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DSST Introduction To Law Enforcement
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. There is usually a degree of competition between detectives and _______ officers. The latter sometimes withhold information in the hope of beating detectives to solving a case.
Guns
Investigations
Control
Patrol
2. 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
Guns
Magistrate
Accident
3. This is the venue for police training and the value of training has experienced a dramatic _________ in status since its inception.
Transit
Detectives
Enforcement
Increase
4. This is widely recognized as a police role - though they do share the burden with other institutions such as schools and _____________.
Mainstream
Illegally
Communities
Due process
5. Individuals have the right to live in their homes peacefully and not be subjected to unreasonable searches and seizures by virtue of the ___ amendment.
Heart
17000
Reaffirm
4th
6. 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 ______.
Containment
Sheriff
Sober
Victimless
7. Officers appointed to carry out investigative work are known as __________.
Detectives
Reports
Legitimate
Younger
8. The CID within the FBI is responsible for organized crime - violent crime - ____________ and money laundering.
Racketeering
Covert
Election
Reports
9. This is the term coined to describe this diagrammatic representation. It differentiates between ________ crimes such as murder and rape and property crime such as burglary and arson.
Reaffirm
Accountability
Inadmissible
Violent
10. This was the step taken in 1965 to remedy _________ discrimination.
Previous
Graduate
4th
Prevention
11. 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.
Imprisonment
Qualified
Rabinowitz
FBI
12. Deterrence prevents crime through using an example or threat of ___________ to persuade the public against committing the crime.
Academies
3100
Punishment
Executions
13. In serious cases - this may be the outcome. However - hospital care for the mentally ill is very disjointed and it may be difficult to hospitalize a person without their ________. Also - these hospitals or shelters may refuse to admit these patients.
Consent
Occupational
Searching
Election
14. The first landmark case that forms the foundation of the exclusionary rule is the US Supreme court decision of _____ v US (1914).
Prevention
Weeks
Ten
Heart
15. 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.
Adversarial
Jury
Cause
Guns
16. The UCR has a hierarchy rule whereby multiple types of incidents can only be recorded as 1 incident. This is a _________ of the system.
Drawback
Rabinowitz
Racketeering
Cooperation
17. 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
Guns
Valid
Policy
Investigations
18. This is one of the reports produced by the FBI in its law _____________ role.
Enforcement
Bargain
Election
Same time
19. This is training in relation to _____________ rules and was spurred by the decisions of the US Supreme Court in the 1960s.
Suspicion
Limitations
Due process
Consecutive
20. 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
Organized
Wilson
Policy
Illegally
21. The role of the police academy is to provide formal training - root out ___________ recruits and immerse the trainees in the police subculture.
Bureaucracy
Unqualified
Technology
Security
22. Where offenders are not captured red-handed - an arrest _______ issued by an officer of the court is required to supply the legal foundation for the act of detention.
Warrant
Response
Patrol
Pay
23. The local police cover a wide range of law enforcement agencies such as the municipal police - sheriff's departments - campus and _______ police.
Investigations
Compliance
Transit
Medical
24. 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.
Administrative
Younger
Organized
Victimless
25. 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
Without
FBI
Improperly
Procedure
26. This was the ruling of the court. Many commentators were surprised but the court decided that although arrest for trivial offences (in this case a seat belt violation) may be embarrassing - it was not so extraordinary as to breach the ____ amendment
Poor
Searching
Valid
4th
27. The rights of the accused (and of prisoners) have been defined mostly through the _______________'s interpretation of the Bill of Rights.
Adversarial
Valid
Supreme Court
Heart
28. When considering detective productivity and _____________ - more important than the number of arrests is the quality of those arrests.
Ballistics
Effectiveness
Graduate
Bribes
29. Some departments allow for bidding of new patrol areas once or twice _________.
Response
Rarely
Mentally
Annually
30. Decentralization means reduced _____________ of rank and file officers who have greater discretion in making decisions.
Supervision
Black
Technology
Organized
31. 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 __________.
Serving
Prevention
Accident
Collateral
32. When it comes to prostitution - low-level street-walking is usually tolerated so that the role of the police is normally ___________ and maintaining the peace.
Safe
Containment
Accident
State
33. 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
FBI
Valid
Heart
Breached
34. This has resulted in an under ________________ of blacks - women and ethnic minorities in the police force.
Illegally
Covert
Representation
Fragmented
35. The 3 main approaches to controlling police discretion are removing it - improving the professional judgment of officers through better training and managing it through _______ policies.
Frequency
Written
Prohibit
Ten
36. 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
Increase
Drunk
Reverse
Ten
37. 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.
Danger
Without
Previous
Forfeited
38. 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.
Punishment
Consecutive
Writ
Dangerous
39. The 3 CIA directorates are the directorate of Intelligence - directorate of Operations and the directorate of Science and ___________.
Technology
Racketeering
Bilingual
Consecutive
40. The next most critical factor that impacts on PCR after race and ethnicity is ___.
Age
Cooperation
Attrition
Jury
41. 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
Decentralization
Written
Searching
Racketeering
42. 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
Imprisonment
Partnership
Outside
4th
43. This occurs where criminal and non-criminal actions are used by an officer in the course of his/her working activities or committed when pretending it is within his/her ___________ police authority. An example is sleeping on the job or a racial slur
Forfeited
Mentally
Legitimate
Response
44. 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.
Violence
Organized
Violent
Reverse
45. Prospective police officers are trained at police _________ - with the average pre-service training program lasting about 1000 hours.
Age
Patrol
Hoover
Academies
46. The first ___ amendments of the Constitution are commonly called the Bill of Rights and offer the individual considerable protection in the criminal justice system.
Warrant
Magistrate
Ten
Lawfully
47. In 1837 - the slave patrol consisted of about 100 officers and they were responsible for finding ________ slaves and ensuring that they were well-behaved.
Runaway
Slow
Pay
Illegally
48. They believe that _____-reporting provides more accurate information than police reports.
Policy
Vollmer
Covert
Self
49. There are around _____ federal - state and local law enforcement agencies in the US.
17000
Victimization
Black
Police
50. This is the way criminal trials are conducted in the US and it is governed by strict rules of __________.
Consent
Analysis
Procedure
Slow