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DSST Introduction To Law Enforcement
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. In 1837 - the slave patrol consisted of about 100 officers and they were responsible for finding ________ slaves and ensuring that they were well-behaved.
Supreme Court
Graduate
Compliance
Runaway
2. Some legal experts believe that police discretion should be abolished because it is _______.
Illegal
Violent
Control
Subculture
3. 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.
Occupational
Reaffirm
Magistrate
Pay
4. The UCR statistics are used to create the FBI Crime Clock which creates a picture of crime _________ in the US.
Lawfully
Highly
Occupational
Frequency
5. Their perception of the amount of danger faced in their jobs results in the development of constant __________ of people
Suspicion
Runaway
Prevention
Warrant
6. Citizen ______ and vigilante groups were the main means of policing the frontier and well-known figures who took up this challenge in the 19th Century include Wild Bill Hickok and Wyatt Earp.
Posses
Racial
Legitimate
Heart
7. When the offender was apprehended by the posse - trials were rarely held and public __________ were held to dispense justice.
Response
Executions
Ballistics
Partnership
8. Prospective police officers are trained at police _________ - with the average pre-service training program lasting about 1000 hours.
Academies
Feedback
Security
Sober
9. 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.
Improve
Professionalization
Subculture
3100
10. There are around _____ federal - state and local law enforcement agencies in the US.
Illegal
17000
Classroom
Seniority
11. Officers appointed to carry out investigative work are known as __________.
Accountability
Detectives
Containment
Smaller
12. 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.
Response
Frequency
Writ
Rabinowitz
13. This was the step taken in 1965 to remedy _________ discrimination.
Previous
Highly
Legitimate
Supervision
14. Apart from reducing crime - the mission of community policing is to _______ the trend of the negative public perception of the police
Reverse
NCVS
Special
Security
15. Due to an increase in _________ and disorder by citizens - officers turned to weaponry to protect themselves.
Imprisonment
Violence
Heart
Compliance
16. This describes the Pendleton Act. This was a big step in the government becoming the huge _____________ it is today.
Blind
Foreign
Cooperation
Bureaucracy
17. Generally - surveys have revealed that ________ people tend to be more dissatisfied with the police than older persons. Some youths seem to believe that the police target them simply because they are young and think that all teenagers are up to no go
Jury
Leon
Younger
Police
18. Racial profiling is the practice of stopping and or __________ a person not because of any suspected criminal activity but because of that person's race.
Searching
Violence
Real problem
Subculture
19. _________ policing took off in the 1980s and 1990s - with the realization that the police could not fight crime on their own.
Crime
Prevention
Annually
Community
20. The assessment stage evaluates the response based on detailed _________ and surveys. The police are also encouraged to conduct a self-analysis to see if they identified the problem correctly in the first place and revise that response if needed.
Wiretaps
Racial
Feedback
Danger
21. Law enforcement in the US is extremely large and ___________ and hence this many agencies currently exist.
Fragmented
Bribes
Sheriff
Detectives
22. 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
Justice
Without
Seniority
23. The courts of general jurisdiction utilize a fact-finding foundation known as the ___________ process which pits the State's interest - as represented by the prosecution against the Defendant's - as represented by defense counsel.
Racketeering
Decentralization
Adversarial
Academies
24. The _________ Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS)is the term coined for this annual study.
Feedback
Reaffirm
National
Hoover
25. Officers must file written _______ in certain circumstances when they exercise their discretion - for example when they fire their weapon and these reports must be reviewed by their superiors.
Professionalization
3100
Serving
Reports
26. This is training in relation to _____________ rules and was spurred by the decisions of the US Supreme Court in the 1960s.
Academies
Supreme Court
Due process
Organized
27. This was the bright-line rule (one that can ______ be crossed) that emerged from this case.
Rarely
Foreign
Never
Decentralization
28. Some departments allow for bidding of new patrol areas once or twice _________.
Technology
Federal
Annually
Activity
29. 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.
Patrol
Sheriff
State
Searching
30. This is the way criminal trials are conducted in the US and it is governed by strict rules of __________.
Compliance
Effectiveness
Unqualified
Procedure
31. The first landmark case that forms the foundation of the exclusionary rule is the US Supreme court decision of _____ v US (1914).
Suspicion
Weeks
Reduced
Smaller
32. The 3 CIA directorates are the directorate of Intelligence - directorate of Operations and the directorate of Science and ___________.
Breached
Education
Technology
Compliance
33. The _________ Act passed by Congress in 1883 put an end to Andrew Jackson's 'spoils system -' and created a system of hiring government employees based on their qualifications.
Procedure
Reaffirm
Pendleton
Jury
34. Domestic disturbances may be fuelled by alcohol and drug abuse - financial difficulties or many other reasons that are beyond the ________ of the officers.
Blind
Reverse
NCVS
Control
35. 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.
Improve
4th
Reports
Protect
36. The local police cover a wide range of law enforcement agencies such as the municipal police - sheriff's departments - campus and _______ police.
Prohibit
Transit
Directorates
Occupational
37. There are over _____ sheriff's departments in the US.
Decentralization
3100
Patrol
Safe
38. 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.
Response
Los Angeles
Posses
Escobedo
39. 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.
Drunk
Outside
Sober
Cause
40. 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.
Disturbance
Poor
Danger
FBI
41. Since these crimes are usually not reported - in order to discover them - undercover work using devices such as _________ are utilized.
Arrest
Consecutive
Wiretaps
National
42. The professionalization movement started by Vollmer was nurtured by his prot
Federal
Education
Self
Wilson
43. This has resulted in an under ________________ of blacks - women and ethnic minorities in the police force.
Technology
Organized
Response
Representation
44. 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.
Never
Weeks
FBI
Victimization
45. This is to ensure that ___________ with the administrative rules is maintained.
Classroom
Compliance
Patrol
Reports
46. The rights of the accused (and of prisoners) have been defined mostly through the _______________'s interpretation of the Bill of Rights.
Supreme Court
Occupational
Foreign
Highly
47. The 3 purposes of patrol are to deter crime - increase feelings of public ________ and prepare officers for service through effective dispersal in the neighborhood.
Activity
Subculture
Bilingual
Security
48. Bail describes the circumstance when suspects are released from custody but on condition that money or property is offered as __________ against flight.
Collateral
Weeks
Subculture
Danger
49. The most organized and distinctly American officer force was the _____ patrol based in Charleston - South Carolina.
Slave
Unqualified
Medical
Forfeited
50. 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
Forfeited
Breached
Professionalization
Annually