Chapter 4: Policing-Purpose and Organization

Question 1

The FBI is one fo the best-known federal law enforcement agencies

Answer 1

True

Question 2

Which of the following is a function of centralized state police agencies? Patrol the state highways, provide select training for municipal and county officers, maintain a centralized criminal records repository, all of the above

Answer 2

All of the above

Question 3

Which is the term for a multiagency law enforcement facility defined to enhance cooperative efforts through a coordinate process fro collecting, sharing, and analyzing information

Answer 3

Fusion center

Question 4

The major reasons for the quick growth of the private protective services include: an increase in crimes in the workplace, an increase in fear of crime and terrorism, the fiscal crises of the state government, or all of the above

Answer 4

All of the above

Question 5

Interpol is

Answer 5

International Criminal police organization

Question 6

In police organizations, what are the field or supervisory activities directly related to day-to-day police work?

Answer 6

Line operations

Question 7

Which term refers to the number of police personnel or the number of units supervised by a particular officer?

Answer 7

Span of control

Question 8

During which policing era did police gain pride in their profession and focus on “traditional” crime-fighting?

Answer 8

The reform era

Question 9

Intelligence-led policing is part of which policing era

Answer 9

The new era

Question 10

Which style of policing is marked with a concern for order maintenance?

Answer 10

Watchman style

Question 11

Police-community relations programs represented a movement away from an exclusive police emphases on the apprehension of law violates, and meant increasing the level of positive police-citizen interactions

Answer 11

True

Question 12

Which type of policing is something of a holdover from the reform era, and emphasizes an increased capacity to deal with crimes that are not well controlled by traditional methods?

Answer 12

Strategic policing

Question 13

Community policing involved which of the following elements? Reorientation of patrol activities, increased police accountability to the public, decentralization of command

Answer 13

All of the above are involved in community policing

Question 14

Which term refers to the application of social science techniques to the study of police administration for the purposes of increasing effectiveness?

Answer 14

Scientific police management

Question 15

Which term refers to the use of the best available research on the outcomes of police work to implement guidelines and evaluate agencies, units, and officers?

Answer 15

Evidence-based policing