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DSST Introduction To Law Enforcement
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1. 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.
Victimization
Unqualified
Illegally
Decentralization
2. Ballistics is the scientific _________ of firearms - ammunition - projectiles - bombs and explosives.
Procedure
Mainstream
Analysis
Communities
3. 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.
Analysis
Justice
Response
Danger
4. 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 _______.
Justice
Hoover
Guns
Seniority
5. The professionalization movement started by Vollmer was nurtured by his prot
Occupational
Writ
Poor
Wilson
6. 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.
Election
Seniority
Organized
Bribes
7. 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.
Younger
Supreme Court
Organized
Cooperation
8. 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
Supreme Court
Partnership
Parens
Containment
9. August Vollmer believed that policing standards needed to be improved and corruption stamped out. He advocated training and __________ for officers.
Education
Response
4th
Executive
10. This is to ensure that ___________ with the administrative rules is maintained.
Reverse
Drawback
Protect
Compliance
11. 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
Black
Illegally
Decentralization
Covert
12. Research into police work and activities conducted between the 1950s and 1970s concluded that police-community relations were very ____ and officers regularly breached legal rules
State
Poor
Same time
Increase
13. 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 ______.
Enforcement
Sheriff
Sober
Police
14. The 3 CIA directorates are the directorate of Intelligence - directorate of Operations and the directorate of Science and ___________.
Activity
Illegal
FBI
Technology
15. 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
Professionalization
Community
Violent
Younger
16. Bail describes the circumstance when suspects are released from custody but on condition that money or property is offered as __________ against flight.
Collateral
Protect
Outside
4th
17. Officers at the academy undergo _________ training and most academies also offer field training.
Bilingual
Posses
Classroom
UCR
18. Law enforcement in the US is extremely large and ___________ and hence this many agencies currently exist.
Death
Activity
Fragmented
Illegal
19. 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.
Sheriff
Los Angeles
Wilson
Classroom
20. 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.
Violent
Protect
Jury
Enabled
21. Since these crimes are usually not reported - in order to discover them - undercover work using devices such as _________ are utilized.
Wiretaps
Legitimate
Warrant
Black
22. 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.
Blind
Mainstream
Organized
Ten
23. 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.
Smaller
Patrol
Due process
Writ
24. 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.
Suspicion
Highly
Citizen
Slow
25. 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.
Racketeering
Police
Qualified
Vollmer
26. Apart from police corruption - another form of police deviance is ____________ deviance.
Transit
Jury
Administrative
Occupational
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
Runaway
Bureaucracy
Partnership
Professionalization
28. 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.
Enabled
Rabinowitz
Forfeited
Increase
29. They believe that _____-reporting provides more accurate information than police reports.
Police
Violent
Self
Activity
30. 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.
Activity
Searching
Enabled
Heart
31. This is widely recognized as a police role - though they do share the burden with other institutions such as schools and _____________.
Directorates
Poor
Communities
Response
32. Training is one of the roles a ______-level enforcement agency usually engages in.
Policy
State
Forfeited
Organized
33. This is training in relation to _____________ rules and was spurred by the decisions of the US Supreme Court in the 1960s.
Wiretaps
Illegally
Reaffirm
Due process
34. 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.
Improperly
Organized
Imprisonment
Justice
35. Police training programs do suffer from ___________ - particularly as important areas such as domestic violence - ethics and police discretion - which are not usually covered
Ballistics
Same time
Punishment
Limitations
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.
Highly
Feedback
Posses
Illegally
37. The Hispanic community is growing faster than expected and therefore police departments should take steps to hire more Hispanic officers through active recruitment processes and offering incentive ___ for bilingual officers.
Jury
Bilingual
Pay
Slave
38. The UCR has a hierarchy rule whereby multiple types of incidents can only be recorded as 1 incident. This is a _________ of the system.
Rabinowitz
Ten
Black
Drawback
39. Tensions between the police and racial minorities continue despite the many advances made since the 1960s; major complaints are still made regularly and these include use of excessive force and ______ profiling.
Breached
Runaway
Racial
Partnership
40. A centralized state-level agency - which merges patrol with ______________ will usually assist in local criminal investigations when asked - patrol the state's highways - operate identification bureaus - manage criminal records and provide training t
Subculture
Investigations
Jury
Cooperation
41. Their perception of the amount of danger faced in their jobs results in the development of constant __________ of people
Jury
Writ
Victimless
Suspicion
42. Another source of PCR tension is discriminatory employment practices of the ______ force.
Police
Rabinowitz
Cooperation
Inadmissible
43. It can be argued that __________ officers possess an additional skill and therefore the extra pay can be justified on those grounds.
Victimless
Bilingual
Warrant
Organized
44. Officers are allocated to specific shifts and patrol areas based on _________ or using a rotation system.
Election
3100
Cooperation
Seniority
45. This is the problem of case __________. Research has shown that only about half of felony arrests result in convictions. The question is whether this is due to poor police work or some other reason.
Attrition
Heart
Security
Special
46. 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.
Seniority
Cooperation
Breached
Illegal
47. The CIA is divided into 3 ____________ and 5 mission support offices (MSOs).
Unqualified
Annually
Directorates
Fragmented
48. 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.
Enabled
Pay
Posse
Rabinowitz
49. A critical function that the police play in society is crime __________ and this role is primarily executed through routine patrolling.
Prevention
Accident
Transit
Vollmer
50. 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.
Highly
Bureaucracy
Lawfully
Community
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