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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 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
Seniority
Real problem
Improve
2. When a 911 call comes in - the operator answers it - makes a decision whether to send out a patrol car and then informs the dispatcher who then communicates the details to the ______ officer.
Slow
Patrol
Violent
Investigations
3. There are over _____ sheriff's departments in the US.
Wilson
Slave
Sheriff
3100
4. Apart from reducing crime - the mission of community policing is to _______ the trend of the negative public perception of the police
Reverse
Control
Without
Forfeited
5. Officers appointed to carry out investigative work are known as __________.
Increase
Reduced
Slave
Detectives
6. In order to police __________ crimes - officers generally have to resort to undercover work.
Security
Victimless
Bureaucracy
Hoover
7. The professionalization movement started by Vollmer was nurtured by his prot
Protect
Frequency
Professionalization
Wilson
8. Domestic disturbances may be fuelled by alcohol and drug abuse - financial difficulties or many other reasons that are beyond the ________ of the officers.
Patrol
Writ
Control
Supervision
9. 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.
Mainstream
Cause
Medical
Slave
10. The county level of government supplies citizens with police services - for example the county ________.
Directorates
Sheriff
Cause
Reaffirm
11. Sheriff departments are usually responsible for _______ court papers - civil summons - and managing security in state courtrooms.
Writ
Weeks
Serving
Age
12. 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.
Disturbance
Serving
Cooperation
Subculture
13. In the 1950s training for police officers consisted mainly of firearm skill development but over the years - classroom training has emphasized criminal __________.
Good-faith
Sheriff
Procedures
Copies
14. 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.
Sheriff
Rabinowitz
Posse
Crime
15. 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.
Black
Guns
Enabled
Education
16. The majority of criminal cases do not go to trial but are instead settled via a plea _______.
Good-faith
Racketeering
Bargain
Wiretaps
17. 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
Policy
Obvious
Occupational
Sober
18. The 911 communications center is the _____ of a modern police department.
Younger
Control
Increase
Heart
19. 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.
Organized
Election
Lawfully
3100
20. It is believed that the average citizen plays a vital part in the ________________ of officers.
Illegal
Heart
Increase
Accountability
21. 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.
Vollmer
Directorates
Obvious
Age
22. Between the data in the UCR and NCVS - most experts tend to prefer the ____.
Magistrate
FBI
NCVS
Violence
23. Research has revealed that in about 80% of such situations - no formal action - such as _______ was necessary.
Special
National
State
Arrest
24. This describes the Pendleton Act. This was a big step in the government becoming the huge _____________ it is today.
Seniority
Citizen
Annually
Bureaucracy
25. 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.
Special
Supervision
Reports
Parens
26. The first ___ amendments to the Constitution are called the Bill of Rights. They were created to restrict government actions against the individual.
Ten
Slow
Smaller
Patrol
27. 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.
Unqualified
Consecutive
Smaller
Due process
28. The UCR statistics are used to create the FBI Crime Clock which creates a picture of crime _________ in the US.
Qualified
Parens
Ten
Frequency
29. Parens patriae is Latin for 'the ______ as parent'.
State
Black
Valid
Medical
30. 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.
Consecutive
Writ
Cause
Representation
31. ____ did not become regulated officer equipment until the late 19th Century.
Previous
Guns
Victimless
Prohibit
32. The first ___ amendments of the Constitution are commonly called the Bill of Rights and offer the individual considerable protection in the criminal justice system.
Ten
Effectiveness
Communities
Policy
33. Field training consists of practical on-the-job training with a __________ field training officer.
Qualified
Unqualified
Patrol
Prevention
34. 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
Rabinowitz
Valid
Response
Violence
35. 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
Feedback
State
Occupational
Disturbance
36. Apart from police corruption - another form of police deviance is ____________ deviance.
Foreign
Occupational
4th
Sober
37. Decentralization means reduced _____________ of rank and file officers who have greater discretion in making decisions.
Justice
Detectives
Supervision
Community
38. The controversial 'broken window' theory made the connection between disorder - neighborhood decay and _____.
Incidents
Crime
Death
Foreign
39. 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.
Hoover
Activity
Accountability
Victimization
40. Another word for uphold is _________. This is the result for most appellate court decisions whereby they confirm the decision of the lower court.
Education
Reaffirm
Self
Serving
41. 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.
Professionalization
Bureaucracy
Fragmented
Racial
42. 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 ______.
Sober
Increase
Breached
Prevention
43. The FBI has the responsibility to investigate - analyze and neutralize any potential terrorist threats and to investigate and analyze terrorist __________ in the US.
Incidents
Slow
Reports
Serving
44. 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.
Hoover
Executive
Warrant
Ten
45. Ballistics is the scientific _________ of firearms - ammunition - projectiles - bombs and explosives.
Analysis
Outside
Special
Partnership
46. 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.
Patrol
Bilingual
Protect
FBI
47. 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
Runaway
Unqualified
Imprisonment
Organized
48. Under the 6th Amendment to the Constitution - every defendant has the right to a ____ trial.
Younger
Classroom
Bribes
Jury
49. 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
Violent
Black
Slow
50. 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.
Writ
Dangerous
Guns
Ten