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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. 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.






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






3. 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






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






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






6. Domestic disturbances are a common order maintenance issue handled by the police but officers generally find them frustrating to handle because there is little that they can do about the _____ of the problem.






7. The spoils system is greatly reduced in modern politics - though not entirely eliminated. Most ________ workers do not have to be concerned about losing their jobs when a new party takes office.






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






9. 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.






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. 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






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






13. Research has revealed that in about 80% of such situations - no formal action - such as _______ was necessary.






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






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






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






17. 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.






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






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






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






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






22. 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.






23. There is no _________ method of centralized policing in the US as police services are provided by the 4 levels of government which are the city - county - state and federal levels.






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






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






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






27. 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






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






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






30. 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.






31. 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 _________.






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






33. 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.






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






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






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






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






38. The rights of the accused (and of prisoners) have been defined mostly through the _______________'s interpretation of the Bill of Rights.






39. 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.






40. This occurs where criminal and non-criminal actions are used by an officer in the course of his/her working activities or committed when pretending it is within his/her ___________ police authority. An example is sleeping on the job or a racial slur






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






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






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






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






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






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






47. This is one of the main functions of the police academy and ensures that unsuitable recruits do not make it as officers. About 10% of recruits do not _________ from the academy.






48. The ATF was previously an organization within the Department of the Treasury but since 24th January 2003 - their agency was transferred to the Department of _______.






49. 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.






50. In the 1950s training for police officers consisted mainly of firearm skill development but over the years - classroom training has emphasized criminal __________.