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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. This is to ensure that ___________ with the administrative rules is maintained.






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






3. 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.






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






5. 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 __________.






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






7. Affirmative action is mandated by a Presidential _________ Order in 1965 - so that all private employers and government agencies who receive federal monies have to develop written affirmative action plans.






8. 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 ________.






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






10. The exclusionary rule was modified by the __________ exception in the US Supreme Court decision of US v. Leon (1984).






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






12. 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.






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






14. Ballistics is the scientific _________ of firearms - ammunition - projectiles - bombs and explosives.






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






16. The police receive a sizeable number of calls about ________ ill persons and in exercising their discretion these matters are normally dealt with through arrest - hospitalization or informal disposition.






17. 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.






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






19. 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.






20. Officers are commonly offered bribes to let suspects go or to turn a blind eye to ________ activities.






21. 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






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






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






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






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






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






27. The CID within the FBI is responsible for organized crime - violent crime - ____________ and money laundering.






28. 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.






29. 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.






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






31. The most organized and distinctly American officer force was the _____ patrol based in Charleston - South Carolina.






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.






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






34. ____ did not become regulated officer equipment until the late 19th Century.






35. 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.






36. The 911 communications center is the _____ of a modern police department.






37. 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






38. 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.






39. 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.






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






41. 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.






42. 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.






43. Law enforcement in the US is extremely large and ___________ and hence this many agencies currently exist.






44. Another word for uphold is _________. This is the result for most appellate court decisions whereby they confirm the decision of the lower court.






45. Patrol is meant to reassure citizens that their environment is _____ and protected from crime.






46. Another source of PCR tension is discriminatory employment practices of the ______ force.






47. This was the only way they could ________ themselves and their property from the bandits. They did try to apply the accepted standards of decency of the day to their actions.






48. In 2001 - the US Supreme Court held in Atwater v. Lago Vista that the 4th amendment did not ________ warrantless arrests for minor offenses.






49. 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






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