Police Organization

Question 1

What is the main difference between the Military and Law Enforcement?

Answer 1

Discretion: Individual police officers have more discretion than individual soldiers

Question 2

What kinds of things do officers decide on?

Answer 2

How has a law been broken, should an arrest be made, should advice be given?

Question 3

Police are responsible for their appearances because of…?

Answer 3

Visibility. The press and politics scrutinize police officers heavily.

Question 4

Many police departments operate under…?

Answer 4

Collective bargaining agreements

Question 5

Punishments for wrongdoing are spelled out, so the officers have…?

Answer 5

Authority

Question 6

The Federal Level of law enforcement contains which departments?

Answer 6

Department of Justice
Department of the Treasury
Department of Homeland Security

Question 7

The Department of Justice includes…?

Answer 7

FDA, FBI, border control, marshals

Question 8

The Department of the Treasury includes…?

Answer 8

Alcohol, tobacco, firearms, customs, IRS

Question 9

The Department of Homeland Security includes…?

Answer 9

Secret Service

Question 10

What is the organization at the state level?

Answer 10

It varies by state

Question 11

Montana’s organization includes…?

Answer 11

Highway Patrol (like 50% of states)

Question 12

What is Montana’s top legal agency?

Answer 12

The Department of Justice

Question 13

The Local level of law enforcement is…?

Answer 13

The cops, the first responders, patrol, and investigative

Question 14

The Local law enforcement stems from…?

Answer 14

The Sheriff’s department

Question 15

How does the Sheriff receive the position?

Answer 15

Elected

Question 16

Grew post-9/11 to combat terrorism, with ethnic profiling, emphasis on immigration, and has personnel shortages

Answer 16

Homeland Security

Question 17

What is the Patriot Act?

Answer 17

An act that allows for invasion of privacy in order to prevent terrorism.

Question 18

What is the Freedom Act?

Answer 18

Protects Civil Liberties, disallowing eavesdropping and other invasions of privacy.

Question 19

The construction and monitoring of databases for volumes of information in the legal system are part of…?

Answer 19

Information technologies

Question 20

CODIS is…?

Answer 20

The FBI’s Combined DNA Index System, every offender’s DNA is taken and entered into the system.