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DSST Introduction To Law Enforcement
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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 _________.
Technology
Wiretaps
Vollmer
Activity
2. 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 __________.
Improperly
Heart
Increase
Forfeited
3. In order to police __________ crimes - officers generally have to resort to undercover work.
Consent
Victimless
Sober
Collateral
4. 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
Without
Communities
Federal
5. The rise of police professionalism and reform was spearheaded by August _______ who served as the chief of police in Berkeley - California from 1905 to 1932.
Vollmer
Warrant
Bribes
Education
6. When considering detective productivity and _____________ - more important than the number of arrests is the quality of those arrests.
Reports
Bribes
Effectiveness
Directorates
7. The county level of government supplies citizens with police services - for example the county ________.
Safe
Sheriff
Self
Pendleton
8. By dealing with the underlying issues - for example mental health or financial service problems - then a solution may be found to get them off the street and back into a more ___________ existence.
Covert
Mainstream
Fragmented
Forfeited
9. The 911 communications center is the _____ of a modern police department.
Mainstream
Imprisonment
UCR
Heart
10. 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.
Sober
Communities
Policy
Graduate
11. 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
Suspicion
Community
Drunk
Directorates
12. Apart from police corruption - another form of police deviance is ____________ deviance.
Improve
Drunk
Patrol
Occupational
13. The police ___________ of secrecy - public hostility and solidarity meant they were very isolated from the community - especially the black community.
Reports
Bilingual
Subculture
UCR
14. Officers appointed to carry out investigative work are known as __________.
Victimless
Drunk
Patrol
Detectives
15. 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.
Supreme Court
Patrol
Posses
Age
16. 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.
Improve
Justice
Uphold
Copies
17. The UCR statistics are used to create the FBI Crime Clock which creates a picture of crime _________ in the US.
Drawback
Frequency
State
Prohibit
18. 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.
Executive
Patrol
Enabled
Uphold
19. 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.
Special
Drawback
Uphold
Suspicion
20. A critical function that the police play in society is crime __________ and this role is primarily executed through routine patrolling.
Prevention
Rarely
Outside
Violent
21. There are around _____ federal - state and local law enforcement agencies in the US.
Guns
Improperly
17000
Ten
22. Apart from reducing crime - the mission of community policing is to _______ the trend of the negative public perception of the police
Pendleton
Reverse
Rabinowitz
Enforcement
23. The CID within the FBI is responsible for organized crime - violent crime - ____________ and money laundering.
Activity
Wiretaps
Racketeering
Wilson
24. The number of homeless people in the US has spiraled upwards in the last 2 decades so that the function of the police in dealing with them is shifting from one of containment and peacekeeping to the delivery of proactive strategies to deal with the _
Collateral
Education
Real problem
Reduced
25. This is one of the reports produced by the FBI in its law _____________ role.
Enforcement
Improperly
Drawback
Copies
26. 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
Investigations
Highly
Escobedo
Election
27. The police receive a sizeable number of calls about ________ ill persons and in exercising their discretion these matters are normally dealt with through arrest - hospitalization or informal disposition.
Leon
Pendleton
Mentally
Organized
28. 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.
Pendleton
Self
Consecutive
Lawfully
29. 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
Supreme Court
Mainstream
Escobedo
Imprisonment
30. The 3 CIA directorates are the directorate of Intelligence - directorate of Operations and the directorate of Science and ___________.
Valid
Poor
Technology
Suspicion
31. Decentralization means reduced _____________ of rank and file officers who have greater discretion in making decisions.
Supervision
Jury
Copies
Mainstream
32. 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 ______.
Communities
Sober
Drawback
Qualified
33. The Supreme Court created a good faith exception to the exclusionary rule when police officers use search warrants (US v. ____ - 1984).
Leon
Subculture
Response
Wilson
34. J Edgar ______ - the Director of the FBI in the 1930s had a critical impact on local policing in setting educational and training models for officers - the development of the Uniform Crime Reports (UCR) and the establishment of the FBI crime lab.
Jury
Hoover
Danger
Sheriff
35. 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.
Sheriff
Forfeited
Feedback
Victimless
36. According to the doctrine of ______ patriae - the state has a duty to care for children who are neglected or delinquent - and to assume the role of parent if necessary.
Incidents
Parens
Frequency
Communities
37. 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
Suspicion
Reaffirm
NCVS
Reduced
38. The next most critical factor that impacts on PCR after race and ethnicity is ___.
Partnership
Age
Serving
Annually
39. The most organized and distinctly American officer force was the _____ patrol based in Charleston - South Carolina.
NCVS
Fragmented
Slave
Detectives
40. This is widely recognized as a police role - though they do share the burden with other institutions such as schools and _____________.
Breached
Communities
Security
Covert
41. This was the bright-line rule (one that can ______ be crossed) that emerged from this case.
Never
Sheriff
4th
Punishment
42. 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.
UCR
Black
National
Security
43. This is training in relation to _____________ rules and was spurred by the decisions of the US Supreme Court in the 1960s.
Bribes
Federal
Due process
4th
44. 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.
Illegally
Same time
Real problem
Reports
45. Research has revealed that in about 80% of such situations - no formal action - such as _______ was necessary.
Arrest
Organized
Decentralization
Runaway
46. 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.
Procedure
Death
Copies
Cooperation
47. Bail describes the circumstance when suspects are released from custody but on condition that money or property is offered as __________ against flight.
Forfeited
Professionalization
Collateral
Patrol
48. 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.
Parens
FBI
Victimization
Poor
49. The local police cover a wide range of law enforcement agencies such as the municipal police - sheriff's departments - campus and _______ police.
Previous
Transit
Protect
Written
50. 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.
Searching
Ten
Representation
Incidents