Test Bank for Police Administration, 11th Edition Cordner (All Chapters
included)
What type of authority are police and what power do they represent? - (answer)Civil Authority, Civil
Power of Government as opposed to Military Power
How are the military trained compared to the police? - (answer)Military: trained to kill and destroy
Police: trained to use weapons and force if needed NOT trained to kill
What is policing? - (answer)maintaining orders and dealing with law breakers
What were private citizens responsible for? - (answer)Maintaining order and dealing with law breakers
and for protection
When did modern (uniformed) police departments appear in England? - (answer)19th century
What is American policing based off? - (answer)English policing
How did the system "Mutual Pledge" get established - (answer)In the 9th century King Alfred the Great
was preparing for war against the Danish Invasion
What is the "mutual pledge"? - (answer)a system where stability and protection is maintained
Tithings - (answer)10 families protecting each other
A Hundred - (answer)10 tithings (100 families) protected each other they were under control of a
constable. If there was a problem citizens were to raise a hue and cry (call for help) when this happened
ALL males were to respond. The constable would deal with more serious crimes.
Shires - (answer)Larger groups based on geography. The "county" was under control of the king. It was
governed by the "shire-reeve" aka the sheriff.
,When was the Statute of Winchester in acted in Europe? - (answer)1285 A.D.
What did the Staute of Winchester establish? - (answer)Watch and Ward; this was an all men night
watch
Hue and Cry; if the men didn't respond this was considered a crime
Position of Parish constable
Requirement that all males MUST keep weapons in home
Watchmen - (answer)had 3 major duties: patrolling streets, lighting street lamps cleaning garbage
putting out fires, and enforcing criminal law
Patrolling Streets meant - (answer)looking to see everyone was home and quiet; no strangers
When was the office of the Justice of the Peace established and for what reason? - (answer)early 14th
century; to assist in rural areas the shire-reeve, and in urban areas the parish. Eventually the Justice of
the Peace did judicial functions
Parish Constable duties (14th century) - (answer)supervised night watchmen; investigated; issued
summons; warrants; and secured prisoners
Beadle duties (17th century) - (answer)removing vagrants from streets, investigating, issuing warrants,
calling witnesses, and examining prisoners
How could the 17th century criminal justice system be described? - (answer)corrupt and ineffective
Thief-Takers duties 17th century - (answer)"private police", (real life bounty hunters), they were citizens
paid for each arrest by the king. Their major job was to combat highway robbery.
,What happened in 1693? - (answer)Act of parliament established monetary awards for capture of road
bandits. This made the thief-takers paid upon conviction (what ever the thief had it was now the thief
takers) They arrested burglars, sheep stealers, and army deserters. Thief-Takers were paid on a sliding
scale (some crimes paid better than others)
What did the act of parliament do? - (answer)created a lot of corruption: framing, lying, falsely accusing,
blackmail, and often would play both sides of the field. Ex. would steal then say they found what was
stolen so they'd get paid reward.
Bow Street Runners - (answer)technically thief-takers, came about as a result of John and Henry Fielding
(magistrates). They were investigative private citizens, they received thief-takers awards
Henry Fielding - (answer)created the first modern police force foundation. He established a relationship
with pawnbrokers by having them keep an eye out for land that was recently stolen. This was the 1st
official crime reports
What did the Fieldings do? - (answer)they collected, disseminated crime info (center of criminal
intelligence work)
What year did horse patrol come? - (answer)1763 in London
Why did the horse patrol get disbanded after 9 months? - (answer)lack of government support
What happened in 1770? - (answer)public funds finally advocated to support small foot patrol
What year was Patrick Colquhoun lobby for a small police agancy rejected? - (answer)1789
What year did Colquhoun get a river/marine police along the Thames River? - (answer)1798
What year brought horse patrol, uniformed, civil police, and 2 inspectors with 52 men in uniforms? -
(answer)1804
, Who and in what year drafted a bill called Metropolitan Police Act? - (answer)1829 Sir Robert Peele
What was the first large scale, uniformed, organized, paid, civil, English Police Department called? -
(answer)London Metropolitan Police
What was the name of the 1000 plus men that were hired? - (answer)Bobbies
what are 7 basic principles? - (answer)-Police should be organized along military lines
-Proper persons should be hired and trained
-Police officers hired on probationary basis
-Under control of civil government
-Organized and deployed by time and area
-Police head quarters and leaderships should be centrally located
-Police should maintain records
What happened in 1833 that changed the people's view of the police? - (answer)an officer was killed by
citizens and then sympathy took over and the people liked the police. Prior to this the police were hated
for 4 years and NO support!
American Policing - (answer)the colonies in the 17th century had a law enforcement similar to Englands
County Sheriff duties - (answer)enforced law, supervised elections (prevent voter fraud), collected taxes;
not paid salary, paid fee for arrest didn't patrol stayed in offices
What type of law enforcement did American cities have? - (answer)Marshalls, Constables, and Night
Watchmen
When and where was the first night watch? - (answer)1631 in Boston
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