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Police Relations Exam 2 Questions andAnswers
1. What is meant by police discretion? - Answers -the judgement used by police officers
in different circumstances
5. In light of the circumstances that they face, police officers often resort to alternatives
to arrest when they feel that an arrest is not appropriate. These alternatives can include
all of the following except: - Answers -Referral to a military recruiter
2. According to Herman Goldstein, all the following factors shape the police function
except? - Answers -Politics
4. What assumption often places police officers at odds with those who report apparent
crimes? - Answers -that the police will make an arrest
3. The reality of the police function often places officers in a no win situation that
requires - Answers -Compromise
6. What is the primary duty of a law enforcement officer - Answers -Apply the law to
situations
7. What is the fundamental difference between the law enforcement role and the
policing role?
A Police officers view the need to use force as a failure; law enforcement officers view
the use of force and a tool, to not use force when force is justified as a weakness.
B. Police officers see themselves as peace keepers; law enforcement officers see
themselves as enforcers.
C. Police officers are problem solvers; law enforcement officers are instruments of
societal control - Answers -All of the above
8. Three styles of police departments were identified by Wilson that includes, - Answers
-Legalistic, Watchman, and Service.
9. The primary characteristics of a service style agency include all of the following
except, - Answers -The police ignore minor complaints as a waste of time
10. How does a typical police officer view their role? - Answers -As a law enforcer
11. The best police officers, the wisest officers recognize what about their enforcement
role? - Answers -Enforcing the law often generates resentment
, 12. All of the following are true with regard to the officer assignment & officers initiated
activity except, - Answers -Officers must make arrests when engaging in assigned
activity
13. Individual police officers are likely to adopt one of the following individual styles
characterized as, - Answers -Old style crime fighter, clean beat crime fighter, the
professional, and the service style
14. According to Brown, what is the primary characteristic of the service style? -
Answers -Officers adopting this style are non-aggressive and highly selective
15. Conflict is most likely within the police service between which two styles of officer? -
Answers -Service style & professional
16. What is racial profiling as it applies to law enforcement? - Answers -When race is
used as the sole factor in determining whom to stop
17. T/F: It is lawful for the police to consider race as one factor in determining whom to
stop. - Answers -True
18. How is the police function viewed according to conflict theory? - Answers -As armies
of occupation empowered to hold down the lower classes who are viewed as a threat to
the privileged members of society
19. What was so troubling about Petrocelli's findings to conflict theorists?
A. The total number of stops by police was determined solely by the crime rate of the
neighborhood.
B. Neighborhoods with higher crime rates were likely to evidence a higher number of
stops by the police
C. None of the demographic and socioeconomic characteristics such as race exerted
any direct effects on the number of police stops. - Answers -All of the above
20. Some research suggests the following as the reason that police officers make more
traffic stops in some neighborhoods than in others - Answers -the Crime rate in the area
21. Racial bias in law enforcement is a profound injustice. In order to determine where
racial bias exists what needs to be known? - Answers -the Percentage of law violations
by race
22. What does Ridgeway offer as a better way to determine if racial profiling exists? -
Answers -Compare the racial make-up of suspect and witness descriptions to the racial
make-up of persons stopped and arrested by police.
23. How do officers choose who to focus their attention on when making stops? -
Answers -Both b and c
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