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DSST Introduction To Law Enforcement
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1. The county level of government supplies citizens with police services - for example the county ________.
Mainstream
Writ
Sheriff
Obvious
2. Field training consists of practical on-the-job training with a __________ field training officer.
State
Unqualified
Qualified
Outside
3. Incapacitation refers to the act of confinement so that the offender is restrained from committing the crime again whereas the deterrence has the overall aim of crime __________.
Supreme Court
Poor
Forfeited
Prevention
4. When it comes to prostitution - low-level street-walking is usually tolerated so that the role of the police is normally ___________ and maintaining the peace.
Detectives
Occupational
Containment
Disturbance
5. 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
4th
Annually
Special
Crime
6. It is believed that the average citizen plays a vital part in the ________________ of officers.
Reaffirm
Accountability
Copies
Organized
7. Under the ___ system - if last night Jim killed John - then set fire to a car and robbed an old lady - these multiple crimes would be recorded as a single incident.
UCR
17000
Attrition
Prevention
8. 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.
Attrition
Effectiveness
Outside
Prohibit
9. 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
Technology
Younger
Special
Attrition
10. The _________ Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS)is the term coined for this annual study.
Executions
Poor
National
Classroom
11. The office of coroner is considered a local law enforcement agency because they determine the cause of _____ of victims and perpetrators in criminal cases.
Ten
Legitimate
Justice
Death
12. The 3 CIA directorates are the directorate of Intelligence - directorate of Operations and the directorate of Science and ___________.
UCR
3100
Technology
Legitimate
13. Plea bargains avoid an expensive court trial. Prosecutors may offer and defendants may accept a bargained plea to avoid the uncertainty of a jury trial. In many cases - the Defendant agrees to plead guilty to a lesser charge or for a ________ sentenc
Safe
Reduced
Arrest
Graduate
14. 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.
Reports
Organized
Ballistics
Collateral
15. This is training in relation to _____________ rules and was spurred by the decisions of the US Supreme Court in the 1960s.
FBI
FBI
Due process
Without
16. They believe that _____-reporting provides more accurate information than police reports.
Special
Wilson
Seniority
Self
17. 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.
Classroom
Racial
Academies
Executive
18. One of the major problems facing patrol officers is high-speed pursuits is a high ________ rate.
Uphold
Accident
Bureaucracy
Drunk
19. 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.
Slow
Posse
Frequency
Collateral
20. In 2001 - the US Supreme Court held in Atwater v. Lago Vista that the 4th amendment did not ________ warrantless arrests for minor offenses.
Covert
Prohibit
Drunk
Improve
21. Citizen ______ and vigilante groups were the main means of policing the frontier and well-known figures who took up this challenge in the 19th Century include Wild Bill Hickok and Wyatt Earp.
Posses
Attrition
Policy
Drunk
22. 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
Enforcement
Hoover
Partnership
Parens
23. 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.
Previous
Los Angeles
4th
Blind
24. 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
Crime
Effectiveness
National
25. 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.
Racketeering
Reverse
Organized
Illegal
26. 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 ______.
3100
Lawfully
Violent
Sober
27. 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.
Obvious
Enabled
Runaway
FBI
28. 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
Response
Cooperation
Sober
29. The UCR has a hierarchy rule whereby multiple types of incidents can only be recorded as 1 incident. This is a _________ of the system.
Imprisonment
4th
Vollmer
Drawback
30. Since these crimes are usually not reported - in order to discover them - undercover work using devices such as _________ are utilized.
Danger
Medical
Wiretaps
Real problem
31. 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
Good-faith
Policy
Graduate
Administrative
32. 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
Mentally
Disturbance
4th
Organized
33. 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.
Limitations
Enabled
Racial
Jury
34. There are over _____ sheriff's departments in the US.
Representation
Without
Academies
3100
35. This is one of the reports produced by the FBI in its law _____________ role.
Imprisonment
Enforcement
Executions
4th
36. 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.
Executive
Pay
Adversarial
Lawfully
37. Between the data in the UCR and NCVS - most experts tend to prefer the ____.
Ten
Sober
NCVS
Unqualified
38. Domestic disturbances may be fuelled by alcohol and drug abuse - financial difficulties or many other reasons that are beyond the ________ of the officers.
Accident
Attrition
Control
Arrest
39. When considering detective productivity and _____________ - more important than the number of arrests is the quality of those arrests.
Sober
Protect
Effectiveness
Valid
40. 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.
Leon
Federal
Rabinowitz
Posses
41. 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.
Reverse
Education
Consecutive
Detectives
42. 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.
Violent
Self
Writ
Occupational
43. 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.
Reduced
Unqualified
Magistrate
Smaller
44. Under the 6th Amendment to the Constitution - every defendant has the right to a ____ trial.
Jury
Accident
Reverse
Real problem
45. Ballistics is the scientific _________ of firearms - ammunition - projectiles - bombs and explosives.
Security
Outside
Analysis
Consecutive
46. 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.
Cooperation
Reverse
Danger
Community
47. In 1837 - the slave patrol consisted of about 100 officers and they were responsible for finding ________ slaves and ensuring that they were well-behaved.
Runaway
Imprisonment
Representation
Good-faith
48. Wilson and Kelling believed that the broken window symbolized a deteriorating neighborhood and not repaired led to the eventual decline of an area - thereby encouraging criminal _________.
Protect
Activity
Los Angeles
Community
49. It can be argued that __________ officers possess an additional skill and therefore the extra pay can be justified on those grounds.
Bilingual
Covert
Supreme Court
Annually
50. It is interesting to note that the city of Detroit is the only state in which blacks rate the police force more ______ than their white counterparts.
Frequency
Searching
Escobedo
Highly
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