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DSST Introduction To Law Enforcement
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Criminalistics relies on __________ to analyze firearms and munitions as well as various forensic techniques to determine issues such as time of death.
Response
Ballistics
Inadmissible
Control
2. 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.
Lawfully
Supervision
Justice
Writ
3. 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.
Highly
Wilson
Illegal
Transit
4. The 3 CIA directorates are the directorate of Intelligence - directorate of Operations and the directorate of Science and ___________.
Technology
Seniority
Danger
Education
5. Apart from police corruption - another form of police deviance is ____________ deviance.
Imprisonment
Supervision
Occupational
Guns
6. Prospective police officers are trained at police _________ - with the average pre-service training program lasting about 1000 hours.
Annually
Age
Pay
Academies
7. Various studies have shown that these pursuits have between an 18% to 33% chance of resulting in an accident. As a consequence - many departments have a restrictive - discouraging or discretionary _______ regarding high-speed pursuits for officers to
Weeks
Uphold
Policy
Foreign
8. 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.
NCVS
Education
Rabinowitz
Slow
9. 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.
Posses
Hoover
Blind
Fragmented
10. Officers appointed to carry out investigative work are known as __________.
Policy
Detectives
Victimless
Frequency
11. Research has revealed that in about 80% of such situations - no formal action - such as _______ was necessary.
Supreme Court
Unqualified
Drawback
Arrest
12. 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.
Guns
Reports
UCR
Policy
13. Increasing ___________ and reducing competition between patrol officers and detectives as well as improving police-citizen relationships are 2 important methods of enhancing the quality of investigative work.
Investigations
Federal
Cooperation
Directorates
14. 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 _______.
Never
Justice
Slave
Previous
15. August Vollmer believed that policing standards needed to be improved and corruption stamped out. He advocated training and __________ for officers.
Containment
Ten
Education
Age
16. This was the bright-line rule (one that can ______ be crossed) that emerged from this case.
Never
Escobedo
Medical
Reverse
17. 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.
Safe
Consent
Effectiveness
Mentally
18. Law enforcement in the US is extremely large and ___________ and hence this many agencies currently exist.
Reduced
Effectiveness
Fragmented
Consecutive
19. Organized law enforcement in Britain can be traced back to 1200 AD when identified law breakers were pursued by a _____ led by the shire reeve or mounted officer.
Highly
Drunk
Supreme Court
Posse
20. The 911 communications center is the _____ of a modern police department.
Cause
Never
Rarely
Heart
21. Domestic disturbances may be fuelled by alcohol and drug abuse - financial difficulties or many other reasons that are beyond the ________ of the officers.
Seniority
Limitations
Control
Magistrate
22. Officers have very broad discretion - yet this subject is _______ taught or sufficiently taught to better aid the officers in making an appropriate decision.
Mentally
Breached
Covert
Rarely
23. The first ___ amendments to the Constitution are called the Bill of Rights. They were created to restrict government actions against the individual.
Containment
Reduced
Age
Ten
24. It is believed that the average citizen plays a vital part in the ________________ of officers.
Crime
Accountability
Election
Improve
25. 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.
Blind
Bribes
Response
Lawfully
26. This has resulted in an under ________________ of blacks - women and ethnic minorities in the police force.
Representation
Younger
Self
Improperly
27. Another source of PCR tension is discriminatory employment practices of the ______ force.
Police
Executions
Sober
Investigations
28. Officers are commonly offered bribes to let suspects go or to turn a blind eye to ________ activities.
Illegal
Posse
Safe
Communities
29. _________ policing took off in the 1980s and 1990s - with the realization that the police could not fight crime on their own.
Community
Adversarial
Never
Accident
30. 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.
FBI
Death
Parens
Special
31. Officers at the academy undergo _________ training and most academies also offer field training.
Classroom
Uphold
Covert
Analysis
32. Another word for uphold is _________. This is the result for most appellate court decisions whereby they confirm the decision of the lower court.
Supervision
Classroom
Real problem
Reaffirm
33. The CID within the FBI is responsible for organized crime - violent crime - ____________ and money laundering.
Suspicion
Violence
Racketeering
Medical
34. 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
Technology
Accountability
Professionalization
Poor
35. The police ___________ of secrecy - public hostility and solidarity meant they were very isolated from the community - especially the black community.
17000
Subculture
Written
Copies
36. 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.
Vollmer
Bribes
Weeks
Partnership
37. 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.
Heart
Organized
Detectives
Bilingual
38. Bail describes the circumstance when suspects are released from custody but on condition that money or property is offered as __________ against flight.
Response
Academies
Sheriff
Collateral
39. 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
Partnership
Rabinowitz
Age
40. 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
Investigations
Breached
Younger
Disturbance
41. Affirmative action is mandated by a Presidential _________ Order in 1965 - so that all private employers and government agencies who receive federal monies have to develop written affirmative action plans.
Compliance
Poor
Executive
Crime
42. 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
3100
Obvious
Victimization
Outside
43. Police training programs do suffer from ___________ - particularly as important areas such as domestic violence - ethics and police discretion - which are not usually covered
Limitations
Blind
Transit
Unqualified
44. 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.
Black
Serving
Racial
NCVS
45. 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.
Leon
Copies
Suspicion
Special
46. This is widely recognized as a police role - though they do share the burden with other institutions such as schools and _____________.
Covert
State
Patrol
Communities
47. 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.
Collateral
Posse
Accountability
Consecutive
48. 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
Sheriff
Bargain
Seniority
Reduced
49. 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.
Fragmented
Organized
Slow
Violence
50. 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.
Written
Response
Weeks
State