INTRODUCTION TO THE NYPD EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
What kind of organization is the NYPD - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅But the first thing you need to know
about the NYPD is that this is not a democracy. This is a paramilitary institution that is organized by rank
and status.
NYPD mission statement - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅To enhance the quality of life in our city by working in
partnership with the community and in accordance with constitutional right to enforce laws, preserve
the peace, reduce fear, and provide for a safe environment.
Roots and Origin/Est. Date of NYPD - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅The Department has its roots in Old Dutch
and English watchman systems, and was formally established as the NYPD in May of 1845.
Draft Riots Exemption Amount $ - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Anybody who could pay the government $300
was deemed to have made his contribution to the war efforts, and was exempt from the draft.
Draft Riots Death Toll - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅This race riot resulted in deaths estimated as high as
3,000
Draft Riots Motto - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅From this event the grateful people of the City of New York
gave us our motto: Fidelis Ad Mortem...Faithful unto Death.
Nineteenth Century - Alexander "Clubber" Williams - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅the captain of the Times
Square precinct, the "tenderloin," where graft was the greatest. At work, he extorted, stole, and used
the club that gave him his nickname to beat anybody who resisted his authority.
Lexow Committee
Twentieth Century Reform - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Held public hearings and showed the extent to
which the Department had been corrupted by its connections to crooked politicians and racketeers. Its
star witness, Max Schmittberger, testified that he had paid $300 to become an officer and $12,000 to
become a captain. The usual price, Schmittberger testified, was $10,000, but he had to go higher
because another officer was bidding against him.
Curran Committee
, Twentieth Century Reform - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Curran Commission exposed ties between police
and racketeers, resulting in criminal indictments against eight Inspectors. In 1914, the Department hired
Samuel Battle, its first black officer and, in 1917, introduced its first radio patrol cars.
Seabury Committee
Twentieth Century Reform - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅By the time Prohibition ended in 1933, the nation
was deep in the Depression, and the NYPD was just coming out of another of its 20-year cycle of
corruption scandals, this time exposed by the Seabury Commission in 1931. These three forces
combined to change the NYPD forever and, in the view of many historians, are among the major factors
responsible for the modern NYPD. The end of Prohibition meant that the flow of illegal liquor, and the
graft that went with it, had come to stop. The Seabury Commission disclosures had many consequences,
most notably the election of Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia, a great reformer who vowed to clean up City
government.
Knapp Commission - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅As the 1970s began, yet another corruption scandal
erupted, when the New York Times published strong evidence developed by Officer Frank Serpico and
Sergeant David Durk that officers in the Plainclothes Division - the vice squad - were involved in
widespread corruption involving payoffs from gamblers. Another investigation - conducted by the Knapp
Commission - confirmed this, and showed that extended corruption also existed among uniformed
officers.
Women Started in the NYPD - Date - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅The NYPD changed in even more significant
ways during the 1970s. A series of court decisions and civil rights laws changed the rules for hiring police
officers and, in 1973, resulted in the Department's first hiring of women on the same basis as men. The
old patrolman and policewoman titles were merged into the police officer rank, and women were
assigned to patrol in the same way that men were.
How Many Police Precincts - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅77
COMPSTAT System - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅in the 90's Bratton established the COMPSTAT system of
holding commanders accountable for responding to crimes in their areas of responsibility was
developed, and has been emulated across the globe.
Define Police Science - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Police Science
What kind of organization is the NYPD - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅But the first thing you need to know
about the NYPD is that this is not a democracy. This is a paramilitary institution that is organized by rank
and status.
NYPD mission statement - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅To enhance the quality of life in our city by working in
partnership with the community and in accordance with constitutional right to enforce laws, preserve
the peace, reduce fear, and provide for a safe environment.
Roots and Origin/Est. Date of NYPD - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅The Department has its roots in Old Dutch
and English watchman systems, and was formally established as the NYPD in May of 1845.
Draft Riots Exemption Amount $ - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Anybody who could pay the government $300
was deemed to have made his contribution to the war efforts, and was exempt from the draft.
Draft Riots Death Toll - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅This race riot resulted in deaths estimated as high as
3,000
Draft Riots Motto - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅From this event the grateful people of the City of New York
gave us our motto: Fidelis Ad Mortem...Faithful unto Death.
Nineteenth Century - Alexander "Clubber" Williams - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅the captain of the Times
Square precinct, the "tenderloin," where graft was the greatest. At work, he extorted, stole, and used
the club that gave him his nickname to beat anybody who resisted his authority.
Lexow Committee
Twentieth Century Reform - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Held public hearings and showed the extent to
which the Department had been corrupted by its connections to crooked politicians and racketeers. Its
star witness, Max Schmittberger, testified that he had paid $300 to become an officer and $12,000 to
become a captain. The usual price, Schmittberger testified, was $10,000, but he had to go higher
because another officer was bidding against him.
Curran Committee
, Twentieth Century Reform - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Curran Commission exposed ties between police
and racketeers, resulting in criminal indictments against eight Inspectors. In 1914, the Department hired
Samuel Battle, its first black officer and, in 1917, introduced its first radio patrol cars.
Seabury Committee
Twentieth Century Reform - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅By the time Prohibition ended in 1933, the nation
was deep in the Depression, and the NYPD was just coming out of another of its 20-year cycle of
corruption scandals, this time exposed by the Seabury Commission in 1931. These three forces
combined to change the NYPD forever and, in the view of many historians, are among the major factors
responsible for the modern NYPD. The end of Prohibition meant that the flow of illegal liquor, and the
graft that went with it, had come to stop. The Seabury Commission disclosures had many consequences,
most notably the election of Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia, a great reformer who vowed to clean up City
government.
Knapp Commission - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅As the 1970s began, yet another corruption scandal
erupted, when the New York Times published strong evidence developed by Officer Frank Serpico and
Sergeant David Durk that officers in the Plainclothes Division - the vice squad - were involved in
widespread corruption involving payoffs from gamblers. Another investigation - conducted by the Knapp
Commission - confirmed this, and showed that extended corruption also existed among uniformed
officers.
Women Started in the NYPD - Date - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅The NYPD changed in even more significant
ways during the 1970s. A series of court decisions and civil rights laws changed the rules for hiring police
officers and, in 1973, resulted in the Department's first hiring of women on the same basis as men. The
old patrolman and policewoman titles were merged into the police officer rank, and women were
assigned to patrol in the same way that men were.
How Many Police Precincts - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅77
COMPSTAT System - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅in the 90's Bratton established the COMPSTAT system of
holding commanders accountable for responding to crimes in their areas of responsibility was
developed, and has been emulated across the globe.
Define Police Science - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Police Science
