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DSST Introduction To Law Enforcement

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. One of the major problems facing patrol officers is high-speed pursuits is a high ________ rate.






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






3. 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






4. 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.






5. 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






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






7. 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.






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






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






10. 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.






11. 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.






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






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






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






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






16. 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.






17. 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.






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






19. Some legal experts believe that police discretion should be abolished because it is _______.






20. In dealing with federal criminal law enforcement - the duty of the FBI upon investigation is to gather evidence and perform personnel investigations - especially in major programs such as _________ crime and white-collar crime.






21. Bail describes the circumstance when suspects are released from custody but on condition that money or property is offered as __________ against flight.






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






23. 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.






24. Another source of PCR tension is discriminatory employment practices of the ______ force.






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






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






27. 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.






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






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






30. 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 __________.






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






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






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






34. 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.






35. 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






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






37. 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.






38. 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.






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






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






41. Domestic violence must be distinguished from a domestic ___________ in the sense that in the former a serious crime has been committed and so the officers can exercise their powers of arrest - if they choose to do so although research shows that offi






42. Research into police work and activities conducted between the 1950s and 1970s concluded that police-community relations were very ____ and officers regularly breached legal rules






43. 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.






44. 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.






45. 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.






46. 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.






47. The exclusionary rule was modified by the __________ exception in the US Supreme Court decision of US v. Leon (1984).






48. When an appellate court is asked to review a judgment - they may ______ it - require the lower court to set it aside or modify it.






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






50. 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.