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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 rise of police professionalism and reform was spearheaded by August _______ who served as the chief of police in Berkeley - California from 1905 to 1932.






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






3. 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.






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






5. The 3 purposes of patrol are to deter crime - increase feelings of public ________ and prepare officers for service through effective dispersal in the neighborhood.






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






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






8. 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






9. The _________ Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS)is the term coined for this annual study.






10. 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






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






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






13. The exclusionary rule relates to illegally seized evidence. In this case - the police searched and seized personal effects as well as incriminating evidence from the Defendant's house without a warrant. On the basis of this evidence - the Defendant w






14. Research has revealed that in about 80% of such situations - no formal action - such as _______ was necessary.






15. 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.






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






17. 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.






18. Officers appointed to carry out investigative work are known as __________.






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. The ________ stage of SARA refers to the creation of strategies based on the analyzed data to deal with the problem whereas the assessment stage requires an evaluation of the effectiveness of the response.






21. 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.






22. Officers have very broad discretion - yet this subject is _______ taught or sufficiently taught to better aid the officers in making an appropriate decision.






23. Officers are commonly offered bribes to let suspects go or to turn a blind eye to ________ activities.






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






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






26. 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.






27. The 3 CIA directorates are the directorate of Intelligence - directorate of Operations and the directorate of Science and ___________.






28. 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.






29. Ballistics is the scientific _________ of firearms - ammunition - projectiles - bombs and explosives.






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






31. 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.






32. 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.






33. 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.






34. Sheriff departments are usually responsible for _______ court papers - civil summons - and managing security in state courtrooms.






35. 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 ______.






36. 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.






37. The FBI has the responsibility to investigate - analyze and neutralize any potential terrorist threats and to investigate and analyze terrorist __________ in the US.






38. A concurrent sentence is one that is served at the __________ as another sentence.






39. Parens patriae is Latin for 'the ______ as parent'.






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.






41. 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.






42. When called to attend to a non-crime incident - the police have to exercise discretion and can usually handle the situation _______ taking formal police action.






43. 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






44. Criminalistics relies on __________ to analyze firearms and munitions as well as various forensic techniques to determine issues such as time of death.






45. 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.






46. 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.






47. Some departments allow for bidding of new patrol areas once or twice _________.






48. The spoils system refers to firing supporters of the opponent and replacing them with one's own supporters upon ________.






49. There are over _____ sheriff's departments in the US.






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