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according to your text, policing (maintaining order and dealing with lawbreakers) was
a ________ matter in early societies
-religious
-public
-private
-military - ✔✔-private
The duties of the ________ included lighting street lamps, clearing garbage from the
streets, and putting out fires.
-thief-takers
-watchment
-shire-reeve
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,-magistraters - ✔✔watchmen
Who formed the Bow Street Runners?
-Henry Fielding
-Sir Robert Peel
-Patrick Colquhoun
-Colonel Charles Rowan - ✔✔-Henry Fielding
_________ established the first large-scale, uniformed, paid, civil police force in London
and has become known as the father of modern policing.
-Henry Fielding
-Richard Mayne
-Colonel Charles Rowan
-Sir Robert Peel - ✔✔-Sir Robert Peel
According to historians, what two southern U.S. states were the first to create slaves
codes and, thus, an early form of patrolling?
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,-North Carolina and Georgia
-Mississippi and Alabama
-South Carolina and Tennessee
-Maryland and Virginia - ✔✔-Maryland and Virginia
What U.S. Supreme Court decision held that a black slave could not sue in court for his
freedom because he was a piece of property, not a citizen?
-Dred Scott v. Sandford
-Mapp v. Ohio
-Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka
-Mabury v. Madison - ✔✔-Dred Scott v. Sandford
In 1857, which Republican-controlled state police force took over the existing Democrat-
controlled police force in New York City influencing a severe conflict at New York City
Hall?
-The Municipal Police
-The Metropolitan Police
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, -Federal Marshals
-State Troopers - ✔✔The Metropolitan Police
Along the U.S. frontier, if a crime spree occurred or a dangerous criminal was nearby,
the sheriff would call upon the , a common law descendent of the old hue and cry.
-loci imperium
-posse comitatus
-vim multitudinis
-privata magistratus - ✔✔posse comitatus
Which one of the following figures created practices that started to professionalize the
U.S. police, including incorporating university education as a part of police training?
-August Vollmer
-O. W. Wilson
-Raymond Blaine Fosdick
-J. Edgar Hoover - ✔✔August Vollmer
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