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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. In 1837 - the slave patrol consisted of about 100 officers and they were responsible for finding ________ slaves and ensuring that they were well-behaved.






2. Some legal experts believe that police discretion should be abolished because it is _______.






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






5. Their perception of the amount of danger faced in their jobs results in the development of constant __________ of people






6. Citizen ______ and vigilante groups were the main means of policing the frontier and well-known figures who took up this challenge in the 19th Century include Wild Bill Hickok and Wyatt Earp.






7. When the offender was apprehended by the posse - trials were rarely held and public __________ were held to dispense justice.






8. Prospective police officers are trained at police _________ - with the average pre-service training program lasting about 1000 hours.






9. 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.






10. There are around _____ federal - state and local law enforcement agencies in the US.






11. Officers appointed to carry out investigative work are known as __________.






12. In US v. __________ (1950) - the US Supreme Court ruled that a warrantless search upon a lawful arrest was permitted as long as it was reasonable given the circumstances.






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






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






15. Due to an increase in _________ and disorder by citizens - officers turned to weaponry to protect themselves.






16. This describes the Pendleton Act. This was a big step in the government becoming the huge _____________ it is today.






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






18. Racial profiling is the practice of stopping and or __________ a person not because of any suspected criminal activity but because of that person's race.






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






20. 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.






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






22. 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.






23. 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.






24. The _________ Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS)is the term coined for this annual study.






25. 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.






26. This is training in relation to _____________ rules and was spurred by the decisions of the US Supreme Court in the 1960s.






27. This was the bright-line rule (one that can ______ be crossed) that emerged from this case.






28. Some departments allow for bidding of new patrol areas once or twice _________.






29. 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.






30. This is the way criminal trials are conducted in the US and it is governed by strict rules of __________.






31. The first landmark case that forms the foundation of the exclusionary rule is the US Supreme court decision of _____ v US (1914).






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






33. The _________ Act passed by Congress in 1883 put an end to Andrew Jackson's 'spoils system -' and created a system of hiring government employees based on their qualifications.






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






35. 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.






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






37. There are over _____ sheriff's departments in the US.






38. 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.






39. 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.






40. 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.






41. Since these crimes are usually not reported - in order to discover them - undercover work using devices such as _________ are utilized.






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






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






44. The NCVS Survey is a yearly study by the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) of specific households to determine the level of criminal _____________ - particularly unreported victimization - in the US.






45. This is to ensure that ___________ with the administrative rules is maintained.






46. The rights of the accused (and of prisoners) have been defined mostly through the _______________'s interpretation of the Bill of Rights.






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






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






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






50. 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