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Take a practice quiz at edge.sagepub.com/brandl2e.

1 Why might personal experience with officers not be a good basis on which to draw accurate conclusions about the police?

2 What does it mean to say that a society is free? In general, how does policing a free society differ from policing a not-so-free society?

3 How is it that a technology, such as police body-worn cameras, may increase transparency and accountability of a police agency?

4 How is it that a system of elected government is supposed to provide accountability of the police to citizens? Does this system actually provide for accountability?

5 Do the police have an impossible mandate? Why or why not?

6 What is it about police practice that raises concerns about overpolicing and underpolicing?

7 How can police use of discretion be controversial?

8 Why is good policing difficult to measure?

9 How do the media distort the realities of policing? Why is this distortion important to recognize and understand?

10 How do ethical issues most often arise in police work?