Question 1

Match the person from Column 1 to his description in Column 2. Each item in Column 2 will be used only once.
-Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr.

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A)   WCTU activist who gained notoriety for ripping alcohol kegs open with her axe
B)   Driving force behind the London Metropolitan Police
C)   Bank robber killed in Chicago by FBI agents in 1934, marking the end of the lawless era
D)   Farm worker and civil rights activist who fought for better working conditions and pay for migrant pickers
E)   Chief of several jurisdictions and wrote Police Administration, which is often regarded as the "Bible" of police administrationF)  Carried out Oklahoma City bombing as a means of getting revenge for Ruby Ridge and WacoG)  Distinguished leader in the Civil Rights movementH)  Father of modern law enforcementI)  Former Tennessee slave who promoted founding African American townships in Kansas after the Civil warJ)  U.S. President assassinated by a frustrated patronage seeker, giving momentum to the passage of the Pendleton ActK) E) and I)
L) B) and H)

Question 2

How did Gus Vollmer contribute to policing?

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Question 3

One of the major conclusions of the Kansas City Preventive Patrol Study was:

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A)   Response time varied greatly with the level of routine patrol.
B)   Citizens' fear of crime was altered by the level of routine patrol.
C)   Level of patrol was directly correlated with the incidence of traffic accidents.
D)   A statistically weak correlation between reported crime and level of routine patrol.E) All of the above
F) None of the above

Question 4

Of what importance is the closing of the frontier in 1890?

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Question 5

Match the person from Column 1 to his description in Column 2. Each item in Column 2 will be used only once.
-August "Gus" Vollmer

Accepted Answer

A)   WCTU activist who gained notoriety for ripping alcohol kegs open with her axe
B)   Driving force behind the London Metropolitan Police
C)   Bank robber killed in Chicago by FBI agents in 1934, marking the end of the lawless era
D)   Farm worker and civil rights activist who fought for better working conditions and pay for migrant pickers
E)   Chief of several jurisdictions and wrote Police Administration, which is often regarded as the "Bible" of police administrationF)  Carried out Oklahoma City bombing as a means of getting revenge for Ruby Ridge and WacoG)  Distinguished leader in the Civil Rights movementH)  Father of modern law enforcementI)  Former Tennessee slave who promoted founding African American townships in Kansas after the Civil warJ)  U.S. President assassinated by a frustrated patronage seeker, giving momentum to the passage of the Pendleton ActK) E) and F)
L) None of the above

Question 6

A tightly controlled political party headed by a boss or small autocratic group whose purpose is to repeatedly win election s for personal gain, often through graft and corruption, is known as:

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A)   Patronage.
B)   Partisan government.
C)   Machine politics.
D)   Mob-influenced politics.E) A) and B)
F) B) and C)

Question 7

The Pendleton Act of 1883 sought to eliminate:

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A)   Merit selection.
B)   The political spoils system.
C)   The "good old boy" government
D)   Testing for promotion.E) A) and B)
F) A) and C)

Exam 1: Evolution of Police Administration

Match the person from Column 1 to his description in Column 2. Each item in Column 2 will be used only once. -August "Gus" Vollmer

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Match the person from Column 1 to his description in Column 2. Each item in Column 2 will be used only once. -Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr.

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A tightly controlled political party headed by a boss or small autocratic group whose purpose is to repeatedly win election s for personal gain, often through graft and corruption, is known as:

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How did Gus Vollmer contribute to policing?

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The Pendleton Act of 1883 sought to eliminate:

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Of what importance is the closing of the frontier in 1890?

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One of the major conclusions of the Kansas City Preventive Patrol Study was:

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Exam 1: Evolution of Police Administration

Match the person from Column 1 to his description in Column 2. Each item in Column 2 will be used only once. -August "Gus" Vollmer

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Match the person from Column 1 to his description in Column 2. Each item in Column 2 will be used only once. -Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr.

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A tightly controlled political party headed by a boss or small autocratic group whose purpose is to repeatedly win election s for personal gain, often through graft and corruption, is known as:

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