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DSST Introduction To Law Enforcement
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1. The most organized and distinctly American officer force was the _____ patrol based in Charleston - South Carolina.
Procedure
Community
Slave
Parens
2. The 1980s and 1990s saw the creation of _______ oversight of police groups to monitor or investigate complaints by individuals against police actions.
NCVS
Citizen
Reports
Transit
3. 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.
Victimization
Pendleton
Sheriff
4th
4. This was the step taken in 1965 to remedy _________ discrimination.
Feedback
Compliance
Warrant
Previous
5. ____ did not become regulated officer equipment until the late 19th Century.
Academies
Bureaucracy
Black
Guns
6. Domestic disturbances may be fuelled by alcohol and drug abuse - financial difficulties or many other reasons that are beyond the ________ of the officers.
Control
Protect
Bribes
Prevention
7. The evidence had to be plainly in sight and even though the officers may have concluded that some items may have been located behind the ceiling panel; it was not in plain view and hence was ______________ as evidence. Furthermore - the officers are
Dangerous
Special
Response
Inadmissible
8. Domestic disturbances are a common order maintenance issue handled by the police but officers generally find them frustrating to handle because there is little that they can do about the _____ of the problem.
Without
Cause
Copies
Bargain
9. The police ___________ of secrecy - public hostility and solidarity meant they were very isolated from the community - especially the black community.
Subculture
Runaway
Poor
Leon
10. The FBI has the responsibility to investigate - analyze and neutralize any potential terrorist threats and to investigate and analyze terrorist __________ in the US.
Procedures
Sheriff
Response
Incidents
11. The first landmark case that forms the foundation of the exclusionary rule is the US Supreme court decision of _____ v US (1914).
Weeks
Classroom
Communities
Education
12. 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.
Danger
Copies
Posses
Imprisonment
13. Sheriff departments are usually responsible for _______ court papers - civil summons - and managing security in state courtrooms.
Ten
3100
Serving
Death
14. Campus police is probably the most important example of the special district police force. The also participate in the ____ program.
UCR
Bureaucracy
Election
Technology
15. A concurrent sentence is one that is served at the __________ as another sentence.
Vollmer
Cooperation
Same time
Wilson
16. 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.
Partnership
Sheriff
Response
Qualified
17. Law enforcement in the US is extremely large and ___________ and hence this many agencies currently exist.
Attrition
National
Increase
Fragmented
18. 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.
Fragmented
Analysis
Vollmer
Drunk
19. Officers appointed to carry out investigative work are known as __________.
Detectives
Response
Professionalization
Organized
20. 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
Analysis
Policy
4th
Sheriff
21. These experts contend that officers do not have the authority to subvert the criminal law. Some states have criminalized the failure of criminal justice officials who turn a ______ eye to enforcement.
4th
Weeks
Incidents
Blind
22. 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.
Pendleton
Bribes
Decentralization
Prevention
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.
Without
Response
Arrest
Supreme Court
24. 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.
Procedure
Analysis
Posse
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 ________.
Mainstream
Representation
Bargain
Obvious
26. The UCR statistics are used to create the FBI Crime Clock which creates a picture of crime _________ in the US.
UCR
Frequency
Executions
Accident
27. 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
Executive
Containment
Improperly
Attrition
28. 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.
Blind
Pendleton
Outside
Posse
29. The 911 communications center is the _____ of a modern police department.
Runaway
Transit
Punishment
Heart
30. Research has revealed that in about 80% of such situations - no formal action - such as _______ was necessary.
Patrol
Parens
Arrest
Runaway
31. 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.
Compliance
Limitations
Inadmissible
Reports
32. 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.
Sheriff
Forfeited
Containment
Cooperation
33. 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
Decentralization
Vollmer
Disturbance
Security
34. A warrant is a _____ issued by the court to justify the arrest of a suspect. It offers protection to the officer executing the warrant against damages; for example for wrongful arrest.
Writ
Violence
Danger
Crime
35. Apart from reducing crime - the mission of community policing is to _______ the trend of the negative public perception of the police
Reverse
Justice
Policy
Procedure
36. Plea bargains avoid an expensive court trial. Prosecutors may offer and defendants may accept a bargained plea to avoid the uncertainty of a jury trial. In many cases - the Defendant agrees to plead guilty to a lesser charge or for a ________ sentenc
Reduced
Cause
Without
Rarely
37. 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.
Executions
Consent
UCR
Adversarial
38. 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.
Rabinowitz
Special
Victimization
Drawback
39. 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.
Younger
Bribes
National
Illegal
40. 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
Response
Racial
Self
Partnership
41. 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.
Lawfully
Executions
Violent
Parens
42. 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 ______.
Sober
Procedure
Administrative
Victimless
43. 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
Protect
Racketeering
Professionalization
Smaller
44. 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
Disturbance
Accountability
Seniority
Writ
45. 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 _______.
Reaffirm
Justice
Fragmented
Younger
46. The CIA has operations officers and recruits ________ agents as part of their intelligence activities and this may involve covert operations.
Foreign
Outside
Consecutive
Procedures
47. By dealing with the underlying issues - for example mental health or financial service problems - then a solution may be found to get them off the street and back into a more ___________ existence.
Representation
Technology
Attrition
Mainstream
48. Between the data in the UCR and NCVS - most experts tend to prefer the ____.
Vollmer
Good-faith
Annually
NCVS
49. Individuals have the right to live in their homes peacefully and not be subjected to unreasonable searches and seizures by virtue of the ___ amendment.
UCR
Arrest
4th
Writ
50. This was the bright-line rule (one that can ______ be crossed) that emerged from this case.
Lawfully
Guns
Never
Death