Chapter 3: Policing and the American Experience
Self Check Answers
Check your understanding of the chapter facts and concepts with these Self Check Answers.
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Chapter Links
Web Patrol, page 113
Crime in the Old West
http://www.sky.net
History of the NYPD
http://www.ci.nyc.ny.us
Community Policing Consortium
http://www.communitypolicing.org
Additional Activities
Simulation Scenarios
Test your knowledge of law enforcement application with a Simulation Scenario.
Advanced Web Research
- Read the first few pages of "Nineteen Nineteen: The Boston Police Strike in the Context of American Labor," at http://www.columbia.edu. Read the introduction from the beginning to the end of the section, "A Very Short History of the Boston Police Strike." As you are reading, consider the lack of unionization among police officers, then compare their salaries and benefits to those of other professions.
- Why did the Boston police strike, and what were the consequences?
- In your own view, how did this action affect police salaries and benefits?
- Learn more about the experience of Western law enforcement in the nineteenth century by visiting "History of Dodge City" at http://www.dodgecity.org. Read the article, noting the issues that law enforcement had to face.
- In what kind of environment did the first law enforcement officials operate in Dodge City?
- What group(s) of people appeared to be the main causes of crime, and during what time of year were they most frequently in the city?
- See how a typical municipal police department of the nineteenth century worked at "Fall River (MA) Police Department History," at http://www.frpd.org. Read the sections entitled "The Phillips History of the Fall River Police" and "The Fall River Police Department," which describe the town's evolution from tithing to a night watch to a standard police department.
- How were tithing and the stocks used in Fall River (formerly called Freetown)?
- How did the night watch operate, and when did it evolve into a police department?
Further Exploration Links
Computer on Patrol
http://biology.about.com
3.2 Self Check #1
http://www.usdoj.gov
Photo Caption page 94
http://www.norml.org/
Photo Caption page 100
http://www.atf.treas.gov
Photo Caption page 101
http://www.npr.org
Questions for Review #5
http://www.fbi.gov
Questions for Review #6
http://www.usdoj.gov
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