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POLICING EXAM #1, CH. 1, 2, and 3.The sheriff was formerly known as the: - correct answer ✔✔Shire reeve
Which of the following was not a duty of the constable during the Middle Ages? - correct answer
✔✔Determining the guilt or innocence of felons
The coroner's inquest closely resembles a: - correct answer ✔✔Grand jury
The origins of modern policing in America can be linked to: - correct answer ✔✔English heritage
Which of the following was not a policing legacy from the colonial period? - correct answer ✔✔Police
officers began to be armed and uniformed.
When Henry Fielding died, his "thief-takers" evolved into a group called the ________ Runners, under
John Fielding. - correct answer ✔✔Bow Street
Patrick Colquhoun, serving as London's, focused on: - correct answer ✔✔Magistrate/reform of police
Peel's nine "principles of policing" emphasized: - correct answer ✔✔Prevention of crime
Which of the following is not one of Peel's "principles" of policing? - correct answer ✔✔Police authority
is dependent upon government rather than public approval.
Which of the three eras of policing emphasized crime control and preventive patrol? - correct answer
✔✔The reform era
Which of the following early forms of policing strictly performed an enforcement function and had no
nonpolice functions? - correct answer ✔✔Slave patrols
, The movement to improve American policing began in: - correct answer ✔✔New York City
In the late 1800s in New York, the police reform board was headed by: - correct answer ✔✔Theodore
Roosevelt
Which of the following was not one of the groups responsible for policing in the Wild West? - correct
answer ✔✔State police
U.S. Marshals in the Old West had no jurisdiction over crimes involving: - correct answer ✔✔Private
property
August Vollmer's most daring innovation was the idea of a(n): - correct answer ✔✔Police school
The Wickersham Commission completed the first national study of: - correct answer ✔✔Crime and
criminal justice
William Parker's greatest success as police chief, typical of the new professionalism, came in: - correct
answer ✔✔Administrative reorganization
To William Parker, police were the "thin blue line" and the rights of took precedence over the rights of
the: - correct answer ✔✔Society / individual
The police-race relations problems that exploded during the civil rights movement illustrated some of
the problems with which era of policing? - correct answer ✔✔The reform era
Two reasons for the scarcity of studies into police functions and methods prior to the 1960s were: -
correct answer ✔✔Police resistance to outside scrutiny, and the view that traditional methods worked
well
Among the recommendations of the President's Crime Commission were: - correct answer ✔✔All of the
above
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