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DSST Introduction To Law Enforcement
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. This is to ensure that ___________ with the administrative rules is maintained.
Executions
Compliance
Los Angeles
Technology
2. Incapacitation refers to the act of confinement so that the offender is restrained from committing the crime again whereas the deterrence has the overall aim of crime __________.
Prevention
Frequency
Control
Illegal
3. 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.
Improperly
Blind
Accountability
Supervision
4. Domestic disturbances may be fuelled by alcohol and drug abuse - financial difficulties or many other reasons that are beyond the ________ of the officers.
Control
Directorates
Effectiveness
Due process
5. 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.
FBI
Compliance
Cause
Community
6. In the 1950s training for police officers consisted mainly of firearm skill development but over the years - classroom training has emphasized criminal __________.
Procedures
Wilson
Searching
Patrol
7. The first landmark case that forms the foundation of the exclusionary rule is the US Supreme court decision of _____ v US (1914).
Warrant
Weeks
Security
Unqualified
8. One of the major problems facing patrol officers is high-speed pursuits is a high ________ rate.
Accident
Supervision
Mentally
Pendleton
9. The role of the police academy is to provide formal training - root out ___________ recruits and immerse the trainees in the police subculture.
Inadmissible
National
Violence
Unqualified
10. Racial profiling is the practice of stopping and or __________ a person not because of any suspected criminal activity but because of that person's race.
Sheriff
Serving
Black
Searching
11. 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
Attrition
Black
Bargain
Inadmissible
12. 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.
Age
UCR
Highly
Mentally
13. The spoils system is greatly reduced in modern politics - though not entirely eliminated. Most ________ workers do not have to be concerned about losing their jobs when a new party takes office.
Valid
Medical
Outside
Federal
14. 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.
Searching
Legitimate
Adversarial
Blind
15. 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
Poor
Blind
Transit
Cooperation
16. The county level of government supplies citizens with police services - for example the county ________.
Sober
Sheriff
Reduced
Response
17. The written policies method is called '________________ rule-making' and it is presently the most popular method of controlling discretion.
Analysis
Searching
Administrative
Executive
18. This describes the Pendleton Act. This was a big step in the government becoming the huge _____________ it is today.
Posse
Bureaucracy
Self
Death
19. The 3 CIA directorates are the directorate of Intelligence - directorate of Operations and the directorate of Science and ___________.
Same time
Bargain
Technology
Rarely
20. This is because patrol consists of the majority of police work and this is ________ through the police communications network - which is triggered by 911 calls.
Safe
Magistrate
Effectiveness
Enabled
21. They believe that _____-reporting provides more accurate information than police reports.
Self
Classroom
Cause
Warrant
22. The UCR has a hierarchy rule whereby multiple types of incidents can only be recorded as 1 incident. This is a _________ of the system.
Younger
Drawback
Control
Obvious
23. Another word for uphold is _________. This is the result for most appellate court decisions whereby they confirm the decision of the lower court.
Bilingual
Reaffirm
Lawfully
Parens
24. The first ___ amendments of the Constitution are commonly called the Bill of Rights and offer the individual considerable protection in the criminal justice system.
Due process
Never
Investigations
Ten
25. The first ___ amendments to the Constitution are called the Bill of Rights. They were created to restrict government actions against the individual.
Ten
Improperly
Obvious
Community
26. Police training programs do suffer from ___________ - particularly as important areas such as domestic violence - ethics and police discretion - which are not usually covered
3100
Procedures
Prevention
Limitations
27. Their perception of the amount of danger faced in their jobs results in the development of constant __________ of people
Reverse
4th
State
Suspicion
28. In order to police __________ crimes - officers generally have to resort to undercover work.
Victimless
Administrative
4th
Rarely
29. The exclusionary rule was modified by the __________ exception in the US Supreme Court decision of US v. Leon (1984).
Response
Crime
Reduced
Good-faith
30. The 1980s and 1990s saw the creation of _______ oversight of police groups to monitor or investigate complaints by individuals against police actions.
Special
Supervision
Citizen
Parens
31. Upon conviction - the defendant is punished through a sentence passed by the judge and if convicted of more than one crime - then may be subject to a ___________ or concurrent sentence.
Suspicion
Consecutive
Pay
Racketeering
32. The ________ rule was further emphasized in Edwards v. Arizona (1981) - when the court prohibited investigators from continuing questioning once the suspect has requested an attorney.
Sheriff
Supreme Court
FBI
Escobedo
33. The professionalization movement started by Vollmer was nurtured by his prot
Wilson
Vollmer
Sheriff
Suspicion
34. 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
Forfeited
Legitimate
Runaway
Executive
35. Criminalistics relies on __________ to analyze firearms and munitions as well as various forensic techniques to determine issues such as time of death.
Ballistics
Community
Violence
Younger
36. Apart from reducing crime - the mission of community policing is to _______ the trend of the negative public perception of the police
Safe
Special
Reverse
Younger
37. Individuals have the right to live in their homes peacefully and not be subjected to unreasonable searches and seizures by virtue of the ___ amendment.
Prevention
Danger
Previous
4th
38. 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 _______.
Same time
Mentally
Justice
Crime
39. The exclusionary rule relates to illegally seized evidence. In this case - the police searched and seized personal effects as well as incriminating evidence from the Defendant's house without a warrant. On the basis of this evidence - the Defendant w
Accident
Uphold
Sheriff
Breached
40. It is believed that the average citizen plays a vital part in the ________________ of officers.
Accountability
Pendleton
Directorates
State
41. Field training consists of practical on-the-job training with a __________ field training officer.
Qualified
Education
Crime
Illegal
42. This is one of the reports produced by the FBI in its law _____________ role.
Limitations
Enforcement
Citizen
Breached
43. 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.
Justice
Procedures
Security
Organized
44. This is training in relation to _____________ rules and was spurred by the decisions of the US Supreme Court in the 1960s.
Escobedo
Due process
Attrition
Detectives
45. 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.
Effectiveness
Response
Forfeited
Magistrate
46. The CID within the FBI is responsible for organized crime - violent crime - ____________ and money laundering.
Bribes
Reports
Racketeering
Reverse
47. 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.
Bureaucracy
Posses
Response
Incidents
48. It can be argued that __________ officers possess an additional skill and therefore the extra pay can be justified on those grounds.
Mentally
Subculture
Bilingual
Prevention
49. Officers are commonly offered bribes to let suspects go or to turn a blind eye to ________ activities.
Good-faith
Bribes
Previous
Illegal
50. The controversial 'broken window' theory made the connection between disorder - neighborhood decay and _____.
Jury
Classroom
Violence
Crime