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DSST Introduction To Law Enforcement

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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.






2. 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.






3. This is the venue for police training and the value of training has experienced a dramatic _________ in status since its inception.






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






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






6. 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 ______.






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






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






9. 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.






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






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






13. In serious cases - this may be the outcome. However - hospital care for the mentally ill is very disjointed and it may be difficult to hospitalize a person without their ________. Also - these hospitals or shelters may refuse to admit these patients.






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






15. Domestic disturbances are a common order maintenance issue handled by the police but officers generally find them frustrating to handle because there is little that they can do about the _____ of the problem.






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






17. 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






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






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






20. 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






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






22. 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.






23. The local police cover a wide range of law enforcement agencies such as the municipal police - sheriff's departments - campus and _______ police.






24. 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.






25. 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






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






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






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






30. Decentralization means reduced _____________ of rank and file officers who have greater discretion in making decisions.






31. Incapacitation refers to the act of confinement so that the offender is restrained from committing the crime again whereas the deterrence has the overall aim of crime __________.






32. 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.






33. 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






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






35. 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.






36. 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






37. 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.






38. 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.






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






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






41. Community policing is widely implemented in the US today but critics are concerned that the police role of crime control has been hijacked - the police are increasingly getting involved at a political level and ________________ will lead to the loss






42. 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






43. 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






44. 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.






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






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






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






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






49. There are around _____ federal - state and local law enforcement agencies in the US.






50. This is the way criminal trials are conducted in the US and it is governed by strict rules of __________.