Chapter 10 Quiz

Force and Coercion
. Which of the following is NOT a source of data regarding police officers' use of deadly force?

. This type of conflict occurs when there are differences between law and departmental policy:

. How is type 3 conflict best described?

. In what case did the Court rule that psychologically coercive techniques interfere with constitutional ideas of fair play?

. There are three categories for which data are required if the extent of the use of deadly force is to be determined. These categories are __________.

. Which of the following is true regarding extra-legal police aggression?

. Which of the following is true concerning the adoption of more restrictive deadly force policies by police?

. There are a number of factors that influence the use of deadly force. The neighborhood where the police do their work is an example of what factor?

. What percentage of incidents of police using deadly force involves an officer who is off duty?

. This authorized the use of deadly force when a suspect of a serious crime was attempting to run from the police:

. More restrictive guidelines concerning the police use of deadly force have resulted in what?

. The carotid hold and the arm bar-control hold are examples of what type of control?

. Which of the following is NOT one of the five changes in present-day laws and departmental policy regulating the use of deadly force that Blumberg identifies?

. Which of the following is NOT one of the areas of research on the police use of deadly force?

. Which of the following is NOT a contemporary use of deception?

. The police use of force must involve some type of physical contact.

. Defense-of-life shooting policies generally restrict the use of deadly force to situations in which the officer's life, or another person's, is in jeopardy to prevent the escape of a person who is extremely dangerous.

. Police are more likely to encounter antagonism or injury in proactive situations.

. Homicides of police officers have been decreasing at a faster rate than homicides by police officers.

. The shooting of unarmed, nonviolent suspects has been ruled by the Supreme Court to be a violation of the Fifth Amendment of the Constitution.

. Excessive force and police brutality fall on different points of the use of force continuum.

. Federal data indicates a rise in the reports of police brutality over recent years.

. According to the 2005 Police-Public Contact Survey, the most common reason for police contact was being the driver of a motor vehicle that was pulled over by the police.

. Studies covering police departments over a 30-year period concluded that police employ verbal force and the threat of physical force relatively often, but their use of actual physical force is much less common.

. By permitting open deception, the courts are encouraging the police to emphasize good ends over legal means.

. The working notions of normal force are the strategies taught to the police at the academy.

. The police are permitted to promise the suspect a lighter sentence in exchange for information.

. Mere presence is the lowest level of force on the continuum of force.

. Almost all urban police departments have enacted restrictive administrative policies regarding the use of deadly force.

. Local police cultural standards for the use of force differ considerably from formal departmental policy and are more likely to support greater use of force than do formal training and policy.

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