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DSST Introduction To Law Enforcement

Subjects : dsst, law-enforcement
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Police training programs do suffer from ___________ - particularly as important areas such as domestic violence - ethics and police discretion - which are not usually covered






2. 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






3. The CIA is divided into 3 ____________ and 5 mission support offices (MSOs).






4. There is usually a degree of competition between detectives and _______ officers. The latter sometimes withhold information in the hope of beating detectives to solving a case.






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






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






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






8. 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.






9. 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.






10. The first ___ amendments of the Constitution are commonly called the Bill of Rights and offer the individual considerable protection in the criminal justice system.






11. 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.






12. Field training consists of practical on-the-job training with a __________ field training officer.






13. 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.






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






15. 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.






16. 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.






17. 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.






18. The spoils system is greatly reduced in modern politics - though not entirely eliminated. Most ________ workers do not have to be concerned about losing their jobs when a new party takes office.






19. 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






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






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






22. Their perception of the amount of danger faced in their jobs results in the development of constant __________ of people






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






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






25. 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.






26. 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






27. 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.






28. 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.






29. 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.






30. 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.






31. Research into police work and activities conducted between the 1950s and 1970s concluded that police-community relations were very ____ and officers regularly breached legal rules






32. A warrant is a _____ issued by the court to justify the arrest of a suspect. It offers protection to the officer executing the warrant against damages; for example for wrongful arrest.






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






34. 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.






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






36. They believe that _____-reporting provides more accurate information than police reports.






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






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






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






40. Between the data in the UCR and NCVS - most experts tend to prefer the ____.






41. 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






42. This is the venue for police training and the value of training has experienced a dramatic _________ in status since its inception.






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






44. 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.






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






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






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






48. 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.






49. The first landmark case that forms the foundation of the exclusionary rule is the US Supreme court decision of _____ v US (1914).






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