A Timeline of Policing in America MCQs

A Timeline of Policing in America MCQs

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1: Bow Street Runner is a group created in response to an increase in crime in ______in 1749. This newly formed group consisted primarily of constables and former constables who were responsible for locating and arresting serious offenders.

A.   United states

B.   London

C.   Germany

D.   France

2: Sometime in the mid- to late 1800s, ______ containing telephone lines linked directly to police headquarters were implemented to help facilitate better communication between patrol officers, police supervisors, and central headquarters.

A.   Call centres

B.   Call boxes

C.   Telephones

D.   Telegrams

3: Frankpledge system is Semi-structured system in which groups of ______ were responsible for enforcing the law.

A.   Men

B.   Women

C.   Police officers

D.   All of these

A.   Community

B.   Social

C.   Strategic

D.   Guardian

5: Homeland security era is a _____ era of policing, identified by Willard Oliver after the terrorist attacks occurred on September 11, 2001. Oliver believes that in this era, the police will receive authorization or legitimacy from national and international threats of terrorism, the law (intergovernmental), and professionalism.

A.   Fifth

B.   Forth

C.   Second

D.   Third

6: Training based on the idea that people, even those with good intentions, have unconscious biases toward people based on their social economic status, gender, and/or race/ethnicity is called ______ bias training.

A.   Implicit

B.   Absolute

C.   Implied

D.   Inferred

7: London Metropolitan Police,Known by historians as the first modern police department, it was created in ______ through the efforts of Sir Robert Peel.

A.   1829

B.   1830

C.   1930

D.   1827

8: _______ introduced the Bill for Improving the Police in and Near the Metropolis (also referred to as the Metropolitan Police Act) to Parliament with the goal of creating a police force to manage the social conflict resulting from rapid urbanization and industrialization taking place in the city of London.

A.   Sir Robert Peel

B.   Sir Roger Peel

C.   Sir John Peel

D.   Sir David Peel

9: Some people identify Slave Patrols as the first publicly funded police agencies in the ______.

A.   London

B.   France

C.   USA

D.   American south

10: The application of violence and coercion applied to alleged perpetrators to extract information from them or coerce confessions out of them is called _____.

A.   Warrior style policing

B.   Third degree

C.   Broken windows

D.   None of these

11: Warrior style policing is associated with a heavy militarized or traditional approach to policing that centers on aggressively _______ suspects.

A.   Searching

B.   Chasing

C.   Capturing

D.   All of these