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DSST Introduction To Law Enforcement
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. In order to police __________ crimes - officers generally have to resort to undercover work.
Victimless
Forfeited
17000
Death
2. The CIA is divided into 3 ____________ and 5 mission support offices (MSOs).
Federal
Cooperation
Professionalization
Directorates
3. The county level of government supplies citizens with police services - for example the county ________.
Sheriff
Improperly
FBI
Warrant
4. The first landmark case that forms the foundation of the exclusionary rule is the US Supreme court decision of _____ v US (1914).
Without
Weeks
Federal
FBI
5. Officers at the academy undergo _________ training and most academies also offer field training.
Violence
Previous
Classroom
Improve
6. The next most critical factor that impacts on PCR after race and ethnicity is ___.
Communities
Adversarial
Age
NCVS
7. J Edgar ______ - the Director of the FBI in the 1930s had a critical impact on local policing in setting educational and training models for officers - the development of the Uniform Crime Reports (UCR) and the establishment of the FBI crime lab.
Communities
Analysis
Hoover
Representation
8. 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.
Feedback
Uphold
Racial
Highly
9. Campus police are a type of _______ district police force - and many of these larger forces have been state certified as law enforcement agencies with general arrest powers.
Slow
Special
Ballistics
Organized
10. Research has revealed that in about 80% of such situations - no formal action - such as _______ was necessary.
Arrest
Seniority
Response
Prevention
11. They believe that _____-reporting provides more accurate information than police reports.
4th
Self
Runaway
Disturbance
12. The role of the police academy is to provide formal training - root out ___________ recruits and immerse the trainees in the police subculture.
Runaway
UCR
Death
Unqualified
13. The CIA also engages in ______ operations sanctioned by the President as part of their role in ensuring national security.
Covert
Escobedo
Leon
Patrol
14. A concurrent sentence is one that is served at the __________ as another sentence.
Same time
Violent
Outside
Ten
15. 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
Leon
Professionalization
Procedures
Incidents
16. Domestic disturbances are a common order maintenance issue handled by the police but officers generally find them frustrating to handle because there is little that they can do about the _____ of the problem.
Ten
Wilson
Racial
Cause
17. In the 1950s training for police officers consisted mainly of firearm skill development but over the years - classroom training has emphasized criminal __________.
Executions
Accident
Procedures
Crime
18. August Vollmer believed that policing standards needed to be improved and corruption stamped out. He advocated training and __________ for officers.
Bureaucracy
Education
Self
Improve
19. The Supreme Court created a good faith exception to the exclusionary rule when police officers use search warrants (US v. ____ - 1984).
Pay
Racial
Education
Leon
20. 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.
Reports
Forfeited
Occupational
Policy
21. In 1837 - the slave patrol consisted of about 100 officers and they were responsible for finding ________ slaves and ensuring that they were well-behaved.
Runaway
Obvious
Protect
Due process
22. The ATF was previously an organization within the Department of the Treasury but since 24th January 2003 - their agency was transferred to the Department of _______.
Executions
Copies
Justice
Directorates
23. The courts of general jurisdiction utilize a fact-finding foundation known as the ___________ process which pits the State's interest - as represented by the prosecution against the Defendant's - as represented by defense counsel.
Adversarial
Ten
Breached
Prevention
24. The local police cover a wide range of law enforcement agencies such as the municipal police - sheriff's departments - campus and _______ police.
Covert
Transit
Blind
Slow
25. This describes the Pendleton Act. This was a big step in the government becoming the huge _____________ it is today.
Bureaucracy
Policy
Organized
Citizen
26. The assessment stage evaluates the response based on detailed _________ and surveys. The police are also encouraged to conduct a self-analysis to see if they identified the problem correctly in the first place and revise that response if needed.
Los Angeles
Feedback
Detectives
Classroom
27. 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.
Illegal
Detectives
Bureaucracy
Response
28. 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
Limitations
Consecutive
Warrant
Improperly
29. Affirmative action is mandated by a Presidential _________ Order in 1965 - so that all private employers and government agencies who receive federal monies have to develop written affirmative action plans.
Administrative
Bilingual
Executive
Patrol
30. 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.
Fragmented
Searching
Graduate
Violence
31. When it comes to prostitution - low-level street-walking is usually tolerated so that the role of the police is normally ___________ and maintaining the peace.
Containment
Guns
Detectives
Good-faith
32. 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.
Parens
Enabled
Communities
Lawfully
33. Officers are commonly offered bribes to let suspects go or to turn a blind eye to ________ activities.
Illegal
Cause
Ten
Community
34. This is the right granted under the Constitution but the Supreme Court has held that it can be exercised only for offences carrying a term of ______________ exceeding 6 months or where the extra penalties such as fines and community service are suffi
Reports
Self
Rabinowitz
Imprisonment
35. Community policing is widely implemented in the US today but critics are concerned that the police role of crime control has been hijacked - the police are increasingly getting involved at a political level and ________________ will lead to the loss
Activity
Supervision
State
Decentralization
36. The office of coroner is considered a local law enforcement agency because they determine the cause of _____ of victims and perpetrators in criminal cases.
UCR
Death
Detectives
Prevention
37. These experts contend that officers do not have the authority to subvert the criminal law. Some states have criminalized the failure of criminal justice officials who turn a ______ eye to enforcement.
Disturbance
Blind
Containment
Organized
38. The controversial 'broken window' theory made the connection between disorder - neighborhood decay and _____.
Organized
Illegal
Bribes
Crime
39. This was the only way they could ________ themselves and their property from the bandits. They did try to apply the accepted standards of decency of the day to their actions.
Subculture
Protect
Wilson
Directorates
40. The CID within the FBI is responsible for organized crime - violent crime - ____________ and money laundering.
National
Racketeering
Occupational
Consecutive
41. 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.
Adversarial
Response
Writ
Obvious
42. The exclusionary rule was modified by the __________ exception in the US Supreme Court decision of US v. Leon (1984).
Good-faith
17000
State
Never
43. Under the 6th Amendment to the Constitution - every defendant has the right to a ____ trial.
Classroom
Jury
Crime
Accident
44. Apart from reducing crime - the mission of community policing is to _______ the trend of the negative public perception of the police
Reverse
Victimization
FBI
Security
45. There is usually a degree of competition between detectives and _______ officers. The latter sometimes withhold information in the hope of beating detectives to solving a case.
Patrol
Suspicion
Smaller
Highly
46. The _________ Act passed by Congress in 1883 put an end to Andrew Jackson's 'spoils system -' and created a system of hiring government employees based on their qualifications.
Suspicion
Incidents
Pendleton
Illegal
47. Criminalistics relies on __________ to analyze firearms and munitions as well as various forensic techniques to determine issues such as time of death.
Frequency
Education
Ballistics
UCR
48. Citizen ______ and vigilante groups were the main means of policing the frontier and well-known figures who took up this challenge in the 19th Century include Wild Bill Hickok and Wyatt Earp.
Escobedo
Education
Posses
Community
49. The UCR has a hierarchy rule whereby multiple types of incidents can only be recorded as 1 incident. This is a _________ of the system.
Blind
Drawback
Executions
Response
50. The 911 communications center is the _____ of a modern police department.
Sheriff
Heart
Lawfully
Illegally