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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. This is to ensure that ___________ with the administrative rules is maintained.






2. 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 __________.






3. 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.






4. Domestic disturbances may be fuelled by alcohol and drug abuse - financial difficulties or many other reasons that are beyond the ________ of the officers.






5. 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.






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






7. The first landmark case that forms the foundation of the exclusionary rule is the US Supreme court decision of _____ v US (1914).






8. One of the major problems facing patrol officers is high-speed pursuits is a high ________ rate.






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






10. 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.






11. The evidence had to be plainly in sight and even though the officers may have concluded that some items may have been located behind the ceiling panel; it was not in plain view and hence was ______________ as evidence. Furthermore - the officers are






12. The police receive a sizeable number of calls about ________ ill persons and in exercising their discretion these matters are normally dealt with through arrest - hospitalization or informal disposition.






13. 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.






14. 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.






15. 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






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






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






18. This describes the Pendleton Act. This was a big step in the government becoming the huge _____________ it is today.






19. The 3 CIA directorates are the directorate of Intelligence - directorate of Operations and the directorate of Science and ___________.






20. 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.






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






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






23. Another word for uphold is _________. This is the result for most appellate court decisions whereby they confirm the decision of the lower court.






24. The first ___ amendments of the Constitution are commonly called the Bill of Rights and offer the individual considerable protection in the criminal justice system.






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






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






27. Their perception of the amount of danger faced in their jobs results in the development of constant __________ of people






28. In order to police __________ crimes - officers generally have to resort to undercover work.






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






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






31. 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.






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.






33. The professionalization movement started by Vollmer was nurtured by his prot






34. 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






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






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






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






38. 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 _______.






39. 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






40. It is believed that the average citizen plays a vital part in the ________________ of officers.






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






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






43. 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.






44. This is training in relation to _____________ rules and was spurred by the decisions of the US Supreme Court in the 1960s.






45. 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.






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






47. The ________ stage of SARA refers to the creation of strategies based on the analyzed data to deal with the problem whereas the assessment stage requires an evaluation of the effectiveness of the response.






48. It can be argued that __________ officers possess an additional skill and therefore the extra pay can be justified on those grounds.






49. Officers are commonly offered bribes to let suspects go or to turn a blind eye to ________ activities.






50. The controversial 'broken window' theory made the connection between disorder - neighborhood decay and _____.