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To assess your knowledge of the role of the police prior to reading this chapter, identify each of the following statements as fact or fiction. (See page 77 at the end of this chapter for answers.)

1 Police officers spend most of their time enforcing the law.

2 Crime control is relatively easy to measure accurately, and where there is less crime the police are obviously more effective.

3 The police do not deter some people from committing crimes and do not need to deter others.

4 Seldom is law enforcement controversial. It is just a matter of identifying the criminals and arresting them.

5 Media depictions of police work are similar to the realities of police work.