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DSST Introduction To Law Enforcement

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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.






2. 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.






3. The number of homeless people in the US has spiraled upwards in the last 2 decades so that the function of the police in dealing with them is shifting from one of containment and peacekeeping to the delivery of proactive strategies to deal with the _






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






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. 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.






8. 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.






9. The role of the ___ is to investigate breaches of federal criminal law - to protect the country from foreign counterintelligence and terrorist activities and to provide law enforcement assistance to other agencies.






10. Field training consists of practical on-the-job training with a __________ field training officer.






11. The professionalization movement started by Vollmer was nurtured by his prot






12. This was the bright-line rule (one that can ______ be crossed) that emerged from this case.






13. 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.






14. 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 _______.






15. It is believed that the average citizen plays a vital part in the ________________ of officers.






16. 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.






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






18. When a 911 call comes in - the operator answers it - makes a decision whether to send out a patrol car and then informs the dispatcher who then communicates the details to the ______ officer.






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






20. This describes the Pendleton Act. This was a big step in the government becoming the huge _____________ it is today.






21. Since these crimes are usually not reported - in order to discover them - undercover work using devices such as _________ are utilized.






22. 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.






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






24. 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






25. 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






26. 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.






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






28. 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.






29. 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.






30. 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.






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






32. The majority of criminal cases do not go to trial but are instead settled via a plea _______.






33. Between the data in the UCR and NCVS - most experts tend to prefer the ____.






34. 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.






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






36. The local police cover a wide range of law enforcement agencies such as the municipal police - sheriff's departments - campus and _______ police.






37. Officers have very broad discretion - yet this subject is _______ taught or sufficiently taught to better aid the officers in making an appropriate decision.






38. When called to attend to a non-crime incident - the police have to exercise discretion and can usually handle the situation _______ taking formal police action.






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






40. Individuals have the right to live in their homes peacefully and not be subjected to unreasonable searches and seizures by virtue of the ___ amendment.






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






42. 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.






43. Deterrence prevents crime through using an example or threat of ___________ to persuade the public against committing the crime.






44. 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.






45. This is the term coined to describe this diagrammatic representation. It differentiates between ________ crimes such as murder and rape and property crime such as burglary and arson.






46. Research has revealed that in about 80% of such situations - no formal action - such as _______ was necessary.






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






48. Campus police is probably the most important example of the special district police force. The also participate in the ____ program.






49. Increasing ___________ and reducing competition between patrol officers and detectives as well as improving police-citizen relationships are 2 important methods of enhancing the quality of investigative work.






50. This is training in relation to _____________ rules and was spurred by the decisions of the US Supreme Court in the 1960s.