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DSST Introduction To Law Enforcement
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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.
Pay
Racial
Mainstream
Obvious
2. 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.
Slow
Academies
Age
Runaway
3. Research has revealed that in about 80% of such situations - no formal action - such as _______ was necessary.
Highly
Serving
Arrest
Feedback
4. 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.
Escobedo
FBI
Without
Executive
5. 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.
Activity
Procedure
Lawfully
Adversarial
6. There are over _____ sheriff's departments in the US.
Covert
Administrative
3100
Collateral
7. Deterrence prevents crime through using an example or threat of ___________ to persuade the public against committing the crime.
Prevention
Previous
Reaffirm
Punishment
8. There are around _____ federal - state and local law enforcement agencies in the US.
17000
Improperly
Prohibit
Collateral
9. The CID within the FBI is responsible for organized crime - violent crime - ____________ and money laundering.
Good-faith
Administrative
Decentralization
Racketeering
10. This is one of the reports produced by the FBI in its law _____________ role.
Enforcement
Analysis
Sober
Suspicion
11. The spoils system refers to firing supporters of the opponent and replacing them with one's own supporters upon ________.
State
Election
NCVS
Poor
12. 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.
Prevention
Decentralization
Arrest
Graduate
13. 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
Inadmissible
Dangerous
Previous
Illegal
14. Incapacitation refers to the act of confinement so that the offender is restrained from committing the crime again whereas the deterrence has the overall aim of crime __________.
Illegal
Investigations
Suspicion
Prevention
15. 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.
Executions
Due process
Enforcement
Escobedo
16. Patrol is meant to reassure citizens that their environment is _____ and protected from crime.
Never
17000
Safe
Subculture
17. 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.
Heart
Ten
Pendleton
Searching
18. 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.
Bribes
Legitimate
Wilson
Forfeited
19. This may also be called '________ officer.' The investigative nature of their jobs has resulted in their classification as a local law enforcement agency.
Prevention
Medical
Limitations
Supervision
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.
Security
Communities
Searching
Organized
21. One of the major problems facing patrol officers is high-speed pursuits is a high ________ rate.
Analysis
Security
Accident
Improve
22. Individuals have the right to live in their homes peacefully and not be subjected to unreasonable searches and seizures by virtue of the ___ amendment.
Uphold
Magistrate
4th
Without
23. _________ policing took off in the 1980s and 1990s - with the realization that the police could not fight crime on their own.
Partnership
Written
Community
Wilson
24. The professionalization movement started by Vollmer was nurtured by his prot
Reaffirm
Rarely
Escobedo
Wilson
25. 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.
Age
Organized
Racketeering
Disturbance
26. This is the venue for police training and the value of training has experienced a dramatic _________ in status since its inception.
Reaffirm
Representation
Compliance
Increase
27. 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.
Racial
Bilingual
Runaway
Age
28. 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.
Unqualified
UCR
Occupational
Violent
29. 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.
Patrol
Reports
Dangerous
Safe
30. This describes the Pendleton Act. This was a big step in the government becoming the huge _____________ it is today.
Bureaucracy
Disturbance
Organized
Ten
31. Under the 6th Amendment to the Constitution - every defendant has the right to a ____ trial.
Jury
Enforcement
UCR
Bureaucracy
32. 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 __________.
Good-faith
4th
Dangerous
Forfeited
33. 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
Enforcement
Valid
Limitations
Crime
34. 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
National
Cause
Police
35. In order to police __________ crimes - officers generally have to resort to undercover work.
Security
Victimless
Communities
Danger
36. 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.
Protect
Analysis
Supervision
Frequency
37. One of the most controversial incidents in recent American police history occurred in ___________ in 1991 when officers subdued Rodney King using considerable force; resulting in 2 criminal trials and a riot that seriously damaged PCR for several yea
Procedure
State
Los Angeles
Professionalization
38. 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.
Heart
Written
3100
Effectiveness
39. The CIA is divided into 3 ____________ and 5 mission support offices (MSOs).
Procedures
Imprisonment
Supreme Court
Directorates
40. The office of coroner is considered a local law enforcement agency because they determine the cause of _____ of victims and perpetrators in criminal cases.
Collateral
Improperly
Death
Qualified
41. In US v. Irizarry (1982) - the US Supreme Court held that evidence found above a ceiling panel that was out of place was _______ the scope of the plain-view doctrine
Outside
Consecutive
Illegal
Feedback
42. Sheriff departments are usually responsible for _______ court papers - civil summons - and managing security in state courtrooms.
Drawback
Outside
Serving
Enforcement
43. ____ did not become regulated officer equipment until the late 19th Century.
Guns
Directorates
Pay
FBI
44. Public concern led to the start of the crackdown and this is viewed as an important police role but it is very difficult to spot the minority of drunk drivers amongst those who are ______.
Sober
Illegal
Qualified
Citizen
45. 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.
Searching
Containment
Magistrate
Patrol
46. Community policing is widely implemented in the US today but critics are concerned that the police role of crime control has been hijacked - the police are increasingly getting involved at a political level and ________________ will lead to the loss
Slave
Directorates
Decentralization
Partnership
47. The most organized and distinctly American officer force was the _____ patrol based in Charleston - South Carolina.
Slave
Mentally
Legitimate
Ten
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 _______.
Reduced
Federal
Justice
Containment
49. Campus police is probably the most important example of the special district police force. The also participate in the ____ program.
Warrant
Protect
UCR
Improperly
50. 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.
Accident
Partnership
Dangerous
Response