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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 3 main approaches to controlling police discretion are removing it - improving the professional judgment of officers through better training and managing it through _______ policies.






2. 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.






3. 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.






4. This was the step taken in 1965 to remedy _________ discrimination.






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






6. 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.






7. 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






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






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






10. Domestic violence must be distinguished from a domestic ___________ in the sense that in the former a serious crime has been committed and so the officers can exercise their powers of arrest - if they choose to do so although research shows that offi






11. The role of the ___ is to investigate breaches of federal criminal law - to protect the country from foreign counterintelligence and terrorist activities and to provide law enforcement assistance to other agencies.






12. 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.






13. 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.






14. 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






15. This is the problem of case __________. Research has shown that only about half of felony arrests result in convictions. The question is whether this is due to poor police work or some other reason.






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






17. 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






18. 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.






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






20. 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.






21. 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.






22. 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






23. 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.






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






25. This was the ruling of the court. Many commentators were surprised but the court decided that although arrest for trivial offences (in this case a seat belt violation) may be embarrassing - it was not so extraordinary as to breach the ____ amendment






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






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






28. The first ___ amendments of the Constitution are commonly called the Bill of Rights and offer the individual considerable protection in the criminal justice system.






29. This is widely recognized as a police role - though they do share the burden with other institutions such as schools and _____________.






30. The county level of government supplies citizens with police services - for example the county ________.






31. Prospective police officers are trained at police _________ - with the average pre-service training program lasting about 1000 hours.






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






33. 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






34. The CIA is divided into 3 ____________ and 5 mission support offices (MSOs).






35. In this case - the Defendants were suspected of evading taxes but they refused to hand over their company books. An illegal search and seizure was performed and the books returned soon after - when the Defendant's lawyer objected. At the trial - the






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






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






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






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






40. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






46. 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






47. The professionalization movement started by Vollmer was nurtured by his prot






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






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






50. A centralized state-level agency - which merges patrol with ______________ will usually assist in local criminal investigations when asked - patrol the state's highways - operate identification bureaus - manage criminal records and provide training t