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To assess your knowledge of police history prior to reading this chapter, identify each of the following statements as fact or fiction. (See page 35 at the end of this chapter for answers.)

1 One of the first things the colonists did when they arrived in America was set up a network of relatively sophisticated and well-run police departments.

2 To understand issues involving the police and race relations today, it is important to understand the policing of racial minorities in the past.

3 So-called black codes and Jim Crow laws were never legal, nor were they ever officially enforced by the police.

4 The first women were hired as police officers in the late 1800s and were assigned similar duties as policemen.

5 The first black officers were hired in the late 1800s and were often more educated and qualified than their white counterparts.

6 Photographs of criminals, Bertillonage, the third degree, and the dragnet roundup of suspects were common investigative strategies and tactics used during the political era of policing.

7 The reform era of policing was an attempt to remove politics from policing and make police officers more professional.

8 Coproduction of crime prevention was the centerpiece of the reform era of policing.

9 One aspect of policing that has not changed over time is how frequently the police use batons in force incidents.

10 The terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, immediately led to the creation of new laws and redirected law enforcement concerns, but the effects of the attacks have proven to be short lived.