Police community relations exam with
correct answers
The ability of a police officer, at the patrol or supervisory level, to transfer from one
department to another, usually without losing seniority - Answers -Lateral entry
What is the general standard for height and weight? - Answers -Weight has to be in
proportion to height
What are the ways in which females are recruited for policing? - Answers -Recruit at
events that focuses on women
Commitment to increasing opportunities for women
Advisory committees
Posters with female officers
What are three selection decisions police departments make? - Answers -Entry,
reassignment, promotion
What did the 1883 Pendleton civil service Act do? - Answers -Eliminated "spoils system"
and established higher standards for applicants
What three standard determine appropriate behavior? - Answers -Ethical
Organizational
Legal
____________ Proactive police actions threat rely on race or ethnicity, rather than
behavior that leads the police to identify a particular person as being or having been,
engaged in criminal activity - Answers -Racial profiling
What are Crank's (1998) four central principles of police culture ? - Answers -Coercive
territorial control
The unknown
Solidarity
Loose coupling
Individuals are socialized as a result of their occupational experiences - Answers -
Socialization theory
______ Perspectives look at the ways in which officers are similar - Answers -
Universalistic
, The Civil service provisions enacted in 1883 with the passage of the Pendleton Civil
Service Act attempted to eliminate a spoils system.
True or false - Answers -True
_________identifies applicants who are unqualified and removes them from
consideration, while leaving all those who are minimally qualified still in the applicant
pool. - Answers -Screening out
The strategy of targeting the service-oriented is illegal and controversial.
True or false - Answers -False
Which Supreme Court case established that selection and promotion standards must be
related to job performance? - Answers -Albermarle Paper Company v. Moody (1975)
Which Supreme Court case upheld a college credit requirement for policing because of
the professional and complex nature of police work? - Answers -Davis v. City of Dallas
(1985)
The general preemployment standard for height and weight is that weight is
proportionate to height
True or false - Answers -True
Two important aspects of the background investigation relate to a candidates ______
and history of drug use. - Answers -Criminal history
The initial training of the recruit is generally conducted through a police training
academy, where the program content is determined by a state standards organization
known as_______. - Answers -Police Officers Standards and Training (POST)
_____orientation is like a military boot camp or basic training. - Answers -Stressful
training
The FTO Program is loosely structured with annual evaluations
True or false - Answers -False
The ________perspective emphasizes the social context in which police officers are
hired and trained and in which police-citizen interactions occur. - Answers -sociological
The ________perspective suggests that organizational factors - formal, informal, and
institutional - play an important role in police behavior. - Answers -Organizational
Socialization theory argues behavior is learned within the department.
True or false - Answers -True
________theory argues police values in general are not learned on the job, but are
already learned when a recruit applies for police work. - Answers -Subcultural
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