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DSST Introduction To Law Enforcement
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. In 1837 - the slave patrol consisted of about 100 officers and they were responsible for finding ________ slaves and ensuring that they were well-behaved.
Medical
Representation
Guns
Runaway
2. The role of the police academy is to provide formal training - root out ___________ recruits and immerse the trainees in the police subculture.
Subculture
Unqualified
Citizen
Black
3. 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.
Prevention
Real problem
Occupational
Sheriff
4. 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.
Patrol
Organized
FBI
Age
5. This is widely recognized as a police role - though they do share the burden with other institutions such as schools and _____________.
Communities
Accountability
Sheriff
Patrol
6. Officers appointed to carry out investigative work are known as __________.
Detectives
Ten
FBI
4th
7. This is the venue for police training and the value of training has experienced a dramatic _________ in status since its inception.
Increase
Weeks
Feedback
Los Angeles
8. The spoils system refers to firing supporters of the opponent and replacing them with one's own supporters upon ________.
Uphold
Election
Subculture
Legitimate
9. 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.
Arrest
Punishment
Self
UCR
10. One of the major problems facing patrol officers is high-speed pursuits is a high ________ rate.
Policy
Organized
Accident
Representation
11. When considering detective productivity and _____________ - more important than the number of arrests is the quality of those arrests.
Occupational
Effectiveness
Federal
Guns
12. They believe that _____-reporting provides more accurate information than police reports.
Runaway
Self
Executions
Never
13. 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.
Reports
Collateral
Mentally
Younger
14. In the 1950s training for police officers consisted mainly of firearm skill development but over the years - classroom training has emphasized criminal __________.
Citizen
Procedures
Effectiveness
Searching
15. Campus police is probably the most important example of the special district police force. The also participate in the ____ program.
UCR
Pay
Response
Posse
16. According to the doctrine of ______ patriae - the state has a duty to care for children who are neglected or delinquent - and to assume the role of parent if necessary.
Without
Escobedo
Parens
Punishment
17. 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
Violence
Drunk
Self
Escobedo
18. The written policies method is called '________________ rule-making' and it is presently the most popular method of controlling discretion.
Administrative
Partnership
Effectiveness
Los Angeles
19. This is due to the dominance of the local political structure by ______ persons. Detroit has had a black mayor since 1973 and the police force is dominated by black persons. Thus - the black community can better relate with their local police
Election
State
Professionalization
Black
20. In 2001 - the US Supreme Court held in Atwater v. Lago Vista that the 4th amendment did not ________ warrantless arrests for minor offenses.
Detectives
Prohibit
Heart
Violent
21. The 3 purposes of patrol are to deter crime - increase feelings of public ________ and prepare officers for service through effective dispersal in the neighborhood.
Security
Safe
Jury
Organized
22. 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
Reports
Self
Reduced
Poor
23. Some departments allow for bidding of new patrol areas once or twice _________.
Escobedo
Sober
Annually
Foreign
24. 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
4th
Breached
Outside
Enabled
25. Field training consists of practical on-the-job training with a __________ field training officer.
Classroom
Control
Qualified
Arrest
26. There are around _____ federal - state and local law enforcement agencies in the US.
Vollmer
17000
Without
Hoover
27. 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.
Special
Posse
Same time
3100
28. Decentralization means reduced _____________ of rank and file officers who have greater discretion in making decisions.
Supervision
Dangerous
Mentally
Detectives
29. 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
Increase
Accident
Decentralization
Executions
30. Police subculture is determined by the potential of ______ and because of this they stereotype certain categories of persons - such as low-income males - as possible threats.
Danger
Younger
Disturbance
Compliance
31. In serious cases - this may be the outcome. However - hospital care for the mentally ill is very disjointed and it may be difficult to hospitalize a person without their ________. Also - these hospitals or shelters may refuse to admit these patients.
FBI
Consent
Increase
Education
32. Between the data in the UCR and NCVS - most experts tend to prefer the ____.
NCVS
Fragmented
Effectiveness
Poor
33. 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.
17000
Same time
Consecutive
Posses
34. This is the problem of case __________. Research has shown that only about half of felony arrests result in convictions. The question is whether this is due to poor police work or some other reason.
Los Angeles
Procedure
4th
Attrition
35. 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 __________.
Suspicion
Forfeited
Violent
Justice
36. 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.
Communities
Foreign
Partnership
Rabinowitz
37. Parens patriae is Latin for 'the ______ as parent'.
Arrest
State
Ballistics
Victimless
38. The UCR has a hierarchy rule whereby multiple types of incidents can only be recorded as 1 incident. This is a _________ of the system.
Professionalization
Drawback
Poor
FBI
39. 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.
Feedback
Effectiveness
Weeks
Searching
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.
Black
Bribes
Violent
Victimless
41. 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
Good-faith
Executive
Younger
Analysis
42. This is one of the reports produced by the FBI in its law _____________ role.
Ten
Smaller
Imprisonment
Enforcement
43. 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.
Wilson
Response
Improperly
Improve
44. Domestic disturbances may be fuelled by alcohol and drug abuse - financial difficulties or many other reasons that are beyond the ________ of the officers.
Safe
Ten
Control
Victimless
45. 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.
Consecutive
Adversarial
Reverse
Ballistics
46. Officers are commonly offered bribes to let suspects go or to turn a blind eye to ________ activities.
Disturbance
Sober
Patrol
Illegal
47. 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.
Lawfully
Mentally
Occupational
Unqualified
48. 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.
State
Heart
Vollmer
Accident
49. The Supreme Court created a good faith exception to the exclusionary rule when police officers use search warrants (US v. ____ - 1984).
Safe
Posses
Classroom
Leon
50. Under the 6th Amendment to the Constitution - every defendant has the right to a ____ trial.
Jury
Racketeering
Younger
Compliance