Chapter 4 End of Chapter Quiz

History and Organization of Law Enforcement
. Which is not one of the three features of U.S. policing influenced by English policing?

. Which choice is a way in which the events of September 11, 2001 affected law enforcement?

. Which is the country's foremost law enforcement agency?

. Which may be a state law enforcement agency?

. Which choice best characterizes the watchman style of policing?

. Which choice best characterizes the service style of policing?

. Which is an important element of zero-tolerance policing?

. Which is a feature of problem-oriented policing?

. Which form of policing most directly led to that of modern U.S. policing?

. In which city did informal policing begin in United States in 1631?

. Federal law enforcement agencies are special-purposes agencies that have national jurisdiction but concentrate on a limited set of offenses

. State agencies have as many officers as local agencies as well as the visibility of federal agencies.

. All state law enforcement systems are exactly alike.

. Local law enforcement handles most of the country's crime.

. The institution of police is a relatively new phenomenon.

. Community policing evokes the watchman style of policing.

. Problem-oriented policing has the same goals and techniques as community policing

. According to the broken-windows perspective, criminal activity occurs when it appears that no one cares about a neighborhood.

. The 1931 Wickersham Commission report did little to modernize policing.

. One of the founding principles of the United States is that control of government should be as far from the people as possible.

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