What act prohibits anyone convicted of a misdemeanor domestic violence offense from owning or using a firearm?

The Lautenburg Act

Which is the process by which the actions of the police in areas such as arrest and search and seizure are reviewed by the court system to ensure their constitutionality?

judicial review

____________________ is an administrative action coordinated through the state police standards organization that will determine if cause exists to strip an officer of his or her state certification to be a police officer.

decertification

Section 1983 of Title 42 of the U.S. Code was originally enacted by Congress as a means of enforcing the ____________________ Amendment guarantee of rights to the newly freed slaves.

Fourteenth

Which of the following has been proposed as a solution to police brutality? Improved training. Citizen review. Better screening of applicants. All of the above

All of the above

What is the first step in testing a rookie officer's loyalty to the group that models the academy's psychological preparation and early socialization with fellow officers?

free meals

The most dangerous aspect of the "rotten apple" theory of police corruption is that police commanders ______.

don't take strong proactive measures to eradicate corruption throughout the department or precinct

Which commission investigated and uncovered some serious corruption among officers in New York City in the 1990s?

Mollen

Today, ____________________ of the major U.S. cities have some form of citizen oversight in place.

most

What was found in a research project that examined the support for increasing police funding in the subject's residential areas between 2020 and 2022?

The people studied wanted more funding for the police

The first national commission to discuss police brutality was the ___________.

Wickersham Commission

What is the term to describe investigations in which police officers are provided opportunities to commit illegal acts?

proactive investigations

What is another name for the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorder?

Kerner

What is the most prevalent type of corruption in law enforcement today?

noble cause corruption

Which of the following is the definition of "ethics"?

the study of what constitutes good or bad conduct

When excessive force is used with the public and there is a significant disparity between the level of compliance by the person and the level of force used by the officer, the use of force is considered to be ______.

police brutality

What commission was formed to investigate New York City police corruption in the 1990s?

Mollen Commission

Police officers who violate a person's civil rights by unlawfully searching or detaining them can be sued under what law?

Title 42 U.S.C Section 1983

According to Rolando v. del Carmen, major sources of police legal liability are all of the following except __________.

moral liabilities

Officers may be subject to federal liability under the following: ___________.

U.S. Code Title 42 Section 1983

The Knapp Commission was a(n) ____________________ commission.

local

Police officers who participate in more passive types of police corruption are referred to as _________.

grass-eaters

The New York City plainclothes officer whose revelations about police corruption led to the legendary Knapp Commission was ___________.

Frank Serpico

Officers who participate in more aggressive types of corruption by seeking out and taking advantage of opportunities for corruption are called ___________.

meat-eaters

The 193l National Commission on Law Observance and Enforcement was more popularly known as the ___________.

Wickersham Commission

Police testimony that narcotics found on the ground were dropped by persons they arrested has been called ______.

dropsy testimony

What is the name of the units within police departments that "police the police"?

Internal Affairs

What stems from ends-oriented policing and involves police officers bending the rules to achieve the "right" goal of putting a criminal in jail?

noble cause corruption

Early warning systems typically use ____________________ to flag officers who may be prone to problems when interacting with the public.

computer systems

Which of the following is an example of police corruption? 1. An off-duty police officer escorts a drug dealer as he or she delivers illegal drugs to customers and receives $100 per delivery. 2. A police officer receives sexual favors from a driver for not giving him or her a summons for speeding. 3. A police officer receives $15 from a driver for not giving him or her a summons for speeding. 4. All of the above

4. All of the above