intro to law chapter 9 and 10 – Flashcards
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Which of the following is not one of the three traditional ways ww do police work in the US
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Proactive investigations
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The two categories or groups involved in a controlled experiment are
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Expermental group and control group
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It has commonly been believed in police administration that random routine patrol creates a sense of
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Omnipresence
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The kansas study occurred in
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1970s
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Which of the following was not one of the beats established in the kansas city study
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variable testing group
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In the proactive group in the kansas city study, the police presence was
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Doubled or tripled
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The kansas city study indicated that adding or removing police random routine patrol
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Had no effect on crime
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Is the most expensive part of a police depaetment
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Personnel
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The most important and visible part of police work to the public is
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Patrol
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The police departments generalist is the
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Patrol officer
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In an experiment the group that is not acted upon, and where nothing is changed, is called
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Control group
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Differential response to calls for service is a policy that abandons the traditional practice of calls to 9/11 for service are matched to the _______ of the calls
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Importance of severity
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Which of the following is not one of the basic components of response time?
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Time it takes for the perpetrator to flee the scene,
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Rapid response to calls to 911 works better in discovery crimes than in involvement crimes
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...
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The impression of police always being there is called
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Omnipresence
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Is considered the backbone of policing
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Patrol
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The classic study of random routine patrol was the
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Kansas city study
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Is the method of deploying police officers that gives them responsibility for all policing activity requiring them to walk around
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Foot patrol
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The 2005 Uniform Crime Report indicates that nationally, violent crime was ___ compared with 2006
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Up/increased
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Prior to the Rand Study, it was common for police departments to have policies and procedures in place that emphasized
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the retroactive investigation of past crimes by detectives
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The Rand corporation found that ___ of detectives time spent on activities that did not lead to solving previously reported crimes
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93%
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the rand report said that _ of all detectives could be replaced without negatively influencing crime clearance rates
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50%
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the single most important determinant of whether or not a case will be solved is the information the victim supplies to the
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immediately responding patrol officer
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the idea that detective work is glamorous exciting and dangerous as it is depicted in the movies and on television is called
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detective mystique
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the national advisory commission on criminal justice standards and goals recommended that detectives should only be assigned to preliminary investigations of
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very serious crimes requiring complex investigation
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the national advisory commission on criminal justice standards and goals recommended that _ should conduct preliminary investigations of most crimes
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Patrol officers
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which of the following is a solvability factor in the managing criminal investigations program
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all of the above
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the managing criminal identification program is designed to put most of an investigators time and effort into _
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very important cases only and cases that can actually be solved
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nationally, police are only allowed to clear ___ of all violent crimes reported to them
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46%
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Programs concentrating investigative resources on career criminals are called:
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Repeat Offender Programs
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The vast majority of all arrests are made
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at the scene of the crime
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Offenders tracked by GPS were ___ less likely to reoffend than those monitored
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90%
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Dressing and playing the role of a potential crime victim is know as
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decoy operations
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Decoy operations are most effective in detecting and arresting all of the following except
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Murder
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A legal defense that holds that police originated the criminal idea or initiated the criminal action
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entrapment
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Are effective in cases in which the police receive and tip that a crime is going to occur in a chimerical establishment
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stakeout
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the single most important determinant of whether crime is solved is based on the quality of work performed by detectives
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false
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An investigator assumes a different identity to obtain information or achieve another investigatory purpose
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undercover investigation
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are responsible for a vast majority of arrests
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patrol
