of command

200

 The ________ holds that illegally-seized evidence cannot be used in a trial.

exclusionary rule

200


__________ was the more common form of police corruption, was described as illegitimate

activity that occurs from time to time in the normal course of police work.

 Grass eating

200

 In which landmark case did the U.S. Supreme Court apply the exclusionary rule to the state level?

Mapp v. Ohio

300

In the _______ model of state police organization, officers are responsible for the patrol of state highways AND for major criminal investigations.

 centralized

300

 Officers who follow the ______ style of policing are likely to take a hands-off approach to community disputes and violations of social norms.

legalistic

300

The ___________ Court is considered to be liberal and progressive because of a series of decisions that guaranteed nationwide recognition of individual rights by agencies at all levels of the criminal justice system.

Warren

300

______________ have been found to be less likely to use physical force and firearms, and more likely to use chemical weapons (mostly pepper spray), than other officers

Female Officers 

300

 The broken windows model of policing is focuses on __________.

Quality of life offenses 

400

  In 1829, ____________ formed the world’s first modern police force in London. It soon became a model for police forces around the world.

Robert Peel

400

 Laura is the chief of a large urban department. She believes that the goal of policing is professional crime fighting but also wants her department to focus on criminals such as white-collar criminals, computer criminals, and serial offenders. Laura is a proponent of __________.

strategic policing

400

Which U.S. Supreme Court landmark case established the exclusionary rule at the federal level?

Weeks v. U.S.

400

 U.S. Supreme Court case of _____________ the Court held that the use of deadly force by the police to prevent the escape of a fleeing felon could be justified only where the suspect could reasonably be thought to represent a significant threat of serious injury or death to the public or to the officer. 

Tennessee v. Garner

400

 Which of the following is an example of latent evidence?

 Fingerprints

500

 In 1974, the results of an experiment on preventive patrol in ___________ were published. This experiment is credited with beginning the tradition of scientific studies of policing.

Kansas, Missouri 

500

 Which of the following is a Windows-based spatial statistics-analysis software program used for analyzing crime-incident locations?

 CrimeStat

500

 In the case of Arizona v. Fulminante (1991), the U.S. Supreme Court put limits on the use of __________ during interrogatio

psychological manipulation

500

Police departments seeking _____________ through CALEA must meet hundreds of standards in areas as diverse as day-to-day operations, administration, review of incidents involving the use of a weapon by officers, and evaluation and promotion of personnel

accreditation  

500

In the case of ____________, two law enforcement officers stopped the defendant and asked for identification because they wanted to know who he was even though he had not been acting suspiciously.  The Supreme Court ruled that under those circumstances, he could not be punished merely for refusing to identify himself.

Brown v. Texas