Police Administration Chapter 1 Flashcards
In ____, New Amsterdam, now New York City, created its office of sheriff
1625
In 1833, ____ became the first city in this country to have a paid, full-time day police force
Philadelphia
It was not until 1844, in___ , that the first unified day-night police force was created
New York City
What were the two key shifts made by England’s economy during the late 17th and early 18th centuries?
(1) improved agricultural methods provided significant surplus crops to support people living in cities and (2) people were drawn to cities by the industrial revolution
In 1829, Parliament passed the Metropolitan Police Act with the strong support of____, creating a full-time police agency for London.
Sir Robert Peel
What caused 5,000 officers to be dismissed and another 6,000 resign In the Metropolitan Police’s first three years of its existence?
New principles stressing the need for professional conduct by the agency and its officers
____ were preferred as Pony Express riders because if they were killed, no one would miss them.
Orphans
Presently, there are 17,985 state and local law enforcement agencies with at least ____ or its equivalent
one full-time employee
Nearly ____ of all sworn personnel work for municipal departments with 100 or more full-time officers
two-thirds, 61 percent,
The ____ County Sheriff’s Department is the largest in the country with 9,461 deputies.
Los Angeles
____ is the process of acquiring and maintaining control over a government, including its policies, administration, and operations.
Politics
____ was often a tightly controlled political party headed by a boss or small autocratic group whose purpose was to repeatedly win elections for personal gain, often through graft and corruption.
Machine politics
The use of government resources by politicians to reward loyal voters is called ____
patronage or the spoils system.
In reaction to patronage, the ____ was passed in 1883.
Pendleton Act
President ____ was assassinated by Charles Guiteau, a frustrated seeker of a patronage job as ambassador to France
James Garfield
The ____ was established by the New York Senate to examine police corruption in the New York City Police Department.
Lexow Committee
President Theodore Roosevelt labeled writers who exposed social ills, scandals, and corruption as ____
“muckrakers.”
Staunton, Virginia, appointed the first ____, placing responsibility for day-to-day operations in the hands of a trained professional not beholding to any political party.
city manager
The Cleveland Foundation completed a major study of crime and is noteworthy because it appears to be the model of using ____ to study police agencies.
outside experts
____ was appointed as the first female surgeon in the U.S. Army
Dr. Mary Edwards Walker
The genesis of American professional policing was the work of ____, the father of modern law enforcement.
August (Gus) Vollmer
The ____ placed another wedge between politics and administration by forbidding federal employees from engaging in partisan political activities
Hatch Act
Prohibition was ratified as the 18th Amendment to the Constitution in 1919, after pressure from the ____ movement.
temperance
Recognizing the widespread disobedience to the Volstead Act and the many ills associated with it, Congress abolished the Volstead Act in ____
1931
