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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 exclusionary rule was modified by the __________ exception in the US Supreme Court decision of US v. Leon (1984).
Good-faith
Bargain
Administrative
Runaway
2. 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
Investigations
Improve
Uphold
3. 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
Medical
Dangerous
Pay
4. The professionalization movement started by Vollmer was nurtured by his prot
Election
Wilson
Consecutive
Suspicion
5. The majority of criminal cases do not go to trial but are instead settled via a plea _______.
National
Racketeering
Bargain
Executive
6. Officers are allocated to specific shifts and patrol areas based on _________ or using a rotation system.
Medical
Election
Control
Seniority
7. The exclusionary rule relates to illegally seized evidence. In this case - the police searched and seized personal effects as well as incriminating evidence from the Defendant's house without a warrant. On the basis of this evidence - the Defendant w
Guns
Investigations
Patrol
Breached
8. This is training in relation to _____________ rules and was spurred by the decisions of the US Supreme Court in the 1960s.
Organized
Escobedo
Decentralization
Due process
9. After the arrest - suspects are brought before a __________ for their first appearance so that the charges brought against them can be read out and if appropriate they may be released on their own recognizance.
Cooperation
Magistrate
Self
Classroom
10. 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.
Prevention
Effectiveness
Collateral
Rabinowitz
11. In order to police __________ crimes - officers generally have to resort to undercover work.
Drunk
Attrition
Victimless
Safe
12. 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.
Racial
Death
Administrative
Illegal
13. The written policies method is called '________________ rule-making' and it is presently the most popular method of controlling discretion.
Detectives
Imprisonment
Administrative
NCVS
14. 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
Vollmer
Smaller
Younger
Unqualified
15. August Vollmer believed that policing standards needed to be improved and corruption stamped out. He advocated training and __________ for officers.
Education
Bribes
Decentralization
Directorates
16. 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.
Bargain
Attrition
Hoover
Covert
17. 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.
Jury
Policy
4th
Protect
18. The CIA has operations officers and recruits ________ agents as part of their intelligence activities and this may involve covert operations.
Los Angeles
Executions
Foreign
Prevention
19. The next most critical factor that impacts on PCR after race and ethnicity is ___.
Sheriff
Analysis
Age
Safe
20. 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.
Violent
Decentralization
Escobedo
State
21. Patrol is meant to reassure citizens that their environment is _____ and protected from crime.
Supervision
Smaller
NCVS
Safe
22. The 1980s and 1990s saw the creation of _______ oversight of police groups to monitor or investigate complaints by individuals against police actions.
UCR
Victimless
Dangerous
Citizen
23. The public perception of the police is of a distant and alienated law enforcement unit. Through community policing - police-community relations should ________ as the public have a greater stake and say in their problems and needs.
4th
Improve
Justice
Procedures
24. This is the right granted under the Constitution but the Supreme Court has held that it can be exercised only for offences carrying a term of ______________ exceeding 6 months or where the extra penalties such as fines and community service are suffi
Crime
Searching
Response
Imprisonment
25. There are around _____ federal - state and local law enforcement agencies in the US.
Ten
Victimless
17000
Enforcement
26. Officers have very broad discretion - yet this subject is _______ taught or sufficiently taught to better aid the officers in making an appropriate decision.
Control
Analysis
Rarely
Enabled
27. The first ___ amendments of the Constitution are commonly called the Bill of Rights and offer the individual considerable protection in the criminal justice system.
Ten
Black
Punishment
Qualified
28. 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
Without
Bilingual
Directorates
29. Apart from police corruption - another form of police deviance is ____________ deviance.
Death
Valid
Security
Occupational
30. Apart from reducing crime - the mission of community policing is to _______ the trend of the negative public perception of the police
Reverse
Seniority
Qualified
Magistrate
31. This has resulted in an under ________________ of blacks - women and ethnic minorities in the police force.
Racial
Sober
Reaffirm
Representation
32. 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.
Warrant
Adversarial
Technology
Compliance
33. The first landmark case that forms the foundation of the exclusionary rule is the US Supreme court decision of _____ v US (1914).
Slow
Forfeited
Illegally
Weeks
34. The UCR statistics are used to create the FBI Crime Clock which creates a picture of crime _________ in the US.
Frequency
Prevention
Patrol
Activity
35. Domestic disturbances may be fuelled by alcohol and drug abuse - financial difficulties or many other reasons that are beyond the ________ of the officers.
Election
Slave
Control
Crime
36. 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.
Containment
Prevention
Consecutive
Seniority
37. When an appellate court is asked to review a judgment - they may ______ it - require the lower court to set it aside or modify it.
Uphold
Sheriff
Parens
Annually
38. 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
Warrant
Response
4th
17000
39. 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.
Partnership
Searching
Pay
Dangerous
40. 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.
Communities
Executive
Wiretaps
Reverse
41. The 911 communications center is the _____ of a modern police department.
Procedures
Heart
Posses
Written
42. 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
Patrol
Graduate
Control
Disturbance
43. The 3 main approaches to controlling police discretion are removing it - improving the professional judgment of officers through better training and managing it through _______ policies.
Enforcement
Police
Written
Reduced
44. The _________ Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS)is the term coined for this annual study.
Bilingual
Enforcement
Racial
National
45. In the 1950s training for police officers consisted mainly of firearm skill development but over the years - classroom training has emphasized criminal __________.
Federal
Procedures
Bribes
Dangerous
46. Deterrence prevents crime through using an example or threat of ___________ to persuade the public against committing the crime.
Copies
Punishment
Education
Security
47. 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
Heart
Seniority
Illegally
Covert
48. The spoils system refers to firing supporters of the opponent and replacing them with one's own supporters upon ________.
Warrant
Election
Activity
Violence
49. This is the venue for police training and the value of training has experienced a dramatic _________ in status since its inception.
Special
Crime
Increase
NCVS
50. 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.
Special
Good-faith
Dangerous
Jury