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DSST Introduction To Law Enforcement

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Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The county level of government supplies citizens with police services - for example the county ________.






2. The first ___ amendments to the Constitution are called the Bill of Rights. They were created to restrict government actions against the individual.






3. 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.






4. Field training consists of practical on-the-job training with a __________ field training officer.






5. Officers appointed to carry out investigative work are known as __________.






6. 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 __________.






7. In the 1950s training for police officers consisted mainly of firearm skill development but over the years - classroom training has emphasized criminal __________.






8. This has resulted in an under ________________ of blacks - women and ethnic minorities in the police force.






9. 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.






10. They believe that _____-reporting provides more accurate information than police reports.






11. Sheriff departments are usually responsible for _______ court papers - civil summons - and managing security in state courtrooms.






12. 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.






13. 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.






14. Criminalistics relies on __________ to analyze firearms and munitions as well as various forensic techniques to determine issues such as time of death.






15. 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.






16. The CID within the FBI is responsible for organized crime - violent crime - ____________ and money laundering.






17. Apart from reducing crime - the mission of community policing is to _______ the trend of the negative public perception of the police






18. This was the bright-line rule (one that can ______ be crossed) that emerged from this case.






19. 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.






20. The UCR has a hierarchy rule whereby multiple types of incidents can only be recorded as 1 incident. This is a _________ of the system.






21. The spoils system refers to firing supporters of the opponent and replacing them with one's own supporters upon ________.






22. 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.






23. Ballistics is the scientific _________ of firearms - ammunition - projectiles - bombs and explosives.






24. Plea bargains avoid an expensive court trial. Prosecutors may offer and defendants may accept a bargained plea to avoid the uncertainty of a jury trial. In many cases - the Defendant agrees to plead guilty to a lesser charge or for a ________ sentenc






25. _________ policing took off in the 1980s and 1990s - with the realization that the police could not fight crime on their own.






26. 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.






27. 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.






28. The 3 purposes of patrol are to deter crime - increase feelings of public ________ and prepare officers for service through effective dispersal in the neighborhood.






29. This was the step taken in 1965 to remedy _________ discrimination.






30. Apart from police corruption - another form of police deviance is ____________ deviance.






31. 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.






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






33. 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.






34. Prospective police officers are trained at police _________ - with the average pre-service training program lasting about 1000 hours.






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






36. The next most critical factor that impacts on PCR after race and ethnicity is ___.






37. Various studies have shown that these pursuits have between an 18% to 33% chance of resulting in an accident. As a consequence - many departments have a restrictive - discouraging or discretionary _______ regarding high-speed pursuits for officers to






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






39. There is usually a degree of competition between detectives and _______ officers. The latter sometimes withhold information in the hope of beating detectives to solving a case.






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.






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






42. The _________ Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS)is the term coined for this annual study.






43. A concurrent sentence is one that is served at the __________ as another sentence.






44. It is interesting to note that the city of Detroit is the only state in which blacks rate the police force more ______ than their white counterparts.






45. Officers have very broad discretion - yet this subject is _______ taught or sufficiently taught to better aid the officers in making an appropriate decision.






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






47. Community policing is widely implemented in the US today but critics are concerned that the police role of crime control has been hijacked - the police are increasingly getting involved at a political level and ________________ will lead to the loss






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






49. 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.






50. The 1980s and 1990s saw the creation of _______ oversight of police groups to monitor or investigate complaints by individuals against police actions.