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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 assessment stage evaluates the response based on detailed _________ and surveys. The police are also encouraged to conduct a self-analysis to see if they identified the problem correctly in the first place and revise that response if needed.






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






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






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






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






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






7. The first landmark case that forms the foundation of the exclusionary rule is the US Supreme court decision of _____ v US (1914).






8. Public concern led to the start of the crackdown and this is viewed as an important police role but it is very difficult to spot the minority of drunk drivers amongst those who are ______.






9. 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.






10. The 3 purposes of patrol are to deter crime - increase feelings of public ________ and prepare officers for service through effective dispersal in the neighborhood.






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






12. 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






13. 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






14. 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






15. 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.






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






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






18. Police subculture is determined by the potential of ______ and because of this they stereotype certain categories of persons - such as low-income males - as possible threats.






19. 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.






20. 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.






21. 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.






22. 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.






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






24. This is the definition of bail. If the suspect fails to appear for the next court hearing - then the money or property pledged may be __________.






25. 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.






26. 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






27. 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.






28. There was no __________ form of criminal justice law in those days. Guilt was assumed; the execution carried out and accepted by all as an act of retribution.






29. The rights of the accused (and of prisoners) have been defined mostly through the _______________'s interpretation of the Bill of Rights.






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






31. 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 _






32. 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.






33. 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.






34. 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






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






36. 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






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






38. 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.






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






40. 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.






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






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






43. 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






44. 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.






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






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






47. The police ___________ of secrecy - public hostility and solidarity meant they were very isolated from the community - especially the black community.






48. 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.






49. 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.






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