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DSST Introduction To Law Enforcement
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. They believe that _____-reporting provides more accurate information than police reports.
Increase
Academies
Self
Posse
2. 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.
Searching
Enabled
Inadmissible
Directorates
3. 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 ______.
Never
Accident
Sober
Sheriff
4. 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 _
Fragmented
Hoover
Real problem
Effectiveness
5. 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.
Enforcement
Protect
Reports
Covert
6. The spoils system is greatly reduced in modern politics - though not entirely eliminated. Most ________ workers do not have to be concerned about losing their jobs when a new party takes office.
Drawback
Slow
Federal
Occupational
7. Generally - surveys have revealed that ________ people tend to be more dissatisfied with the police than older persons. Some youths seem to believe that the police target them simply because they are young and think that all teenagers are up to no go
Magistrate
Illegal
Younger
Real problem
8. A limited amount of streetwalking is tolerated if it is restricted to a particular part of town - usually a business district and it is not too ________.
Obvious
Real problem
Slow
Feedback
9. In 2001 - the US Supreme Court held in Atwater v. Lago Vista that the 4th amendment did not ________ warrantless arrests for minor offenses.
Good-faith
Qualified
Control
Prohibit
10. 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
FBI
Supervision
Victimless
Partnership
11. There are around _____ federal - state and local law enforcement agencies in the US.
National
Activity
17000
Education
12. It is believed that the average citizen plays a vital part in the ________________ of officers.
Serving
Education
Accountability
Self
13. 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.
Bribes
Investigations
Slow
Lawfully
14. 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.
Control
Previous
Warrant
Pay
15. Decentralization means reduced _____________ of rank and file officers who have greater discretion in making decisions.
Searching
Supervision
Wiretaps
Death
16. The _________ Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS)is the term coined for this annual study.
Without
Real problem
Incidents
National
17. 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.
Frequency
Supervision
Death
Posses
18. J Edgar ______ - the Director of the FBI in the 1930s had a critical impact on local policing in setting educational and training models for officers - the development of the Uniform Crime Reports (UCR) and the establishment of the FBI crime lab.
Community
17000
Hoover
Executive
19. 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
Younger
Forfeited
Prohibit
Illegally
20. The professionalization movement started by Vollmer was nurtured by his prot
Security
Racketeering
Wilson
Feedback
21. 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.
Blind
Forfeited
Danger
Illegal
22. This is training in relation to _____________ rules and was spurred by the decisions of the US Supreme Court in the 1960s.
Policy
Sober
Obvious
Due process
23. The spoils system refers to firing supporters of the opponent and replacing them with one's own supporters upon ________.
Election
UCR
Racketeering
Response
24. The written policies method is called '________________ rule-making' and it is presently the most popular method of controlling discretion.
Administrative
Jury
Accident
Mainstream
25. 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.
Executive
State
Serving
Magistrate
26. 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 _________.
Activity
Sheriff
Danger
Control
27. Law enforcement in the US is extremely large and ___________ and hence this many agencies currently exist.
Fragmented
Prevention
Warrant
State
28. Campus police is probably the most important example of the special district police force. The also participate in the ____ program.
Los Angeles
UCR
Good-faith
Self
29. Their perception of the amount of danger faced in their jobs results in the development of constant __________ of people
Seniority
Police
Suspicion
Serving
30. When called to attend to a non-crime incident - the police have to exercise discretion and can usually handle the situation _______ taking formal police action.
Prevention
Qualified
Cause
Without
31. 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.
Transit
Due process
Adversarial
Never
32. 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.
Victimless
Transit
Justice
Special
33. 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.
Smaller
Victimization
Fragmented
National
34. Various studies have shown that these pursuits have between an 18% to 33% chance of resulting in an accident. As a consequence - many departments have a restrictive - discouraging or discretionary _______ regarding high-speed pursuits for officers to
Policy
Transit
Reduced
Serving
35. The controversial 'broken window' theory made the connection between disorder - neighborhood decay and _____.
Effectiveness
Bureaucracy
Racketeering
Crime
36. The CID within the FBI is responsible for organized crime - violent crime - ____________ and money laundering.
Ten
Protect
Racketeering
Wilson
37. This describes the Pendleton Act. This was a big step in the government becoming the huge _____________ it is today.
Bureaucracy
Rarely
Slave
Reports
38. 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.
Previous
Reverse
Organized
Crime
39. The next most critical factor that impacts on PCR after race and ethnicity is ___.
Age
Security
Transit
Subculture
40. August Vollmer believed that policing standards needed to be improved and corruption stamped out. He advocated training and __________ for officers.
Education
Smaller
Legitimate
Dangerous
41. 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.
Leon
UCR
Patrol
National
42. Deterrence prevents crime through using an example or threat of ___________ to persuade the public against committing the crime.
Reports
Prevention
Punishment
Valid
43. 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
Investigations
Citizen
Breached
Victimization
44. 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.
Parens
Slave
UCR
Ballistics
45. The Supreme Court created a good faith exception to the exclusionary rule when police officers use search warrants (US v. ____ - 1984).
Leon
Breached
Searching
Hoover
46. Officers are commonly offered bribes to let suspects go or to turn a blind eye to ________ activities.
Ten
Communities
Illegal
Serving
47. 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.
Investigations
Disturbance
Supervision
Consecutive
48. This is the way criminal trials are conducted in the US and it is governed by strict rules of __________.
Runaway
Procedure
Forfeited
Bureaucracy
49. 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.
Subculture
Never
Posse
Detectives
50. 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.
Improperly
Searching
Qualified
Crime