An Introduction to Policing 9th Edition by Dempsey, Forst and Carter | All Chapters 1-15 | TEST BANK

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Chap 01_9e

Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
1. Early American police were responsible for cleaning streets, inspecting boilers, caring for the poor and homeless,
operating emergency ambulances, and performing other social services, in addition to their law enforcement
duties.
a. True
b. False

2. Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857) held that Dred Scott could sue in court for his freedom because he was a citizen
and not a piece of property.
a. True
b. False

3. By the seventeenth century, the northern colonies started to institute a civil law enforcement system that closely
replicated the Greek model.
a. True
b. False

4. The concept of the sheriff can be traced back to the Praetorian Guard.
a. True
b. False

5. Early in the first decade of the 2000s, police nationwide adopted technology and data-mining, which resulted in
crime reductions nationwide.
a. True
b. False

6. The Bow Street Runners were founded by Sir Robert Peel.
a. True
b. False

7. John Edgar Hoover is known as the father of American policing.
a. True
b. False

8. The man who is credited with establishing London’s first large-scale, civil police department in 1829 is Sir Robert
Peel.
a. True
b. False

9. The word police is derived from the Latin word politia, which means “civil administration.”
a. True
b. False




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10. London’s first large-scale, civil police department consisted of more than 4,000 men.
a. True
b. False

11. The U.S. Supreme Court case of Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (1954), which desegregated schools
all over the nation, created equal treatment of the races virtually overnight.
a. True
b. False

12. Escobedo v. Illinois was the U.S. Supreme Court case that applied the exclusionary rule to all states in the
United States.
a. True
b. False

13. During ninth-century England, the system of mutual pledge was employed as a strategy for maintaining stability
and providing a method for people living in villages to protect one another.
a. True
b. False

14. The first state police agency was the Texas Rangers.
a. True
b. False

Indicate the answer choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
15. The duties of the ________ included lighting street lamps, clearing garbage from the streets, and putting out
fires.
a. thief-takers
b. watchmen
c. shire-reeve
d. magistrates

16. Within the King Alfred-established a system of society, citizens were expected to assist other citizens who
were yelling for help. This was known as ___________.
a. hue and cry
b. watch and ward
c. mutual pledge
d. thief-take




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17. Historians and scholars indicate that __________ in the American South were the precursor to modern
highway patrols.
a. Praetorian Guard
b. Vigiles
c. thief-takers
d. slave patrols

18. Where did modern style police departments first begin to appear in the fourteenth century?
a. England
b. Greece
c. Italy
d. France

19. In the latter part of the ninth century, England’s King Alfred the Great established a form of community self-
protection known as ___________.
a. Vigiles
b. hue and cry
c. shire-reeve
d. mutual pledge

20. What law established National Prohibition in 1920?
a. Olmstead Act
b. Homestead Act
c. Volstead Act
d. Federal Judiciary Act

21. Which one of the following figures created practices that started to professionalize the U.S. police, including
incorporating university education as a part of police training?
a. August Vollmer
b. O. W. Wilson
c. Raymond Blaine Fosdick
d. J. Edgar Hoover

22. What U.S. Supreme Court decision held that a black slave could not sue in court for his freedom because he
was a piece of property, not a citizen?
a. Dred Scott v. Sandford
b. Mapp v. Ohio
c. Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka
d. Mabury v. Madison


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