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DSST Introduction To Law Enforcement
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. 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.
Written
Mainstream
Response
Reports
2. 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.
Executions
Police
Communities
Federal
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
Reverse
Posses
4th
Prohibit
4. 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
Ten
Consecutive
Black
Police
5. Officers at the academy undergo _________ training and most academies also offer field training.
Adversarial
Classroom
Los Angeles
Professionalization
6. The first ___ amendments to the Constitution are called the Bill of Rights. They were created to restrict government actions against the individual.
Ten
Poor
Safe
4th
7. 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
Jury
Victimless
Improperly
Collateral
8. Parens patriae is Latin for 'the ______ as parent'.
State
Ballistics
Collateral
Special
9. The police ___________ of secrecy - public hostility and solidarity meant they were very isolated from the community - especially the black community.
Crime
Sheriff
Without
Subculture
10. 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.
Activity
Writ
Good-faith
Blind
11. 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.
Lawfully
Pendleton
Community
Decentralization
12. 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.
Highly
Copies
Lawfully
Jury
13. 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.
Warrant
Community
Response
Same time
14. The role of the police academy is to provide formal training - root out ___________ recruits and immerse the trainees in the police subculture.
Unqualified
Security
Cooperation
Directorates
15. Law enforcement in the US is extremely large and ___________ and hence this many agencies currently exist.
Prohibit
Communities
Fragmented
Never
16. This was the step taken in 1965 to remedy _________ discrimination.
Escobedo
Illegally
Previous
Victimless
17. The 3 CIA directorates are the directorate of Intelligence - directorate of Operations and the directorate of Science and ___________.
Guns
Technology
Policy
Unqualified
18. The professionalization movement started by Vollmer was nurtured by his prot
Outside
Wilson
Patrol
Jury
19. Officers have very broad discretion - yet this subject is _______ taught or sufficiently taught to better aid the officers in making an appropriate decision.
Rarely
Disturbance
Executions
National
20. Bail describes the circumstance when suspects are released from custody but on condition that money or property is offered as __________ against flight.
Consent
Collateral
Annually
Reports
21. Wilson believed in the necessity to continue and encourage _____________________ within the police force. He was the chief of police in Wichita from 1928 to 1935 - the Dean of Criminology at the University of California from 1950 to 1960 and the supe
Professionalization
Organized
Written
Pendleton
22. 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
NCVS
Police
Valid
Administrative
23. Between the data in the UCR and NCVS - most experts tend to prefer the ____.
Special
NCVS
Rabinowitz
Ten
24. The CID within the FBI is responsible for organized crime - violent crime - ____________ and money laundering.
Illegal
Patrol
Racketeering
Ten
25. 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 _______.
Justice
Poor
Increase
Communities
26. Due to an increase in _________ and disorder by citizens - officers turned to weaponry to protect themselves.
Death
Reverse
Violence
Punishment
27. The _________ Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS)is the term coined for this annual study.
Improve
National
Drunk
Slow
28. This was the only way they could ________ themselves and their property from the bandits. They did try to apply the accepted standards of decency of the day to their actions.
Due process
Protect
Administrative
Illegal
29. 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.
Reports
State
Organized
FBI
30. Another source of PCR tension is discriminatory employment practices of the ______ force.
Lawfully
Technology
Foreign
Police
31. This is the venue for police training and the value of training has experienced a dramatic _________ in status since its inception.
Increase
Justice
Pay
Wilson
32. 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
Partnership
Reduced
Limitations
33. 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 __________.
Forfeited
Disturbance
Organized
Procedure
34. The public perception of the police is of a distant and alienated law enforcement unit. Through community policing - police-community relations should ________ as the public have a greater stake and say in their problems and needs.
Improve
Investigations
Compliance
State
35. Research has revealed that in about 80% of such situations - no formal action - such as _______ was necessary.
Never
Qualified
Black
Arrest
36. Sheriff departments are usually responsible for _______ court papers - civil summons - and managing security in state courtrooms.
National
Organized
Serving
Citizen
37. Their perception of the amount of danger faced in their jobs results in the development of constant __________ of people
Organized
Vollmer
Suspicion
State
38. After the arrest - suspects are brought before a __________ for their first appearance so that the charges brought against them can be read out and if appropriate they may be released on their own recognizance.
Magistrate
Cooperation
Investigations
Technology
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.
Victimization
Procedure
Forfeited
Detectives
40. 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
Control
Poor
FBI
Procedures
41. It can be argued that __________ officers possess an additional skill and therefore the extra pay can be justified on those grounds.
Writ
Bilingual
Incidents
Covert
42. The next most critical factor that impacts on PCR after race and ethnicity is ___.
Containment
Attrition
Age
Victimless
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.
Vollmer
Unqualified
Violent
Adversarial
44. 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
Qualified
Serving
Illegally
45. When considering detective productivity and _____________ - more important than the number of arrests is the quality of those arrests.
UCR
Effectiveness
State
Violence
46. 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.
Escobedo
Illegal
Organized
Incidents
47. 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.
Racial
Accident
FBI
Reduced
48. The evidence had to be plainly in sight and even though the officers may have concluded that some items may have been located behind the ceiling panel; it was not in plain view and hence was ______________ as evidence. Furthermore - the officers are
Protect
4th
Bureaucracy
Inadmissible
49. 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
Reports
Same time
Outside
17000
50. They believe that _____-reporting provides more accurate information than police reports.
Writ
Legitimate
Crime
Self