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






2. 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.






3. This was the ruling of the court. Many commentators were surprised but the court decided that although arrest for trivial offences (in this case a seat belt violation) may be embarrassing - it was not so extraordinary as to breach the ____ amendment






4. The 911 communications center is the _____ of a modern police department.






5. 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






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






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






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






9. 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 _______.






10. 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






11. 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.






12. Some legal experts believe that police discretion should be abolished because it is _______.






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






14. 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.






15. Officers may feel that the rules are there to catch them out and that the system mistrusts them. This may encourage officers to work at a deliberately _____ pace.






16. In 2001 - the US Supreme Court held in Atwater v. Lago Vista that the 4th amendment did not ________ warrantless arrests for minor offenses.






17. Officers are allocated to specific shifts and patrol areas based on _________ or using a rotation system.






18. In 1837 - the slave patrol consisted of about 100 officers and they were responsible for finding ________ slaves and ensuring that they were well-behaved.






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






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






21. 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






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






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






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






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






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






27. Officers at the academy undergo _________ training and most academies also offer field training.






28. 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






29. 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.






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






31. Tensions between the police and racial minorities continue despite the many advances made since the 1960s; major complaints are still made regularly and these include use of excessive force and ______ profiling.






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






33. 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






34. Parens patriae is Latin for 'the ______ as parent'.






35. 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.






36. This is the term coined to describe this diagrammatic representation. It differentiates between ________ crimes such as murder and rape and property crime such as burglary and arson.






37. A limited amount of streetwalking is tolerated if it is restricted to a particular part of town - usually a business district and it is not too ________.






38. 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.






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






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






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






42. ____ did not become regulated officer equipment until the late 19th Century.






43. The role of the ___ is to investigate breaches of federal criminal law - to protect the country from foreign counterintelligence and terrorist activities and to provide law enforcement assistance to other agencies.






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






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






46. 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.






47. 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.






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






49. 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.






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