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DSST Introduction To Law Enforcement

Subjects : dsst, law-enforcement
Instructions:
  • 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.






2. Police subculture is determined by the potential of ______ and because of this they stereotype certain categories of persons - such as low-income males - as possible threats.






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






4. Where offenders are not captured red-handed - an arrest _______ issued by an officer of the court is required to supply the legal foundation for the act of detention.






5. A centralized state-level agency - which merges patrol with ______________ will usually assist in local criminal investigations when asked - patrol the state's highways - operate identification bureaus - manage criminal records and provide training t






6. The exclusionary rule was modified by the __________ exception in the US Supreme Court decision of US v. Leon (1984).






7. Prospective police officers are trained at police _________ - with the average pre-service training program lasting about 1000 hours.






8. 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






9. 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.






10. 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.






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






12. Law enforcement in the US is extremely large and ___________ and hence this many agencies currently exist.






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






14. 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






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






16. Officers are allocated to specific shifts and patrol areas based on _________ or using a rotation system.






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






18. A concurrent sentence is one that is served at the __________ as another sentence.






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






20. Another source of PCR tension is discriminatory employment practices of the ______ force.






21. 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






22. Sheriff departments are usually responsible for _______ court papers - civil summons - and managing security in state courtrooms.






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






24. 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.






25. 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.






26. Due to an increase in _________ and disorder by citizens - officers turned to weaponry to protect themselves.






27. This means that the court releases the suspect into their own custody or into the care of another. This occurs where the suspect poses a low flight risk and is not __________ to the community.






28. Officers at the academy undergo _________ training and most academies also offer field training.






29. 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.






30. This is the problem of case __________. Research has shown that only about half of felony arrests result in convictions. The question is whether this is due to poor police work or some other reason.






31. The most organized and distinctly American officer force was the _____ patrol based in Charleston - South Carolina.






32. 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






33. The CID within the FBI is responsible for organized crime - violent crime - ____________ and money laundering.






34. Criminalistics relies on __________ to analyze firearms and munitions as well as various forensic techniques to determine issues such as time of death.






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






36. 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 __________.






37. The CIA is divided into 3 ____________ and 5 mission support offices (MSOs).






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






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






40. A critical function that the police play in society is crime __________ and this role is primarily executed through routine patrolling.






41. 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.






42. This has resulted in an under ________________ of blacks - women and ethnic minorities in the police force.






43. Some police departments may have a separate detective unit with further specialized units such as homicide and vice. ________ ones will have a single department to handle all cases or no department at all.






44. When the offender was apprehended by the posse - trials were rarely held and public __________ were held to dispense justice.






45. Their perception of the amount of danger faced in their jobs results in the development of constant __________ of people






46. The first ___ amendments to the Constitution are called the Bill of Rights. They were created to restrict government actions against the individual.






47. 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.






48. The 3 CIA directorates are the directorate of Intelligence - directorate of Operations and the directorate of Science and ___________.






49. This is the way criminal trials are conducted in the US and it is governed by strict rules of __________.






50. 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