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DSST Introduction To Law Enforcement
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Their perception of the amount of danger faced in their jobs results in the development of constant __________ of people
17000
Warrant
Real problem
Suspicion
2. The professionalization movement started by Vollmer was nurtured by his prot
Professionalization
Executions
Wilson
Bilingual
3. The 911 communications center is the _____ of a modern police department.
Heart
Mentally
Sober
Weeks
4. 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
Legitimate
Executive
Protect
Directorates
5. 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.
Covert
Illegally
Representation
Slow
6. 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.
Enforcement
Reduced
Violent
Obvious
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
Improperly
Protect
Transit
Control
8. The next most critical factor that impacts on PCR after race and ethnicity is ___.
Drawback
Containment
Breached
Age
9. This is to ensure that ___________ with the administrative rules is maintained.
Organized
Justice
Compliance
Professionalization
10. 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.
Searching
Rabinowitz
FBI
Without
11. 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.
Procedures
4th
Reports
Response
12. 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.
Violence
Slave
Warrant
Improperly
13. The Supreme Court created a good faith exception to the exclusionary rule when police officers use search warrants (US v. ____ - 1984).
Leon
Limitations
National
Posse
14. 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
Posses
Vollmer
Subculture
15. The county level of government supplies citizens with police services - for example the county ________.
Limitations
Seniority
Sheriff
Ten
16. Patrol is meant to reassure citizens that their environment is _____ and protected from crime.
Safe
UCR
Writ
Sheriff
17. This describes the Pendleton Act. This was a big step in the government becoming the huge _____________ it is today.
Prohibit
Bureaucracy
Federal
Pay
18. The police ___________ of secrecy - public hostility and solidarity meant they were very isolated from the community - especially the black community.
Control
Runaway
Supervision
Subculture
19. 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.
Partnership
Victimless
Real problem
Pendleton
20. Ballistics is the scientific _________ of firearms - ammunition - projectiles - bombs and explosives.
Analysis
Patrol
Breached
Rabinowitz
21. The majority of criminal cases do not go to trial but are instead settled via a plea _______.
Bargain
NCVS
Academies
Prevention
22. 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
Professionalization
National
Lawfully
Executive
23. Sheriff departments are usually responsible for _______ court papers - civil summons - and managing security in state courtrooms.
Organized
Sheriff
Serving
Rabinowitz
24. August Vollmer believed that policing standards needed to be improved and corruption stamped out. He advocated training and __________ for officers.
Analysis
Education
Federal
Copies
25. 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 ________.
Transit
Obvious
Attrition
Representation
26. 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
Drunk
Crime
Age
Procedures
27. 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.
Containment
Ten
Runaway
Seniority
28. 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
Searching
Analysis
Breached
Accountability
29. This is one of the reports produced by the FBI in its law _____________ role.
Enforcement
Attrition
Written
Sheriff
30. Some departments allow for bidding of new patrol areas once or twice _________.
Highly
Reaffirm
Annually
Victimless
31. J Edgar ______ - the Director of the FBI in the 1930s had a critical impact on local policing in setting educational and training models for officers - the development of the Uniform Crime Reports (UCR) and the establishment of the FBI crime lab.
Accident
Accountability
Weeks
Hoover
32. 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.
Never
Frequency
Lawfully
Los Angeles
33. 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 _
Real problem
Supervision
Pay
Posses
34. 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.
Federal
Protect
Occupational
Blind
35. 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.
Citizen
Legitimate
Posse
Slave
36. The first landmark case that forms the foundation of the exclusionary rule is the US Supreme court decision of _____ v US (1914).
Foreign
Weeks
Wiretaps
National
37. 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.
Organized
Violence
Analysis
Reports
38. The CIA also engages in ______ operations sanctioned by the President as part of their role in ensuring national security.
3100
Wilson
Safe
Covert
39. When a 911 call comes in - the operator answers it - makes a decision whether to send out a patrol car and then informs the dispatcher who then communicates the details to the ______ officer.
Prevention
Organized
17000
Patrol
40. 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
Younger
Disturbance
FBI
Collateral
41. 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 _______.
Wiretaps
Justice
Racial
Graduate
42. Domestic disturbances may be fuelled by alcohol and drug abuse - financial difficulties or many other reasons that are beyond the ________ of the officers.
Ten
Prevention
Control
Imprisonment
43. Bail describes the circumstance when suspects are released from custody but on condition that money or property is offered as __________ against flight.
Safe
Supervision
Collateral
Mainstream
44. Law enforcement in the US is extremely large and ___________ and hence this many agencies currently exist.
Disturbance
Increase
Fragmented
Safe
45. The NCVS Survey is a yearly study by the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) of specific households to determine the level of criminal _____________ - particularly unreported victimization - in the US.
17000
Los Angeles
Imprisonment
Victimization
46. 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
Mainstream
Posse
Valid
Pay
47. The office of coroner is considered a local law enforcement agency because they determine the cause of _____ of victims and perpetrators in criminal cases.
Ten
Reduced
Death
Citizen
48. The local police cover a wide range of law enforcement agencies such as the municipal police - sheriff's departments - campus and _______ police.
Limitations
Disturbance
Education
Transit
49. 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.
Wiretaps
Professionalization
Dangerous
Partnership
50. A critical function that the police play in society is crime __________ and this role is primarily executed through routine patrolling.
Same time
Prevention
Runaway
Protect