1. The first strategic era of policing was known as the ________________ era.
a. community
b. progressive
c. reform
d. political
ANS: D PTS: 1 REF: p. 9
2. Community policing:
a. is the result of government intervention techniques.
b. is focused on its evolving strategy of community efforts.
c. is an organization-wide philosophy.
d. works to direct citizens toward management goals.
ANS: C PTS: 1 REF: p. 4
3. “Modern” policing began with the formation of the London Metropolitan Police in what year?
a. 1750
b. 1809
c. 1829
d. 1845
ANS: C PTS: 1 REF: p. 6
4. Which of the following is considered the father of modern policing?
a. Robert Peel
b. August Vollmer
c. Robert Palmer
d. William Parker
ANS: A PTS: 1 REF: pp. 6–7
5. Peel, when appointed as home secretary, proposed that unpaid citizen volunteers be enlisted to serve
as:
a. police officers.
b. night watch.
c. street watchers.
d. hue and cry callers.
ANS: A PTS: 1 REF: pp. 6–7
6. If a watchman or any other citizen saw a crime in progress, he was expected to __________,
summoning all citizens within earshot to join in pursuing and capturing the wrongdoer.
a. perform the tithing
b. give the hue and cry
c. identify and pursue
d. none of the above
ANS: B PTS: 1 REF: p. 6
, 7. In 1833, ____________ became the first city to pay both day and night watchmen.
a. Boston
b. New York
c. Philadelphia
d. New England
ANS: C PTS: 1 REF: p. 7
8. At the time the Metropolitan Police Force was established in London, the United States was still
operating under:
a. a day-and-night watch system.
b. the frankpledge system.
c. the hue and cry system.
d. the tithing system.
ANS: A PTS: 1 REF: p. 7
9. The Norman system requiring all free men to swear loyalty to the king’s law and take responsibility for
maintaining the local peace is called:
a. tithing system.
b. frankpledge system.
c. hue and cry system.
d. community system.
ANS: B PTS: 1 REF: p. 6
10. August Vollmer:
a. helped spearhead the reform movement in policing.
b. helped institute the patronage system.
c. helped institute the spoils system.
d. both a and b
ANS: A PTS: 1 REF: p. 10
11. The Anglo-Saxons grouped their farms around small, self-governing villages that policed themselves.
This informal arrangement became more structured under which ruler?
a. King Edward
b. Queen Victoria
c. King Alfred
d. Queen Elizabeth
ANS: C PTS: 1 REF: p. 5
12. The system that required every male to enroll for police purposes in a group of 10 families was known
as:
a. frankpledge.
b. hue and cry.
c. tithing.
d. warden.
ANS: C PTS: 1 REF: p. 5
13. The tithing system was replaced by William the Conqueror with 55 military districts called:
a. home rule.
b. home forts.
c. shires.
, d. garrisons.
ANS: C PTS: 1 REF: pp. 5–6
14. The father of American police professionalism is known as:
a. August Vollmer.
b. Darrel Gates.
c. William Parker.
d. William Bratton
ANS: A PTS: 1 REF: p. 10
15. Twentieth-century Southern law enforcement was essentially a direct outgrowth of the 19th-century:
a. carpetbaggers.
b. slave patrols.
c. Jim Crow laws.
d. slave threat.
ANS: B PTS: 1 REF: pp. 8–9
16. The requirement that police officers advise criminal suspects of their rights before custodial
interrogation is required by the decision of which Supreme Court case?
a. Mapp v. Ohio
b. Miranda v. Arizona
c. Terry v. Ohio
d. Gideon v. Wainwright
ANS: B PTS: 1 REF: p. 14
17. The law that evidence gathered in an illegal search and seizure could not be used against the defendant
was decided by the U.S. Supreme Court in which 1914 case?
a. Weeks v. United States
b. Miranda v. Arizona
c. Terry v. Ohio
d. Gideon v. Wainwright
ANS: A PTS: 1 REF: p. 14
18. The 1972 police research experiment that tested the effect of different levels of patrols and challenged
the basic assumptions about the effect of patrol on crime was known as the:
a. Michigan Foot Patrol Study.
b. Wickersham Commission Experiment.
c. Community Policing Experiment.
d. Kansas City Preventive Patrol Study.
ANS: D PTS: 1 REF: p. 15
19. Crime prevention and organization structure: Americans borrowed most of this model of modern
policing from the:
a. military model.
b. London model.
c. French model.
d. European model.
ANS: B PTS: 1 REF: p. 7
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