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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 rise of police professionalism and reform was spearheaded by August _______ who served as the chief of police in Berkeley - California from 1905 to 1932.
Wiretaps
Sheriff
Vollmer
Enforcement
2. They believe that _____-reporting provides more accurate information than police reports.
Vollmer
Slave
Enabled
Self
3. The Uniform Crime Reports (UCR) is an annualized report published by the ___ that states the statistical rate of reported crime in the US based on data from police reports.
Control
3100
Technology
FBI
4. This is the way criminal trials are conducted in the US and it is governed by strict rules of __________.
Representation
Procedure
Valid
Previous
5. The 3 purposes of patrol are to deter crime - increase feelings of public ________ and prepare officers for service through effective dispersal in the neighborhood.
Ten
Security
Drawback
Suspicion
6. This is the venue for police training and the value of training has experienced a dramatic _________ in status since its inception.
Lawfully
State
Reports
Increase
7. Due to an increase in _________ and disorder by citizens - officers turned to weaponry to protect themselves.
Sheriff
Violence
Jury
Good-faith
8. 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
Partnership
Decentralization
Mentally
Representation
9. The _________ Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS)is the term coined for this annual study.
Detectives
National
Good-faith
Guns
10. 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
Reverse
Improperly
Partnership
Younger
11. This is to ensure that ___________ with the administrative rules is maintained.
Compliance
Parens
Runaway
Improperly
12. The UCR statistics are used to create the FBI Crime Clock which creates a picture of crime _________ in the US.
Frequency
Crime
FBI
Graduate
13. 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
Accident
Illegally
Highly
Breached
14. Research has revealed that in about 80% of such situations - no formal action - such as _______ was necessary.
Weeks
Representation
Posse
Arrest
15. 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.
Racial
Occupational
Cause
Posse
16. It can be argued that __________ officers possess an additional skill and therefore the extra pay can be justified on those grounds.
Obvious
Bilingual
Death
Executions
17. 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.
Crime
Cause
Pay
Sheriff
18. Officers appointed to carry out investigative work are known as __________.
Detectives
Bureaucracy
Obvious
NCVS
19. 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
Improperly
Disturbance
Mentally
Analysis
20. 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.
Imprisonment
Seniority
Response
FBI
21. 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
FBI
Enabled
Medical
22. Officers have very broad discretion - yet this subject is _______ taught or sufficiently taught to better aid the officers in making an appropriate decision.
Decentralization
UCR
Rarely
Education
23. Officers are commonly offered bribes to let suspects go or to turn a blind eye to ________ activities.
Academies
Illegal
Self
FBI
24. The 911 communications center is the _____ of a modern police department.
Executive
Written
Fragmented
Heart
25. When considering detective productivity and _____________ - more important than the number of arrests is the quality of those arrests.
Effectiveness
Disturbance
Suspicion
Supervision
26. 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.
Sheriff
Vollmer
Accountability
Enabled
27. The 3 CIA directorates are the directorate of Intelligence - directorate of Operations and the directorate of Science and ___________.
Jury
Frequency
Technology
Police
28. 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.
Los Angeles
Drunk
Cooperation
Serving
29. Ballistics is the scientific _________ of firearms - ammunition - projectiles - bombs and explosives.
Prevention
Guns
Frequency
Analysis
30. The most organized and distinctly American officer force was the _____ patrol based in Charleston - South Carolina.
Decentralization
Communities
Slave
Executive
31. 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.
Bilingual
Warrant
Organized
Improve
32. 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.
Citizen
Special
Bureaucracy
Bribes
33. 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.
Patrol
Illegal
Police
Organized
34. Sheriff departments are usually responsible for _______ court papers - civil summons - and managing security in state courtrooms.
Compliance
Serving
Warrant
Los Angeles
35. Public concern led to the start of the crackdown and this is viewed as an important police role but it is very difficult to spot the minority of drunk drivers amongst those who are ______.
Increase
Outside
Reverse
Sober
36. 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.
Outside
Mainstream
Escobedo
Prohibit
37. The FBI has the responsibility to investigate - analyze and neutralize any potential terrorist threats and to investigate and analyze terrorist __________ in the US.
Hoover
Incidents
Vollmer
Posses
38. A concurrent sentence is one that is served at the __________ as another sentence.
Analysis
Covert
Same time
Due process
39. Parens patriae is Latin for 'the ______ as parent'.
Forfeited
Heart
State
Punishment
40. 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.
Bribes
Drunk
Illegal
Response
41. 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.
Covert
Organized
Representation
Occupational
42. 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.
Response
Increase
Serving
Without
43. Good faith means that when the police act with the honest belief that they are following proper rules. According to the ruling in US v. Leon - when officers have acted in good faith reliance on a warrant - the evidence will not be excluded even if th
Protect
Improperly
Writ
Education
44. Criminalistics relies on __________ to analyze firearms and munitions as well as various forensic techniques to determine issues such as time of death.
Ballistics
Police
Attrition
Organized
45. The assessment stage evaluates the response based on detailed _________ and surveys. The police are also encouraged to conduct a self-analysis to see if they identified the problem correctly in the first place and revise that response if needed.
Mentally
Hoover
Inadmissible
Feedback
46. 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.
Written
Consecutive
Los Angeles
Incidents
47. Some departments allow for bidding of new patrol areas once or twice _________.
Consent
17000
Annually
Reports
48. The spoils system refers to firing supporters of the opponent and replacing them with one's own supporters upon ________.
Attrition
Racketeering
Procedures
Election
49. There are over _____ sheriff's departments in the US.
Representation
3100
Guns
Covert
50. Campus police is probably the most important example of the special district police force. The also participate in the ____ program.
Searching
UCR
Warrant
Ten