Exam 6: Police Officers and Law Enforcement Operations

The different types of patrol are foot, bicycle, and ____________________ patrol.

Police officers rarely feel isolated from the public.

On average, how many types of difficult situations are patrol officers expected to handle per week?

Detectives usually are employed to deliver which police function?

What explanations address why there are fewer female officers in most police departments? Should there be efforts to change this? Why or why not?

Police help maintain order by enforcing traffic laws.

Which is not an operational unit in a police department?

Different departments allocate their officers in different ways-some departments have more officers on patrol than others, and some departments (such as in Houston, Texas)stress criminal investigation. What factors might affect these different distributions?

____________________ is a subdivision of a national culture defined by occupation, ethnicity, class, and residence.

From the perspective of police officer's role and performance in fighting crime, what does the term "intelligence" mean? How have there been improvements in this area?

Police officers require only formal training to understand all the aspects of their job.

Which is not a characteristic of the SARA strategy for problem solving?

All police departments have equipment to perform DNA analysis.

The _________ raised questions about whether and how police patrol impacts crime and crime rates. Thus police departments have tried various means to use patrol in order to provide service, maintain order, and achieve improvements in crime prevention and crime control.

Which of the following is not a characteristic that applies to the job of a law enforcement officer?

David has worked for his municipal police department for 10 years.  He has seen his fair share of homicide and rape victims.  He remembers a the time when he use d to be excited to hear the next call for service.  Currently, he dreads to hear the radio calls for assistance.  David tries to remember that he is keeping his community safe by performing his job.  He also remembers that he has a family of his own he wants to keep safe as well. David also suffers from the stress of a constantly rotating schedule, which forces him to work at nights, on weekends, and on holidays.  What type of stress does David suffer from in regard to his schedule and the time with his family?

Which police unit identifies, apprehends, and collects evidence against lawbreakers?

Learning informal practices as well as formal rules is the process of ____________________.

Police officers are expected to obey rules and respect superiors.

Generally, police patrol duties in a democracy are organized to be ____________________.