Deck 5: Policing: History and Structure

Question 1

The preeminent organization for private security professionals.

A) ASIS
B) FBI
C) USDA
D) LEAA

Answer 1

A

Question 2

In 1844 New York combined their day and night forces into the New York City Police Department.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

A federal agency that was established to funnel federal funding to state and local law enforcement agencies that is now defunct was:

A) Wickersham Commission
B) Statute of Winchester
C) LEAA
D) USDA

Answer 3

C

Question 4

The first large scale scientific study of law enforcement practices was conducted in which American city?

A) New York
B) Philadelphia
C) Kansas City
D) Boston

Question 5

A police management strategy designed to increase the productivity of patrol officers through scientific analysis and evaluation of patrol techniques is called:

A) Routine patrol
B) Directed Patrol
C) Evidence based policing
D) Federal Policing

Question 6

Which commission,started in 1931,recognized prohibition as unenforceable as well as a catalyst to police corruption?

A) Wickersham
B) Bean c, Price
D) McWhorter

Question 7

The U.S.Coast Guard falls under the U.S.Navy Jurisdiction

Question 8

The nation's largest law enforcement agency is in: A)Chicago.
B)New York.
C)Miami.
D)Los Angeles.

Question 9

Which state created "the first modern state police agency" in 1829?

A) Pennsylvania
B) New York
C) Virginia
D) Maryland

Question 10

Which local law enforcement official is responsible for serving court papers,maintaining security within courtrooms,and running the county jail?

A) sheriff
B) police chief
C) bailiff
D) prosecutor

Question 11

What is considered the backbone of police work?

A) traffic
B) patrol
C) investigation
D) crime analysis

Question 12

The Statute of Winchester:

A) was written by Robert Peel.
B) created the watch and ward.
C) was used by the Bow Street Runners to apprehend violent criminals.
D) formed the new police.

Question 13

The Bow Street Runners:

A) were the most disciplined enforcement agents in London during its time.
B) were created by Jonathon Wild
C) were also known as bobbies.
D) were part of the comes stabuli.

Question 14

Vigilantism is the act of taking the law into one's own hands.

Question 15

Which of the following people was associated with London's New Police?

A) Charles Lynch
B) J. Edgar Hoover
C) Robert Peel
D) Alice Stebbins Wells

Question 16

________ is an early form of police patrol in English cities and towns.

A) Scientific police management
B) Vigilantism
C) Nightwatch
D) Directed patrol

Question 17

In any discussion of evidence-based policing,it is important to remember that the word "evidence" refers to criminal evidence,not scientific evidence.

Question 18

A decentralized state police agency operates with two agencies-a highway patrol and a state bureau of investigation

Question 19

Which of the following is not a prominent private security firm?

A) Wells Fargo
B) Pinkerton
C) Wackenhut
D) Enron

Question 20

What are the three major levels of law enforcement?

A) state, city, county
B) federal, county, campus
C) county, city, federal
D) state, federal, local

Question 21

Explain the eGuardian System and its effect on future police work.

Question 22

The local police,or a city- or town-based law enforcement agency is known as a ________ police department

Question 23

Match the term in the numbered column with the answer in the lettered column.Match the federal agencies with the department they fall under.
a.Department of Homeland Security
b.Department of the Interior
c.Department of Justice
d.Department of Health and Human Services
National Park Service,US Park Police

Question 24

___________ International is the preeminent international organization for private security professionals.

Question 25

Describe the role of the private protected services today and in the future in the U.S.

Question 26

Match the term in the numbered column with the answer in the lettered column.Match the federal agencies with the department they fall under.
a.Department of Homeland Security
b.Department of the Interior
c.Department of Justice
d.Department of Health and Human Services
Food and Drug Administration,Office of Criminal Investigations

Question 27

List and define the three levels of Law Enforcement.Give examples of each level.

Question 28

One of the major factors determining the development of American
law enforcement was the frontier.Discuss some of the early Americans and tactics,mentioned in the chapter that had an impact on police work

Question 29

What different kinds of local law enforcement agencies exist in the United States today? What role does each agency have in enforcing the law?

Question 30

_______________ is the elected chief officer of a county law enforcement agency.

Question 31

Match the term in the numbered column with the answer in the lettered column.Match the federal agencies with the department they fall under.
a.Department of Homeland Security
b.Department of the Interior
c.Department of Justice
d.Department of Health and Human Services
Secret Service,US Coast Guard,US Customs and Border Protection

Question 32

Match the term in the numbered column with the answer in the lettered column.Match the federal agencies with the department they fall under.
a.Department of Homeland Security
b.Department of the Interior
c.Department of Justice
d.Department of Health and Human Services
FBI,DEA,US Marshals Service

Question 33

Answer each part of the following questions with succinct and comprehensive information by citing examples of various models, laws, and justice theories in your answer.
The Kansas City studies had an impact on several traditional views about police patrol work.
Discuss the study and specifically the affect they had on preventative patrol and traditional response to calls for service.

Question 34

Answer each part of the following questions with succinct and comprehensive information by citing examples of various models, laws, and justice theories in your answer.
What is evidence-based policing? What assumptions about police work have scientific studies of law enforcement called into question? What other assumptions made about police work today might be similarly questioned or studied?

Question 35

__________________constitute a fourth level of enforcement activity in the U.S.today.

Question 36

The Federal Bureau of Investigation is part of the Department of ________.