Pick a local city or county police department. Diagram their organizational chart and write a summary about each department's responsibility and/ or function

What will be an ideal response?


the summary of responsibility or function should relate to the textbook material.

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Which of the following is LESS likely to be an indication that property has been stolen?

A) attempts to flee when approached B) offering items for sale at 40% off retail price C) sale of property with identification tags removed D) unsatisfactory explanation of source of property E) sale of the property under an assumed name

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Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)

1. The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP), part of the Department of Justice, sponsors research, programs, and training initiatives through grant funding to states and localities. 2. The Moving to Opportunity Housing Mobility Experiment is under the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). 3. The school-based drug use prevention arm of the Drug Abuse Resistance Education (D.A.R.E) program ended in 2014. 4. The blueprint program has three phases: (1) consultation with health-care providers on avoiding alcohol use and other risk factors; (2) mailing of key-facts postcards to parents or guardians, with instructions on communicating with their children about alcohol avoidance; and (3) take-home lessons, with prevention activities to be completed on a weekly basis. 5. A quasi-experimental study analyzing outcome measures of aggression and nonviolent behaviors in eighth graders at 37 schools was used to evaluate the usefulness of GREAT program.

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Broadly speaking, actions taken after a crime has been committed is called a(n)

a. post-crime offense b. aider c. abettor d. conspiracy

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The National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) chronicles all of the following information except:

a. The amount of crime that occurs in school b. So-called victimless crimes c. The relationship between the victim and the offender d. Profiles of crime victims

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