Police Administration
11th Edition by Gary W. Cordner
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,Gary W. Cordner: Police Administration, 11th Edition
Chapter 1
Test Bank
1. Which of the following is not one of the fundamental principles of the Peelian
reform?
a. The police should be under government control
b. The police force should focus on crime prevention
c. Police should be hired on a probationary basis
d. Police headquarters should be centrally located
ANS: b
2. Which of the following helped subvert the implementation of stringent personnel
standards in the early days of American policing?
a. the militaristic nature of police organizations
b. local politics
c. police unions
d. private security
ANS: b
3. Through the mid-1960s, in the professional era, the need for __________________
dominated the literature and practice of police administration.
a. closer relationships with the community
b. increased numbers of police officers
c. better information about how best to reduce crime
d. better police personnel and stricter organizational controls
ANS: d
4. Key strategies of the professional model found to be far less effective than originally
thought were:
a. preventive patrol
b. rapid response
c. follow-up investigations
d. all of the above
, Test Bank 1-2
ANS: d
5. Community policing attempts to address the complex social context of policing by:
a. closer contact with individual citizens and community groups
b. enforcing all laws to the same standards in all neighborhoods
c. employing more stringent personnel standards
d. implementing more centralized organizational structures
ANS: a
6. Policing in America is primarily provided by:
a. local governments
b. state governments
c. the federal government
d. special-purpose jurisdictions
ANS: a
7. The ___________ dimension includes the central ideas and beliefs underlying
community-oriented policing.
a. strategic
b. philosophical
c. organizational
d. tactical
ANS: b
8. Which of the following is a component of democracy that may also create challenges
to success for police administrators?
a. Police transparency
b. Police accountability
c. Police legitimacy
d. All of the above
ANS: d