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DSST Introduction To Law Enforcement

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. This was the bright-line rule (one that can ______ be crossed) that emerged from this case.






2. 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






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






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






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






6. 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.






7. 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.






8. 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.






9. 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.






10. When called to attend to a non-crime incident - the police have to exercise discretion and can usually handle the situation _______ taking formal police action.






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






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






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






14. 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.






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






16. August Vollmer believed that policing standards needed to be improved and corruption stamped out. He advocated training and __________ for officers.






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






18. 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.






19. 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.






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






21. 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.






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






23. 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






24. 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 __________.






25. Some police departments may have a separate detective unit with further specialized units such as homicide and vice. ________ ones will have a single department to handle all cases or no department at all.






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






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






28. 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.






29. This is widely recognized as a police role - though they do share the burden with other institutions such as schools and _____________.






30. Law enforcement in the US is extremely large and ___________ and hence this many agencies currently exist.






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






32. 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.






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






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






35. 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.






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






37. The most organized and distinctly American officer force was the _____ patrol based in Charleston - South Carolina.






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






39. 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.






40. 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.






41. 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






42. In this case - the police applied for and obtained a search warrant from a magistrate for the Defendant's homes. Drugs were found there and the Defendant convicted. He appealed on the grounds that the original affidavit drawn up to obtain the search






43. 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.






44. 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.






45. 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.






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






47. 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.






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






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






50. The rights of the accused (and of prisoners) have been defined mostly through the _______________'s interpretation of the Bill of Rights.