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DSST Introduction To Law Enforcement

Subjects : dsst, law-enforcement
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Under the 6th Amendment to the Constitution - every defendant has the right to a ____ trial.






2. The controversial 'broken window' theory made the connection between disorder - neighborhood decay and _____.






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






4. 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 ______.






5. 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 __________.






6. This was the bright-line rule (one that can ______ be crossed) that emerged from this case.






7. 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.






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






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






10. The office of coroner is considered a local law enforcement agency because they determine the cause of _____ of victims and perpetrators in criminal cases.






11. Campus police is probably the most important example of the special district police force. The also participate in the ____ program.






12. 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.






13. 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.






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






15. These experts contend that officers do not have the authority to subvert the criminal law. Some states have criminalized the failure of criminal justice officials who turn a ______ eye to enforcement.






16. In order to police __________ crimes - officers generally have to resort to undercover work.






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






18. 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.






19. 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.






20. Ballistics is the scientific _________ of firearms - ammunition - projectiles - bombs and explosives.






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






22. The ________ rule was further emphasized in Edwards v. Arizona (1981) - when the court prohibited investigators from continuing questioning once the suspect has requested an attorney.






23. 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 ________.






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






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






26. The CIA has operations officers and recruits ________ agents as part of their intelligence activities and this may involve covert operations.






27. 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






28. This describes the Pendleton Act. This was a big step in the government becoming the huge _____________ it is today.






29. August Vollmer believed that policing standards needed to be improved and corruption stamped out. He advocated training and __________ for officers.






30. 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






31. 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






32. 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.






33. 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.






34. The first ___ amendments to the Constitution are called the Bill of Rights. They were created to restrict government actions against the individual.






35. Some police departments may have a separate detective unit with further specialized units such as homicide and vice. ________ ones will have a single department to handle all cases or no department at all.






36. The FBI has the responsibility to investigate - analyze and neutralize any potential terrorist threats and to investigate and analyze terrorist __________ in the US.






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






38. The public perception of the police is of a distant and alienated law enforcement unit. Through community policing - police-community relations should ________ as the public have a greater stake and say in their problems and needs.






39. In US v. Irizarry (1982) - the US Supreme Court held that evidence found above a ceiling panel that was out of place was _______ the scope of the plain-view doctrine






40. 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.






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






42. The Defendant was _________ arrested in his office - which consisted of a single room. The search was valid and reasonable given the circumstances of the arrest and small space of the area he was arrested in.






43. There are over _____ sheriff's departments in the US.






44. Increasing ___________ and reducing competition between patrol officers and detectives as well as improving police-citizen relationships are 2 important methods of enhancing the quality of investigative work.






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






46. The drawbacks of the administrative rule-making route are that they can never cover every conceivable situation; it may promote lying - avoidance - confusion and a negative ________ from officers.






47. 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.






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






49. The UCR statistics are used to create the FBI Crime Clock which creates a picture of crime _________ in the US.






50. The police ___________ of secrecy - public hostility and solidarity meant they were very isolated from the community - especially the black community.