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DSST Introduction To Law Enforcement

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. This is one of the reports produced by the FBI in its law _____________ role.






2. 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






3. 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 __________.






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






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






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






7. 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.






8. 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.






9. 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






10. The Uniform Crime Reports (UCR) is an annualized report published by the ___ that states the statistical rate of reported crime in the US based on data from police reports.






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






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






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






15. 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.






16. 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.






17. 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.






18. Domestic violence must be distinguished from a domestic ___________ in the sense that in the former a serious crime has been committed and so the officers can exercise their powers of arrest - if they choose to do so although research shows that offi






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






20. 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.






21. This has resulted in an under ________________ of blacks - women and ethnic minorities in the police force.






22. 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.






23. When called to attend to a non-crime incident - the police have to exercise discretion and can usually handle the situation _______ taking formal police action.






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






25. 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.






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






27. Wilson believed in the necessity to continue and encourage _____________________ within the police force. He was the chief of police in Wichita from 1928 to 1935 - the Dean of Criminology at the University of California from 1950 to 1960 and the supe






28. The courts of general jurisdiction utilize a fact-finding foundation known as the ___________ process which pits the State's interest - as represented by the prosecution against the Defendant's - as represented by defense counsel.






29. 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.






30. 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.






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






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






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






34. 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






35. According to the doctrine of ______ patriae - the state has a duty to care for children who are neglected or delinquent - and to assume the role of parent if necessary.






36. 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.






37. 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.






38. Due to an increase in _________ and disorder by citizens - officers turned to weaponry to protect themselves.






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






40. 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 _






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






42. A limited amount of streetwalking is tolerated if it is restricted to a particular part of town - usually a business district and it is not too ________.






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






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






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






46. 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.






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






48. In 1837 - the slave patrol consisted of about 100 officers and they were responsible for finding ________ slaves and ensuring that they were well-behaved.






49. 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.






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