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DSST Introduction To Law Enforcement

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Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Some departments allow for bidding of new patrol areas once or twice _________.






2. 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.






3. The UCR statistics are used to create the FBI Crime Clock which creates a picture of crime _________ in the US.






4. Bail describes the circumstance when suspects are released from custody but on condition that money or property is offered as __________ against flight.






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






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






7. 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.






8. 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 ________.






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






10. Field training consists of practical on-the-job training with a __________ field training officer.






11. ____ did not become regulated officer equipment until the late 19th Century.






12. 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.






13. Patrol is meant to reassure citizens that their environment is _____ and protected from crime.






14. The professionalization movement started by Vollmer was nurtured by his prot






15. 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.






16. In order to police __________ crimes - officers generally have to resort to undercover work.






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






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






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. Some legal experts believe that police discretion should be abolished because it is _______.






21. Parens patriae is Latin for 'the ______ as parent'.






22. Domestic violence must be distinguished from a domestic ___________ in the sense that in the former a serious crime has been committed and so the officers can exercise their powers of arrest - if they choose to do so although research shows that offi






23. Sheriff departments are usually responsible for _______ court papers - civil summons - and managing security in state courtrooms.






24. Wilson and Kelling believed that the broken window symbolized a deteriorating neighborhood and not repaired led to the eventual decline of an area - thereby encouraging criminal _________.






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






26. The CIA is divided into 3 ____________ and 5 mission support offices (MSOs).






27. 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.






28. 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.






29. The county level of government supplies citizens with police services - for example the county ________.






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






31. This is one of the reports produced by the FBI in its law _____________ role.






32. The police ___________ of secrecy - public hostility and solidarity meant they were very isolated from the community - especially the black community.






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






34. There are around _____ federal - state and local law enforcement agencies in the US.






35. In 2001 - the US Supreme Court held in Atwater v. Lago Vista that the 4th amendment did not ________ warrantless arrests for minor offenses.






36. The majority of criminal cases do not go to trial but are instead settled via a plea _______.






37. They believe that _____-reporting provides more accurate information than police reports.






38. This means that the court releases the suspect into their own custody or into the care of another. This occurs where the suspect poses a low flight risk and is not __________ to the community.






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.






40. Officers are commonly offered bribes to let suspects go or to turn a blind eye to ________ activities.






41. 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.






42. 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.






43. When a 911 call comes in - the operator answers it - makes a decision whether to send out a patrol car and then informs the dispatcher who then communicates the details to the ______ officer.






44. 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.






45. 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.






46. This describes the Pendleton Act. This was a big step in the government becoming the huge _____________ it is today.






47. 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 ______.






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






49. The controversial 'broken window' theory made the connection between disorder - neighborhood decay and _____.






50. Police training programs do suffer from ___________ - particularly as important areas such as domestic violence - ethics and police discretion - which are not usually covered