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Administration of Criminal Justice - Test2
Sheriff - correct answer ✔✔In early England, shires, which resembled the counties today, were
controlled by the shire reeve, who was appointed by the Crown or local landowner to supervise the
territory and ensure that order would be kept. The shire reeve soon began to pursue and apprehend law
violators as part of his duties. What was this a forerunner of in modern United States policing?
Night watch system - correct answer ✔✔Historically speaking, an early form of American law
enforcement in which volunteers were organized into groups that patrolled their community from dusk
to dawn to keep the peace was referred to as what?
London - correct answer ✔✔Where did British Home Secretary Sir Robert "Bobbie" Peel organize law
enforcement by pushing through the Metropolitan Police Act?
1. Police seek and preserve public favor not by catering to public opinion but by constantly
demonstrating absolute impartial service to the law.
2. The basic mission for which police exist is to prevent crime and disorder.
3. The test of police efficiency is the absence of crime and disorder, not the visible evidence of police
action in dealing with it.
4. The degree of cooperation of the public that can be secured diminishes proportionately to the
necessity of the use of physical force.
5. Police must secure the willing cooperation of the public in voluntary observance of the law to be able
to secure and maintain the respect of the public. - correct answer ✔✔Which of the following are among
Sir Robert Peel's principles of policing? Select all that apply.
1. Many of the members were corrupt.
2. Members were unsuccessful at stopping crime.
3. Members wore distinctive uniforms.
4. It was structured along military lines.
5. In the early years, nearly one-third of the officers were dismissed each year.
, 6. It was initially composed of more than 1,000 men.
7. Members were influenced by the wealthy. - correct answer ✔✔Which of the following is true of the
police force created by the Metropolitan Police Act? Select all that apply.
Boston - correct answer ✔✔The modern police department was born out of the urban mob violence
that wracked the nation's cities in the nineteenth century. Which city was the first to create a formal,
United States police department?
1. Politics dominated the departments.
2. Politics determined the recruitment of new officers.
3. Politics determined the promotion of supervisors.
4. Early police agencies were corrupt, brutal, and inefficient.
5. Individuals with the right connections could be hired despite a lack of qualifications. - correct answer
✔✔Which of the following is true of the political era of policing (1840-1920)? Select all that apply.
A detective bureau - correct answer ✔✔In Boston, in the mid-nineteenth century, amateur bounty
hunters who were hired by victims to apprehend thieves (thief takers) were replaced by the
establishment of what?
Implementation of the telegraph to policing. - correct answer ✔✔What was the first major technological
breakthrough during the second half or the nineteenth century?
International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) - correct answer ✔✔Around the turn of the twentieth
century, a number of nationally recognized leaders called for measures to help improve and
professionalize the police. In 1893, what entity was formed that would become the leading voice for
police reform?
1. The U.S. Supreme Court handed down a number of decisions designed to control police operations
and procedures.
2. Civil unrest produced a growing tension between police and the public. - correct answer ✔✔Which of
the following statements accurately describe policing in the 1960s? Select all that apply.
1. Supporting innovative research on police work and advanced training of police officers
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