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DSST Introduction To Law Enforcement

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Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. This was the bright-line rule (one that can ______ be crossed) that emerged from this case.






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






3. The _________ Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS)is the term coined for this annual study.






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






5. Officers may feel that the rules are there to catch them out and that the system mistrusts them. This may encourage officers to work at a deliberately _____ pace.






6. 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.






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






8. Apart from reducing crime - the mission of community policing is to _______ the trend of the negative public perception of the police






9. 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.






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






11. 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






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






13. Field training consists of practical on-the-job training with a __________ field training officer.






14. 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.






15. 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






16. One of the major problems facing patrol officers is high-speed pursuits is a high ________ rate.






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






18. The 911 communications center is the _____ of a modern police department.






19. 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.






20. Another word for uphold is _________. This is the result for most appellate court decisions whereby they confirm the decision of the lower court.






21. 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.






22. Due to an increase in _________ and disorder by citizens - officers turned to weaponry to protect themselves.






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






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






25. 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.






26. Officers are commonly offered bribes to let suspects go or to turn a blind eye to ________ activities.






27. 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.






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






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






30. 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 ________.






31. A concurrent sentence is one that is served at the __________ as another sentence.






32. The nature of police work also promotes deviant activities because officers are often offered ______ - they are regularly unsupervised and so think they can get away with it and fed on a diet of illegality may succumb to criminality too.






33. Under the 6th Amendment to the Constitution - every defendant has the right to a ____ trial.






34. 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.






35. The county level of government supplies citizens with police services - for example the county ________.






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






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






38. 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.






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






40. 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.






41. Officers are allocated to specific shifts and patrol areas based on _________ or using a rotation system.






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






43. 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.






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






45. Officers have very broad discretion - yet this subject is _______ taught or sufficiently taught to better aid the officers in making an appropriate decision.






46. 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 __________.






47. 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






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






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






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