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,Chapter 1-IntroductionPolice Ethics: A Matter of Character, 2nd Edition
TRUE/FALSE
1. In the recent past, the public viewed police officers as a group of unintelligent, uneducated, and
untrained incompetents.
ANS: T PTS: 1 REF: pg. 2
2. The rule of cop means that on the street what police officers say goes.
ANS: T PTS: 1 REF: pg. 2
3. Thomas Jefferson included the phrase “the pursuit of happiness” when he authored the United States
Constitution.
ANS: F PTS: 1 REF: pg. 3
4. Justice can be considered as “fairness” and/or balance.
ANS: T PTS: 1 REF: pg. 3
5. Individual police officers are always supervised as they make important, potentially life-changing
decisions on the street.
ANS: F PTS: 1 REF: pg. 3
6. If an officer is corrupt, unfair, prejudiced, and/or driven by personal vendettas, they will apply the law
fairly.
ANS: F PTS: 1 REF: pg. 6
7. Police ethics must be considered separately from police competence.
ANS: F PTS: 1 REF: pg. 7
8. Nationally, police receive forty hours of ethics training in their police academy experience.
ANS: F PTS: 1 REF: pg. 7
9. A decreasing number of police recruits have college experience.
ANS: F PTS: 1 REF: pg. 8
10. The text suggests that, unlike other groups, professionals solve problems in a collegial way.
ANS: T PTS: 1 REF: pg. 11
MULTIPLE CHOICE
,1. Historically, commonly held images of police officers included
a. significant respect for the police officer
b. viewing the police as a group of unintelligent, uneducated, and untrained incompetents
c. abject fear of the police officer
d. viewing the police as a group of highly educated, sophisticated individuals
ANS: B PTS: 1 REF: pg. 2
2. Ethics has become an important issue for new recruits and experienced police officers because
a. community oriented policing has given the street officer significantly more discretion
b. of legislative enactments
c. the chain of command requires it
d. everyone else is studying ethics, so police officers should too
ANS: A PTS: 1 REF: pg. 2
3. When applying the law
a. the police have absolute discretion
b. police actions are always subject to administrative oversight
c. police must apply the law fairly, evenhandedly, and with a view to promote justice
d. all of the above
ANS: C PTS: 1 REF: pg. 3
4. A central theme of the book is that
a. a competent police officer has received extensive academy training
b. a competent police officer is an ethical police officer
c. a competent police officer must have a college or university degree
d. a competent police officer is born, not trained
ANS: B PTS: 1 REF: pg. 2
5. Laws are created by
a. the police c. the people
b. the president d. legislatures
ANS: D PTS: 1 REF: pg. 3
6. The sole purpose of our laws and the Constitution is to
a. create a society where everybody is free to pursue what he or she, individually, believes is
the good in life
b. oppress the masses
c. empower the police over the public
d. maintain power for a few
ANS: A PTS: 1 REF: pg. 3
7. The definition of what counts as “good” in life is
a. absolute
b. highly divisive and highly individualized
c. the same for everyone
d. all of the above
ANS: B PTS: 1 REF: pg. 3
8. Justice is
, a. fairness in the general sense of the term
b. the Greek notion that it is the kind of balance that exists when “each is given his or her
due”
c. the allocation of resources and rights in a way that allows individuals to obtain what it is
that they deserve, in a moral sense
d. all of the above
ANS: D PTS: 1 REF: pg. 3
9. It is legally and ethically defensible for police
a. to treat people in different ways because of their race
b. to treat people in different ways because of their religion
c. to treat people in different ways because of their political views
d. none of the above
ANS: D PTS: 1 REF: pg. 3
10. The true meaning of the law on the streets is determined by
a. police officers c. Congress
b. the media d. the president
ANS: A PTS: 1 REF: pg. 4
11. If police overlook certain types of crimes, they can effectively
a. arrest everyone
b. arrest no one
c. decriminalize an action that the legislature had criminalized
d. none of the above
ANS: C PTS: 1 REF: pg. 4
12. Individual police officers often
a. make decisions without supervision
b. make decisions with no direction to follow other than their own judgment
c. are not monitored in real-time
d. all of the above
ANS: D PTS: 1 REF: pg. 5
13. If an officer is corrupt, unfair, prejudiced, and/or driven by personal vendettas, then
a. he is part of the norm c. he is a genuine police officer
b. so is that officer’s “law” d. all of the above
ANS: B PTS: 1 REF: pg. 6
14. A critical factor in police competence is
a. physical strength
b. a thorough knowledge of legal history
c. ethical judgment
d. extensive training with weapons
ANS: C PTS: 1 REF: pg. 7
15. Historically, police officers have been particularly prone to think that
a. philosophy has nothing to do with real life on the street
b. the public is entirely trustworthy
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