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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. 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.






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






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.






4. 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






5. 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.






6. 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.






7. Another source of PCR tension is discriminatory employment practices of the ______ force.






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.






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






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






11. Some police departments may have a separate detective unit with further specialized units such as homicide and vice. ________ ones will have a single department to handle all cases or no department at all.






12. 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.






13. 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.






14. Domestic disturbances may be fuelled by alcohol and drug abuse - financial difficulties or many other reasons that are beyond the ________ of the officers.






15. Training is one of the roles a ______-level enforcement agency usually engages in.






16. The next most critical factor that impacts on PCR after race and ethnicity is ___.






17. Ballistics is the scientific _________ of firearms - ammunition - projectiles - bombs and explosives.






18. A centralized state-level agency - which merges patrol with ______________ will usually assist in local criminal investigations when asked - patrol the state's highways - operate identification bureaus - manage criminal records and provide training t






19. This was the ruling of the court. Many commentators were surprised but the court decided that although arrest for trivial offences (in this case a seat belt violation) may be embarrassing - it was not so extraordinary as to breach the ____ amendment






20. This was the step taken in 1965 to remedy _________ discrimination.






21. Officers are allocated to specific shifts and patrol areas based on _________ or using a rotation system.






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






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






24. 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.






25. 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.






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






27. The most organized and distinctly American officer force was the _____ patrol based in Charleston - South Carolina.






28. Research has revealed that in about 80% of such situations - no formal action - such as _______ was necessary.






29. It can be argued that __________ officers possess an additional skill and therefore the extra pay can be justified on those grounds.






30. Law enforcement in the US is extremely large and ___________ and hence this many agencies currently exist.






31. 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.






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 __________.






33. Apart from police corruption - another form of police deviance is ____________ deviance.






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






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






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






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






38. 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 __________.






39. The local police cover a wide range of law enforcement agencies such as the municipal police - sheriff's departments - campus and _______ police.






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






41. The 3 CIA directorates are the directorate of Intelligence - directorate of Operations and the directorate of Science and ___________.






42. The 3 purposes of patrol are to deter crime - increase feelings of public ________ and prepare officers for service through effective dispersal in the neighborhood.






43. 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






44. 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.






45. The Supreme Court created a good faith exception to the exclusionary rule when police officers use search warrants (US v. ____ - 1984).






46. Between the data in the UCR and NCVS - most experts tend to prefer the ____.






47. The CIA also engages in ______ operations sanctioned by the President as part of their role in ensuring national security.






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






49. The UCR has a hierarchy rule whereby multiple types of incidents can only be recorded as 1 incident. This is a _________ of the system.






50. This has resulted in an under ________________ of blacks - women and ethnic minorities in the police force.