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DSST Introduction To Law Enforcement
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1. 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.
National
Organized
Illegal
Compliance
2. In 2001 - the US Supreme Court held in Atwater v. Lago Vista that the 4th amendment did not ________ warrantless arrests for minor offenses.
Qualified
Prohibit
Supervision
Representation
3. 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.
Mainstream
Los Angeles
Response
Due process
4. 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.
Feedback
UCR
Medical
Subculture
5. 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.
Copies
Consecutive
Fragmented
Racketeering
6. This was the ruling of the court. Many commentators were surprised but the court decided that although arrest for trivial offences (in this case a seat belt violation) may be embarrassing - it was not so extraordinary as to breach the ____ amendment
Sober
Patrol
State
4th
7. The FBI has the responsibility to investigate - analyze and neutralize any potential terrorist threats and to investigate and analyze terrorist __________ in the US.
Incidents
Seniority
Posses
Reaffirm
8. The spoils system refers to firing supporters of the opponent and replacing them with one's own supporters upon ________.
Election
Supreme Court
Suspicion
UCR
9. The 3 CIA directorates are the directorate of Intelligence - directorate of Operations and the directorate of Science and ___________.
Wiretaps
Technology
Adversarial
Community
10. 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.
Pay
Uphold
17000
FBI
11. Law enforcement in the US is extremely large and ___________ and hence this many agencies currently exist.
Accident
Cause
Fragmented
Rabinowitz
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.
Posses
Consent
Illegal
Covert
13. When considering detective productivity and _____________ - more important than the number of arrests is the quality of those arrests.
Hoover
Effectiveness
Slave
Police
14. The majority of criminal cases do not go to trial but are instead settled via a plea _______.
Searching
Bargain
Professionalization
Younger
15. The 1980s and 1990s saw the creation of _______ oversight of police groups to monitor or investigate complaints by individuals against police actions.
Citizen
Legitimate
Wilson
Racial
16. 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.
Increase
Parens
Death
Foreign
17. 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
Compliance
Violence
Disturbance
Procedure
18. 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.
17000
Death
Technology
Cooperation
19. 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.
Reports
Collateral
Black
Medical
20. 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.
Bargain
Blind
Victimization
Highly
21. Police subculture is determined by the potential of ______ and because of this they stereotype certain categories of persons - such as low-income males - as possible threats.
Obvious
Danger
Wilson
Seniority
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.
Magistrate
Pendleton
National
Victimless
23. This has resulted in an under ________________ of blacks - women and ethnic minorities in the police force.
Consecutive
Containment
Pay
Representation
24. 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.
Pay
Executive
Posses
4th
25. Another source of PCR tension is discriminatory employment practices of the ______ force.
Improve
Police
Valid
Citizen
26. 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 ________.
Obvious
Smaller
Slave
Organized
27. Field training consists of practical on-the-job training with a __________ field training officer.
Cooperation
Collateral
Medical
Qualified
28. Racial profiling is the practice of stopping and or __________ a person not because of any suspected criminal activity but because of that person's race.
Patrol
Accountability
Searching
Leon
29. Deterrence prevents crime through using an example or threat of ___________ to persuade the public against committing the crime.
4th
Punishment
Ballistics
Education
30. The UCR statistics are used to create the FBI Crime Clock which creates a picture of crime _________ in the US.
Racketeering
Frequency
Weeks
Bribes
31. 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.
Partnership
Smaller
Special
Education
32. The ________ rule was further emphasized in Edwards v. Arizona (1981) - when the court prohibited investigators from continuing questioning once the suspect has requested an attorney.
Patrol
Escobedo
Seniority
Danger
33. 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.
Feedback
Lawfully
Community
Dangerous
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
Vollmer
Communities
Citizen
35. 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.
Investigations
Bilingual
Hoover
Attrition
36. 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
Organized
Organized
Hoover
37. Another word for uphold is _________. This is the result for most appellate court decisions whereby they confirm the decision of the lower court.
Warrant
Black
Disturbance
Reaffirm
38. 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.
Inadmissible
Feedback
Executive
Valid
39. The local police cover a wide range of law enforcement agencies such as the municipal police - sheriff's departments - campus and _______ police.
Bargain
State
Classroom
Transit
40. 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.
Collateral
Cause
Arrest
Control
41. 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 __________.
Special
Wilson
Prevention
Pay
42. This was the bright-line rule (one that can ______ be crossed) that emerged from this case.
Never
Drunk
Justice
Improve
43. This is the definition of bail. If the suspect fails to appear for the next court hearing - then the money or property pledged may be __________.
Smaller
Runaway
Supreme Court
Forfeited
44. 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.
Ballistics
Escobedo
Annually
Warrant
45. This is one of the main functions of the police academy and ensures that unsuitable recruits do not make it as officers. About 10% of recruits do not _________ from the academy.
Graduate
Reports
Professionalization
Federal
46. A critical function that the police play in society is crime __________ and this role is primarily executed through routine patrolling.
Reverse
National
Prevention
Detectives
47. 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.
Same time
Enforcement
Response
Pay
48. Research has revealed that in about 80% of such situations - no formal action - such as _______ was necessary.
Police
Guns
Arrest
Vollmer
49. Decentralization means reduced _____________ of rank and file officers who have greater discretion in making decisions.
Supervision
Same time
Highly
NCVS
50. 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.
Previous
Patrol
Executive
Jury
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