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DSST Introduction To Law Enforcement
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1. Apart from reducing crime - the mission of community policing is to _______ the trend of the negative public perception of the police
Poor
Reverse
Posses
Pendleton
2. The CIA has operations officers and recruits ________ agents as part of their intelligence activities and this may involve covert operations.
Increase
Foreign
4th
Sober
3. The ________ stage of SARA refers to the creation of strategies based on the analyzed data to deal with the problem whereas the assessment stage requires an evaluation of the effectiveness of the response.
Protect
Written
17000
Response
4. The UCR statistics are used to create the FBI Crime Clock which creates a picture of crime _________ in the US.
Frequency
Drunk
Supreme Court
Patrol
5. This is to ensure that ___________ with the administrative rules is maintained.
Los Angeles
Compliance
Written
Supervision
6. 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.
UCR
Consent
Lawfully
Self
7. Campus police is probably the most important example of the special district police force. The also participate in the ____ program.
Frequency
National
UCR
Magistrate
8. Research showed that patrol was of little deterrence and speedier response times did not increase the arrest rate nor assisted in the solving of crimes. Community policing is meant to create a _____________ between police and community to develop pro
Reverse
Drawback
Partnership
Technology
9. The local police cover a wide range of law enforcement agencies such as the municipal police - sheriff's departments - campus and _______ police.
Transit
Organized
Compliance
Response
10. Patrol is meant to reassure citizens that their environment is _____ and protected from crime.
Safe
Annually
Black
Policy
11. When an appellate court is asked to review a judgment - they may ______ it - require the lower court to set it aside or modify it.
Uphold
Danger
Racial
Reports
12. Good faith means that when the police act with the honest belief that they are following proper rules. According to the ruling in US v. Leon - when officers have acted in good faith reliance on a warrant - the evidence will not be excluded even if th
Wiretaps
Ten
Warrant
Improperly
13. Ballistics is the scientific _________ of firearms - ammunition - projectiles - bombs and explosives.
Rarely
Qualified
Analysis
Control
14. There are around _____ federal - state and local law enforcement agencies in the US.
Enforcement
17000
Unqualified
Police
15. 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.
Graduate
Warrant
Effectiveness
Executions
16. 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
Effectiveness
Sober
Inadmissible
Safe
17. Research has revealed that in about 80% of such situations - no formal action - such as _______ was necessary.
Highly
Organized
Arrest
Written
18. 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 ______.
Writ
State
Classroom
Sober
19. Another word for uphold is _________. This is the result for most appellate court decisions whereby they confirm the decision of the lower court.
Patrol
Increase
Classroom
Reaffirm
20. The written policies method is called '________________ rule-making' and it is presently the most popular method of controlling discretion.
Administrative
Searching
Rabinowitz
Accountability
21. Bail describes the circumstance when suspects are released from custody but on condition that money or property is offered as __________ against flight.
Breached
Collateral
Highly
4th
22. The role of the ___ is to investigate breaches of federal criminal law - to protect the country from foreign counterintelligence and terrorist activities and to provide law enforcement assistance to other agencies.
Reverse
Bureaucracy
Fragmented
FBI
23. 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.
Slow
Activity
Occupational
Posse
24. This was the step taken in 1965 to remedy _________ discrimination.
Los Angeles
Supervision
Previous
Bribes
25. The FBI has the responsibility to investigate - analyze and neutralize any potential terrorist threats and to investigate and analyze terrorist __________ in the US.
Imprisonment
Written
Patrol
Incidents
26. In order to police __________ crimes - officers generally have to resort to undercover work.
Organized
Executions
Victimless
Wiretaps
27. It is believed that the average citizen plays a vital part in the ________________ of officers.
Ten
Accountability
Cooperation
Violence
28. Under the 6th Amendment to the Constitution - every defendant has the right to a ____ trial.
Hoover
Previous
Accident
Jury
29. 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
Executions
Poor
Executive
FBI
30. Wilson believed in the necessity to continue and encourage _____________________ within the police force. He was the chief of police in Wichita from 1928 to 1935 - the Dean of Criminology at the University of California from 1950 to 1960 and the supe
Protect
Illegal
Without
Professionalization
31. Some legal experts believe that police discretion should be abolished because it is _______.
Real problem
Ten
Illegal
Bilingual
32. 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.
Effectiveness
Response
Qualified
Incidents
33. The controversial 'broken window' theory made the connection between disorder - neighborhood decay and _____.
Frequency
UCR
Effectiveness
Crime
34. The police ___________ of secrecy - public hostility and solidarity meant they were very isolated from the community - especially the black community.
Education
Improperly
Decentralization
Subculture
35. The UCR has a hierarchy rule whereby multiple types of incidents can only be recorded as 1 incident. This is a _________ of the system.
Hoover
3100
Drawback
4th
36. Generally - surveys have revealed that ________ people tend to be more dissatisfied with the police than older persons. Some youths seem to believe that the police target them simply because they are young and think that all teenagers are up to no go
Self
Citizen
Previous
Younger
37. It can be argued that __________ officers possess an additional skill and therefore the extra pay can be justified on those grounds.
Legitimate
Leon
Community
Bilingual
38. 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.
Reports
Executive
Procedure
Valid
39. 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 __________.
Consent
Forfeited
Younger
Reaffirm
40. 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 _________.
3100
Activity
Accountability
Lawfully
41. 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.
Magistrate
Writ
Classroom
Racial
42. 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
Administrative
Ten
Due process
43. The _________ Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS)is the term coined for this annual study.
Protect
Punishment
National
Pay
44. The next most critical factor that impacts on PCR after race and ethnicity is ___.
Magistrate
Age
Analysis
Blind
45. A warrant is a _____ issued by the court to justify the arrest of a suspect. It offers protection to the officer executing the warrant against damages; for example for wrongful arrest.
Writ
Hoover
UCR
Mainstream
46. 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
Foreign
Supervision
Heart
47. There are over _____ sheriff's departments in the US.
3100
Collateral
Professionalization
Hoover
48. The 1980s and 1990s saw the creation of _______ oversight of police groups to monitor or investigate complaints by individuals against police actions.
Blind
Partnership
Citizen
Organized
49. The majority of criminal cases do not go to trial but are instead settled via a plea _______.
Consecutive
Bargain
Lawfully
Limitations
50. 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.
Pay
Administrative
Incidents
Foreign