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DSST Introduction To Law Enforcement
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1. A concurrent sentence is one that is served at the __________ as another sentence.
Weeks
Same time
Posse
Runaway
2. The role of the police academy is to provide formal training - root out ___________ recruits and immerse the trainees in the police subculture.
Consecutive
Directorates
Incidents
Unqualified
3. 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.
Good-faith
Never
National
Consecutive
4. 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
Poor
Victimless
Feedback
Safe
5. Police subculture is determined by the potential of ______ and because of this they stereotype certain categories of persons - such as low-income males - as possible threats.
Covert
Activity
Illegal
Danger
6. The controversial 'broken window' theory made the connection between disorder - neighborhood decay and _____.
Parens
Crime
Collateral
Wilson
7. The FBI has the responsibility to investigate - analyze and neutralize any potential terrorist threats and to investigate and analyze terrorist __________ in the US.
Accident
Wilson
Incidents
Vollmer
8. Able-bodied men who could hear the commotion caused by the victim were obliged to form a posse and join the shire reeve (term from which ________ is derived) or mounted officer in pursuit of the offender.
Adversarial
Rabinowitz
Danger
Sheriff
9. This is because patrol consists of the majority of police work and this is ________ through the police communications network - which is triggered by 911 calls.
Crime
Effectiveness
Enabled
Adversarial
10. The rights of the accused (and of prisoners) have been defined mostly through the _______________'s interpretation of the Bill of Rights.
Academies
Supreme Court
Sheriff
Pay
11. Prospective police officers are trained at police _________ - with the average pre-service training program lasting about 1000 hours.
Prohibit
Graduate
Academies
Written
12. One of the most controversial incidents in recent American police history occurred in ___________ in 1991 when officers subdued Rodney King using considerable force; resulting in 2 criminal trials and a riot that seriously damaged PCR for several yea
Weeks
Los Angeles
Hoover
Victimization
13. This describes the Pendleton Act. This was a big step in the government becoming the huge _____________ it is today.
Protect
Policy
Bureaucracy
Procedures
14. 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
Arrest
Containment
Written
Partnership
15. The office of coroner is considered a local law enforcement agency because they determine the cause of _____ of victims and perpetrators in criminal cases.
Attrition
Self
Academies
Death
16. The Uniform Crime Reports (UCR) is an annualized report published by the ___ that states the statistical rate of reported crime in the US based on data from police reports.
Runaway
Enabled
Jury
FBI
17. 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
Illegal
Younger
Improperly
Lawfully
18. Since these crimes are usually not reported - in order to discover them - undercover work using devices such as _________ are utilized.
Wiretaps
Pendleton
Hoover
Poor
19. Community policing is widely implemented in the US today but critics are concerned that the police role of crime control has been hijacked - the police are increasingly getting involved at a political level and ________________ will lead to the loss
Subculture
Poor
Decentralization
Wiretaps
20. 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.
Patrol
Danger
Dangerous
Graduate
21. Under the ___ system - if last night Jim killed John - then set fire to a car and robbed an old lady - these multiple crimes would be recorded as a single incident.
Ballistics
Mainstream
UCR
Transit
22. Individuals have the right to live in their homes peacefully and not be subjected to unreasonable searches and seizures by virtue of the ___ amendment.
Pendleton
4th
Warrant
Frequency
23. 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
Attrition
Same time
Incidents
24. Between the data in the UCR and NCVS - most experts tend to prefer the ____.
NCVS
Enabled
Due process
Rarely
25. 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
Due process
Patrol
Danger
Reduced
26. 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.
Organized
Reports
Consent
Rabinowitz
27. The most organized and distinctly American officer force was the _____ patrol based in Charleston - South Carolina.
Guns
Violent
Slave
Incidents
28. 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.
Valid
Police
Response
Bureaucracy
29. 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.
Racketeering
Pendleton
National
Cause
30. 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.
Seniority
Reverse
Dangerous
Incidents
31. 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
Patrol
Valid
Mainstream
Hoover
32. 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
Arrest
Improperly
Policy
Magistrate
33. 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.
3100
Serving
Executive
Accountability
34. The first ___ amendments of the Constitution are commonly called the Bill of Rights and offer the individual considerable protection in the criminal justice system.
Illegally
Education
Ten
Forfeited
35. 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.
Without
FBI
Policy
Forfeited
36. The CIA is divided into 3 ____________ and 5 mission support offices (MSOs).
3100
Incidents
Directorates
Investigations
37. The 1980s and 1990s saw the creation of _______ oversight of police groups to monitor or investigate complaints by individuals against police actions.
Sober
Citizen
Mentally
Sheriff
38. 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.
Collateral
Unqualified
Smaller
Real problem
39. Officers are allocated to specific shifts and patrol areas based on _________ or using a rotation system.
Age
Covert
Patrol
Seniority
40. Another word for uphold is _________. This is the result for most appellate court decisions whereby they confirm the decision of the lower court.
Reaffirm
Policy
Patrol
Technology
41. Their perception of the amount of danger faced in their jobs results in the development of constant __________ of people
Adversarial
UCR
Justice
Suspicion
42. 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 ______.
Improve
Sober
Patrol
Organized
43. It can be argued that __________ officers possess an additional skill and therefore the extra pay can be justified on those grounds.
Bilingual
Black
Magistrate
Response
44. The Supreme Court created a good faith exception to the exclusionary rule when police officers use search warrants (US v. ____ - 1984).
Qualified
Election
Leon
UCR
45. It is believed that the average citizen plays a vital part in the ________________ of officers.
Protect
Education
Organized
Accountability
46. The UCR has a hierarchy rule whereby multiple types of incidents can only be recorded as 1 incident. This is a _________ of the system.
Police
Transit
Drawback
Illegally
47. Deterrence prevents crime through using an example or threat of ___________ to persuade the public against committing the crime.
Illegal
Organized
Punishment
Subculture
48. A critical function that the police play in society is crime __________ and this role is primarily executed through routine patrolling.
Prevention
Blind
Same time
Directorates
49. 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.
Foreign
Writ
Drawback
Disturbance
50. The police ___________ of secrecy - public hostility and solidarity meant they were very isolated from the community - especially the black community.
Community
Subculture
Collateral
Good-faith