Midterm Exam Review

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Midterm Exam Review

• Principles of Law Enforcement

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• The word politia means what?
• Know the duties of the English watch and ward.
• Know what a thief-taker is.
• Where was the 1st Police Dept created in America.
• The city in which a civil war started between two
  police departments in 1857.
• The criteria used to promote police in the 18th
  and 19th centuries.
• 1st city to form a detective division.
• Name of the law enforcement officers on the
  frontier.
• The word posse comitatus.
• Where was the 1st state police agency created?
• Name of the 1st Nationwide private detection
  agency
• The Massachusetts governor who fired all the
  striking police officers in Boston
• Name the legislation that established National
  Probation in 1920.
• The father of modern American Policing is who?
• The US Supreme Ct case that was responsible for
  applying the exclusionary rule.
• The majority of law enforcement officers in
  America work for what kind of government?
• What agency keeps the statistics on law
  enforcement officers?
• The US Enforcement industry in primarily public
  or private?

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• 19.Level of education required by most police
  departments
• 20.Most officers work for what type of agency?
• 21. What state does not have a state law
  enforcement agency?
• 22.Know the responsibilities of the US Marshals
  office.
• 23.Who administers the federal witness protection
  program?
• 24.Know what an organization chart in a police
  organization represents
• 25.Know what Chain of Command is
• 26.Know the difference in sworn and non-sworn
  personnel
• 27.Know the order of rank in a police department
• 28.Who is the 1st line supervisor in a police
  department?
• 29.How many officers does it take to cover a
  police beat 24 hours a day, 7 days a week?
• 30.Which tour has the least amount of police
  activity?

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• 31. Which tour has the least amount of police
  activity?
• 32. Give an example of an operations unit within
  a Police Department.
• 33. Give an example of an auxiliary unit in the
  police department.
• 34. Give an example of an administrative unit in
  the police department.
• 35. A job analysis identifies the necessary
  ______ to perform a task.
• 36. Understand what jobs analysis in police work
  is for.
• 37. Understand what jobs analysis in police work
  is for.
• 38. How do you predict what future police
  performance will be.
• 39. The most important criteria for the police
  selection process.
• 40. Know the 4 standard testing procedures
• 41. Which stage receives the most litigation?

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• 42. The stage that screens out most of the
  applicants.
• 43. Which stage is still considered
  discriminatory to women?
• 44. Know about the height requirement in
  departments.
• 45. Height requirements discriminated against
  whom originally?
• 46. Know about the age requirement.
• 47. Know what type convictions preclude someone
  from law enforcement.
• 48.Know what the policy is on residency
  requirements.
• 49. The 1st training school was developed by
  whom?
• 50. What is the shoot, dont shoot course?
• 51. The majority of arrests made by police are
  for what type crimes?
• 52. Police spend most of their time doing what?
• 53. The police role is very what?
• 54. The authors of the book state the police role
  is what?

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• 55. What ate the primary goals and objectives of
  police departments?
• 56. This is not one of the police operational
  styles?
• 57-60. Types of police operational style?
• 61. Know the operational styles defined by James
  Q. Wilson.
• 62. How much discretion do officers have?
• 63. The 1st decision maker in the criminal
  justice system?
• 64. Know factors that may influence police
  discretion.
• 65. Know the common traits of the police
  culture
• 66. What is the blue wall of silence?

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• Know the traits of the police personality.
• Know what is not part of the police personality?
• Know the 3 most important features of an officers
  working environment?
• Where does the police personality develop?
• What is the Dirty Harry problem?
• What is the fight or flight syndrome?
• Where does police work rank regarding stress?
• Know the types of police stress.
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• Know the factors that lead to police stress.
• of officers that have a drinking problem.