Exam 5: Problems and Solutions in Modern Policing

________is a hierarchically structured administrative organization that carries out specific functions.

An officer suffering from _______________will reexperience the traumatic event through nightmares and flashbacks.

What type of information are forensic scientists looking for?

_______is when an officer actively demands payment from an individual or a business in return for certain services.

Many communities rely on an external procedure for handling citizen complaints, which is known as__________________________.

In____ , the U.S. Supreme Court set the limits for the use of deadly force by law enforcement officers.

Police officers are generally considered trustworthy and therefore assumed to make honest decisions.

A database containing the DNA of more than 4.5 million people is:

__________is when an officer accepts money in exchange for allowing a certain criminal activity to continue.

The application of science to establish facts and evidence during the investigation of crimes is ___________________.

Discuss police subculture and how police officers become socialized.

When police officers accept free gifts from citizens (a passive form of corruption), this is called:

Which crime is investigated most thoroughly and thus results in the highest clearance rates?

Discuss two aggressive investigation strategies.

A_________ is a criminal investigation that has not been solved after a certain amount of time.

For more than a century, the most important piece of trace evidence has been:

Tennessee v. Garner (1985) outlawed the use of deadly force by police officers.

The "broken windows theory" is based on the theory that by cracking down on crimes, police can significantly reduce all crime in an area.

________corruption is knowing misconduct by a police officer with the goal of attaining what the officer believes is a "just" result.

After a crime has been committed and the patrol officer has gathered preliminary information from a crime scene, the responsibility of identifying the offender is delegated to the: