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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. 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.






2. The CIA also engages in ______ operations sanctioned by the President as part of their role in ensuring national security.






3. 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.






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






5. Some departments allow for bidding of new patrol areas once or twice _________.






6. 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.






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






8. This has resulted in an under ________________ of blacks - women and ethnic minorities in the police force.






9. The UCR statistics are used to create the FBI Crime Clock which creates a picture of crime _________ in the US.






10. 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 _______.






11. 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






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






13. Criminalistics relies on __________ to analyze firearms and munitions as well as various forensic techniques to determine issues such as time of death.






14. A concurrent sentence is one that is served at the __________ as another sentence.






15. 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.






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






17. 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.






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






19. 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.






20. 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.






21. 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.






22. The office of coroner is considered a local law enforcement agency because they determine the cause of _____ of victims and perpetrators in criminal cases.






23. When an appellate court is asked to review a judgment - they may ______ it - require the lower court to set it aside or modify it.






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






25. According to the doctrine of ______ patriae - the state has a duty to care for children who are neglected or delinquent - and to assume the role of parent if necessary.






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






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






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






29. Wilson believed in the necessity to continue and encourage _____________________ within the police force. He was the chief of police in Wichita from 1928 to 1935 - the Dean of Criminology at the University of California from 1950 to 1960 and the supe






30. 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.






31. Upon conviction - the defendant is punished through a sentence passed by the judge and if convicted of more than one crime - then may be subject to a ___________ or concurrent sentence.






32. 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.






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






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






35. 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.






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






37. August Vollmer believed that policing standards needed to be improved and corruption stamped out. He advocated training and __________ for officers.






38. 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 _________.






39. 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.






40. 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






41. In the 1950s training for police officers consisted mainly of firearm skill development but over the years - classroom training has emphasized criminal __________.






42. 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.






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






44. Law enforcement in the US is extremely large and ___________ and hence this many agencies currently exist.






45. 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.






46. The written policies method is called '________________ rule-making' and it is presently the most popular method of controlling discretion.






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






48. Officers have very broad discretion - yet this subject is _______ taught or sufficiently taught to better aid the officers in making an appropriate decision.






49. 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






50. The NCVS Survey is a yearly study by the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) of specific households to determine the level of criminal _____________ - particularly unreported victimization - in the US.