Breaking up a fight, holding back a crowd at a sporting event, or intervening in a domestic dispute before it gets violent are examples of the police duty of

A. service.
B. law enforcement.
C. information gathering.
D. order maintenance.


Answer: D

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A. A social dislocation B. Southern situated transactions C. A culture of honor D. Southern violent culture

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Situations in which officers must urgently take immediate action are known legally as _____.

A) reasonable circumstances B) emergency situations C) exigent circumstances D) warrantless times

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White-collar crimes that violate trust have the potential to create:

A. social disorganization. B. cultural chaos. C. widespread immorality. D. institutional collapse.

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An officer who routinely patrols the same streets just in time for the city street sweeping ordinances to go into effect so that she can write an excessive number of parking tickets might be categorized as which of the four working personalities of police officers?

a. an enforcer b. an idealist c. a realist d. an optimist

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