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MUNICIPAL CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION, NEW YORK

These questions are to be taken only for what they are. Questions actually set for the position named. For future examinations questions will be framed to suit the requirements of the position at the time of the examination.

PATROLWOMAN-POLICE DEPARTMENT

Date: May 13, 1921.

DUTIES-WEIGHT 4

PART I

To be finished by 12:30 P.M.

1. Discuss the so-called "commercial" dance hall as a sometime factor in the downfall of girls, and state fully the police attention these places should receive.

2. (a) Define "juvenile delinquency" according to the law.
(b) Of what use are the so-called Big Brothers and Big Sisters
in your opinion?

(c) What is meant by "the age of consent"? What is the "age
of consent" in this state?

(d) Describe the manner in which children are linked up with the traffic in habit-forming drugs in New York City.

3. (a) State specifically the advice you, as a patrolwoman, would offer in a case where one member of a poor family is suspected of having contracted the most serious of venereal diseases.

(b) In your opinion, what various specific acts or conditions could properly be prosecuted under the general charge of "impairing the morals of a minor"?

4. To what city departments or bureaus of other agencies should the following be referred?

(a) Complaint alleging fraud on the part of a public employment

agency.

(b) Request for legal advice regarding the best means of pro-
tecting a poor family from an avaricious landlord.
(c) Complaint about the inadequate heating of an apartment
house during the winter months.

(d) Requests for aid in obtaining employment.

(e) Complaint alleging the giving of short weight by a retail dealer.

(f) Request for the commitment of children to some institution in a case where the parents are unable, though willing, to support them.

(g) Request for advice as to what should be done with the personal property of a man who died without leaving a will.

5. (a) In your opinion what constitutes "mashing" as an offense or practice of which the police of this city should take cognizance?

(b) Where are "mashers" likely to be met with and what are the usual methods they employ?

DUTIES-PART II

To be finished at 3:30 P.M.

6. (a) Name and locate the passenger railroad terminals situated within the limits of New York City. State the more important cities or towns to which the railroad lines run from each of these terminals. (b) Name the various steamboat or excursion-boat lines that operate between New York City and nearby places throughout the year or during certain seasons of the year. Locate the terminus (landing place) of each line in New York City and state the places to which these boats run. (c) Name and locate the large public parks in New York City. (d) Name and locate the favorite outdoor commercial amusement places in New York City.

7. State the nature of the relief, if any, that can be afforded the persons named below and give, step by step, the procedure to be followed in order that the relief may be obtained. (a) An unmarried mother.

(b) A dependent widow, who is a citizen of the United States and who has lived in New York City for the past five years. (Note: The husband of this woman died recently.) (c) A blind adult, supported by his brother and sister who are poor working people.

8. What types or classes of criminals or offenders against the law use minors as aides in the commission of crimes or the carrying on of nefarious practices and what classes or types of persons are accustomed to annoy children or prey upon them? Discuss fully.

9. (a) For what particular conditions or circumstances should a keen, observant patrolwoman be on the lookout in the following places?

(1) A congested summer bungalow colony inhabited by the working class and containing many bungalows run by young men's social clubs.

(2) A plain neighborhood, containing cheap furnished-room houses almost exclusively, and bordering on a busy thoroughfare where there are grouped several of the lower-class theaters, a passenger railroad terminal and two or three business schools.

(3) A cheap motion-picture theater in a neighborhood inhabited largely by a foreign element.

(b) (1) What places or neighborhoods in New York City should, in your opinion, be given special attention by patrolwomen after a large fleet of U. S. warships has returned to this city following a long cruise? Give your

reasons.

(2) What special precautions or measures should, in your opinion, be taken by the women's branch of the Police Department in connection with the observance of Mardi Gras week at Coney Island?

10. State fully what you, as a patrolwoman, would do
(a) On seeing a man pick flowers from a decorative flower bed
in Central Park.

(b) On being assigned to investigate a complaint alleging
immoral conditions in a certain commercial dance hall.
(c) On being sent to find out what you can concerning the
alleged use of narcotics by some children attending a
certain public school.

(d) If you saw a public taxicab driver drive his car unoccupied
slowly along the curbstone and talking all the while to a
nicely dressed young lady pedestrian who ignores the
man entirely.

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POLICEWOMAN EXAMINATION

KNOXVILLE, TENNESSEE, AUGUST 12, 1924

PART I

Write a thesis of not less than 350 words on the following subject: "What measures and remedies should be used for the prevention of delinquency and the suppression of prostitution?"

PART II

Answer any ten (and only ten) of the following questions. Choose those you can answer best. You may take the questions in any order you please, number them to correspond with the numbers given; but if you answer more than ten, only the first ten of your answers will be rated.

Question 1. What community agencies and institutions are essential for adequate care of all classes of dependents, delinquents, defectives, and criminals?

Question 2. Give the relative value of the institution versus private home for the child.

Question 3. Give definitions of (a) rape, (b) adultery, (c) seduction, (d) bigamy, (e) larceny.

Question 4. What qualities, personal habits, and ethics should a policewoman possess?

Question 5. What is meant by (a) evidence, (b) habeas corpus, (c) felony, (d) misdemeanor, (e) parole, (f) probation, (g) conviction?

Question 6. (a) What do you understand by " case work"? (b) Give a hypothetical case which fully illustrates your definition.

Question 7. What should be the relationship between a policewoman and a probation officer?

Question 8. (a) Why should a physical examination be given a delinquent before an adjustment of his case is attempted? (b) Why should a mental examination be given a delinquent before an adjustment of his case is attempted?

Question 9. (a) What kind of records should be kept by a woman's division in a police department? (b) What is the purpose of keeping these records?

Question 10. State how you would deal with a 19-year-old girl who is found stranded in a city to which she has come with a traveling carnival, having left the farm home of her aged father, who was unable to provide for her or to control her. There is no social agency in that community and the police department in the nearest town gives a bad report of the girl's behavior.

Question 11. State how you would deal with a 12-year-old boy who runs away from home repeatedly, often staying away until located by the police and who is usually found singing on the streets late at night and begging for money. The family do not object to the begging as long as the money is turned over to them.

Question 12. Write a letter to the Police Department in another city, giving them the necessary information for locating a 12-year-old girl who is believed to have run away to that city.