Policing Final Exam
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1. An area of patrol that receives a disproportionate num-
ber of calls for police service and/or has a very high
crime rate is known as a
A)high-crime area.
B)priority area.
C)hot spot.
D)force focus
2. _____ involves a difficult trade-off between efficiency A) Foot patrol
and community relations.
A) Foot patrol
B) Motor patrol
C) Bicycle patrol
D) Community patrol
3. The watchman style of policing emphasizes C.) Maintaining order
A) the provision of services.
B) the limited use of discretion.
C.) Maintaining order
D) peacekeeping without aggressive law enforcement.
4. The _____ style of policing emphasizes aggressive B)legalistic
crime fighting and attempts to control officer behav-
ior through a rule-bound, by-the-book administrative
approach.
A)watchman
B)legalistic
C)service
D)community-oriented
5. Which of the following statements is true about the
service style of policing?
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A) It uses an aggressive crime-fighting method for
policing neighborhoods.
B) It is found in areas where crime rates are very high.
C) It is least likely to be found in suburban police de-
partments.
D) It emphasizes responsiveness to community expec-
tations.
6. Studies of the 911 workload indicate that only 20 to 30
percent of all calls involve criminal law enforcement.
Most calls are actually
A)information calls.
B)drug violation calls.
C)service calls.
D)domestic calls
7. The interval between the discovery of a crime and A)reporting time.
when a citizen calls the police is known as
A)reporting time.
B)work time.
C)scene time.
D)processing time
8. The _____ was the first experiment testing the effective-
ness of patrol that met minimum standards of scientif-
ic research.
A) Illinois Patrol Effectiveness Study
B) Newark Patrol Response Survey
C) Texas Patrol Response Study
D) Kansas City Preventive Patrol Experiment
9. A _____ program might involve instruction to look for
specific persons or types of crimes, or to patrol certain
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areas intensively.
A) special patrol
B) directed patrol
C) reactive patrol
D) discovery patrol
10. Most police agencies today rely on _____ as one of the
most common strategies used to respond to crime in
hot spots, or in those areas that receive a high volume
of calls for service.
A)buy-and-bust stings
B)directed patrol
C)covert operations
D)black operations
11. The 311 call system in the United States is primarily set
up to
A) attend to emergency situations.
B) deal with less serious crimes in a neighborhood.
C) enable two-way communication between police of-
ficers from different neighborhoods.
D) allow the police to call the citizens in a neighbor-
hood to extract information about future crimes.
12. Differential response programs classify calls according
to the
A)order of calls received.
B)level of seriousness of the calls.
C)workload of officers.
D)time of day.
13. The Newark Foot Patrol Experiment found that an in-
crease in the number of foot-patrol officers in an area
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1. An area of patrol that receives a disproportionate num-
ber of calls for police service and/or has a very high
crime rate is known as a
A)high-crime area.
B)priority area.
C)hot spot.
D)force focus
2. _____ involves a difficult trade-off between efficiency A) Foot patrol
and community relations.
A) Foot patrol
B) Motor patrol
C) Bicycle patrol
D) Community patrol
3. The watchman style of policing emphasizes C.) Maintaining order
A) the provision of services.
B) the limited use of discretion.
C.) Maintaining order
D) peacekeeping without aggressive law enforcement.
4. The _____ style of policing emphasizes aggressive B)legalistic
crime fighting and attempts to control officer behav-
ior through a rule-bound, by-the-book administrative
approach.
A)watchman
B)legalistic
C)service
D)community-oriented
5. Which of the following statements is true about the
service style of policing?
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A) It uses an aggressive crime-fighting method for
policing neighborhoods.
B) It is found in areas where crime rates are very high.
C) It is least likely to be found in suburban police de-
partments.
D) It emphasizes responsiveness to community expec-
tations.
6. Studies of the 911 workload indicate that only 20 to 30
percent of all calls involve criminal law enforcement.
Most calls are actually
A)information calls.
B)drug violation calls.
C)service calls.
D)domestic calls
7. The interval between the discovery of a crime and A)reporting time.
when a citizen calls the police is known as
A)reporting time.
B)work time.
C)scene time.
D)processing time
8. The _____ was the first experiment testing the effective-
ness of patrol that met minimum standards of scientif-
ic research.
A) Illinois Patrol Effectiveness Study
B) Newark Patrol Response Survey
C) Texas Patrol Response Study
D) Kansas City Preventive Patrol Experiment
9. A _____ program might involve instruction to look for
specific persons or types of crimes, or to patrol certain
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areas intensively.
A) special patrol
B) directed patrol
C) reactive patrol
D) discovery patrol
10. Most police agencies today rely on _____ as one of the
most common strategies used to respond to crime in
hot spots, or in those areas that receive a high volume
of calls for service.
A)buy-and-bust stings
B)directed patrol
C)covert operations
D)black operations
11. The 311 call system in the United States is primarily set
up to
A) attend to emergency situations.
B) deal with less serious crimes in a neighborhood.
C) enable two-way communication between police of-
ficers from different neighborhoods.
D) allow the police to call the citizens in a neighbor-
hood to extract information about future crimes.
12. Differential response programs classify calls according
to the
A)order of calls received.
B)level of seriousness of the calls.
C)workload of officers.
D)time of day.
13. The Newark Foot Patrol Experiment found that an in-
crease in the number of foot-patrol officers in an area
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