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DSST Introduction To Law Enforcement

Subjects : dsst, law-enforcement
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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. There are over _____ sheriff's departments in the US.






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. Apart from police corruption - another form of police deviance is ____________ deviance.






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






5. 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.






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






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






8. Due to an increase in _________ and disorder by citizens - officers turned to weaponry to protect themselves.






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






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. A concurrent sentence is one that is served at the __________ as another sentence.






12. A centralized state-level agency - which merges patrol with ______________ will usually assist in local criminal investigations when asked - patrol the state's highways - operate identification bureaus - manage criminal records and provide training t






13. 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.






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






15. By dealing with the underlying issues - for example mental health or financial service problems - then a solution may be found to get them off the street and back into a more ___________ existence.






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






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






18. 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.






19. Patrol is meant to reassure citizens that their environment is _____ and protected from crime.






20. This is one of the main functions of the police academy and ensures that unsuitable recruits do not make it as officers. About 10% of recruits do not _________ from the academy.






21. When an appellate court is asked to review a judgment - they may ______ it - require the lower court to set it aside or modify it.






22. 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.






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






24. 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






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






26. The Supreme Court created a good faith exception to the exclusionary rule when police officers use search warrants (US v. ____ - 1984).






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






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






29. Campus police is probably the most important example of the special district police force. The also participate in the ____ program.






30. This may also be called '________ officer.' The investigative nature of their jobs has resulted in their classification as a local law enforcement agency.






31. Research showed that patrol was of little deterrence and speedier response times did not increase the arrest rate nor assisted in the solving of crimes. Community policing is meant to create a _____________ between police and community to develop pro






32. 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 __________.






33. There are around _____ federal - state and local law enforcement agencies in the US.






34. 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






35. 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






36. 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.






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






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






39. 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.






40. A critical function that the police play in society is crime __________ and this role is primarily executed through routine patrolling.






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






42. 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.






43. 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.






44. Wilson and Kelling believed that the broken window symbolized a deteriorating neighborhood and not repaired led to the eventual decline of an area - thereby encouraging criminal _________.






45. Affirmative action is mandated by a Presidential _________ Order in 1965 - so that all private employers and government agencies who receive federal monies have to develop written affirmative action plans.






46. 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






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






48. 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.






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






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