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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 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.






2. 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






3. Parens patriae is Latin for 'the ______ as parent'.






4. 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






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






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






7. 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.






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.






9. 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.






10. In dealing with federal criminal law enforcement - the duty of the FBI upon investigation is to gather evidence and perform personnel investigations - especially in major programs such as _________ crime and white-collar crime.






11. A concurrent sentence is one that is served at the __________ as another sentence.






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






13. 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






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






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






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






17. Another word for uphold is _________. This is the result for most appellate court decisions whereby they confirm the decision of the lower court.






18. The first ___ amendments to the Constitution are called the Bill of Rights. They were created to restrict government actions against the individual.






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






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






21. 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.






22. The 1980s and 1990s saw the creation of _______ oversight of police groups to monitor or investigate complaints by individuals against police actions.






23. The office of coroner is considered a local law enforcement agency because they determine the cause of _____ of victims and perpetrators in criminal cases.






24. When an appellate court is asked to review a judgment - they may ______ it - require the lower court to set it aside or modify it.






25. 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






26. This is the venue for police training and the value of training has experienced a dramatic _________ in status since its inception.






27. Decentralization means reduced _____________ of rank and file officers who have greater discretion in making decisions.






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.






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






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






31. 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.






32. 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






33. 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.






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






35. 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.






36. 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.






37. In this case - the Defendants were suspected of evading taxes but they refused to hand over their company books. An illegal search and seizure was performed and the books returned soon after - when the Defendant's lawyer objected. At the trial - the






38. 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.






39. There is no _________ method of centralized policing in the US as police services are provided by the 4 levels of government which are the city - county - state and federal levels.






40. 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.






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






42. 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.






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






44. 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 __________.






45. This is widely recognized as a police role - though they do share the burden with other institutions such as schools and _____________.






46. This is one of the reports produced by the FBI in its law _____________ role.






47. In 2001 - the US Supreme Court held in Atwater v. Lago Vista that the 4th amendment did not ________ warrantless arrests for minor offenses.






48. 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 __________.






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






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