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DSST Introduction To Law Enforcement

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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.






2. 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






3. 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.






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






5. Training is one of the roles a ______-level enforcement agency usually engages in.






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






7. 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






8. 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.






9. 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.






10. 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






11. 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.






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






13. 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.






14. It is interesting to note that the city of Detroit is the only state in which blacks rate the police force more ______ than their white counterparts.






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






16. Under the 6th Amendment to the Constitution - every defendant has the right to a ____ trial.






17. 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.






18. 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.






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






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






21. It is believed that the average citizen plays a vital part in the ________________ of officers.






22. The FBI has the responsibility to investigate - analyze and neutralize any potential terrorist threats and to investigate and analyze terrorist __________ in the US.






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






24. 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.






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






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






27. In order to police __________ crimes - officers generally have to resort to undercover work.






28. The ATF was previously an organization within the Department of the Treasury but since 24th January 2003 - their agency was transferred to the Department of _______.






29. The _________ Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS)is the term coined for this annual study.






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






31. 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






32. 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.






33. 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






34. When the offender was apprehended by the posse - trials were rarely held and public __________ were held to dispense justice.






35. Some departments allow for bidding of new patrol areas once or twice _________.






36. 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






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






38. 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 _________.






39. Since these crimes are usually not reported - in order to discover them - undercover work using devices such as _________ are utilized.






40. Officers are allocated to specific shifts and patrol areas based on _________ or using a rotation system.






41. 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.






42. Apart from reducing crime - the mission of community policing is to _______ the trend of the negative public perception of the police






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






44. Some police departments may have a separate detective unit with further specialized units such as homicide and vice. ________ ones will have a single department to handle all cases or no department at all.






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






46. 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.






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






48. Deterrence prevents crime through using an example or threat of ___________ to persuade the public against committing the crime.






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






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