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DSST Introduction To Law Enforcement

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Campus police is probably the most important example of the special district police force. The also participate in the ____ program.






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






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






4. This occurs where criminal and non-criminal actions are used by an officer in the course of his/her working activities or committed when pretending it is within his/her ___________ police authority. An example is sleeping on the job or a racial slur






5. 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.






6. 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.






7. 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.






8. In 2001 - the US Supreme Court held in Atwater v. Lago Vista that the 4th amendment did not ________ warrantless arrests for minor offenses.






9. 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.






10. 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.






11. The controversial 'broken window' theory made the connection between disorder - neighborhood decay and _____.






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






13. In order to police __________ crimes - officers generally have to resort to undercover work.






14. This is the right granted under the Constitution but the Supreme Court has held that it can be exercised only for offences carrying a term of ______________ exceeding 6 months or where the extra penalties such as fines and community service are suffi






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






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






17. 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.






18. 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 _______.






19. Wilson and Kelling believed that the broken window symbolized a deteriorating neighborhood and not repaired led to the eventual decline of an area - thereby encouraging criminal _________.






20. Between the data in the UCR and NCVS - most experts tend to prefer the ____.






21. 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.






22. 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






23. Apart from reducing crime - the mission of community policing is to _______ the trend of the negative public perception of the police






24. 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.






25. The CIA has operations officers and recruits ________ agents as part of their intelligence activities and this may involve covert operations.






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






27. 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






28. 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.






29. 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.






30. Incapacitation refers to the act of confinement so that the offender is restrained from committing the crime again whereas the deterrence has the overall aim of crime __________.






31. 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.






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






33. 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.






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






35. 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






36. The FBI has the responsibility to investigate - analyze and neutralize any potential terrorist threats and to investigate and analyze terrorist __________ in the US.






37. 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.






38. 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






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






40. 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.






41. 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.






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






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






44. 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






45. 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.






46. 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.






47. 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.






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






49. In 1837 - the slave patrol consisted of about 100 officers and they were responsible for finding ________ slaves and ensuring that they were well-behaved.






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