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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. It can be argued that __________ officers possess an additional skill and therefore the extra pay can be justified on those grounds.






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






3. The role of the ___ is to investigate breaches of federal criminal law - to protect the country from foreign counterintelligence and terrorist activities and to provide law enforcement assistance to other agencies.






4. Campus police are a type of _______ district police force - and many of these larger forces have been state certified as law enforcement agencies with general arrest powers.






5. Wilson and Kelling believed that the broken window symbolized a deteriorating neighborhood and not repaired led to the eventual decline of an area - thereby encouraging criminal _________.






6. Affirmative action is mandated by a Presidential _________ Order in 1965 - so that all private employers and government agencies who receive federal monies have to develop written affirmative action plans.






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






8. This is to ensure that ___________ with the administrative rules is maintained.






9. 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






10. 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.






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






12. 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.






13. 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






14. The 1980s and 1990s saw the creation of _______ oversight of police groups to monitor or investigate complaints by individuals against police actions.






15. Officers appointed to carry out investigative work are known as __________.






16. 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.






17. 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.






18. 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.






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






20. Sheriff departments are usually responsible for _______ court papers - civil summons - and managing security in state courtrooms.






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






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






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






24. Research showed that patrol was of little deterrence and speedier response times did not increase the arrest rate nor assisted in the solving of crimes. Community policing is meant to create a _____________ between police and community to develop pro






25. This is the definition of bail. If the suspect fails to appear for the next court hearing - then the money or property pledged may be __________.






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






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






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






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






30. The next most critical factor that impacts on PCR after race and ethnicity is ___.






31. 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






32. 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






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






34. 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






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






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






37. This is the venue for police training and the value of training has experienced a dramatic _________ in status since its inception.






38. 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.






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






40. Individuals have the right to live in their homes peacefully and not be subjected to unreasonable searches and seizures by virtue of the ___ amendment.






41. The professionalization movement started by Vollmer was nurtured by his prot






42. The majority of criminal cases do not go to trial but are instead settled via a plea _______.






43. Apart from police corruption - another form of police deviance is ____________ deviance.






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






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






46. This was the step taken in 1965 to remedy _________ discrimination.






47. This is training in relation to _____________ rules and was spurred by the decisions of the US Supreme Court in the 1960s.






48. 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.






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






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