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| Quality-of-life offenses are major law violations such as murder. |
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| Community policing is not well suited to the new role local police must play in counterterrorism. |
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| A decentralized state police agency often operates with two agencies: a highway patrol and a state bureau of investigation. |
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| Police chiefs are elected, and the mayor usually appoints sheriffs. |
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| Police–community relations (PCR) programs were a product of the tumultuous 1960s. |
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| James Q. Wilson’s legalistic style of policing has been referred to as laissez-faire policing because officers avoid disputes that do not break the law. |
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| James Q. Wilson’s service style of policing is based on order maintenance. |
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| The key to community policing is a partnership between the police and the community. |
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| Police use their discretion to exercise choice in their daily activities. |
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| Discretion is used mostly in routine situations that involve offenses that are not very serious. |
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| Strategic policing emphasizes an increased capacity to deal with crimes that are not well controlled by traditional methods. |
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| Which policing strategy reorganizes conventional patrol strategies into integrated and versatile police teams assigned to a fixed district? |
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| Which police strategy emphasizes an increased capacity to deal with crimes that are not well controlled by traditional methods? |
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| Which state had the first modern state police agency? |
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| preventive patrol does not affect citizens’ fear of crime |
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| The Kansas City Preventive Patrol Experiment established that ________. |
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| The F.B.I. operates one of the largest ________. |
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In what year did the FBI begin as the Bureau of Investigation? |
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| combines criminal investigations with patrol of state highways |
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| A centralized law enforcement agency ________. |
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| Which agency would NOT be encompassed by the term local police? |
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| to appoint a local coroner |
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| Which of the following is typically NOT a function of a sheriff’s department? |
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| The FBI headquarters are named after ________. |
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| The Kansas City experiment was regarding ________. |
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| The FBI headquarters is located in what city? |
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| Where is the nation’s largest law enforcement agency, with about 34,500 full-time sworn officers? |
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| Which of the following is NOT one of the three major levels of law enforcement? |
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| What strategy is designed to increase the productivity of patrol officers through the application of scientific analysis and evaluation of patrol techniques? |
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| What decade is considered the heyday of scientific police management? |
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| Citizens do not report the event to the police until a considerable amount of time passes. |
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| Why doesn’t police response time result in a significant number of arrests? |
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| Federal Bureau of Investigation |
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| Which federal agency is responsible for managing the database of DNA profiles of offenders? |
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| Which state was the first to centralize its state police force? |
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| Which local law enforcement official is responsible for serving court papers, maintaining security within courtrooms, and running the county jail? |
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| police serving the interests of politicians |
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| The political era of American policing was characterized by ________. |
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| Police stressed their role of service to the community. |
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| Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of the reform era of American policing? |
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| Semipermanent assignment of officers to particular neighborhoods is called ________. |
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| providing service to citizens |
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| Community policing is best characterized by which of the following? |
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| a particular set of values characteristic of the police |
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| What is the best way to describe police subculture? |
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| What name is most closely associated with the concept of “policing styles”? |
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| enforces the letter of the law |
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| The legalistic style of policing ________. |
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| recognizes that the police derive their legitimacy from the community they serve |
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| Police–community relations (PCR) as a police practice ________. |
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| In what era of policing did police departments focus most of their resources on solving “traditional” crimes such as murder and rape? |
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| Some authors have warned that the police subculture focuses almost exclusively on ________. |
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| Which policing style was in use when the Rodney King beating occurred in Los Angeles? |
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| If state troopers were instructed to write a ticket for any motorist going 1 mph over the speed limit, one could argue that this department was operating under what style of policing? |
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| Which era is said to have grown out of national concerns with terrorism prevention? |
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| A neighborhood resource officer asks residents to clean up litter, remove graffiti, and install better lighting in a nearby park that is known for extensive drug dealing. Such a request is characteristic of what type of policing? |
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| Trojanowicz’s Community Policing |
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| What may be the definitive book on community policing? |
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| centralization of command |
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| Which of the following is NOT an element of community policing? |
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| It is still evolving and involves efforts to deal with threats to the homeland. |
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| Which of the following is true of the ILP era? |
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| ________ is when law enforcement officers exercise choice while carrying out their duties. |
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