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DSST Introduction To Law Enforcement
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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.
Adversarial
Weeks
Magistrate
Administrative
2. The assessment stage evaluates the response based on detailed _________ and surveys. The police are also encouraged to conduct a self-analysis to see if they identified the problem correctly in the first place and revise that response if needed.
State
Directorates
Searching
Feedback
3. Deterrence prevents crime through using an example or threat of ___________ to persuade the public against committing the crime.
Detectives
Posse
Punishment
Attrition
4. The Supreme Court created a good faith exception to the exclusionary rule when police officers use search warrants (US v. ____ - 1984).
Leon
Real problem
Justice
Medical
5. The rights of the accused (and of prisoners) have been defined mostly through the _______________'s interpretation of the Bill of Rights.
Supreme Court
Consent
Procedures
Previous
6. The _________ Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS)is the term coined for this annual study.
Obvious
National
Outside
Escobedo
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
Education
Previous
Younger
Wilson
8. Another word for uphold is _________. This is the result for most appellate court decisions whereby they confirm the decision of the lower court.
Without
Professionalization
Slave
Reaffirm
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.
Sober
Enforcement
Enabled
Vollmer
10. The police receive a sizeable number of calls about ________ ill persons and in exercising their discretion these matters are normally dealt with through arrest - hospitalization or informal disposition.
Mentally
Compliance
Slave
Pendleton
11. August Vollmer believed that policing standards needed to be improved and corruption stamped out. He advocated training and __________ for officers.
Consecutive
Forfeited
Occupational
Education
12. 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.
Punishment
Suspicion
Leon
Warrant
13. 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.
Justice
Organized
Attrition
Violent
14. In order to police __________ crimes - officers generally have to resort to undercover work.
3100
Victimless
Annually
Response
15. One of the major problems facing patrol officers is high-speed pursuits is a high ________ rate.
Adversarial
Reduced
Bilingual
Accident
16. This is the right granted under the Constitution but the Supreme Court has held that it can be exercised only for offences carrying a term of ______________ exceeding 6 months or where the extra penalties such as fines and community service are suffi
Supreme Court
Prevention
Imprisonment
Copies
17. Able-bodied men who could hear the commotion caused by the victim were obliged to form a posse and join the shire reeve (term from which ________ is derived) or mounted officer in pursuit of the offender.
Reduced
Occupational
Police
Sheriff
18. There are over _____ sheriff's departments in the US.
Vollmer
3100
Death
Sheriff
19. 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.
Police
Escobedo
Graduate
Policy
20. The CIA has operations officers and recruits ________ agents as part of their intelligence activities and this may involve covert operations.
Foreign
National
Feedback
Jury
21. The UCR has a hierarchy rule whereby multiple types of incidents can only be recorded as 1 incident. This is a _________ of the system.
Hoover
Drawback
Graduate
FBI
22. When the offender was apprehended by the posse - trials were rarely held and public __________ were held to dispense justice.
Poor
Education
Analysis
Executions
23. 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
Los Angeles
Community
Rarely
Graduate
24. Apart from reducing crime - the mission of community policing is to _______ the trend of the negative public perception of the police
Due process
Real problem
FBI
Reverse
25. In the 1950s training for police officers consisted mainly of firearm skill development but over the years - classroom training has emphasized criminal __________.
Patrol
Transit
Posses
Procedures
26. This is one of the reports produced by the FBI in its law _____________ role.
Enforcement
Disturbance
Smaller
Academies
27. 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
Bilingual
Magistrate
Professionalization
Bargain
28. 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
Frequency
Police
Illegally
UCR
29. 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.
Slow
Federal
Victimization
Response
30. Ballistics is the scientific _________ of firearms - ammunition - projectiles - bombs and explosives.
NCVS
Analysis
Occupational
Previous
31. The first landmark case that forms the foundation of the exclusionary rule is the US Supreme court decision of _____ v US (1914).
Breached
Analysis
17000
Weeks
32. 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.
Copies
Crime
Covert
Escobedo
33. The professionalization movement started by Vollmer was nurtured by his prot
Wilson
Los Angeles
Compliance
Posses
34. The spoils system refers to firing supporters of the opponent and replacing them with one's own supporters upon ________.
Parens
Highly
Limitations
Election
35. Officers appointed to carry out investigative work are known as __________.
Searching
Black
Detectives
Smaller
36. The 3 CIA directorates are the directorate of Intelligence - directorate of Operations and the directorate of Science and ___________.
Patrol
Technology
Sheriff
Occupational
37. 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
Illegal
Decentralization
Citizen
Written
38. 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.
Patrol
Escobedo
Professionalization
Annually
39. This is to ensure that ___________ with the administrative rules is maintained.
Special
Arrest
Compliance
Slow
40. The UCR statistics are used to create the FBI Crime Clock which creates a picture of crime _________ in the US.
Frequency
Mainstream
Directorates
Community
41. 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 __________.
Prevention
Accident
Dangerous
Posse
42. 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 _
Policy
FBI
Real problem
Wilson
43. 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
Ten
Adversarial
Copies
44. Another source of PCR tension is discriminatory employment practices of the ______ force.
UCR
Procedure
Sober
Police
45. Since these crimes are usually not reported - in order to discover them - undercover work using devices such as _________ are utilized.
Violence
FBI
Wiretaps
Decentralization
46. 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.
Good-faith
Bargain
Highly
FBI
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.
Hoover
Los Angeles
Sheriff
Consecutive
48. 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
Mainstream
Suspicion
Obvious
Investigations
49. 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.
Transit
Outside
Dangerous
Legitimate
50. In US v. __________ (1950) - the US Supreme Court ruled that a warrantless search upon a lawful arrest was permitted as long as it was reasonable given the circumstances.
Rabinowitz
Cause
Limitations
Adversarial