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Policing Final ExamPraetorian Guard - correct answer ✔✔The members of the military appointed by Roman Emperor
Augustus to protect the palace and the emperor were call__.
Henry Fielding - correct answer ✔✔Who formed the Bow Street Runners?
Sir Robert Peel - correct answer ✔✔Who is generally credited with establishing the first police
department in London, England?
Boston - correct answer ✔✔The first organized American police department (1838) in North was created
in what city?
Dred Scott v. Sanford - correct answer ✔✔What US Supreme Court decision held that a black slave could
not sue in court for his freedom because he was a piece of property, not a citizen?
Slave Patrols - correct answer ✔✔Many historians and scholars indicate that ___ in the American South
were the precursor to modern highway patrols.
County sheriff; town marshal - correct answer ✔✔The only law enforcement officers available on the
American frontier were the ___ and the __.
Parish constable - correct answer ✔✔The statue of Winchester established the office of __, who was
responsible for organizing and supervising the watch.
Mutual pledge - correct answer ✔✔A form of community self-protection developed by King Alfred the
Great in the latter part of the ninth-century was/were the:
Stature of Winchester - correct answer ✔✔What stature made it a crime not to assist the night watch?
, Office of the US marshal - correct answer ✔✔The Federal Judiciary Act of 1789 created the:
Texas Rangers - correct answer ✔✔The first state police agency was the:
Pinkerton's National Detective Agency - correct answer ✔✔By the 1880s, what private national detective
agency had officers in nearly two dozen cities?
Calvin Coolidge - correct answer ✔✔Which Massachusetts governor fired all the striking police officers
during the Boston police strike and later became president of the United States?
Volstead Act - correct answer ✔✔What legislation became law in 1920 and established National
Prohibition?
Posse comitatus - correct answer ✔✔The Latin term __ means "the power of the country".
Wickersham Commission - correct answer ✔✔In 1929, President Herbert Hoover created the National
Commission on Law Observance and Enforcement. This commission was known as the:
August Vollmer - correct answer ✔✔Who served as chief of police in Berkeley and instituted many
practices that started to professionalize the U.S. police, including incorporating university training as a
part of police training?
O.W. Wilson - correct answer ✔✔Who is noted for developing modern management and administrative
techniques for policing?
J. Edgar Hoover - correct answer ✔✔The director of the FBI from 1924 to his death in 1972 was:
Frank Serpico - correct answer ✔✔Which New York City police officer's tales of corruption led to the
Knapp Commission?
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