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

1. Police departments operate as a monopoly, as citizens have only one option, to use the services of the agency, or not.
2. Because police departments operate as monopolies, they are able to 3. The police are unique in that they are the only public agency that operates as a street-level bureaucracy.
4. Due to written policies and intensive supervision, there is very little opportunity for police discretion to be misused or abused.
5. “Street cops” and “management cops” do not necessarily have the same goals or priorities.


1. True
2. False
3. False
4. False
5 True

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