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DSST Introduction To Law Enforcement
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. This is one of the reports produced by the FBI in its law _____________ role.
Consecutive
Executive
Parens
Enforcement
2. 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.
Organized
Bargain
Sober
Blind
3. Sheriff departments are usually responsible for _______ court papers - civil summons - and managing security in state courtrooms.
Serving
Punishment
Ballistics
Supervision
4. 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
Organized
NCVS
UCR
Imprisonment
5. This is the venue for police training and the value of training has experienced a dramatic _________ in status since its inception.
Increase
Patrol
Compliance
Hoover
6. Deterrence prevents crime through using an example or threat of ___________ to persuade the public against committing the crime.
Effectiveness
Good-faith
Without
Punishment
7. Training is one of the roles a ______-level enforcement agency usually engages in.
Ballistics
State
Election
Response
8. Some departments allow for bidding of new patrol areas once or twice _________.
Annually
Sheriff
Highly
Frequency
9. 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.
Valid
Highly
Bureaucracy
Academies
10. 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 _
Real problem
Vollmer
Analysis
Death
11. Various studies have shown that these pursuits have between an 18% to 33% chance of resulting in an accident. As a consequence - many departments have a restrictive - discouraging or discretionary _______ regarding high-speed pursuits for officers to
Policy
Classroom
Good-faith
Enabled
12. Apart from reducing crime - the mission of community policing is to _______ the trend of the negative public perception of the police
Reverse
Illegally
Classroom
Education
13. The first ___ amendments of the Constitution are commonly called the Bill of Rights and offer the individual considerable protection in the criminal justice system.
Ten
Crime
Academies
Incidents
14. The written policies method is called '________________ rule-making' and it is presently the most popular method of controlling discretion.
Weeks
Administrative
Due process
Dangerous
15. The most organized and distinctly American officer force was the _____ patrol based in Charleston - South Carolina.
Collateral
Partnership
National
Slave
16. This may also be called '________ officer.' The investigative nature of their jobs has resulted in their classification as a local law enforcement agency.
Medical
Community
Graduate
17000
17. In 2001 - the US Supreme Court held in Atwater v. Lago Vista that the 4th amendment did not ________ warrantless arrests for minor offenses.
Crime
Drunk
Prohibit
Bilingual
18. 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.
Magistrate
Slow
Investigations
Reports
19. The ________ stage of SARA refers to the creation of strategies based on the analyzed data to deal with the problem whereas the assessment stage requires an evaluation of the effectiveness of the response.
Response
Breached
Disturbance
Police
20. 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.
Election
Lawfully
FBI
Illegal
21. 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 __________.
Uphold
Reduced
Prevention
Illegal
22. The next most critical factor that impacts on PCR after race and ethnicity is ___.
Age
Pay
Uphold
Never
23. Parens patriae is Latin for 'the ______ as parent'.
Cause
Prevention
State
Control
24. 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
Younger
Legitimate
Poor
Los Angeles
25. This is due to the dominance of the local political structure by ______ persons. Detroit has had a black mayor since 1973 and the police force is dominated by black persons. Thus - the black community can better relate with their local police
Security
Illegally
Black
Medical
26. 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.
Bilingual
Violence
Attrition
National
27. 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.
Academies
Pay
Blind
Leon
28. The 911 communications center is the _____ of a modern police department.
Federal
Heart
Reports
Enforcement
29. 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.
Self
Enabled
Escobedo
Directorates
30. The first landmark case that forms the foundation of the exclusionary rule is the US Supreme court decision of _____ v US (1914).
Weeks
Age
Guns
Inadmissible
31. This describes the Pendleton Act. This was a big step in the government becoming the huge _____________ it is today.
Bureaucracy
Uphold
Rarely
Qualified
32. The county level of government supplies citizens with police services - for example the county ________.
Sheriff
Consecutive
Punishment
Reverse
33. The CIA has operations officers and recruits ________ agents as part of their intelligence activities and this may involve covert operations.
Age
Legitimate
Magistrate
Foreign
34. When the offender was apprehended by the posse - trials were rarely held and public __________ were held to dispense justice.
Executions
Reduced
Analysis
Graduate
35. There are around _____ federal - state and local law enforcement agencies in the US.
Obvious
Slow
17000
Accountability
36. 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 ______.
Suspicion
Improve
Sober
Executive
37. 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.
Crime
Cooperation
Occupational
Federal
38. 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 ________.
Imprisonment
Arrest
Crime
Obvious
39. In 1837 - the slave patrol consisted of about 100 officers and they were responsible for finding ________ slaves and ensuring that they were well-behaved.
Smaller
Accident
UCR
Runaway
40. Police subculture is determined by the potential of ______ and because of this they stereotype certain categories of persons - such as low-income males - as possible threats.
Danger
Representation
Punishment
Unqualified
41. 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
3100
Improperly
Younger
Adversarial
42. The UCR statistics are used to create the FBI Crime Clock which creates a picture of crime _________ in the US.
Younger
Cause
Frequency
FBI
43. In this case - the police applied for and obtained a search warrant from a magistrate for the Defendant's homes. Drugs were found there and the Defendant convicted. He appealed on the grounds that the original affidavit drawn up to obtain the search
Danger
Compliance
Valid
Good-faith
44. Officers are allocated to specific shifts and patrol areas based on _________ or using a rotation system.
FBI
Patrol
Punishment
Seniority
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
Writ
Slow
Reports
4th
46. 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
Due process
Classroom
Breached
Victimization
47. The 3 CIA directorates are the directorate of Intelligence - directorate of Operations and the directorate of Science and ___________.
Warrant
Self
Transit
Technology
48. Another word for uphold is _________. This is the result for most appellate court decisions whereby they confirm the decision of the lower court.
Reaffirm
Pay
Copies
Good-faith
49. The majority of criminal cases do not go to trial but are instead settled via a plea _______.
Safe
Directorates
Bargain
Slave
50. They believe that _____-reporting provides more accurate information than police reports.
Self
Inadmissible
Parens
Slave