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DSST Introduction To Law Enforcement
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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
Bribes
Procedures
Justice
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
Pendleton
Prevention
Obvious
3. There are over _____ sheriff's departments in the US.
Containment
Election
Highly
3100
4. 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.
Blind
Control
Bribes
Reaffirm
5. Prospective police officers are trained at police _________ - with the average pre-service training program lasting about 1000 hours.
Prevention
Accident
Dangerous
Academies
6. 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 _______.
Suspicion
Election
Justice
Leon
7. ____ did not become regulated officer equipment until the late 19th Century.
Executions
UCR
National
Guns
8. J Edgar ______ - the Director of the FBI in the 1930s had a critical impact on local policing in setting educational and training models for officers - the development of the Uniform Crime Reports (UCR) and the establishment of the FBI crime lab.
Younger
Feedback
Hoover
Racial
9. Between the data in the UCR and NCVS - most experts tend to prefer the ____.
Violence
Black
NCVS
Decentralization
10. 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.
FBI
Same time
3100
Leon
11. 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
Consecutive
Valid
Black
Federal
12. The local police cover a wide range of law enforcement agencies such as the municipal police - sheriff's departments - campus and _______ police.
Transit
Black
Federal
Attrition
13. The majority of criminal cases do not go to trial but are instead settled via a plea _______.
Response
Ten
Bargain
Organized
14. 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
Illegal
Reports
Mentally
Inadmissible
15. The Supreme Court created a good faith exception to the exclusionary rule when police officers use search warrants (US v. ____ - 1984).
4th
Leon
Legitimate
Victimless
16. 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.
Posses
Violence
Supervision
Parens
17. 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.
Ballistics
3100
Improve
Dangerous
18. The first ___ amendments of the Constitution are commonly called the Bill of Rights and offer the individual considerable protection in the criminal justice system.
Communities
Limitations
Ten
Same time
19. The exclusionary rule was extended by the US Supreme Court in the case of Silverthorne Lumber Co. v. US (1920) - which held that ______ of illegally seized evidence were inadmissible in court.
Analysis
Forfeited
Copies
Administrative
20. The rise of police professionalism and reform was spearheaded by August _______ who served as the chief of police in Berkeley - California from 1905 to 1932.
Drawback
Vollmer
Consent
Sober
21. Research has revealed that in about 80% of such situations - no formal action - such as _______ was necessary.
Safe
Arrest
Sheriff
Warrant
22. Decentralization means reduced _____________ of rank and file officers who have greater discretion in making decisions.
Copies
Investigations
Compliance
Supervision
23. 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.
Punishment
Slave
Effectiveness
Escobedo
24. The 1980s and 1990s saw the creation of _______ oversight of police groups to monitor or investigate complaints by individuals against police actions.
Citizen
Containment
Los Angeles
Procedure
25. 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
Improve
Response
Federal
26. 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 __________.
Ten
FBI
3100
Forfeited
27. 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.
Sober
Supervision
Slow
Enabled
28. After the arrest - suspects are brought before a __________ for their first appearance so that the charges brought against them can be read out and if appropriate they may be released on their own recognizance.
Incidents
Ten
Magistrate
Previous
29. 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.
Vollmer
Never
Patrol
Victimization
30. Patrol is meant to reassure citizens that their environment is _____ and protected from crime.
17000
Safe
Community
Bargain
31. There are around _____ federal - state and local law enforcement agencies in the US.
Escobedo
17000
Prohibit
Enabled
32. Their perception of the amount of danger faced in their jobs results in the development of constant __________ of people
Slow
Obvious
Suspicion
Attrition
33. 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.
Warrant
State
Danger
UCR
34. The UCR statistics are used to create the FBI Crime Clock which creates a picture of crime _________ in the US.
Parens
State
Frequency
Serving
35. 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.
Election
Never
Bribes
Organized
36. 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
Without
Improperly
Sheriff
Qualified
37. The _________ Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS)is the term coined for this annual study.
Ten
Crime
National
Prevention
38. 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.
Never
Academies
Cause
Patrol
39. Due to an increase in _________ and disorder by citizens - officers turned to weaponry to protect themselves.
FBI
Violence
Special
Justice
40. The rights of the accused (and of prisoners) have been defined mostly through the _______________'s interpretation of the Bill of Rights.
Ten
Supreme Court
Slave
Seniority
41. The UCR has a hierarchy rule whereby multiple types of incidents can only be recorded as 1 incident. This is a _________ of the system.
Investigations
Adversarial
Citizen
Drawback
42. The exclusionary rule was modified by the __________ exception in the US Supreme Court decision of US v. Leon (1984).
Warrant
Drunk
Good-faith
Annually
43. Upon conviction - the defendant is punished through a sentence passed by the judge and if convicted of more than one crime - then may be subject to a ___________ or concurrent sentence.
Weeks
Consecutive
Inadmissible
Cause
44. 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
Ten
Highly
Posses
45. 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.
Special
Enforcement
Partnership
Supreme Court
46. The FBI has the responsibility to investigate - analyze and neutralize any potential terrorist threats and to investigate and analyze terrorist __________ in the US.
Pay
Incidents
Dangerous
Decentralization
47. 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
Federal
Inadmissible
Reduced
Medical
48. The next most critical factor that impacts on PCR after race and ethnicity is ___.
Feedback
Bribes
Victimless
Age
49. In 1837 - the slave patrol consisted of about 100 officers and they were responsible for finding ________ slaves and ensuring that they were well-behaved.
Illegal
Victimization
Due process
Runaway
50. This is one of the reports produced by the FBI in its law _____________ role.
Accountability
Enforcement
Racketeering
Racial