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DSST Introduction To Law Enforcement

Subjects : dsst, law-enforcement
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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






2. The nature of police work also promotes deviant activities because officers are often offered ______ - they are regularly unsupervised and so think they can get away with it and fed on a diet of illegality may succumb to criminality too.






3. 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.






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






5. Police training programs do suffer from ___________ - particularly as important areas such as domestic violence - ethics and police discretion - which are not usually covered






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






7. This is one of the reports produced by the FBI in its law _____________ role.






8. 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.






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






10. Bail describes the circumstance when suspects are released from custody but on condition that money or property is offered as __________ against flight.






11. 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






12. When an appellate court is asked to review a judgment - they may ______ it - require the lower court to set it aside or modify it.






13. 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.






14. 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.






15. The CIA is divided into 3 ____________ and 5 mission support offices (MSOs).






16. Individuals have the right to live in their homes peacefully and not be subjected to unreasonable searches and seizures by virtue of the ___ amendment.






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






18. This may also be called '________ officer.' The investigative nature of their jobs has resulted in their classification as a local law enforcement agency.






19. The role of the police academy is to provide formal training - root out ___________ recruits and immerse the trainees in the police subculture.






20. 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 _________.






21. 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.






22. 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.






23. 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 ________.






24. This occurs where criminal and non-criminal actions are used by an officer in the course of his/her working activities or committed when pretending it is within his/her ___________ police authority. An example is sleeping on the job or a racial slur






25. The police ___________ of secrecy - public hostility and solidarity meant they were very isolated from the community - especially the black community.






26. 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.






27. 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.






28. Some legal experts believe that police discretion should be abolished because it is _______.






29. 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.






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






31. In US v. Irizarry (1982) - the US Supreme Court held that evidence found above a ceiling panel that was out of place was _______ the scope of the plain-view doctrine






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. 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.






34. Since the 1980s - there have been some very public crackdowns on _____ driving but rates of this offence which creep down during the crackdown soon return to the original levels because the publicity forces a temporary change in behavior which is not






35. Under the 6th Amendment to the Constitution - every defendant has the right to a ____ trial.






36. This is the way criminal trials are conducted in the US and it is governed by strict rules of __________.






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






38. 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.






39. The CIA also engages in ______ operations sanctioned by the President as part of their role in ensuring national security.






40. The written policies method is called '________________ rule-making' and it is presently the most popular method of controlling discretion.






41. 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.






42. Training is one of the roles a ______-level enforcement agency usually engages in.






43. Parens patriae is Latin for 'the ______ as parent'.






44. The FBI has the responsibility to investigate - analyze and neutralize any potential terrorist threats and to investigate and analyze terrorist __________ in the US.






45. 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.






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






47. The local police cover a wide range of law enforcement agencies such as the municipal police - sheriff's departments - campus and _______ police.






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.






49. The county level of government supplies citizens with police services - for example the county ________.






50. 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