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DSST Introduction To Law Enforcement
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1. 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.
Pay
Increase
Graduate
Consent
2. The Hispanic community is growing faster than expected and therefore police departments should take steps to hire more Hispanic officers through active recruitment processes and offering incentive ___ for bilingual officers.
Pay
Same time
Transit
Policy
3. 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.
Due process
Lawfully
Special
Racial
4. The 1980s and 1990s saw the creation of _______ oversight of police groups to monitor or investigate complaints by individuals against police actions.
Medical
Reverse
Rabinowitz
Citizen
5. 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
Sheriff
Violence
Valid
Leon
6. Where offenders are not captured red-handed - an arrest _______ issued by an officer of the court is required to supply the legal foundation for the act of detention.
National
Qualified
Warrant
Covert
7. 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.
Fragmented
Federal
Reaffirm
Consent
8. In 1837 - the slave patrol consisted of about 100 officers and they were responsible for finding ________ slaves and ensuring that they were well-behaved.
Slow
Poor
Runaway
Jury
9. 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.
Community
Ballistics
Blind
Security
10. Research has revealed that in about 80% of such situations - no formal action - such as _______ was necessary.
Decentralization
Effectiveness
Arrest
Communities
11. 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.
Policy
Due process
Patrol
Sheriff
12. 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.
Executions
Election
FBI
Feedback
13. 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.
UCR
Arrest
Foreign
Organized
14. 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
Improperly
Victimization
Runaway
Partnership
15. The controversial 'broken window' theory made the connection between disorder - neighborhood decay and _____.
Danger
Crime
Legitimate
Supervision
16. Deterrence prevents crime through using an example or threat of ___________ to persuade the public against committing the crime.
Education
Police
Bribes
Punishment
17. Officers at the academy undergo _________ training and most academies also offer field training.
Enabled
Sheriff
Classroom
Victimization
18. The police ___________ of secrecy - public hostility and solidarity meant they were very isolated from the community - especially the black community.
Slave
Subculture
Serving
Attrition
19. One of the major problems facing patrol officers is high-speed pursuits is a high ________ rate.
Racketeering
Accident
Bribes
Subculture
20. The CIA also engages in ______ operations sanctioned by the President as part of their role in ensuring national security.
Covert
Frequency
Illegal
Violent
21. This is training in relation to _____________ rules and was spurred by the decisions of the US Supreme Court in the 1960s.
Due process
Justice
Feedback
Detectives
22. The CIA has operations officers and recruits ________ agents as part of their intelligence activities and this may involve covert operations.
Vollmer
Prohibit
Violence
Foreign
23. The CID within the FBI is responsible for organized crime - violent crime - ____________ and money laundering.
Reverse
Racketeering
Directorates
Enforcement
24. 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.
Valid
Dangerous
Crime
Procedures
25. 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.
Organized
Victimless
Security
Attrition
26. 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
Black
Technology
Response
Sheriff
27. 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.
Organized
Supreme Court
Danger
Wilson
28. 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
Enforcement
Highly
Response
29. In 2001 - the US Supreme Court held in Atwater v. Lago Vista that the 4th amendment did not ________ warrantless arrests for minor offenses.
Qualified
Pay
Prohibit
Bribes
30. The local police cover a wide range of law enforcement agencies such as the municipal police - sheriff's departments - campus and _______ police.
Illegal
Magistrate
Transit
Sheriff
31. Parens patriae is Latin for 'the ______ as parent'.
State
Forfeited
Detectives
Reaffirm
32. 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.
Writ
Cause
Escobedo
Consecutive
33. 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
Highly
Occupational
Investigations
Police
34. The CIA is divided into 3 ____________ and 5 mission support offices (MSOs).
Justice
National
Directorates
Policy
35. The number of homeless people in the US has spiraled upwards in the last 2 decades so that the function of the police in dealing with them is shifting from one of containment and peacekeeping to the delivery of proactive strategies to deal with the _
Illegal
National
Real problem
Prohibit
36. Bail describes the circumstance when suspects are released from custody but on condition that money or property is offered as __________ against flight.
Ten
Collateral
Transit
Poor
37. Prospective police officers are trained at police _________ - with the average pre-service training program lasting about 1000 hours.
Mainstream
Academies
FBI
Frequency
38. There are around _____ federal - state and local law enforcement agencies in the US.
17000
Hoover
Heart
Danger
39. The office of coroner is considered a local law enforcement agency because they determine the cause of _____ of victims and perpetrators in criminal cases.
Pendleton
Imprisonment
Death
Executive
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.
Violence
Attrition
Bribes
Slow
41. When considering detective productivity and _____________ - more important than the number of arrests is the quality of those arrests.
Unqualified
Posse
Representation
Effectiveness
42. 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
State
Ballistics
Disturbance
Consent
43. 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.
Posses
Investigations
Security
Inadmissible
44. 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.
Classroom
Vollmer
NCVS
Good-faith
45. J Edgar ______ - the Director of the FBI in the 1930s had a critical impact on local policing in setting educational and training models for officers - the development of the Uniform Crime Reports (UCR) and the establishment of the FBI crime lab.
Transit
Violence
Bilingual
Hoover
46. Under the 6th Amendment to the Constitution - every defendant has the right to a ____ trial.
Response
Real problem
Jury
Pay
47. Incapacitation refers to the act of confinement so that the offender is restrained from committing the crime again whereas the deterrence has the overall aim of crime __________.
Prevention
Inadmissible
Serving
Arrest
48. Criminalistics relies on __________ to analyze firearms and munitions as well as various forensic techniques to determine issues such as time of death.
Ballistics
Breached
Bargain
Improperly
49. 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.
Communities
Drawback
Ballistics
Lawfully
50. 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 ______.
Election
Los Angeles
Safe
Sober