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DSST Introduction To Law Enforcement

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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.






2. The Supreme Court created a good faith exception to the exclusionary rule when police officers use search warrants (US v. ____ - 1984).






3. It is believed that the average citizen plays a vital part in the ________________ of officers.






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






5. 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.






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






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






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






9. 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.






10. 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






11. When the offender was apprehended by the posse - trials were rarely held and public __________ were held to dispense justice.






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






13. 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.






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






15. This is the problem of case __________. Research has shown that only about half of felony arrests result in convictions. The question is whether this is due to poor police work or some other reason.






16. 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.






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






18. This means that the court releases the suspect into their own custody or into the care of another. This occurs where the suspect poses a low flight risk and is not __________ to the community.






19. 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.






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






21. 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.






22. A critical function that the police play in society is crime __________ and this role is primarily executed through routine patrolling.






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






24. Their perception of the amount of danger faced in their jobs results in the development of constant __________ of people






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






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






27. 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.






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






29. Law enforcement in the US is extremely large and ___________ and hence this many agencies currently exist.






30. 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.






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






32. Patrol is meant to reassure citizens that their environment is _____ and protected from crime.






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






34. Tensions between the police and racial minorities continue despite the many advances made since the 1960s; major complaints are still made regularly and these include use of excessive force and ______ profiling.






35. 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 ________.






36. 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.






37. 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.






38. 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.






39. 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.






40. 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






41. 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.






42. 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.






43. 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






44. 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.






45. 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






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






47. In the 1950s training for police officers consisted mainly of firearm skill development but over the years - classroom training has emphasized criminal __________.






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






49. 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 __________.






50. Sheriff departments are usually responsible for _______ court papers - civil summons - and managing security in state courtrooms.