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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 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.






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






3. A warrant is a _____ issued by the court to justify the arrest of a suspect. It offers protection to the officer executing the warrant against damages; for example for wrongful arrest.






4. There are over _____ sheriff's departments in the US.






5. 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.






6. The first landmark case that forms the foundation of the exclusionary rule is the US Supreme court decision of _____ v US (1914).






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






8. Research into police work and activities conducted between the 1950s and 1970s concluded that police-community relations were very ____ and officers regularly breached legal rules






9. 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






10. Law enforcement in the US is extremely large and ___________ and hence this many agencies currently exist.






11. 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.






12. 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






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






14. The exclusionary rule was modified by the __________ exception in the US Supreme Court decision of US v. Leon (1984).






15. 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






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






17. 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.






18. The local police cover a wide range of law enforcement agencies such as the municipal police - sheriff's departments - campus and _______ police.






19. 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.






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






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






22. This may also be called '________ officer.' The investigative nature of their jobs has resulted in their classification as a local law enforcement agency.






23. The most organized and distinctly American officer force was the _____ patrol based in Charleston - South Carolina.






24. 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






25. Criminalistics relies on __________ to analyze firearms and munitions as well as various forensic techniques to determine issues such as time of death.






26. When considering detective productivity and _____________ - more important than the number of arrests is the quality of those arrests.






27. Under the ___ system - if last night Jim killed John - then set fire to a car and robbed an old lady - these multiple crimes would be recorded as a single incident.






28. 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.






29. The spoils system refers to firing supporters of the opponent and replacing them with one's own supporters upon ________.






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






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






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






33. Prospective police officers are trained at police _________ - with the average pre-service training program lasting about 1000 hours.






34. 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 _






35. 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.






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






37. 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






38. Campus police is probably the most important example of the special district police force. The also participate in the ____ program.






39. Ballistics is the scientific _________ of firearms - ammunition - projectiles - bombs and explosives.






40. 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.






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






42. 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 _______.






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






44. 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.






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






46. In this case - the Defendants were suspected of evading taxes but they refused to hand over their company books. An illegal search and seizure was performed and the books returned soon after - when the Defendant's lawyer objected. At the trial - the






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






48. 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






49. 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.






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