Chapter 6: Challenges to Effective Policing – Worksheet 2
TRUE/FALSE
1. All police departments practice incident-driven policing, which means that response time is
adapted based on the seriousness of the call.
T
F
REF: 186
OBJ: 5
2. General patrols are specifically designed to deal with crimes that commonly occur in certain
locations.
T
F
REF: 188
OBJ: 5, 2
3. Problem-oriented policing is a policing philosophy which requires police to identify
potential criminal activity and develop strategies to prevent that activity.
T
F
REF: 191
OBJ: 6
4. Police officers have relatively high rates of death and injury on the job.
T
F
REF: 195
OBJ: 6
5. Reasonable force is defined as the degree of force that is appropriate to protect the
police officer and other citizens and is not considered excessive.
T
F
REF: 197
OBJ: 7
6. The use of physical force by police officers is rare, occurring in about 1.6% in the
approximately 43.6 million public encounters.
T
F
REF: 197
OBJ: 7
7. One external procedure for handling citizen complaints is known as citizen oversight.
T
F
REF: 204
OBJ: 8
8. Ethical dilemmas include bribery and mooching.
T
F
REF: 205
OBJ: 9
140
MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. The Kansas City Experiment showed that decreasing preventive patrol
a. had little impact on crimes and overall effectiveness.
b. had a large impact on effectiveness.
c. significantly lowered reports of crime.
d. reduced calls for service to an all time low.
REF:
188
OBJ:
5
2. Arrests made by police officers that occur when officers respond to calls for service
are best described as
a. reactive.
b. proactive.
c. directed.
d. controlled.
REF:
189
OBJ:
5
3. Broken windows theory suggests that to decrease crime, law enforcement agencies
should crack down on
a. quality of life crimes.
b. violent crime.
c. property crime.
d. domestic violence.
REF:
189-190
OBJ: 5, 6
4. The process through which a police officer is taught the values and expected behavior
of the police subculture is called
a. assimilation.
b. acculturation.
c. socialization.
d. adaptation.
REF:
194
OBJ:
6
5. The suspicion that citizens are weak, corrupt, and dangerous is called
a. a police defense mechanism.
b. police cynicism.
c. a subcultural trait.
d. police skepticism.
REF: 194
OBJ:
6
141
6. Force applied by a police officer that is likely or intended to cause death is known as
a. less than lethal force.
b. non-deadly force.
c. aggressive force.
d. deadly force.
REF:
198
OBJ:
7
7. The use of force by police officers occurs in about _____ percent of all police-public
encounters.
a. 9.5
b. 4.0
c. 1.6
d. 6.6
REF:
197
OBJ:
7
8. In which case did the U.S. Supreme Court set the limits for the use of deadly force by
law enforcement officers?
a. Gaines v. Miller (1963)
b. Tennessee v. Garner (1985)
c. Graham v. Connor (1989)
d. Rovario v. United States (1957)
REF:
199
OBJ:
7
9. Which of the following is not a traditional form of police corruption listed in the text?
a. Mooching
b. Payoffs
c. Bribery
d. Snitching
REF:
202
OBJ:
8
10. A scenario in which a police officer attempts to coerce money from a criminal is?
a. Bribery
b. A gratuity
c. Mooching
d. A shakedown
REF:
202
OBJ:
8
11. Which of the following is not a category of ethical dilemma listed in the text?
a. Loyalty
b. Duty
c. Courage
d. Honesty
REF:
206
OBJ:
9
142
12. When an officer is struggling with an obligation to act in a certain manner, he or she is
struggling with the ethical dilemma of _____________________.
a. duty
b. discretion
c. honesty
d. loyalty
REF:
206
OBJ:
9
COMPLETION
1. _________________ is designed to respond to specific activities at specific times.
REF: 188
OBJ: 5
2. _____________are concentrated areas of high criminal activity that draw a directed
police response.
REF:
189
OBJ:
5
3. Arrests that occur because of concerted efforts by law enforcement agencies to
respond to a particular type of criminal behavior are
REF: 189
.
OBJ: 5
4. Wilson and Kelling developed the
theory to promote strategies to address
quality of life issues in neighborhoods.
REF: 189-190
OBJ: 5, 6
5. In Tennessee v. Garner, the U.S. Supreme Court set the limits for the use of
by law enforcement officers.
REF:
198
OBJ:
7
6. ________________ weapons are designed to subdue but not seriously harm suspects.
REF:
199
OBJ:
7
7. A division within a police department that investigates complaints of wrongdoing by
police officers is ________________________.
REF: 203
OBJ: 8
8. The fundamental questions of fairness, justice, rightness, and wrongness are the
subject matter of
.
REF:
204
143
OBJ:
9