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DSST Introduction To Law Enforcement

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Apart from reducing crime - the mission of community policing is to _______ the trend of the negative public perception of the police






2. The CIA has operations officers and recruits ________ agents as part of their intelligence activities and this may involve covert operations.






3. The ________ stage of SARA refers to the creation of strategies based on the analyzed data to deal with the problem whereas the assessment stage requires an evaluation of the effectiveness of the response.






4. The UCR statistics are used to create the FBI Crime Clock which creates a picture of crime _________ in the US.






5. This is to ensure that ___________ with the administrative rules is maintained.






6. The Defendant was _________ arrested in his office - which consisted of a single room. The search was valid and reasonable given the circumstances of the arrest and small space of the area he was arrested in.






7. Campus police is probably the most important example of the special district police force. The also participate in the ____ program.






8. Research showed that patrol was of little deterrence and speedier response times did not increase the arrest rate nor assisted in the solving of crimes. Community policing is meant to create a _____________ between police and community to develop pro






9. The local police cover a wide range of law enforcement agencies such as the municipal police - sheriff's departments - campus and _______ police.






10. Patrol is meant to reassure citizens that their environment is _____ and protected from crime.






11. When an appellate court is asked to review a judgment - they may ______ it - require the lower court to set it aside or modify it.






12. Good faith means that when the police act with the honest belief that they are following proper rules. According to the ruling in US v. Leon - when officers have acted in good faith reliance on a warrant - the evidence will not be excluded even if th






13. Ballistics is the scientific _________ of firearms - ammunition - projectiles - bombs and explosives.






14. There are around _____ federal - state and local law enforcement agencies in the US.






15. This is one of the main functions of the police academy and ensures that unsuitable recruits do not make it as officers. About 10% of recruits do not _________ from the academy.






16. The evidence had to be plainly in sight and even though the officers may have concluded that some items may have been located behind the ceiling panel; it was not in plain view and hence was ______________ as evidence. Furthermore - the officers are






17. Research has revealed that in about 80% of such situations - no formal action - such as _______ was necessary.






18. Public concern led to the start of the crackdown and this is viewed as an important police role but it is very difficult to spot the minority of drunk drivers amongst those who are ______.






19. Another word for uphold is _________. This is the result for most appellate court decisions whereby they confirm the decision of the lower court.






20. The written policies method is called '________________ rule-making' and it is presently the most popular method of controlling discretion.






21. Bail describes the circumstance when suspects are released from custody but on condition that money or property is offered as __________ against flight.






22. The role of the ___ is to investigate breaches of federal criminal law - to protect the country from foreign counterintelligence and terrorist activities and to provide law enforcement assistance to other agencies.






23. Organized law enforcement in Britain can be traced back to 1200 AD when identified law breakers were pursued by a _____ led by the shire reeve or mounted officer.






24. This was the step taken in 1965 to remedy _________ discrimination.






25. The FBI has the responsibility to investigate - analyze and neutralize any potential terrorist threats and to investigate and analyze terrorist __________ in the US.






26. In order to police __________ crimes - officers generally have to resort to undercover work.






27. It is believed that the average citizen plays a vital part in the ________________ of officers.






28. Under the 6th Amendment to the Constitution - every defendant has the right to a ____ trial.






29. Research into police work and activities conducted between the 1950s and 1970s concluded that police-community relations were very ____ and officers regularly breached legal rules






30. Wilson believed in the necessity to continue and encourage _____________________ within the police force. He was the chief of police in Wichita from 1928 to 1935 - the Dean of Criminology at the University of California from 1950 to 1960 and the supe






31. Some legal experts believe that police discretion should be abolished because it is _______.






32. The drawbacks of the administrative rule-making route are that they can never cover every conceivable situation; it may promote lying - avoidance - confusion and a negative ________ from officers.






33. The controversial 'broken window' theory made the connection between disorder - neighborhood decay and _____.






34. The police ___________ of secrecy - public hostility and solidarity meant they were very isolated from the community - especially the black community.






35. The UCR has a hierarchy rule whereby multiple types of incidents can only be recorded as 1 incident. This is a _________ of the system.






36. Generally - surveys have revealed that ________ people tend to be more dissatisfied with the police than older persons. Some youths seem to believe that the police target them simply because they are young and think that all teenagers are up to no go






37. It can be argued that __________ officers possess an additional skill and therefore the extra pay can be justified on those grounds.






38. Officers must file written _______ in certain circumstances when they exercise their discretion - for example when they fire their weapon and these reports must be reviewed by their superiors.






39. This is the definition of bail. If the suspect fails to appear for the next court hearing - then the money or property pledged may be __________.






40. Wilson and Kelling believed that the broken window symbolized a deteriorating neighborhood and not repaired led to the eventual decline of an area - thereby encouraging criminal _________.






41. Tensions between the police and racial minorities continue despite the many advances made since the 1960s; major complaints are still made regularly and these include use of excessive force and ______ profiling.






42. Increasing ___________ and reducing competition between patrol officers and detectives as well as improving police-citizen relationships are 2 important methods of enhancing the quality of investigative work.






43. The _________ Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS)is the term coined for this annual study.






44. The next most critical factor that impacts on PCR after race and ethnicity is ___.






45. A warrant is a _____ issued by the court to justify the arrest of a suspect. It offers protection to the officer executing the warrant against damages; for example for wrongful arrest.






46. Since the 1980s - there have been some very public crackdowns on _____ driving but rates of this offence which creep down during the crackdown soon return to the original levels because the publicity forces a temporary change in behavior which is not






47. There are over _____ sheriff's departments in the US.






48. The 1980s and 1990s saw the creation of _______ oversight of police groups to monitor or investigate complaints by individuals against police actions.






49. The majority of criminal cases do not go to trial but are instead settled via a plea _______.






50. The Hispanic community is growing faster than expected and therefore police departments should take steps to hire more Hispanic officers through active recruitment processes and offering incentive ___ for bilingual officers.