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DSST Introduction To Law Enforcement

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Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Criminalistics relies on __________ to analyze firearms and munitions as well as various forensic techniques to determine issues such as time of death.






2. 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.






3. 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.






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






5. Apart from police corruption - another form of police deviance is ____________ deviance.






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






7. Various studies have shown that these pursuits have between an 18% to 33% chance of resulting in an accident. As a consequence - many departments have a restrictive - discouraging or discretionary _______ regarding high-speed pursuits for officers to






8. 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.






9. J Edgar ______ - the Director of the FBI in the 1930s had a critical impact on local policing in setting educational and training models for officers - the development of the Uniform Crime Reports (UCR) and the establishment of the FBI crime lab.






10. Officers appointed to carry out investigative work are known as __________.






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






12. 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.






13. 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.






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






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






17. 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.






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






19. Organized law enforcement in Britain can be traced back to 1200 AD when identified law breakers were pursued by a _____ led by the shire reeve or mounted officer.






20. The 911 communications center is the _____ of a modern police department.






21. Domestic disturbances may be fuelled by alcohol and drug abuse - financial difficulties or many other reasons that are beyond the ________ of the officers.






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






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






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






25. 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.






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






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






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






29. _________ policing took off in the 1980s and 1990s - with the realization that the police could not fight crime on their own.






30. Campus police are a type of _______ district police force - and many of these larger forces have been state certified as law enforcement agencies with general arrest powers.






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






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






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






34. 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






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






36. 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.






37. 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.






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






39. 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 _






40. 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






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. In US v. Irizarry (1982) - the US Supreme Court held that evidence found above a ceiling panel that was out of place was _______ the scope of the plain-view doctrine






43. Police training programs do suffer from ___________ - particularly as important areas such as domestic violence - ethics and police discretion - which are not usually covered






44. Tensions between the police and racial minorities continue despite the many advances made since the 1960s; major complaints are still made regularly and these include use of excessive force and ______ profiling.






45. 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.






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






47. 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.






48. 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






49. 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.






50. The 3 main approaches to controlling police discretion are removing it - improving the professional judgment of officers through better training and managing it through _______ policies.