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CRJ ch. 5 quiz

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The peacekeeping system in which particular men were assigned the job of custodian and became responsible for patrolling the streets, lighting lanterns, serving as a lookout for fires, and generally keeping order is known as the ________.
watch system
The first publicly funded city police departments in the United States were ________.
slave patrols
There is nothing more harmful to a law enforcement agency than:
officer misconduct
________ is officers' maintenance of a visible presence in communities to serve as a deterrent to a variety of street-level crimes.
preventative patrol
Police disregard for policies, rules, or laws in the performance of their duty is called ________.
abuse of authority
Training curricula of a police academy include:
all of these
The ________ places loyalty to fellow officers above all other values.
blue code of silence
Which of the following statements is true about the growth of private security in the United States?
There are an estimated three times more private security officers than public law enforcement officers.
During the ________, local government leaders selected members of their party to be police officers as a reward for party loyalty. In this patronage system, it was whom the police knew, rather than what they knew, that was important.
political era of policing
What is privatization?
It is the transfer of government programs and functions to the private sector
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