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DSST Introduction To Law Enforcement

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The CIA is divided into 3 ____________ and 5 mission support offices (MSOs).






2. The majority of criminal cases do not go to trial but are instead settled via a plea _______.






3. 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






4. 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.






5. The UCR has a hierarchy rule whereby multiple types of incidents can only be recorded as 1 incident. This is a _________ of the system.






6. 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.






7. 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.






8. 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.






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






10. The police ___________ of secrecy - public hostility and solidarity meant they were very isolated from the community - especially the black community.






11. This may also be called '________ officer.' The investigative nature of their jobs has resulted in their classification as a local law enforcement agency.






12. 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.






13. Organized law enforcement in Britain can be traced back to 1200 AD when identified law breakers were pursued by a _____ led by the shire reeve or mounted officer.






14. The CID within the FBI is responsible for organized crime - violent crime - ____________ and money laundering.






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






16. ____ did not become regulated officer equipment until the late 19th Century.






17. 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






18. 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






19. 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.






20. The drawbacks of the administrative rule-making route are that they can never cover every conceivable situation; it may promote lying - avoidance - confusion and a negative ________ from officers.






21. 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.






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






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






24. They believe that _____-reporting provides more accurate information than police reports.






25. Another source of PCR tension is discriminatory employment practices of the ______ force.






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






27. 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 _






28. 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.






29. This is due to the dominance of the local political structure by ______ persons. Detroit has had a black mayor since 1973 and the police force is dominated by black persons. Thus - the black community can better relate with their local police






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






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






32. The exclusionary rule was extended by the US Supreme Court in the case of Silverthorne Lumber Co. v. US (1920) - which held that ______ of illegally seized evidence were inadmissible in court.






33. 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 __________.






34. The CIA has operations officers and recruits ________ agents as part of their intelligence activities and this may involve covert operations.






35. 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.






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






37. 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.






38. 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.






39. 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.






40. 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






41. The CIA also engages in ______ operations sanctioned by the President as part of their role in ensuring national security.






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






43. 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.






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






45. It can be argued that __________ officers possess an additional skill and therefore the extra pay can be justified on those grounds.






46. Officers at the academy undergo _________ training and most academies also offer field training.






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






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






49. 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






50. 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