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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. 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 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.






3. 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.






4. 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






5. 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.






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






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






8. 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.






9. 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 _






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






11. Police subculture is determined by the potential of ______ and because of this they stereotype certain categories of persons - such as low-income males - as possible threats.






12. This may also be called '________ officer.' The investigative nature of their jobs has resulted in their classification as a local law enforcement agency.






13. 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.






14. 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.






15. 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.






16. 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.






17. This is the venue for police training and the value of training has experienced a dramatic _________ in status since its inception.






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






19. One of the major problems facing patrol officers is high-speed pursuits is a high ________ rate.






20. 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.






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






22. These experts contend that officers do not have the authority to subvert the criminal law. Some states have criminalized the failure of criminal justice officials who turn a ______ eye to enforcement.






23. The first landmark case that forms the foundation of the exclusionary rule is the US Supreme court decision of _____ v US (1914).






24. The rights of the accused (and of prisoners) have been defined mostly through the _______________'s interpretation of the Bill of Rights.






25. 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






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






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






28. ____ did not become regulated officer equipment until the late 19th Century.






29. The role of the police academy is to provide formal training - root out ___________ recruits and immerse the trainees in the police subculture.






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






31. It can be argued that __________ officers possess an additional skill and therefore the extra pay can be justified on those grounds.






32. They believe that _____-reporting provides more accurate information than police reports.






33. 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.






34. A warrant is a _____ issued by the court to justify the arrest of a suspect. It offers protection to the officer executing the warrant against damages; for example for wrongful arrest.






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






36. 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






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






38. 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.






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






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






41. 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 ________.






42. 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






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






44. 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






45. 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.






46. 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.






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






48. 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.






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






50. 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.