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DSST Introduction To Law Enforcement

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The UCR has a hierarchy rule whereby multiple types of incidents can only be recorded as 1 incident. This is a _________ of the system.






2. 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






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






4. Some legal experts believe that police discretion should be abolished because it is _______.






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






6. 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.






7. 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






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






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






10. 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.






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






12. 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 ________.






13. 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 _






14. 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






15. This is because patrol consists of the majority of police work and this is ________ through the police communications network - which is triggered by 911 calls.






16. 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.






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






18. 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.






19. 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.






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






21. 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






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






23. This was the only way they could ________ themselves and their property from the bandits. They did try to apply the accepted standards of decency of the day to their actions.






24. Domestic disturbances are a common order maintenance issue handled by the police but officers generally find them frustrating to handle because there is little that they can do about the _____ of the problem.






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






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






27. 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.






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






29. This means that the court releases the suspect into their own custody or into the care of another. This occurs where the suspect poses a low flight risk and is not __________ to the community.






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






31. The 1980s and 1990s saw the creation of _______ oversight of police groups to monitor or investigate complaints by individuals against police actions.






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






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






34. 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.






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






36. 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.






37. Training is one of the roles a ______-level enforcement agency usually engages in.






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






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






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






41. 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.






42. This is one of the reports produced by the FBI in its law _____________ role.






43. Ballistics is the scientific _________ of firearms - ammunition - projectiles - bombs and explosives.






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






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






46. Officers are allocated to specific shifts and patrol areas based on _________ or using a rotation system.






47. Under the 6th Amendment to the Constitution - every defendant has the right to a ____ trial.






48. 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.






49. 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.






50. When considering detective productivity and _____________ - more important than the number of arrests is the quality of those arrests.