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DSST Introduction To Law Enforcement

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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.






2. 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






3. 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.






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






5. The role of the police academy is to provide formal training - root out ___________ recruits and immerse the trainees in the police subculture.






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






7. 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 _






8. The public perception of the police is of a distant and alienated law enforcement unit. Through community policing - police-community relations should ________ as the public have a greater stake and say in their problems and needs.






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






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






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






12. This is one of the main functions of the police academy and ensures that unsuitable recruits do not make it as officers. About 10% of recruits do not _________ from the academy.






13. 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.






14. The UCR has a hierarchy rule whereby multiple types of incidents can only be recorded as 1 incident. This is a _________ of the system.






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






16. 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






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






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






19. 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.






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






21. 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






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. 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.






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






25. 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.






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






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






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






29. 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.






30. There is no _________ method of centralized policing in the US as police services are provided by the 4 levels of government which are the city - county - state and federal levels.






31. 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 ______.






32. 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.






33. 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.






34. This is due to the dominance of the local political structure by ______ persons. Detroit has had a black mayor since 1973 and the police force is dominated by black persons. Thus - the black community can better relate with their local police






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






36. 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.






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






38. 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.






39. Since these crimes are usually not reported - in order to discover them - undercover work using devices such as _________ are utilized.






40. Parens patriae is Latin for 'the ______ as parent'.






41. Under the 6th Amendment to the Constitution - every defendant has the right to a ____ trial.






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






43. This was the only way they could ________ themselves and their property from the bandits. They did try to apply the accepted standards of decency of the day to their actions.






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






45. The most organized and distinctly American officer force was the _____ patrol based in Charleston - South Carolina.






46. The majority of criminal cases do not go to trial but are instead settled via a plea _______.






47. 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 __________.






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






49. Since the 1980s - there have been some very public crackdowns on _____ driving but rates of this offence which creep down during the crackdown soon return to the original levels because the publicity forces a temporary change in behavior which is not






50. _________ policing took off in the 1980s and 1990s - with the realization that the police could not fight crime on their own.