Question 1

Who is most likely to be shot by a police officer?

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A)  a white male
B)  a Hispanic male
C)  an Asian male
D)  a black male

Question 2

When minority citizens argue that they do not have enough police protection, they are complaining about

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A)  too much crime.
B)  under-protection by the police.
C)  over-enforcement by the police.
D)  over-representation by the police.

Question 3

The case of Tennessee v.Gardner created

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A)  the fleeing-felon rule.
B)  the defense-of-life standard.
C)  the right-to-life standard.
D)  the Miranda warnings.
E)  the "exception rule"

Question 4

The data from one Bureau of Justice Statistics survey

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A)  demonstrate that racial profiling by white officers against black suspects is at an all time high.
B)  demonstrates that both white and black officers engage in racial profiling.
C)  demonstrates that people of different races who live in the same area similarly perceive the same activities and reputations of their police departments.
D)  demonstrates that Hispanics are never profiled

Question 5

Police departments have generally adopted a scale indicating the levels of force used for particular situations.The scale is called the

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A)  use of force continuum.
B)  scale of force.
C)  force applied scale.
D)  physical Force Use (PFU) .

Question 6

The two most important specific programs that police departments have adopted for improving police-community relations have been

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A)  creating police-community relations units and providing related training to officers.
B)  creating race relations task forces and mobile race relation patrols.
C)  creating citizens advisory boards and chief's race relations committees.
D)  all of these

Question 7

The ability to understand and respond appropriately to differences in the languages, traditions, lifestyles, and patterns of communication in different racial or ethnic groups is known as

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A)  multicultural acceptance.
B)  cultural competence.
C)  ethnic recognition.
D)  cross-cultural diversity.

Question 8

What are the four dimensions of trust in policing?

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Question 9

Most complaints about police harassment come from

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A)  older white men.
B)  women about sexual harassment.
C)  young females under the age of 21.
D)  Hispanics.
E)  young males.

Question 10

This author found that 73 percent of the police officers thought that the public was "against the police, or hates the police."

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A)  William Westley
B)  James Q.Wilson
C)  Thomas McAninch
D)  Jerome Skolnick
E)  O.W.Wilson

Question 11

More women than men believe that the police treat all races fairly.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 12

The four dimensions of trust the authors describe are

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A)  care, pleasantness, empathy, sympathy.
B)  priorities, competence, dependability, respect.
C)  bearing, integrity, honesty, quality.
D)  service, dedication, honesty, respect.

Question 13

According to the case of Tennessee vs.Garner, what is the difference between the fleeing-felon rule and the defense-of-life standard?

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Question 14

Write a general explanation of the problem of language as a barrier to multicultural policing.

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Question 15

Community police has a positive impact on citizen's attitudes toward the police.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 16

Any level of force more than is necessary to fulfill a lawful objective is called

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A)  excessive force.
B)  excessive use of force.
C)  physical force.
D)  police violence.

Question 17

Jerome Skolnick concluded that police officers do not stereotype; they objectively analyze the situation with respect to gender, age, race, and ethnicity before taking action.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 18

How does tolerating vice crimes harm low-income and racial minority communities?

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A)  It breeds disrespect for the law and police because of the corruption that usually accompanies it.
B)  The form of corruption that emerged in the 1980s involved both corruption and physical brutality.
C)  Under-enforcement of the law exposes law-abiding citizens in minority communities to criminal activities like prostitution and drug dealing.
D)  All of these harm the communities.

Question 19

Alpert found that police officers use more force than was indicated by citizen behavior in __________ of all cases.

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A)  10 percent
B)  8 percent
C)  15 percent
D)  3 percent
E)  19 percent

Question 20

Give a general explanation of the problems of racial profiling as described in the text.

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