EXAM 1

Question 1

The word police comes from the Latin word. . .

Answer 1

Policia

Question 2

Policia Means

Answer 2

Civil administration

Question 3

First form of English police officer and responsible for dealing with more serious breaches in law enforcement

Answer 3

The constable

Question 4

Beadles were . . .

Answer 4

assistants to the constable and walked the streets removing vagrants

Question 5

Who were thief-takers

Answer 5

private police. Had no official stauts and were paid by the king for every criminal they arrested - bounty hunters

Question 6

England’s first uniformed patrol was the ____ patrol

Answer 6

Horse patrol

Question 7

Henry Fieldings brought about the first official ___ reports

Answer 7

crime

Question 8

Bow street runners from fieldings organization were not ___ by public ____ but could accept rewards

Answer 8

Paid; public

Question 9

Peel’s Police created the first large scale, uniform, organized, ___, police force

Answer 9

Paid

Question 10

Precursor to the modern American system

Answer 10

Slave patrols

Question 11

Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857) Held that Dred Scott, a black slave, could not ___ in court for his freedom because he was not a citizen, but instead a piece of property

Answer 11

sue

Question 12

Where did the term “cops” come from?

Answer 12

The copper badges they wore

Question 13

The biggest problem with the Atlanta Georgia department was that they were made up of

Answer 13

“the poor, elderly, and the not-so honest element”

Question 14

Federal judiciary act of 1789 created the office of the ________

Answer 14

U.S. Marshalls

Question 15

Volstead Act

Answer 15

National prohibition, Eighteenth amendment

Question 16

The Wickersham Commission

Answer 16

First national study of The US Criminal justice system

Question 17

Father of policing:

Answer 17

August Vollmer can certainly be considered the father of policing

Question 18

Miranda VS Arizone (1966)

Answer 18

Required police to notify sus of rights before arrest and or questioning

Question 19

Rodney King Incident 1991

Answer 19

african american male killed by police, pushed american policing back 30 years

Question 20

LEMAS Program stands for. . .

Answer 20

Law enforcement management and administration program

Question 21

FBI

Answer 21

Federal bureau of investigation

Question 22

Vast majority of all law enforcment employees in the united states are ____ leo

Answer 22

Local law enforcment or local police

Question 23

majority of local police are employed by ______ agencies

Answer 23

larger

Question 24

Departments with fewer than __ full-time officer account for __ percent of all agencies. BUT employed just __ % of all officers

Answer 24

10;53;6

Question 25

Total % females in local departments

Answer 25

12.0%

Question 26

largest police dept is. . .

Answer 26

New York (NYPD) 36,023 sworn officers

Question 27

the largest county police department in the united states is the. . .

Answer 27

Miami-dade county police dept (3,120 offciers)

Question 28

Alaska does have a state -funded village public safety officer (VPSO) program for____ villages

Answer 28

small villages, 10 weeks training, little to no backup, HIGH turnover rate of 40%

Question 29

Governmental power to make or enforce laws on Indian country is divided among . . .

Answer 29

federal, state, and tribal gov'ts. Jurisdiction depends on nature of offense

Question 30

Public indian law 83-280 States include...

Answer 30

Alaska, California, Minnesota, Nebraska, orogen and Wisconsin

Question 31

Only state without a primary state LE agency is _______(although several local departments with state-wide jurisdiction)

Answer 31

Hawaii

Question 32

Traditionally, creation of laws and enforcement were matters of the _____

Answer 32

State

Question 33

Under The US attorney generals control, responsible for enforcing all federal law, rep'ing the gov't when it is involved in a court action, and conducting investigations through its law enforcement services

Answer 33

The U.S. Department of Justice (primary legal and prosecutorial arm of the US Gov

Question 34

Who operates the National Institute of Justice

Answer 34

Justice department

Question 35

FBi is best known of

Answer 35

the other federal law enforcement agencies

Question 36

NCJRS

Answer 36

National criminal justice reference service

Question 37

There is NO national ____ force

Answer 37

police

Question 38

Uniform crime report produces an annual compilation that includes information on ______

Answer 38

Crimes, arrest, offcier killed, and other data

Question 39

US Marshels provide. . .

Answer 39

witness protection, at fed trials, catch fed fugitives, execute fed warrants, operate fed protetcion program, and in charge of the US asset seizure and forfeiture programs

Question 40

Estabished march 2003. Merged 22 domestic agencies into one dept to protect the nation against outside threats. at conception, 170,000 empoyees

Answer 40

Dept of homeland security

Question 41

secret service also does what?

Answer 41

counterfit

Question 42

One supervisor for every __ to __ officers

Answer 42

6 to 10

Question 43

shared leadership

Question 44

Federal, state, and local departments are typically protected under what system>?

Answer 44

civil service regulations, typically larger dept's , but not alwasy

Question 45

Sworn members

Answer 45

officers

Question 46

Non-sworn

Answer 46

civilians

Question 47

Detectives exercise ___ supervisory role over police officers EXCEPT AT ____

Answer 47

NO; crimes scenes

Question 48

Platoon consists of. . .

Answer 48

all peeps working a particular shift, wacth, or squad (lieutenent in charge)

Question 49

The process of removing sworn officers from noncritical roles and replacing with civilians is called....

Answer 49

civilianization

Question 50

police reserves and auxiliaries are typically not paid BUT sometimes are ____

Answer 50

paid

Question 51

reserve offcier is ___ time, and who serves as _____.

Answer 51

part-time; serves as needed

Question 52

back-bone of dept is the

Answer 52

patrol

Question 53

__ hour shift is the most common

Answer 53

8

Question 54

Auxiliary are. . .

Answer 54

records, detention, drug, alchol srvices, property, labs, communications, etc