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DSST Introduction To Law Enforcement
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. In order to police __________ crimes - officers generally have to resort to undercover work.
Victimless
Consecutive
Patrol
Attrition
2. Campus police is probably the most important example of the special district police force. The also participate in the ____ program.
Obvious
Prevention
UCR
4th
3. Decentralization means reduced _____________ of rank and file officers who have greater discretion in making decisions.
Supervision
Citizen
Slow
Subculture
4. Due to an increase in _________ and disorder by citizens - officers turned to weaponry to protect themselves.
Graduate
Breached
Subculture
Violence
5. 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 ________.
Escobedo
Obvious
Illegal
Legitimate
6. When an appellate court is asked to review a judgment - they may ______ it - require the lower court to set it aside or modify it.
Uphold
Violence
Occupational
Control
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
Outside
Patrol
Breached
Security
8. The UCR has a hierarchy rule whereby multiple types of incidents can only be recorded as 1 incident. This is a _________ of the system.
Highly
State
Legitimate
Drawback
9. 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.
Writ
17000
Inadmissible
Reports
10. 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
Arrest
Younger
Uphold
Medical
11. 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.
Copies
Without
Police
Weeks
12. Able-bodied men who could hear the commotion caused by the victim were obliged to form a posse and join the shire reeve (term from which ________ is derived) or mounted officer in pursuit of the offender.
Sheriff
Illegal
Professionalization
Younger
13. Officers have very broad discretion - yet this subject is _______ taught or sufficiently taught to better aid the officers in making an appropriate decision.
Response
Rarely
Safe
Black
14. This is the venue for police training and the value of training has experienced a dramatic _________ in status since its inception.
Increase
Death
Enforcement
Serving
15. 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.
Sheriff
Written
Executive
Safe
16. 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.
Containment
Age
Community
Bureaucracy
17. The role of the police academy is to provide formal training - root out ___________ recruits and immerse the trainees in the police subculture.
Suspicion
Magistrate
Unqualified
Uphold
18. In this case - the police applied for and obtained a search warrant from a magistrate for the Defendant's homes. Drugs were found there and the Defendant convicted. He appealed on the grounds that the original affidavit drawn up to obtain the search
Compliance
Uphold
Valid
Illegal
19. The police ___________ of secrecy - public hostility and solidarity meant they were very isolated from the community - especially the black community.
Feedback
Subculture
FBI
Patrol
20. 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.
Ten
Mainstream
Special
Serving
21. This was the step taken in 1965 to remedy _________ discrimination.
Supervision
Prohibit
3100
Previous
22. Officers appointed to carry out investigative work are known as __________.
Detectives
Guns
Ten
Same time
23. It is believed that the average citizen plays a vital part in the ________________ of officers.
Lawfully
Accountability
Frequency
Medical
24. By dealing with the underlying issues - for example mental health or financial service problems - then a solution may be found to get them off the street and back into a more ___________ existence.
Incidents
Mainstream
Enforcement
Legitimate
25. The ________ rule was further emphasized in Edwards v. Arizona (1981) - when the court prohibited investigators from continuing questioning once the suspect has requested an attorney.
Bargain
Education
Occupational
Escobedo
26. One of the major problems facing patrol officers is high-speed pursuits is a high ________ rate.
Rabinowitz
Accident
Effectiveness
Ten
27. This has resulted in an under ________________ of blacks - women and ethnic minorities in the police force.
Representation
Organized
FBI
Response
28. 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.
Subculture
Directorates
Lawfully
Incidents
29. This is one of the reports produced by the FBI in its law _____________ role.
Security
Enforcement
Violence
Illegal
30. _________ policing took off in the 1980s and 1990s - with the realization that the police could not fight crime on their own.
Community
Smaller
Activity
Bilingual
31. Apart from reducing crime - the mission of community policing is to _______ the trend of the negative public perception of the police
Partnership
Reverse
Election
Foreign
32. 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.
Containment
Magistrate
Transit
Effectiveness
33. In 1837 - the slave patrol consisted of about 100 officers and they were responsible for finding ________ slaves and ensuring that they were well-behaved.
Justice
Response
Without
Runaway
34. This was the bright-line rule (one that can ______ be crossed) that emerged from this case.
Black
Victimless
Magistrate
Never
35. 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
Victimless
Covert
Partnership
Transit
36. 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
Qualified
Weeks
Inadmissible
Partnership
37. 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.
Written
Escobedo
Covert
Sober
38. 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.
Smaller
Patrol
Attrition
Victimization
39. Research has revealed that in about 80% of such situations - no formal action - such as _______ was necessary.
Communities
Incidents
Enabled
Arrest
40. The courts of general jurisdiction utilize a fact-finding foundation known as the ___________ process which pits the State's interest - as represented by the prosecution against the Defendant's - as represented by defense counsel.
Legitimate
Death
Adversarial
Weeks
41. 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
Warrant
Arrest
Foreign
42. 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.
Organized
Slow
Compliance
Special
43. 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.
Illegally
Special
Punishment
Vollmer
44. There are over _____ sheriff's departments in the US.
3100
Response
Highly
Violent
45. The exclusionary rule was modified by the __________ exception in the US Supreme Court decision of US v. Leon (1984).
Good-faith
Safe
Legitimate
Citizen
46. The _________ Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS)is the term coined for this annual study.
4th
Education
National
Punishment
47. The spoils system refers to firing supporters of the opponent and replacing them with one's own supporters upon ________.
Executive
Election
Police
Rarely
48. Prospective police officers are trained at police _________ - with the average pre-service training program lasting about 1000 hours.
Academies
Valid
Guns
Investigations
49. Training is one of the roles a ______-level enforcement agency usually engages in.
State
Due process
Prevention
FBI
50. Since these crimes are usually not reported - in order to discover them - undercover work using devices such as _________ are utilized.
Wiretaps
Prohibit
Detectives
Communities