Policing Final Exam UPDATED Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers
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Policing Final Exam UPDATED Exam
Questions and CORRECT Answers
Praetorian Guard - CORRECT ANSWER- The members of the military appointed by
Roman Emperor Augustus to protect the palace and the emperor were call__.
Henry Fielding - CORRECT ANSWER- Who formed the Bow Street Runners?
Sir Robert ...
Policing Final Exam UPDATED Exam
Questions and CORRECT Answers
Praetorian Guard - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- The members of the military appointed by
Roman Emperor Augustus to protect the palace and the emperor were call__.
Henry Fielding - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Who formed the Bow Street Runners?
Sir Robert Peel - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Who is generally credited with establishing the
first police department in London, England?
Boston - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- The first organized American police department (1838)
in North was created in what city?
Dred Scott v. Sanford - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- What US Supreme Court decision held
that a black slave could not sue in court for his freedom because he was a piece of property,
not a citizen?
Slave Patrols - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Many historians and scholars indicate that ___ in
the American South were the precursor to modern highway patrols.
County sheriff; town marshal - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- The only law enforcement officers
available on the American frontier were the ___ and the __.
Parish constable - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- The statue of Winchester established the office
of __, who was responsible for organizing and supervising the watch.
Mutual pledge - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- A form of community self-protection developed
by King Alfred the Great in the latter part of the ninth-century was/were the:
Stature of Winchester - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- What stature made it a crime not to assist
the night watch?
, Office of the US marshal - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- The Federal Judiciary Act of 1789
created the:
Texas Rangers - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- The first state police agency was the:
Pinkerton's National Detective Agency - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- By the 1880s, what
private national detective agency had officers in nearly two dozen cities?
Calvin Coolidge - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Which Massachusetts governor fired all the
striking police officers during the Boston police strike and later became president of the
United States?
Volstead Act - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- What legislation became law in 1920 and
established National Prohibition?
Posse comitatus - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- The Latin term __ means "the power of the
country".
Wickersham Commission - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- In 1929, President Herbert Hoover
created the National Commission on Law Observance and Enforcement. This commission
was known as the:
August Vollmer - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Who served as chief of police in Berkeley and
instituted many practices that started to professionalize the U.S. police, including
incorporating university training as a part of police training?
O.W. Wilson - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Who is noted for developing modern management
and administrative techniques for policing?
J. Edgar Hoover - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- The director of the FBI from 1924 to his death
in 1972 was:
Frank Serpico - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Which New York City police officer's tales of
corruption led to the Knapp Commission?
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