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DSST Introduction To Law Enforcement
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Since these crimes are usually not reported - in order to discover them - undercover work using devices such as _________ are utilized.
Wiretaps
Punishment
Rabinowitz
Lawfully
2. This occurs where criminal and non-criminal actions are used by an officer in the course of his/her working activities or committed when pretending it is within his/her ___________ police authority. An example is sleeping on the job or a racial slur
Real problem
Transit
Legitimate
Response
3. They believe that _____-reporting provides more accurate information than police reports.
Supreme Court
Arrest
Self
Good-faith
4. The 911 communications center is the _____ of a modern police department.
Reduced
Enabled
Legitimate
Heart
5. This is to ensure that ___________ with the administrative rules is maintained.
Disturbance
Compliance
Sheriff
Illegal
6. When the offender was apprehended by the posse - trials were rarely held and public __________ were held to dispense justice.
Executions
Reports
Black
Ballistics
7. The 1980s and 1990s saw the creation of _______ oversight of police groups to monitor or investigate complaints by individuals against police actions.
Suspicion
Without
Citizen
Parens
8. The 3 purposes of patrol are to deter crime - increase feelings of public ________ and prepare officers for service through effective dispersal in the neighborhood.
Legitimate
Security
UCR
Dangerous
9. These experts contend that officers do not have the authority to subvert the criminal law. Some states have criminalized the failure of criminal justice officials who turn a ______ eye to enforcement.
Written
Decentralization
Blind
Posse
10. The county level of government supplies citizens with police services - for example the county ________.
Sheriff
Feedback
Runaway
Ten
11. A critical function that the police play in society is crime __________ and this role is primarily executed through routine patrolling.
Technology
National
Prevention
Highly
12. Training is one of the roles a ______-level enforcement agency usually engages in.
Vollmer
Collateral
Seniority
State
13. There are over _____ sheriff's departments in the US.
3100
Hoover
Classroom
Rabinowitz
14. 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.
Reaffirm
Reverse
Protect
Mainstream
15. 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
Posse
Consent
Inadmissible
Accountability
16. 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.
Cooperation
Imprisonment
Pay
Limitations
17. In this case - the Defendants were suspected of evading taxes but they refused to hand over their company books. An illegal search and seizure was performed and the books returned soon after - when the Defendant's lawyer objected. At the trial - the
Victimless
Illegally
Warrant
Executions
18. 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.
Patrol
Prohibit
Graduate
Foreign
19. The UCR has a hierarchy rule whereby multiple types of incidents can only be recorded as 1 incident. This is a _________ of the system.
Occupational
Drawback
Representation
Hoover
20. This is the right granted under the Constitution but the Supreme Court has held that it can be exercised only for offences carrying a term of ______________ exceeding 6 months or where the extra penalties such as fines and community service are suffi
Imprisonment
Executions
Citizen
Improperly
21. Since the 1980s - there have been some very public crackdowns on _____ driving but rates of this offence which creep down during the crackdown soon return to the original levels because the publicity forces a temporary change in behavior which is not
Drunk
Response
Wilson
Representation
22. 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 ________.
Never
Obvious
Arrest
National
23. The _________ Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS)is the term coined for this annual study.
National
FBI
Copies
Enforcement
24. ____ did not become regulated officer equipment until the late 19th Century.
Due process
Warrant
Technology
Guns
25. 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 ______.
FBI
Education
Sober
Cause
26. When it comes to prostitution - low-level street-walking is usually tolerated so that the role of the police is normally ___________ and maintaining the peace.
Occupational
Pendleton
Illegally
Containment
27. Some legal experts believe that police discretion should be abolished because it is _______.
Illegal
Sheriff
Crime
Weeks
28. The spoils system is greatly reduced in modern politics - though not entirely eliminated. Most ________ workers do not have to be concerned about losing their jobs when a new party takes office.
Fragmented
Federal
Age
Warrant
29. This has resulted in an under ________________ of blacks - women and ethnic minorities in the police force.
Representation
Unqualified
Classroom
Citizen
30. Police training programs do suffer from ___________ - particularly as important areas such as domestic violence - ethics and police discretion - which are not usually covered
Drawback
Limitations
Detectives
UCR
31. Bail describes the circumstance when suspects are released from custody but on condition that money or property is offered as __________ against flight.
Collateral
Detectives
Sheriff
Qualified
32. Officers appointed to carry out investigative work are known as __________.
Serving
Incidents
Response
Detectives
33. Officers are commonly offered bribes to let suspects go or to turn a blind eye to ________ activities.
State
Illegal
Consecutive
Never
34. 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 _______.
Crime
Illegal
Justice
Posse
35. Another source of PCR tension is discriminatory employment practices of the ______ force.
Partnership
Wiretaps
Police
Good-faith
36. In 2001 - the US Supreme Court held in Atwater v. Lago Vista that the 4th amendment did not ________ warrantless arrests for minor offenses.
Enabled
Prohibit
Wiretaps
Victimization
37. 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
Annually
Valid
17000
Copies
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.
Cause
Response
Without
Consecutive
39. Field training consists of practical on-the-job training with a __________ field training officer.
Real problem
Reverse
Qualified
Consent
40. This may also be called '________ officer.' The investigative nature of their jobs has resulted in their classification as a local law enforcement agency.
Ten
Medical
Posse
Control
41. The CIA has operations officers and recruits ________ agents as part of their intelligence activities and this may involve covert operations.
Foreign
UCR
Guns
Slow
42. 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.
Prevention
Technology
Reports
Cooperation
43. The police ___________ of secrecy - public hostility and solidarity meant they were very isolated from the community - especially the black community.
Posse
Subculture
Warrant
Qualified
44. 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.
Bilingual
Professionalization
Victimless
Organized
45. It is believed that the average citizen plays a vital part in the ________________ of officers.
Consecutive
Wilson
Black
Accountability
46. 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
17000
Fragmented
Los Angeles
47. This was the bright-line rule (one that can ______ be crossed) that emerged from this case.
Organized
Illegal
Death
Never
48. 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 __________.
Forfeited
Reduced
Seniority
Rarely
49. Deterrence prevents crime through using an example or threat of ___________ to persuade the public against committing the crime.
Racketeering
Procedures
Punishment
Community
50. In the 1950s training for police officers consisted mainly of firearm skill development but over the years - classroom training has emphasized criminal __________.
Justice
Procedures
Younger
Real problem