Emerging Issues

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. Collaboration, privatization, federalization, and militarization are all __________.

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. Crime trends, cyber crime, eyewitness identification, and shrinking budgets are __________.

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. The police must address the concerns of many different groups. Which of the following is NOT one such group? group is not

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. The group of people who are _____ hears old accounts for 15% of the U.S. population.

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. The _____ is measured as the percentage of adults seeking work who are not successful in gaining employment.

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. What is the capacity of different units and different agencies to be able to communicate between each other and share digital information?

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. This area of the country is the most densely populated and has the highest percentage of its population living in metropolitan areas:

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. The Boston Police Department, immediately following the Boston Marathon bombings, used _____ to communicate with the public for help in apprehending the fugitives.

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. Which of the following is a FALSE statement about millennials?

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. Which of the following is NOT one of the "common and problematic" outcomes of police dealing with mentally ill people?

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. Which of the following is a specific technological breakthroughs might be game-changers in the near or medium-term future?

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. An unmanned aerial vehicle is also known as a _____.

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. Which of the following are viewed as potential "game changers" in the near or medium-term future if they turn out to be scientifically feasible and practical to use?

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. Which of the following is NOT a suggested police strategy for dealing with terrorism?

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. Which trend does not have an impact on counterterrorism?

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. Police departments are institutionalized organizations.

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. By the middle of the 21st century, African Americans be the majority population in the U.S.

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. Due to the nature of the police function, including authority and discretion, a major challenge is to avoid discriminating against people and groups just because their origin, skin color, beliefs, or orientations are different from the majority in society.

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. The poverty rate is less precise than the unemployment rate, since defining how much income puts one in or above poverty is subjective.

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. Today in the United States there are three times more public police officers than there are private security agents.

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. Weapon detection, drug detection, and drug identification are all examples of potential technological breakthroughs that may prove to be "game changers" in the future if they are scientifically feasible and practical to use.

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. The primary impetus behind body-worn cameras has been police officer accountability, especially in use of force incidents.

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. Interoperability refers to the capacity of different units and different agencies to remain isolated from one another and unable to share digital information between each other.

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. Traditionally, the regular military has had a very broad role in crime control and law enforcement responsibilities within the US borders.

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. Crimes in which the computer is incidental to the criminal activity could include using a computer to keep financial records of illegal business activities or sending a threatening email message to someone.

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. The poverty rate indicates how much range there is between low-income and high-income individuals or families.

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. The number of mass shootings in the U.S. has fallen since 2012.

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. Community-policing is the only police strategy that incorporates the problems encountered by the poor into decision-making by the police.

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. Collaboration, privatization, federalization, and militarization were trends that affected policing in recent decades but that will not be relevant in the future.

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. The Posse Comitatus Act gives military personnel the same powers as the police.

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