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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. 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
Organized
Magistrate
Improperly
Slow
2. 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.
Transit
Lawfully
Adversarial
Prevention
3. Their perception of the amount of danger faced in their jobs results in the development of constant __________ of people
Suspicion
Never
Forfeited
Technology
4. 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
Federal
Slow
Real problem
5. This may also be called '________ officer.' The investigative nature of their jobs has resulted in their classification as a local law enforcement agency.
Medical
Annually
Weeks
Black
6. The controversial 'broken window' theory made the connection between disorder - neighborhood decay and _____.
Crime
Medical
Illegal
Bureaucracy
7. The CIA also engages in ______ operations sanctioned by the President as part of their role in ensuring national security.
Slave
Previous
Covert
Mainstream
8. 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
Illegal
Supervision
Inadmissible
Legitimate
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.
Community
Death
Compliance
Mentally
10. 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.
Subculture
Transit
Drunk
Escobedo
11. The exclusionary rule was modified by the __________ exception in the US Supreme Court decision of US v. Leon (1984).
Good-faith
Communities
Forfeited
Reverse
12. The Supreme Court created a good faith exception to the exclusionary rule when police officers use search warrants (US v. ____ - 1984).
Response
Leon
4th
Accident
13. Campus police is probably the most important example of the special district police force. The also participate in the ____ program.
Education
Slave
UCR
Prohibit
14. In the 1950s training for police officers consisted mainly of firearm skill development but over the years - classroom training has emphasized criminal __________.
Disturbance
Frequency
Procedures
Pendleton
15. 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
Age
Rarely
Education
16. Officers appointed to carry out investigative work are known as __________.
Foreign
Detectives
Racketeering
Smaller
17. 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.
Fragmented
Vollmer
Activity
Attrition
18. Another word for uphold is _________. This is the result for most appellate court decisions whereby they confirm the decision of the lower court.
Feedback
Reaffirm
Crime
Policy
19. 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 ________.
Reduced
Effectiveness
Obvious
4th
20. This describes the Pendleton Act. This was a big step in the government becoming the huge _____________ it is today.
Bureaucracy
Executive
Without
Bargain
21. The police ___________ of secrecy - public hostility and solidarity meant they were very isolated from the community - especially the black community.
Breached
Runaway
Subculture
Investigations
22. There are around _____ federal - state and local law enforcement agencies in the US.
Drawback
17000
Adversarial
Wiretaps
23. 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
Age
Escobedo
Sober
Imprisonment
24. A critical function that the police play in society is crime __________ and this role is primarily executed through routine patrolling.
Los Angeles
Victimization
Self
Prevention
25. Law enforcement in the US is extremely large and ___________ and hence this many agencies currently exist.
Supreme Court
Fragmented
Posse
Limitations
26. 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.
Pay
Self
Bargain
Guns
27. After the arrest - suspects are brought before a __________ for their first appearance so that the charges brought against them can be read out and if appropriate they may be released on their own recognizance.
National
Magistrate
Reverse
Organized
28. This is widely recognized as a police role - though they do share the burden with other institutions such as schools and _____________.
Improve
Los Angeles
Black
Communities
29. 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
Guns
FBI
Professionalization
Communities
30. The most organized and distinctly American officer force was the _____ patrol based in Charleston - South Carolina.
Slave
Younger
Consent
Investigations
31. 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.
Wilson
Cooperation
Organized
Warrant
32. Officers are commonly offered bribes to let suspects go or to turn a blind eye to ________ activities.
Illegal
Death
Black
Special
33. The public perception of the police is of a distant and alienated law enforcement unit. Through community policing - police-community relations should ________ as the public have a greater stake and say in their problems and needs.
Executive
Occupational
Hoover
Improve
34. 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.
Los Angeles
Procedures
Patrol
Forfeited
35. Training is one of the roles a ______-level enforcement agency usually engages in.
Safe
Election
State
Classroom
36. This has resulted in an under ________________ of blacks - women and ethnic minorities in the police force.
Response
Reports
Without
Representation
37. Between the data in the UCR and NCVS - most experts tend to prefer the ____.
NCVS
Occupational
Unqualified
Subculture
38. The written policies method is called '________________ rule-making' and it is presently the most popular method of controlling discretion.
Improperly
Response
Administrative
Dangerous
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
Breached
Death
Suspicion
Guns
40. Due to an increase in _________ and disorder by citizens - officers turned to weaponry to protect themselves.
Cause
Without
Communities
Violence
41. 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.
Bilingual
Black
Response
Illegally
42. Bail describes the circumstance when suspects are released from custody but on condition that money or property is offered as __________ against flight.
Collateral
Enforcement
Representation
Violent
43. By dealing with the underlying issues - for example mental health or financial service problems - then a solution may be found to get them off the street and back into a more ___________ existence.
Danger
Sheriff
Organized
Mainstream
44. In US v. __________ (1950) - the US Supreme Court ruled that a warrantless search upon a lawful arrest was permitted as long as it was reasonable given the circumstances.
Mentally
Arrest
Warrant
Rabinowitz
45. 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.
NCVS
Unqualified
Same time
Organized
46. The 3 purposes of patrol are to deter crime - increase feelings of public ________ and prepare officers for service through effective dispersal in the neighborhood.
Searching
Escobedo
Security
Wilson
47. The nature of police work also promotes deviant activities because officers are often offered ______ - they are regularly unsupervised and so think they can get away with it and fed on a diet of illegality may succumb to criminality too.
Bureaucracy
Feedback
Serving
Bribes
48. This is the way criminal trials are conducted in the US and it is governed by strict rules of __________.
Effectiveness
Copies
Wilson
Procedure
49. One of the major problems facing patrol officers is high-speed pursuits is a high ________ rate.
Reaffirm
Accident
Slave
Guns
50. The local police cover a wide range of law enforcement agencies such as the municipal police - sheriff's departments - campus and _______ police.
Prevention
Reverse
Transit
Wilson