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To assess your knowledge about the characteristics and structure of police departments prior to reading the chapter, identify each of the following statements as fact or fiction. (See page 61 at the end of this chapter for answers.)

1 Police departments can be accurately described as monopolies.

2 There is sometimes conflict between street cops and management cops. Street cops have very little power over management cops.

3 Much of the task of police management can be accurately thought of as the management of police discretion.

4 One of the biggest differences between small and large police departments is the amount of specialization present in the structure of the organization.

5 Of all sworn officers who work in law enforcement, the largest proportion work at the federal level.

6 While most local police departments in the country are quite small, most police officers work in larger departments.

7 State police agencies focus exclusively on highway and interstate highway traffic enforcement.

8 The Clery Act relates to local police departments and the reporting of crime to the FBI.

9 The Department of Homeland Security was created by President Richard Nixon in the 1970s.

10 There are three agencies at the federal level that have law enforcement responsibilities.