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






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






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






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






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






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






7. The Uniform Crime Reports (UCR) is an annualized report published by the ___ that states the statistical rate of reported crime in the US based on data from police reports.






8. ____ did not become regulated officer equipment until the late 19th Century.






9. One of the major problems facing patrol officers is high-speed pursuits is a high ________ rate.






10. 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 _________.






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






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






13. 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.






14. 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.






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






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






17. 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.






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






19. 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.






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






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






22. 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.






23. 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 _______.






24. 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






25. 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






26. 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






27. 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.






28. Police training programs do suffer from ___________ - particularly as important areas such as domestic violence - ethics and police discretion - which are not usually covered






29. 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.






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






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






32. Another word for uphold is _________. This is the result for most appellate court decisions whereby they confirm the decision of the lower court.






33. 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.






34. Officers at the academy undergo _________ training and most academies also offer field training.






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






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






37. Deterrence prevents crime through using an example or threat of ___________ to persuade the public against committing the crime.






38. 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.






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






40. The exclusionary rule was extended by the US Supreme Court in the case of Silverthorne Lumber Co. v. US (1920) - which held that ______ of illegally seized evidence were inadmissible in court.






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






42. 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.






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






44. 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






45. This is the term coined to describe this diagrammatic representation. It differentiates between ________ crimes such as murder and rape and property crime such as burglary and arson.






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






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. 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






49. 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






50. 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