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True / False 1. Most police management experts say the span of control in a police department should be one supervisor to every 11 to 15 officers of a lower rank. ANSWER: False POINTS: 1 ANSWER: POINTS: REFERENCES: LEARNING OBJE CTIVES: KEYWORDS: True 1 False 1 a. True b. False REFER...

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,True / False

1. The first state police agency was the Texas Rangers.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: American Policing: Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
LEARNING OBJECTIVE INPO.DEMP.16.01.03 - Characterize the regional differences in American policing prior to the
S: 20th century.
KEYWORDS: Bloom's: Remembering

2. Sir Charles Rowan founded the Bow Street Runners.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: English Policing: Our Heritage
LEARNING OBJECTIVES INPO.DEMP.16.01.02 - Discuss the influence of the English police experience on American
: policing.
KEYWORDS: Bloom's: Remembering

3. The man who is credited with establishing London’s first large-scale, civil police department in 1829 is Sir Robert Peel.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: English Policing: Our Heritage
LEARNING OBJECTIVES INPO.DEMP.16.01.02 - Discuss the influence of the English police experience on American
: policing.
KEYWORDS: Bloom's: Remembering

4. London’s first large-scale, civil police department consisted of more than 5,000 men.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: English Policing: Our Heritage
LEARNING OBJECTIVES INPO.DEMP.16.01.02 - Discuss the influence of the English police experience on American
: policing.
KEYWORDS: Bloom's: Remembering

5. Early American police were responsible for cleaning streets, caring for the homeless, and operating emergency
ambulance services, in addition to their law enforcement duties.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True

,POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: American Policing: Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
LEARNING OBJECTIVE INPO.DEMP.16.01.03 - Characterize the regional differences in American policing prior to the
S: 20th century.
KEYWORDS: Bloom's: Remembering

6. The concept of the sheriff can be traced back to the Praetorian Guard.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: English Policing: Our Heritage
LEARNING OBJECTIVES INPO.DEMP.16.01.02 - Discuss the influence of the English police experience on American
: policing.
KEYWORDS: Bloom's: Remembering

7. John Edgar Hoover is known as the father of American policing.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: American Policing: Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries
LEARNING OBJE INPO.DEMP.16.01.05 - Identify at least four events or people instrumental in the development of
CTIVES: 20th-century American policing, and describe their influence.
KEYWORDS: Bloom's: Remembering

8. The word police comes from the Latin word politia, which means “civil administration.”
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: Introduction
LEARNING OBJE INPO.DEMP.16.01.01 - Explain the primary means of ensuring personal safety prior to the
CTIVES: establishment of formal, organized police departments.
KEYWORDS: Bloom's: Remembering

9. In early U.S. colonial society, citizens were responsible for protecting themselves and maintaining an orderly society.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: American Policing: The Colonial Experience
LEARNING OBJECTIVE INPO.DEMP.16.01.03 - Characterize the regional differences in American policing prior to the
S: 20th century.
KEYWORDS: Bloom's: Remembering

10. Escobedo v. Illinois was the U.S. Supreme Court case that applied the exclusionary rule to all states in the United

, States.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: American Policing: Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries
LEARNING OBJECTIV INPO.DEMP.16.01.04 - Describe how the turbulent times of the 1960s and 1970s influenced
ES: American policing.
KEYWORDS: Bloom's: Remembering

11. The system of mutual pledge was employed as a strategy for maintaining stability in England and providing a method
for people living in villages to protect one another.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: English Police: Our Heritage
LEARNING OBJECTIVES INPO.DEMP.16.01.02 - Discuss the influence of the English police experience on American
: policing.
KEYWORDS: Bloom's: Remembering

12. Women have always been considered as capable of performing the same type of patrol duties as men.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: American Policing: Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries
LEARNING OBJE INPO.DEMP.16.01.05 - Identify at least four events or people instrumental in the development of
CTIVES: 20th-century American policing, and describe their influence.
KEYWORDS: Bloom's: Remembering

13. In the first half of the first decade of the 2000s, crime reductions continued to occur nationwide as the police adopted
or continued aggressive crime-fighting techniques.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: American Policing: Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries
LEARNING OBJECTIV INPO.DEMP.16.01.04 - Describe how the turbulent times of the 1960s and 1970s influenced
ES: American policing.
KEYWORDS: Bloom's: Remembering

14. The Knapp Commission was appointed by mayor of New York to investigate corruption in the NYPD as a result of
articles published in the New York Times.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True

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