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As of January 5, 2016, approximately how many community policing officers and deputies have been funded by the Office of the Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS)?
127,000
The knowledge to carry out cybercrimes is readily available online at hacker
All of the answers are correct.
Which of the following statements is true about the Fair Sentencing Act of 2010 signed into law by President Barack Obama?
It discarded the mandatory minimum 5-year prison sentence for first-time offenders possessing crack cocaine.
Which of the following is NOT a criticism of the War on Drugs?
The abuse or misuse of illegal drugs has contributed to more deaths annually than either alcohol or tobacco.
Your textbook describes four characteristics that generally define the role of the police. Which of the following is NOT among those characteristics?
The police perform ongoing educational roles in the community
Which of the following is NOT a criticism of civil asset forfeiture laws?
The standard of proof in civil asset forfeiture cases is too high.
Which of the following is NOT true about civil asset forfeiture as a tool in drug enforcement?
The state must only prove by a preponderance of evidence that the property was used in a crime.
Which of the following are the three variables that interact to form a crime triangle?
a victim, an offender, and a location
When an entire patrol section is instructed to make numerous traffic stops and field interrogations, the practice is referred to as ________ patrol.
aggressive
Which of the following is the most widely used crime-mapping application?
geographic information system (GIS) crime mapping
The only personal experience most people have with the criminal justice process is contact with a
local police officer
According to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration's 2013 National Survey on Drug Use and Health, approximately how many Americans aged 12 and older reported using an illegal drug in the month before the survey was conducted?
24.6 million
Of the approximately 1.2 million people arrested in 2014 for drug abuse violations, approximately ________ were black. Yet, blacks are about ________ of all lifetime illegal drug users.
29 perecnt; 12 percent
In 2014, approximately ________ of federal prisoners and, at year-end 2013, ________ of state prisoners were incarcerated for drug offenses.
50 percent; 15.7 percent
In 2014, how many law enforcement officers were feloniously killed in the line of duty in the United States?
51
According to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration's 2013 National Survey on Drug Use and Health, among past-month illegal drug users, approximately what percentage of them reported using only marijuana?
64.7 percent
Of the approximately 1.2 million people arrested in 2014 for drug abuse violations, what percentage was white?
69 percent
According to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration's 2013 National Survey on Drug Use and Health, approximately how many Americans aged 12 and older reported using marijuana daily or nearly daily?
8.1 million
Researchers discovered that in ________ of crimes, citizens wait 5-10 minutes to call the police, precluding catching the criminal at the scene.
90 percent
In recent years, the mission of D.A.R.E. has expanded to include
All of the answers are correct.
In which of the following ways can community policing contribute to drug enforcement?
All of the answers are correct.
One of the more important functions of traffic units is to
All of the answers are correct.
With DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) profiling, a unique genetic profile can be derived from ________ found at the scene of a crime or on a victim.
All the answers are correct.
Following are three parts of the acronym "SARA", which some community policing advocates recommend as a four-step problem-solving process. Which of the following is NOT one of the components of SARA?
Arrival—determining the situation's timeliness
Identify a true statement about community policing.
Critical decisions are required to be made at the neighborhood level.
Your textbook describes several ways in which cybercriminals can illegally access, manipulate, or steal computer data. Which of the following is NOT one of them?
Cybercriminals alter DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) in records, thus hampering and sometimes destroying criminal investigations.
Your textbook gives three reasons why, despite low crime-solving rates by detectives, many police departments continue to employ them. Which of the following is NOT one of those reasons?
Detectives have wider jurisdiction than patrol officers do, and they can arrest and book some suspects that other police officers cannot.
In the context of cybercrime, identify a true statement about ponzi or pyramid schemes.
Early investors are paid returns with the investment money received from the later investors.
________ refer to individuals who are actually sent to the United States, often on work or student visas, with the purpose of moving money for criminals.
Premier mules
Which of the following is NOT true about terrorism?
The modern era of terrorism began with the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor in 1941 according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
Police detectives seem to have a number of advantages over patrol officers, and seven of these advantages are listed in your textbook. Which of the following is NOT one of these advantages?
They often move on to patronage jobs.
Criminologist Eugene Paoline's classification of police occupational styles is based on police officers' attitudes toward citizens, supervisors, procedural guidelines, tactics, and police functions. His classification scheme includes seven different types of police officers. Which of the following is NOT one of those types?
avoiders
Your textbook names three distinct functions of DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) profiling. Which of the following is NOT one of these distinct functions?
collecting samples from all people at birth, so that a complete DNA database can be compiled
Criminal investigation has been defined as a lawful search for people and things to achieve three of the following goals. Which of these is NOT a goal of criminal investigation?
conduct preventive patrol to ferret out crime
Your textbook identifies six roles that investigators may play in a police department. Which of the following is NOT among those six roles?
conducting field interrogations and other types of aggressive patrol
In ________ patrol, officers are given guidance on how to use their patrol time, which is often based on the results of crime analyses that identify problem areas.
directed
Given the law enforcement officers feloniously killed in the line of duty in the United States in 2014, which of the following circumstances accounted for the largest number of deaths?
disturbance calls
Which of the following circumstances accounted for the largest number of law enforcement officers assaulted in the United States in 2014?
disturbance calls
Which of the following is one of the foundations upon which the professional model of policing is based?
follow-up investigation
Each year, nearly twice as many people are ________ than are ________.
killed in automobile accidents; murdered
One of the interesting findings of foot patrol research was that foot patrol officers were better able to deal with
minor annoyances—rowdy youths, panhandlers, and abandoned cars—that irritate citizens.
In 2013, approximately ________ local police departments had one or more officers assigned full-time to a multiagency drug enforcement task force, about the same number as in 2003.
one half of all
Which of the following is unquestionably the most time-consuming and resource-intensive task of any police agency?
patrol
Patrols that are "systematically unsystematic" and observant in an attempt to both deter and ferret out crime on their beats are known as random or ________ patrol.
preventive
John Broderick classified police officers by their degree of commitment to maintaining order and their respect for due process. Which of the following is NOT among his classifications?
punisher
According to political scientist William Muir's styles of policing, who among the following police officers hold values that make it difficult for them to use force to solve problems?
reciprocators
Which of the following drug enforcement strategies accounts for the greatest number of drug arrests and seizures in the United States?
street-level enforcement
Which of the following is currently the most complete DNA database in the United States?
the Combined DNA Index System (CODIS)
Which of the following agencies has the largest Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System (IAFIS)?
the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
Your textbook gives three reasons why many victims of cybercrime fail to report these crimes to authorities. Which of the following is NOT one of those reasons?
the fear of being implicated in the crime