CRJ TEST 2 DR KUMAR BROCKPORT 6-7
_________ is a policing strategy that focuses on reducing crime and disorder, such as loitering and graffiti, by involving residents in the job of policing.
Community-oriented policing
All of the following are examples of service activites of police EXCEPT
Controlling traffic.
Which of the following is NOT a police resource?
Criminals
Officers assigned to _________ generally report higher levels of satisfaction in their jobs.
Foot patrols
Dr. uses insect evidence to determine they time and place of death. Dr. Collins is a:
Forensic entomologist.
Dr. Jones works in the county medical examiner's office. She spends her days determining the cause and time of death of all murder victims. Dr Jones is a:
Forensic pathologist.
Dr. Lopez works for the criminal court in Miami, Florida. She interviews and examines defendants who are being tried for serious crimes. After she meets with the defendants, she determines if they are competent to stand trial. Dr. Lopez is a:
Forensic psychologist
The _________ Amendment ot the U.S. constitution protects residents from "unreasonable searches and seizures"
Fourth
The derivative evidence rule is also know as the _________ doctrine.
Fruit of the poisonous tree
Which of the following is NOT an example of maintaining order?
Giving direction
_________ is when police reasonably believe that the warrant or law authorizing a search or seizure is legitimate but it turns out it is not.
Good faith exception.
_________ of all calls ot police result in the dispatch of a police officer.
Half
An area of concentrated crime where there is a higher risk of vicimization is known as a
Hot spot
Illegally obtained evidence can be used in all of the folllowing instances EXCEPT:
Illegally obtained evidence can be used in all of these cases.
Who among the following is responsible for issuing an arrest warrant?
The judge
Wilson and Kelling's broken windows theory argues that there is a relationship between higher crime rates and:
The level of deterioration of a neighborhood.
What were the findings of the Kansas City Preventive Patrol Project?
The level of patrol in a neighborhood had no effect on the offense rates, response time, and level of public fear.
Which of the following is a FALSE statement according to research on elder abuse?
The majority of the victims of elder abuse were males
Who is repsonsible for locating key parties at a crime scene?
The patrol officer
Which of the following statements is true about the public opinion of police?
The public generally believes that racial profiling is more common than police brutality.
Why were a large number of institutions for the mentally ill closed?
There were cuts made to federal health care funding.
Why are police most often dispatched after a call?
To maintain order in a community
Which state police department developed CompStat?
New York
In general, _________ are more likely to support community policing.
Officers of color
Who performs the bulk of police work?
Patrol officer
Who is responsible for preserving the integrity of a crime scene?
Patrol officers?
Detective Smith illegally tapped Johnny's phone and heard Johnny talk about a famous painting that he stole form the MoMa. The detective used the information to obtain a warrant to search Johnny's home. In this scenario, the _________ would be suppressed as evidence under the exclusionary rule.
Phone tapping and stolen painting.
Community efficacy is less common in _________ communities.
Poor
_________ are not limited by the Fourth Amendment of the U.S. constitution unless they are acting at the request or demand of the government.
Private security officers
_________ is the amount of evidence necessary to obtain a warrant or conduct most searches and seizures.
Probable cause
_________ is a policing strategy based on conducting specific and detailed research on a community's challenges to discover the underlying dynamics of crime
Problem-oriented policing
A detective prepares the case for presentation to the _________, who reviews its worthiness for a court's scrutiny.
Prosecutor
In NYC, the entire subway system shut down due to massive power outage. People who usually took the subway were stranded and had to find alternate transportation. Police provided assistance and directions to the people. The assistance yb the police here is an example of.
Providing a service
Which of the following is NOT a principal role of policing?
Providing permanent holding facilities for arrested persons
The _________ is the array of calls for service awaiting handling.
Queue
A terry stop is permitted when police have _________ to believe that aperosn is engaged in criminal activity.
Reasonable suspicion
Which of the following is NOT a key focus of police owrk?
Recording court proceedings.
As part of the _________ step in the SARA model of problem-oriented policing, a department will most likely learn how other jurisdictions have dealt with the same problem.
Response
How have police departments responded to demographic changes in their communities?
By doing all of these
Almost half of all policing agencies in the U.S. have fewer than _________ sworn officers
10
Police became more involved with people with mental disabilities in the _________, when a large number of institutions for those with mental disabilities closed because of cuts made to federal mental health funding.
1980's
_________ of police departments nationwide serve communities of 25k people or fewer.
2/3
Support activites of police include all of the following EXCEPT:
Follow-up investigations
What was the suspect, who was the reason for the search of Mapp's boarding house, accused of in the case of Mapp v. Ohio?
Bombing
Which age group has the greatest confidence in police?
65 and older
Which of the following would be considered a private place according to Fourth Amendment standards?
A person's home.
Which of the following is a FALSE statement about the Miranda warnings?
A suspect cannot consult a lawyer once the questioning begins.
Which of the folllowing is NOT a component of SARA, a model of problem-oriented policing?
Adjustment
Which of the following is a complaint on aggressive order maintenance policing?
Aggressive order maintenance results in targeted policing in poor neighborhoods.
Which of the following is a FALSE statement about the homeless?
All homeless people are unemployed.
What affects the solvabiltity of a crime?
All of these answers are correct.
Which of the following is a part of elder abuse?
All of these answers are correct.
Which of the following is an indicator that a police department has implemented community policing strategies?
All of these answers are correct.
Why do police have the responsibility of enforcing traffic laws?
All of these answers are correct.
Why would police choose to obtain an arrest warrant?
All of these answers are correct.
Which of the following is an exception to the search warrant requirement?
All of these are exceptions to the search warrant requirement.
In the SARA Model of problem-oriented policing, the _________ step identifies anything that may be causing or influencing the problem.
Analysis
During a terry stop, a police officer is allowed to do all of the following EXCEPT:
Arrest an individual
In the _________ step of SARA, a problem oriented policing model, a police officer determines whether the program was put into effect as intended and whether the goals were met.
Assessment
_________ is the exception that applies when the link between the unconstitutional acts and the evidence becomes week due to intervening time or events
Attenuation
Which of the following is NOT one of the components of community-oriented policing?
Centralization of police units
_________ is the line of authority that extends throughout an organization
Chain of command
Municipal policing agencies receive most of their funds from:
City governments
_________ is a component of community policing that increases the number of community residents acitve in policing by assigning civilians to tasks previously performed by sworn officers.
Civilianization
_________ is considered the central nervous system of policing that coordinates the performance of law enforcement activities.
Communication
Line activites o fpolice include all of the following EXCEPT:
Communications
The ability of police and other public safety agencies from different jurisdictions to talk and share data is called
Communications interoperability
Which of the following is NOT a critique of community policing?
Community policy improves the degree of civilianization
_________ is the fanning out of substations in various areas so that the police maintain a physical presence throughout the community
Decentralization of command
Which of the following is a FALSE statement about a follow-up investigation?
Detectives make the majority of arrests after a complete follow-up investigation.
When investigating a case of arson, Detective Rodriguez questions the crowd around the crime scene and believes one of the witnesses to be the culprit. He places the suspect under arrest. Arresting suspects falls under which function of policing?
Enforcing the law
Two months after graduating from the police academy, Rookie Officer Pike starts patrolling the streets. On duty, he realizes that the police academy training was very different from the real world of policing. What od rookie police officers realize once they are on the job?
Every action takes much longer to complete than it does in the academy.
The exclusionary rule states that:
Evidence obtained in violation of the Fourth Amendment cannot be used against a criminal defendant at trial.
The _________ Amendment states that no person shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself.
Fifth
While interrogating a suspect for murder, the police beat and whipped the suspect in the interview room. This is a violation of the _________ Amendment.
Fifth.
The _________ allows for illegally obtained evidence to be admissible if police officers would have found it anyway had they used proper procedures.
Inevitable discovery exception.
Maintaining order is also known as:
Keeping the peace
Police use geographic information systems (GIS) to produce descriptions of crime occurrences and analyze the relationships between variables such as:
Location and time.
A group of university students was granted permission to hold a rally. On the day of the rally, 6,500 people gathered in a common area. The city's police department was called to help manage the crowds. At the rally the role of police was:
Maintaining order
_________ is an example of enforcing the law.
Making an arrest
Which of the following cases resulted in the extension of the exclusionary rule to the actions of state and local law enforcement officials?
Mapp vs Ohio
In the _________ step of the SARA model of problem-oriented policing, the police department identifies the problem, its consequences, the frequency with which it occurs, and any other information relevant to understanding it.
Scanning
Detective Smith illegally tapped Johnny's phone and heard Johnny talk about a famous painting that he stole from the MoMa. The detective used the information to obtain a warrant to search Johnny's home. In this scenario, the _________ would be the fruit of the poisonous tree.
Search Warrant
_________ is the extent of an individual's authority, or the number of individuals that one person is reponsible for overseeing
Span of control
On illegally entering Matthew's house to search for drugs, the police find evidence that Kristina is involved in a money-laundering scheme. Kristina does not live in Matthew's house. The evidence can be used against Kristina because she does not have:
Standing
Which of the following acts gave the government wide authority to engage in various kinds of electronic surveillance?
The USA PATRIOT Act.
What is the currently biggest problem involving DNA evidence?
The backlog of evidence to be analyzed
As their first job, newly appointed deputy sherriffs commonly serve a stint in
The county's jail facility
Which of the followig statements is false about warrants in the Fourth Amendment
The government must obtain a warrant before agents can conduct any reasonable search.
_________ allows evidence to be admissible if its discovery was not related to any improper search or seizure.
The independent source exception
_________ is the requirement that each individual within an organization reports directly to a single individual higher in the chain of command.
Unity of command
Which of the following is a FALSE statement about the comparison between rural and urban communities and policing?
Urban officers are more supportive of community policing strategies than rural officers
The _________ test established by the Supreme Court means that confessions are inadmissible unless made willingly.
Voluntariness
A _________ is a legal document permitting police to conduct a search or seizure to arrest someone.
Warrant
The Supreme COurt first articulated the exclusionary rule in the _________ case.
Weeks v. United States
_________ have the utmost confidence in the police.
Whites
Robert Smith spends his time going through the financial transactions of large businesses to make sure they are in compliance with federal law. Robert Smith is
a forensic accountant
Newly appointed deputy sheriffs are usually first assigned to _________
a stint in the county's jail facility.
In order for an act ot be a search or seizure, the target of the act must have a(n) _________ expectation of privacy.
reasonable
All of the following are ways that officers generally respond when they encounter a person whose behavior appears irrational EXCEPT:
transporting the individual to the police department where he will be counseled to diffuse the situation.
