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DSST Introduction To Law Enforcement
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1. 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.
Transit
Fragmented
Consent
Pay
2. This may also be called '________ officer.' The investigative nature of their jobs has resulted in their classification as a local law enforcement agency.
Medical
Representation
Consent
Policy
3. 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.
Effectiveness
Vollmer
Warrant
Improperly
4. 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.
Protect
Effectiveness
Parens
Smaller
5. August Vollmer believed that policing standards needed to be improved and corruption stamped out. He advocated training and __________ for officers.
Enforcement
Arrest
Education
Same time
6. A critical function that the police play in society is crime __________ and this role is primarily executed through routine patrolling.
Ten
Supreme Court
Bilingual
Prevention
7. The exclusionary rule was modified by the __________ exception in the US Supreme Court decision of US v. Leon (1984).
Good-faith
Patrol
Sheriff
Detectives
8. 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
Inadmissible
Cause
Protect
Searching
9. The role of the police academy is to provide formal training - root out ___________ recruits and immerse the trainees in the police subculture.
Danger
Unqualified
Organized
Patrol
10. 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.
Obvious
Lawfully
Sober
17000
11. Research has revealed that in about 80% of such situations - no formal action - such as _______ was necessary.
Ten
4th
Arrest
Escobedo
12. The county level of government supplies citizens with police services - for example the county ________.
Sheriff
Frequency
Rabinowitz
Los Angeles
13. 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
Reduced
Qualified
Obvious
Graduate
14. 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
Self
Bilingual
Inadmissible
Decentralization
15. 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 _______.
Posse
Justice
Covert
Mentally
16. The CIA also engages in ______ operations sanctioned by the President as part of their role in ensuring national security.
Effectiveness
Covert
Communities
Sheriff
17. In 2001 - the US Supreme Court held in Atwater v. Lago Vista that the 4th amendment did not ________ warrantless arrests for minor offenses.
Citizen
Hoover
Prohibit
Feedback
18. Parens patriae is Latin for 'the ______ as parent'.
Procedure
State
Previous
Special
19. 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.
Mentally
Response
Attrition
Cooperation
20. The police ___________ of secrecy - public hostility and solidarity meant they were very isolated from the community - especially the black community.
Mentally
Bureaucracy
Subculture
Representation
21. 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.
Covert
Patrol
Academies
Posses
22. The UCR statistics are used to create the FBI Crime Clock which creates a picture of crime _________ in the US.
Enabled
Bilingual
Searching
Frequency
23. Apart from police corruption - another form of police deviance is ____________ deviance.
Directorates
Los Angeles
Parens
Occupational
24. This is training in relation to _____________ rules and was spurred by the decisions of the US Supreme Court in the 1960s.
Incidents
Enforcement
4th
Due process
25. The first landmark case that forms the foundation of the exclusionary rule is the US Supreme court decision of _____ v US (1914).
Graduate
Weeks
Reaffirm
Organized
26. The ________ stage of SARA refers to the creation of strategies based on the analyzed data to deal with the problem whereas the assessment stage requires an evaluation of the effectiveness of the response.
Response
Illegal
Subculture
Sheriff
27. Patrol is meant to reassure citizens that their environment is _____ and protected from crime.
Reports
Accountability
Safe
Suspicion
28. 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
Imprisonment
Accountability
Weeks
Improperly
29. Research showed that patrol was of little deterrence and speedier response times did not increase the arrest rate nor assisted in the solving of crimes. Community policing is meant to create a _____________ between police and community to develop pro
UCR
Partnership
Reaffirm
Sheriff
30. Generally - surveys have revealed that ________ people tend to be more dissatisfied with the police than older persons. Some youths seem to believe that the police target them simply because they are young and think that all teenagers are up to no go
Younger
Cause
Wiretaps
FBI
31. Under the 6th Amendment to the Constitution - every defendant has the right to a ____ trial.
Jury
Posses
Los Angeles
Enabled
32. 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.
Real problem
4th
Feedback
Increase
33. The 3 purposes of patrol are to deter crime - increase feelings of public ________ and prepare officers for service through effective dispersal in the neighborhood.
Sober
Security
Analysis
Punishment
34. Their perception of the amount of danger faced in their jobs results in the development of constant __________ of people
Racketeering
Prevention
Suspicion
Without
35. Ballistics is the scientific _________ of firearms - ammunition - projectiles - bombs and explosives.
Compliance
Occupational
Analysis
Enforcement
36. 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.
Feedback
Prevention
Warrant
Patrol
37. 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.
Racial
Warrant
Younger
Security
38. Individuals have the right to live in their homes peacefully and not be subjected to unreasonable searches and seizures by virtue of the ___ amendment.
Police
Leon
4th
Communities
39. 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.
Warrant
Policy
Sheriff
Fragmented
40. The rights of the accused (and of prisoners) have been defined mostly through the _______________'s interpretation of the Bill of Rights.
Crime
Supreme Court
Prevention
Younger
41. Domestic disturbances may be fuelled by alcohol and drug abuse - financial difficulties or many other reasons that are beyond the ________ of the officers.
Warrant
Graduate
Control
Effectiveness
42. Officers are allocated to specific shifts and patrol areas based on _________ or using a rotation system.
Punishment
Danger
Victimization
Seniority
43. 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.
Response
FBI
Mainstream
Bureaucracy
44. Field training consists of practical on-the-job training with a __________ field training officer.
Consent
Protect
Rarely
Qualified
45. 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.
FBI
Danger
Technology
Copies
46. 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.
Consent
Sober
Executive
Reverse
47. 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.
Warrant
Effectiveness
Reports
Security
48. 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.
Sober
Activity
Containment
17000
49. This was the step taken in 1965 to remedy _________ discrimination.
Increase
Previous
Danger
Illegal
50. The CID within the FBI is responsible for organized crime - violent crime - ____________ and money laundering.
FBI
Racketeering
Supervision
UCR
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