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DSST Introduction To Law Enforcement

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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.






2. 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.






3. 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






4. The CIA also engages in ______ operations sanctioned by the President as part of their role in ensuring national security.






5. This is the right granted under the Constitution but the Supreme Court has held that it can be exercised only for offences carrying a term of ______________ exceeding 6 months or where the extra penalties such as fines and community service are suffi






6. 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.






7. 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.






8. 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.






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






10. 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.






11. 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.






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






13. The role of the police academy is to provide formal training - root out ___________ recruits and immerse the trainees in the police subculture.






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






15. 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






16. 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 _






17. This was the step taken in 1965 to remedy _________ discrimination.






18. 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.






19. This is the term coined to describe this diagrammatic representation. It differentiates between ________ crimes such as murder and rape and property crime such as burglary and arson.






20. 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






21. A critical function that the police play in society is crime __________ and this role is primarily executed through routine patrolling.






22. 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.






23. One of the most controversial incidents in recent American police history occurred in ___________ in 1991 when officers subdued Rodney King using considerable force; resulting in 2 criminal trials and a riot that seriously damaged PCR for several yea






24. 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.






25. 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.






26. Bail describes the circumstance when suspects are released from custody but on condition that money or property is offered as __________ against flight.






27. This was the bright-line rule (one that can ______ be crossed) that emerged from this case.






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






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






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






31. This is one of the main functions of the police academy and ensures that unsuitable recruits do not make it as officers. About 10% of recruits do not _________ from the academy.






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






33. 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.






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






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






36. 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






37. Under the 6th Amendment to the Constitution - every defendant has the right to a ____ trial.






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






39. There are around _____ federal - state and local law enforcement agencies in the US.






40. In order to police __________ crimes - officers generally have to resort to undercover work.






41. 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.






42. 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.






43. This describes the Pendleton Act. This was a big step in the government becoming the huge _____________ it is today.






44. 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






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






46. The written policies method is called '________________ rule-making' and it is presently the most popular method of controlling discretion.






47. 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.






48. Deterrence prevents crime through using an example or threat of ___________ to persuade the public against committing the crime.






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






50. Patrol is meant to reassure citizens that their environment is _____ and protected from crime.