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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. 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 _________.






2. 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






3. 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.






4. 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.






5. August Vollmer believed that policing standards needed to be improved and corruption stamped out. He advocated training and __________ for officers.






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






7. Research into police work and activities conducted between the 1950s and 1970s concluded that police-community relations were very ____ and officers regularly breached legal rules






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






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






10. 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.






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






12. 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






13. The first ___ amendments of the Constitution are commonly called the Bill of Rights and offer the individual considerable protection in the criminal justice system.






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






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






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






17. 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.






18. 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.






19. 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.






20. 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 ______.






21. The nature of police work also promotes deviant activities because officers are often offered ______ - they are regularly unsupervised and so think they can get away with it and fed on a diet of illegality may succumb to criminality too.






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






23. 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.






24. The spoils system refers to firing supporters of the opponent and replacing them with one's own supporters upon ________.






25. A critical function that the police play in society is crime __________ and this role is primarily executed through routine patrolling.






26. 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.






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






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






29. 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.






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






31. 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.






32. When considering detective productivity and _____________ - more important than the number of arrests is the quality of those arrests.






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






34. 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.






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






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






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






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






39. The controversial 'broken window' theory made the connection between disorder - neighborhood decay and _____.






40. 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






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






42. 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






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






44. 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.






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






46. 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.






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






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






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