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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. 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.






2. 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.






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






4. 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.






5. Some departments allow for bidding of new patrol areas once or twice _________.






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






7. 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






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






9. 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 ______.






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






11. There are around _____ federal - state and local law enforcement agencies in the US.






12. The rise of police professionalism and reform was spearheaded by August _______ who served as the chief of police in Berkeley - California from 1905 to 1932.






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






14. The next most critical factor that impacts on PCR after race and ethnicity is ___.






15. The office of coroner is considered a local law enforcement agency because they determine the cause of _____ of victims and perpetrators in criminal cases.






16. 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






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






18. August Vollmer believed that policing standards needed to be improved and corruption stamped out. He advocated training and __________ for officers.






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






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






21. 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.






22. This is due to the dominance of the local political structure by ______ persons. Detroit has had a black mayor since 1973 and the police force is dominated by black persons. Thus - the black community can better relate with their local police






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






24. The spoils system refers to firing supporters of the opponent and replacing them with one's own supporters upon ________.






25. The first ___ amendments of the Constitution are commonly called the Bill of Rights and offer the individual considerable protection in the criminal justice system.






26. The exclusionary rule was extended by the US Supreme Court in the case of Silverthorne Lumber Co. v. US (1920) - which held that ______ of illegally seized evidence were inadmissible in court.






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






28. According to the doctrine of ______ patriae - the state has a duty to care for children who are neglected or delinquent - and to assume the role of parent if necessary.






29. This is widely recognized as a police role - though they do share the burden with other institutions such as schools and _____________.






30. 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 ________.






31. 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.






32. 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






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






34. The Supreme Court created a good faith exception to the exclusionary rule when police officers use search warrants (US v. ____ - 1984).






35. Officers are commonly offered bribes to let suspects go or to turn a blind eye to ________ activities.






36. When an appellate court is asked to review a judgment - they may ______ it - require the lower court to set it aside or modify it.






37. 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






38. Since the 1980s - there have been some very public crackdowns on _____ driving but rates of this offence which creep down during the crackdown soon return to the original levels because the publicity forces a temporary change in behavior which is not






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






40. Parens patriae is Latin for 'the ______ as parent'.






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






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






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






44. 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.






45. 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.






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






47. Plea bargains avoid an expensive court trial. Prosecutors may offer and defendants may accept a bargained plea to avoid the uncertainty of a jury trial. In many cases - the Defendant agrees to plead guilty to a lesser charge or for a ________ sentenc






48. The UCR statistics are used to create the FBI Crime Clock which creates a picture of crime _________ in the US.






49. The assessment stage evaluates the response based on detailed _________ and surveys. The police are also encouraged to conduct a self-analysis to see if they identified the problem correctly in the first place and revise that response if needed.






50. The _________ Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS)is the term coined for this annual study.