1. Which of the following provides a false image of policing that can negatively affect police image in a community and is a perception over which the police have little control?
A) Police novelty items
B) Police exercise of their authority
C) CSI effect
D) Police uniforms and equipment
2. Who is considered to be the father of American policing?
A) Robert Peel
B) J. Edgar Hoover
C) August Vollmer
D) O. W. Wilson
3. Which of the following is a true statement regarding community policing and police officer discretion?
A) Community policing works best when police discretion is minimized.
B) Community policing works best when police administrators maintain closer control on discretionary decision making about addressing crime community problems.
C) Community policing works best when community members have more discretionary decision making about addressing crime problems than police officers.
D) Community policing works best when police officers have the discretion to make decisions to help solve community problems.
4. In 1929, what major step did President Hoover take to address the inefficiency and corruption of policing in the United States?
A) Establishment of the FBI
B) Development of community policing
C) The appointment of the Wickersham Commission to study the criminal justice system.
D) Provided federal funding for professionalizing police agencies
5. Blanchard and Peale in writing about ethical decision making suggested three questions that can be used as personal ethics checks. Which of the following is not one of the questions?
A) How will it make me feel about myself?
B) Is it legal?
C) Is it balanced?
D) Is it fair?
6. The unique conglomeration of organizational values, beliefs and expectations that are passed on to newcomers in a police department is known as ________.
A) police organizational behavior
B) police mind-set
C) police culture
D) police subculture
7. What type of strategies does community policing emphasize?
A) Reactive
B) Deliberate
C) Enforcement-oriented
D) Proactive
8. What are the two basic themes that define the core components of community policing?
A) Police-community partnerships and proactive problem-solving approach.
B) Emphasis on specialization and police-centered solutions to crime prevention
C) Knowledge management and community engagement
D) Preventive patrol and reactive criminal investigations
9. What is often the root of ethical dilemmas in policing?
A) Politics
B) The ends-versus-means controversy.
C) Impaired integrity of new officers
D) Lack of accountability
10. Which of the following is a central tenet of community policing?
A) A focus on reactive, rapid-response patrol
B) Solving crime through the technical and scientific focus of criminalistics.
C) Police involvement with and responsiveness to the community.
D) Police-centered problem-solving efforts
11. What did Sir Robert Peel, founder of the London Metropolitan Police, consider the primary duty of police?
A) Criminal investigation
B) Enforcement of the law
C) Prevention of crime and disorder
D) Preservation of property rights
12. Which of the four dimensions of community policing, as defined by Gary Cordner, emphasizes that community policing is a philosophy rather than a program?
A) Strategic dimension
B) Philosophical dimension
C) Organizational dimension
D) Tactical dimension
13. What significant event first brought into question the effectiveness of police preventive patrols?
A) The Law Enforcement Assistance Administration funding studies
B) The Kansas City Preventive Patrol Study
C) An article, "Broken Windows" by George Keeling
D) An article, "Problem-Oriented Policing" by Herman Goldstein
14. Which of the following best describes the importance of police mission statements?
A) It reflects a police agency's commitment to the community it serves as a way to provide positive, meaningful police-community relations as well as to be more effective.
B) It provides a specific strategic plan for reducing crime
C) It provides a vision statement, specific departmental goals and objectives.
D) It provides a code of conduct for officers
15. Who in policing have the opportunity to use the greatest amount of discretion?
A) High-ranking police executives
B) Police supervisors
C) Police commanders
D) Patrol officers
16. Which of the following is the universally accepted definition of community policing?
A) Problem solving, community partnerships, preventive interventions and organizational change.
B) Community-based crime prevention combined with reoriented patrol.
C) There is no one universally accepted definition of community policing.
D) Partnerships, problem solving and crime prevention
17. Which presidential commission resulted in significant federal funding for police-related programs in the mid-1960s?
A) National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence
B) National Advisory Commission on Criminal Justice Standards and Goals
C) President's Commission on Law Enforcement and Administration of Justice
D) President's Commission on Campus Unrest
18. Which of the four dimensions of community policing focuses on the key operational concepts that translate community policing into specific actions?
A) Organizational dimension
B) Strategic dimension
C) Philosophical dimension
D) Tactical dimension
19. What type of people do police agencies want to hire as police officers to further their organizational commitment to community policing?
A) People who are athletes
B) People with service-oriented traits
C) People interested in special weapons and tactics
D) People who are adventure seekers
20. According to a National Institute of Justice study, public satisfaction with police is shaped by several factors. Over which of those factors can police exert a positive influence?
A) Neighborhood crime conditions
B) Race relations
C) Demographic variables
D) Experiences with the police