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DSST Introduction To Law Enforcement
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The CIA has operations officers and recruits ________ agents as part of their intelligence activities and this may involve covert operations.
Foreign
Organized
Covert
Runaway
2. 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
Reports
Partnership
Real problem
Decentralization
3. August Vollmer believed that policing standards needed to be improved and corruption stamped out. He advocated training and __________ for officers.
Weeks
Education
Escobedo
Special
4. In the 1950s training for police officers consisted mainly of firearm skill development but over the years - classroom training has emphasized criminal __________.
Subculture
Procedures
Wilson
Dangerous
5. 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
Victimization
Breached
Due process
6. 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 _________.
Leon
Activity
Jury
UCR
7. 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.
Runaway
Parens
Age
Imprisonment
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.
Prohibit
Copies
Qualified
Cause
9. The 3 purposes of patrol are to deter crime - increase feelings of public ________ and prepare officers for service through effective dispersal in the neighborhood.
Security
Prevention
Real problem
Supreme Court
10. 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.
Posse
Subculture
Organized
Real problem
11. This describes the Pendleton Act. This was a big step in the government becoming the huge _____________ it is today.
Arrest
Bureaucracy
Detectives
Community
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.
Rabinowitz
Warrant
Enabled
Containment
13. 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.
Arrest
Consent
Sheriff
Slave
14. The CIA also engages in ______ operations sanctioned by the President as part of their role in ensuring national security.
State
Drawback
Supervision
Covert
15. 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.
Prohibit
Without
UCR
Collateral
16. 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.
Investigations
Ten
Executive
Due process
17. 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
Directorates
Searching
Police
Valid
18. This is training in relation to _____________ rules and was spurred by the decisions of the US Supreme Court in the 1960s.
Security
Detectives
4th
Due process
19. The controversial 'broken window' theory made the connection between disorder - neighborhood decay and _____.
Black
Serving
Crime
Prevention
20. Officers are allocated to specific shifts and patrol areas based on _________ or using a rotation system.
Violent
Poor
Education
Seniority
21. 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 _______.
Suspicion
Justice
Covert
Racketeering
22. This is the way criminal trials are conducted in the US and it is governed by strict rules of __________.
Sheriff
Incidents
Los Angeles
Procedure
23. 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.
Classroom
Election
Hoover
Partnership
24. 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.
Organized
Foreign
Qualified
Consecutive
25. 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.
Age
Compliance
Cooperation
Professionalization
26. This is the venue for police training and the value of training has experienced a dramatic _________ in status since its inception.
UCR
UCR
Increase
Illegally
27. 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.
Suspicion
Violence
Mainstream
Bilingual
28. Training is one of the roles a ______-level enforcement agency usually engages in.
Response
Age
State
Ten
29. It can be argued that __________ officers possess an additional skill and therefore the extra pay can be justified on those grounds.
Black
Election
Enforcement
Bilingual
30. 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
Leon
Unqualified
Accountability
31. Parens patriae is Latin for 'the ______ as parent'.
Outside
Professionalization
State
Collateral
32. 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.
Los Angeles
Copies
Mainstream
FBI
33. 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
Arrest
Organized
Self
34. 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.
National
Outside
Mainstream
Mentally
35. The local police cover a wide range of law enforcement agencies such as the municipal police - sheriff's departments - campus and _______ police.
Illegal
Transit
Annually
Self
36. The majority of criminal cases do not go to trial but are instead settled via a plea _______.
Written
Bargain
Accountability
Self
37. 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.
Consecutive
Crime
Administrative
Containment
38. There was no __________ form of criminal justice law in those days. Guilt was assumed; the execution carried out and accepted by all as an act of retribution.
Organized
Limitations
State
Qualified
39. Some legal experts believe that police discretion should be abolished because it is _______.
Accident
Previous
Illegal
Vollmer
40. This is to ensure that ___________ with the administrative rules is maintained.
Compliance
Magistrate
Pendleton
Frequency
41. Another source of PCR tension is discriminatory employment practices of the ______ force.
Escobedo
Police
FBI
Community
42. When considering detective productivity and _____________ - more important than the number of arrests is the quality of those arrests.
Federal
Effectiveness
Graduate
State
43. The spoils system refers to firing supporters of the opponent and replacing them with one's own supporters upon ________.
Rarely
Election
Activity
Imprisonment
44. Under the ___ system - if last night Jim killed John - then set fire to a car and robbed an old lady - these multiple crimes would be recorded as a single incident.
Age
Control
UCR
Patrol
45. In order to police __________ crimes - officers generally have to resort to undercover work.
Cooperation
Organized
Writ
Victimless
46. Domestic disturbances may be fuelled by alcohol and drug abuse - financial difficulties or many other reasons that are beyond the ________ of the officers.
Black
Activity
Vollmer
Control
47. 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.
Parens
Increase
Community
Feedback
48. 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.
Dangerous
Graduate
Arrest
Rabinowitz
49. 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.
Investigations
Drawback
Organized
3100
50. 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 ______.
Weeks
Attrition
Sober
Dangerous