Which of these is the largest and most visible component of a police department?
Patrol Division
T/F Despite public perception of police as "crime fighters," only 17-19% of calls received
and police officers' time is related to actively fighting crime
True
Probable cause is defined as facts and circumstances within the officer's knowledge
deemed reasonably trustworthy are sufficient to warrant a person of reasonable caution
in the belief that an offense has been committed or is being committed. In this context,
the phrase "person of reasonable caution"
refers to the average person who, under the circumstances, would believe that the
person being arrested had committed the offense or that items to be seized would be
found in a particular place
T/F Statistics show that citizen satisfaction and support for police in a community lead to
more voluntary compliance during citizen-police interactions
True
An automatic positive or negative preference for a group based on subconscious
feelings, perceptions, attitudes, and stereotypes that develop over the course of our
lives as a result of prior influence and impressions
Implicit Bias
This is the FBI's annual summary of the rate and incidence of crimes across the US
Uniform Crime Report
Police activity broadly fits into 3 categories. This type of policing involves police
responding to calls after a crime is committed
Reactive Policing
,The historical development of police patrol in the United States is generally divided into
3 Eras. This era came second (1930's-1970's) and brought organizational concepts to
policing which resulted in most agencies becoming highly centralized and bureaucratic
with well-defined division of labor and unity of control.
Reform Era
Case law quiz! Select the correct outcome for US v. Katz (1967)... Feds suspected
illegal activity by Katz, installed an electronic listening device outside of a public
telephone frequently used by Katz, and arrested based on information obtained from the
recordings
USSC ruled that there was no expectation of privacy for public phone booth,
search/seizure allowed. This case established the "privacy" approach to search and
seizure.
The FBI's National Incident-Based Reporting System collects data about
crime/vic/location/etc. for each specific crime report produced by all agencies. This
group of crimes includes 22 major crimes (assaults, fraud, arson, theft, sex, weapons,
etc.).
Group A
T/F The use of the word "patrol" as it relates to policing originates from the English term
for walking in muddy water
True
In 1929, President Hoover created the ______________________________. This was
the first national study on criminal justice system, which ultimately identified problems of
the political era and led to more organized and professional police procedures.
The National Commission on Law Observance (Wickersham Commission
This person is said to be the lead architect of the professional police movement that
occurred between the 1920's and 1960's. He was a police chief in Fullerton, CA;
Wichita, KA; and Chicago, IL. He was a pioneer in the shift from foot patrol to
, automobile patrol, and conducted the first study on the effectiveness of one-officer
squad cars.
Orlando Winfield (O.W.) Wilson
The tendency of individuals to respond to and act on the basis of stereotypes, a
predisposition that can lead to the validation of false definitions
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
To satisfy legal requirements when testifying to evidence in court, investigators must be
able to do which of the following?
All of these
Title 42 USC 1983 states that every person acting under the color of the law who
subjects any citizen to the deprivation of any rights/privileges/immunities provided by
the Constitution shall be liable to the party injured in an action at law. Which of the
following bases (is that the plural of basis??) would not be grounds for a 1983 civil suit?
Trick question! all of these are subject to a 1983 civil suit
The basic purpose of police patrol is
the elimination of the actual opportunity (or the belief that the opportunity exists) for
successful misconduct
History Lesson Time! Tensions & mistrust of minorities toward police can be explained
(in part) by historical events... In this episode, cop investigating possible DUI gets
taunted by black crowd, calls for backup, second officer struck people w/ baton, riot
devolves into looting and burning stores, 35,000 people riot over 5 days, 16,000
national guardsmen called in, $200 million in property damage, 34 dead, 1,000
wounded. Rioters targeted white-owned businesses and white cops, left black-owned
properties alone
Watts Riot (LA) - 1965
The greatest crime deterrent is
omni-police presence via conspicuous patrols
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