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Police & Society Study Guide Exam 1Police authority to make arrests and use of force - correct answer ✔✔sworn officer
Police discretion - correct answer ✔✔how officers make their own judgement/decisions on how to
handle situations
What are the first 10 amendments to the US Constitution called? - correct answer ✔✔Bill of Rights
Over-policing - correct answer ✔✔heavy police presence in high-crime areas
Under-policing - correct answer ✔✔little police presence in "safe" areas
What types of crime are the police primarily concerned with stopping. What are those crimes collectively
called? - correct answer ✔✔predatory or "street crimes"
Ethics - correct answer ✔✔conforming to professional standards, and relates to the behavior of a person
Morality - correct answer ✔✔the individual's internal sense of proper conduct or what is right
Know what the 'Ends and Means' is - correct answer ✔✔ends= what we want to accomplish
means= how we accomplish things
Know what Goods ends and Dirty means are. - correct answer ✔✔doing bad things to get better results
Media representations of the police - correct answer ✔✔sexier stories are told by social, new, and
entertainment media
, Why is it important to study the history of police? - correct answer ✔✔-determine how much/little
police have changed
-have a better understanding of policing today
-identify persisting problems and help craft solutions
-insight into the future (trends, patterns, does past repeat itself?)
Constables - correct answer ✔✔the first appointed law enforcement officers
Watch - correct answer ✔✔people who walked around watching for fires or suspicious people, unpaid
Posse - correct answer ✔✔armed male citizens who would assist sheriff if needed
Black codes - correct answer ✔✔laws passed that made black Americans labor in low-paying jobs or to
pay off "debt"
London Metropolitan Police Department - correct answer ✔✔-created by Sir Robert Peel (1829)
-model for many modern police departments
-patrolled on foot to deter crime
-military structure
At what level did most police agencies operate in the late 1800s? - correct answer ✔✔local (mayor)
In the late 1800s what were female police officers called? - correct answer ✔✔police matrons (usually
just handled female prisoners)
The role of detectives in the late 1800s - correct answer ✔✔"specialized officers"
Political and Reform Eras of policing - correct answer ✔✔
The creation of the FBI - correct answer ✔✔1909, created first crime lab and developed fingerprinting
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