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






2. When considering detective productivity and _____________ - more important than the number of arrests is the quality of those arrests.






3. 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.






4. 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.






5. 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.






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






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






8. In this case - the Defendants were suspected of evading taxes but they refused to hand over their company books. An illegal search and seizure was performed and the books returned soon after - when the Defendant's lawyer objected. At the trial - the






9. 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.






10. The 911 communications center is the _____ of a modern police department.






11. 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






12. 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






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






14. 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






15. The majority of criminal cases do not go to trial but are instead settled via a plea _______.






16. When the offender was apprehended by the posse - trials were rarely held and public __________ were held to dispense justice.






17. 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 _






18. 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.






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






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






21. 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.






22. A limited amount of streetwalking is tolerated if it is restricted to a particular part of town - usually a business district and it is not too ________.






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






24. August Vollmer believed that policing standards needed to be improved and corruption stamped out. He advocated training and __________ for officers.






25. Some legal experts believe that police discretion should be abolished because it is _______.






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






27. 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.






28. 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.






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






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






31. 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.






32. 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






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






34. There is no _________ method of centralized policing in the US as police services are provided by the 4 levels of government which are the city - county - state and federal levels.






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 UCR statistics are used to create the FBI Crime Clock which creates a picture of crime _________ in the US.






37. 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.






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






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






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






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






42. 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.






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






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






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






46. This is the way criminal trials are conducted in the US and it is governed by strict rules of __________.






47. 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.






48. 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






49. 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.






50. In 2001 - the US Supreme Court held in Atwater v. Lago Vista that the 4th amendment did not ________ warrantless arrests for minor offenses.