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DSST Introduction To Law Enforcement
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. It is interesting to note that the city of Detroit is the only state in which blacks rate the police force more ______ than their white counterparts.
Highly
Feedback
Special
Reverse
2. A concurrent sentence is one that is served at the __________ as another sentence.
Same time
Violence
Weeks
Arrest
3. The Uniform Crime Reports (UCR) is an annualized report published by the ___ that states the statistical rate of reported crime in the US based on data from police reports.
FBI
Illegal
Justice
Collateral
4. 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.
Black
Procedure
Annually
Racial
5. Under the ___ system - if last night Jim killed John - then set fire to a car and robbed an old lady - these multiple crimes would be recorded as a single incident.
Rabinowitz
Fragmented
Collateral
UCR
6. 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 ______.
Magistrate
Pay
Frequency
Sober
7. There was no __________ form of criminal justice law in those days. Guilt was assumed; the execution carried out and accepted by all as an act of retribution.
Containment
Professionalization
Improve
Organized
8. There is no _________ method of centralized policing in the US as police services are provided by the 4 levels of government which are the city - county - state and federal levels.
Ballistics
Sober
Technology
Organized
9. The police receive a sizeable number of calls about ________ ill persons and in exercising their discretion these matters are normally dealt with through arrest - hospitalization or informal disposition.
Mentally
Safe
Slave
Dangerous
10. Since these crimes are usually not reported - in order to discover them - undercover work using devices such as _________ are utilized.
Frequency
Justice
Wiretaps
Improve
11. Sheriff departments are usually responsible for _______ court papers - civil summons - and managing security in state courtrooms.
Academies
Due process
Outside
Serving
12. The first ___ amendments of the Constitution are commonly called the Bill of Rights and offer the individual considerable protection in the criminal justice system.
Blind
Forfeited
Prevention
Ten
13. The _________ Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS)is the term coined for this annual study.
Smaller
Justice
National
Violent
14. 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.
Parens
Cause
Escobedo
FBI
15. The police ___________ of secrecy - public hostility and solidarity meant they were very isolated from the community - especially the black community.
Leon
Serving
Subculture
Response
16. Domestic violence must be distinguished from a domestic ___________ in the sense that in the former a serious crime has been committed and so the officers can exercise their powers of arrest - if they choose to do so although research shows that offi
Disturbance
Response
Enforcement
4th
17. ____ did not become regulated officer equipment until the late 19th Century.
Valid
Leon
Guns
Organized
18. In order to police __________ crimes - officers generally have to resort to undercover work.
Due process
Police
Victimless
Seniority
19. Research has revealed that in about 80% of such situations - no formal action - such as _______ was necessary.
Arrest
Improperly
Illegal
Pendleton
20. 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.
Black
Response
Protect
Ten
21. 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.
Legitimate
Adversarial
Reverse
Slave
22. The 3 purposes of patrol are to deter crime - increase feelings of public ________ and prepare officers for service through effective dispersal in the neighborhood.
17000
Response
NCVS
Security
23. 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
Pay
Obvious
Bilingual
Poor
24. Police training programs do suffer from ___________ - particularly as important areas such as domestic violence - ethics and police discretion - which are not usually covered
Consecutive
Security
Limitations
Drawback
25. The 3 CIA directorates are the directorate of Intelligence - directorate of Operations and the directorate of Science and ___________.
Attrition
Forfeited
Hoover
Technology
26. 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
Organized
Younger
Seniority
Technology
27. Ballistics is the scientific _________ of firearms - ammunition - projectiles - bombs and explosives.
Control
Analysis
Slow
Sheriff
28. Some departments allow for bidding of new patrol areas once or twice _________.
Prohibit
Annually
Enforcement
Mainstream
29. A limited amount of streetwalking is tolerated if it is restricted to a particular part of town - usually a business district and it is not too ________.
Prohibit
Slow
Obvious
4th
30. This is training in relation to _____________ rules and was spurred by the decisions of the US Supreme Court in the 1960s.
Smaller
UCR
Due process
Writ
31. 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.
Supervision
Analysis
Magistrate
Writ
32. In dealing with federal criminal law enforcement - the duty of the FBI upon investigation is to gather evidence and perform personnel investigations - especially in major programs such as _________ crime and white-collar crime.
Copies
Organized
Warrant
Response
33. In serious cases - this may be the outcome. However - hospital care for the mentally ill is very disjointed and it may be difficult to hospitalize a person without their ________. Also - these hospitals or shelters may refuse to admit these patients.
Consent
Forfeited
Written
Rarely
34. 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.
Graduate
UCR
UCR
Rarely
35. 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.
FBI
4th
Wiretaps
Hoover
36. 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
Posse
FBI
Community
Partnership
37. This occurs where criminal and non-criminal actions are used by an officer in the course of his/her working activities or committed when pretending it is within his/her ___________ police authority. An example is sleeping on the job or a racial slur
Wilson
Legitimate
Increase
FBI
38. The CIA has operations officers and recruits ________ agents as part of their intelligence activities and this may involve covert operations.
Police
Foreign
Improperly
Imprisonment
39. 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.
Heart
Racial
Crime
Lawfully
40. A critical function that the police play in society is crime __________ and this role is primarily executed through routine patrolling.
Security
Prevention
Violent
Attrition
41. 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.
Vollmer
Special
Transit
Copies
42. 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.
Blind
Protect
FBI
Mainstream
43. One of the most controversial incidents in recent American police history occurred in ___________ in 1991 when officers subdued Rodney King using considerable force; resulting in 2 criminal trials and a riot that seriously damaged PCR for several yea
Victimless
Los Angeles
Dangerous
Reverse
44. Apart from reducing crime - the mission of community policing is to _______ the trend of the negative public perception of the police
Reverse
Vollmer
Never
Fragmented
45. 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 _______.
Justice
UCR
Pay
Posses
46. Officers may feel that the rules are there to catch them out and that the system mistrusts them. This may encourage officers to work at a deliberately _____ pace.
Illegally
Drawback
Due process
Slow
47. This was the ruling of the court. Many commentators were surprised but the court decided that although arrest for trivial offences (in this case a seat belt violation) may be embarrassing - it was not so extraordinary as to breach the ____ amendment
Unqualified
Increase
4th
Rabinowitz
48. Officers appointed to carry out investigative work are known as __________.
State
Occupational
Rarely
Detectives
49. In this case - the police applied for and obtained a search warrant from a magistrate for the Defendant's homes. Drugs were found there and the Defendant convicted. He appealed on the grounds that the original affidavit drawn up to obtain the search
4th
Valid
Improperly
Patrol
50. The first landmark case that forms the foundation of the exclusionary rule is the US Supreme court decision of _____ v US (1914).
Weeks
Accountability
Fragmented
Same time