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DSST Introduction To Law Enforcement
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1. Domestic disturbances may be fuelled by alcohol and drug abuse - financial difficulties or many other reasons that are beyond the ________ of the officers.
Unqualified
Control
Written
Enabled
2. The controversial 'broken window' theory made the connection between disorder - neighborhood decay and _____.
Bribes
UCR
Reduced
Crime
3. This is the term coined to describe this diagrammatic representation. It differentiates between ________ crimes such as murder and rape and property crime such as burglary and arson.
Compliance
Procedures
Professionalization
Violent
4. 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
Improperly
Age
Same time
Obvious
5. 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
Unqualified
Accountability
Searching
Inadmissible
6. 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.
Written
Covert
4th
Rarely
7. 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.
Adversarial
Investigations
Racial
Ballistics
8. 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.
Enabled
3100
Detectives
Attrition
9. There are around _____ federal - state and local law enforcement agencies in the US.
Mentally
National
17000
Enabled
10. This was the only way they could ________ themselves and their property from the bandits. They did try to apply the accepted standards of decency of the day to their actions.
Sheriff
Protect
Cooperation
Community
11. 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.
Ten
Illegally
4th
Federal
12. Wilson believed in the necessity to continue and encourage _____________________ within the police force. He was the chief of police in Wichita from 1928 to 1935 - the Dean of Criminology at the University of California from 1950 to 1960 and the supe
Due process
Professionalization
Decentralization
Prohibit
13. 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 _______.
UCR
Obvious
Justice
Compliance
14. August Vollmer believed that policing standards needed to be improved and corruption stamped out. He advocated training and __________ for officers.
Incidents
Education
UCR
Punishment
15. 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
Younger
Sober
Obvious
16. _________ policing took off in the 1980s and 1990s - with the realization that the police could not fight crime on their own.
Reaffirm
Magistrate
Community
Illegal
17. The professionalization movement started by Vollmer was nurtured by his prot
Wilson
Election
Procedures
Organized
18. 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.
Containment
Classroom
Special
Pay
19. 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.
Patrol
Graduate
Smaller
FBI
20. 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.
Escobedo
Enforcement
Procedure
3100
21. The majority of criminal cases do not go to trial but are instead settled via a plea _______.
Bargain
Rabinowitz
Security
Weeks
22. One of the major problems facing patrol officers is high-speed pursuits is a high ________ rate.
Classroom
Accident
Activity
Runaway
23. The first ___ amendments to the Constitution are called the Bill of Rights. They were created to restrict government actions against the individual.
Due process
Written
Outside
Ten
24. Research has revealed that in about 80% of such situations - no formal action - such as _______ was necessary.
Community
Arrest
Security
Serving
25. 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.
Mentally
Never
Younger
Lawfully
26. 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.
Organized
Hoover
Reduced
Highly
27. Officers appointed to carry out investigative work are known as __________.
Organized
Police
NCVS
Detectives
28. 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.
Smaller
Election
Runaway
Warrant
29. When considering detective productivity and _____________ - more important than the number of arrests is the quality of those arrests.
Effectiveness
Los Angeles
Jury
Directorates
30. When it comes to prostitution - low-level street-walking is usually tolerated so that the role of the police is normally ___________ and maintaining the peace.
Containment
Cause
Drunk
National
31. In US v. __________ (1950) - the US Supreme Court ruled that a warrantless search upon a lawful arrest was permitted as long as it was reasonable given the circumstances.
Writ
Drawback
Rabinowitz
Due process
32. 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
Punishment
Blind
Reverse
33. 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 __________.
Prohibit
Disturbance
Racial
Forfeited
34. This is training in relation to _____________ rules and was spurred by the decisions of the US Supreme Court in the 1960s.
State
Due process
Federal
Protect
35. 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.
Slave
Reverse
FBI
Forfeited
36. Plea bargains avoid an expensive court trial. Prosecutors may offer and defendants may accept a bargained plea to avoid the uncertainty of a jury trial. In many cases - the Defendant agrees to plead guilty to a lesser charge or for a ________ sentenc
Mainstream
Reduced
4th
Prevention
37. 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.
Parens
Smaller
Slow
Sober
38. Bail describes the circumstance when suspects are released from custody but on condition that money or property is offered as __________ against flight.
Covert
Reverse
Collateral
Imprisonment
39. The 3 purposes of patrol are to deter crime - increase feelings of public ________ and prepare officers for service through effective dispersal in the neighborhood.
Security
Wilson
Weeks
Guns
40. The Supreme Court created a good faith exception to the exclusionary rule when police officers use search warrants (US v. ____ - 1984).
Reports
Good-faith
Leon
Ten
41. 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.
Wilson
Jury
Poor
Parens
42. Organized law enforcement in Britain can be traced back to 1200 AD when identified law breakers were pursued by a _____ led by the shire reeve or mounted officer.
Posse
Improve
Medical
Detectives
43. In 2001 - the US Supreme Court held in Atwater v. Lago Vista that the 4th amendment did not ________ warrantless arrests for minor offenses.
Prohibit
Community
Police
Bilingual
44. 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.
Pay
Limitations
Younger
Heart
45. Apart from police corruption - another form of police deviance is ____________ deviance.
Crime
Mentally
Mainstream
Occupational
46. Patrol is meant to reassure citizens that their environment is _____ and protected from crime.
Due process
Illegal
Safe
Drunk
47. In the 1950s training for police officers consisted mainly of firearm skill development but over the years - classroom training has emphasized criminal __________.
Procedures
Crime
Collateral
Written
48. There was no __________ form of criminal justice law in those days. Guilt was assumed; the execution carried out and accepted by all as an act of retribution.
Bilingual
Cause
Prevention
Organized
49. Able-bodied men who could hear the commotion caused by the victim were obliged to form a posse and join the shire reeve (term from which ________ is derived) or mounted officer in pursuit of the offender.
Los Angeles
Age
Sheriff
Increase
50. 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
Unqualified
Enforcement
Investigations
Breached
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