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DSST Introduction To Law Enforcement
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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 ______.
Posse
Escobedo
Pay
Sober
2. Domestic disturbances may be fuelled by alcohol and drug abuse - financial difficulties or many other reasons that are beyond the ________ of the officers.
Reaffirm
Outside
Dangerous
Control
3. 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
Slave
Due process
Prevention
4. 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.
Lawfully
Good-faith
Victimless
Communities
5. Campus police is probably the most important example of the special district police force. The also participate in the ____ program.
Accident
Representation
Detectives
UCR
6. 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.
Rabinowitz
Containment
Collateral
Magistrate
7. 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.
Police
Pay
Consent
Increase
8. It is believed that the average citizen plays a vital part in the ________________ of officers.
Accountability
Racketeering
Without
Annually
9. Another source of PCR tension is discriminatory employment practices of the ______ force.
Police
Protect
Illegal
Cooperation
10. August Vollmer believed that policing standards needed to be improved and corruption stamped out. He advocated training and __________ for officers.
Sheriff
Education
Bribes
Runaway
11. Deterrence prevents crime through using an example or threat of ___________ to persuade the public against committing the crime.
Punishment
Violent
Drawback
Drunk
12. Some departments allow for bidding of new patrol areas once or twice _________.
Communities
Compliance
Supervision
Annually
13. This has resulted in an under ________________ of blacks - women and ethnic minorities in the police force.
Containment
Representation
Forfeited
Ballistics
14. Prospective police officers are trained at police _________ - with the average pre-service training program lasting about 1000 hours.
Classroom
Blind
Written
Academies
15. 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.
FBI
Escobedo
Danger
Illegal
16. 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
Transit
Fragmented
17. The first ___ amendments to the Constitution are called the Bill of Rights. They were created to restrict government actions against the individual.
Ten
Policy
State
Writ
18. The role of the police academy is to provide formal training - root out ___________ recruits and immerse the trainees in the police subculture.
Cause
Unqualified
Limitations
Consent
19. The next most critical factor that impacts on PCR after race and ethnicity is ___.
Age
Compliance
Election
Blind
20. 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
Los Angeles
Pendleton
Decentralization
Reduced
21. 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.
Breached
Enabled
Written
Ten
22. The majority of criminal cases do not go to trial but are instead settled via a plea _______.
UCR
Dangerous
Bargain
Drunk
23. 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.
Effectiveness
Bribes
Forfeited
Obvious
24. 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.
Attrition
Heart
Blind
Weeks
25. This occurs where criminal and non-criminal actions are used by an officer in the course of his/her working activities or committed when pretending it is within his/her ___________ police authority. An example is sleeping on the job or a racial slur
Escobedo
Legitimate
Posses
Illegally
26. 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.
Valid
Escobedo
Investigations
Detectives
27. The 1980s and 1990s saw the creation of _______ oversight of police groups to monitor or investigate complaints by individuals against police actions.
Directorates
Enforcement
Magistrate
Citizen
28. The spoils system refers to firing supporters of the opponent and replacing them with one's own supporters upon ________.
Election
Response
Mentally
Los Angeles
29. 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
Jury
Ten
Escobedo
30. 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 __________.
Organized
Forfeited
Sheriff
Punishment
31. The CIA has operations officers and recruits ________ agents as part of their intelligence activities and this may involve covert operations.
Fragmented
Pay
Foreign
Qualified
32. When the offender was apprehended by the posse - trials were rarely held and public __________ were held to dispense justice.
Cause
Reports
Executions
Wilson
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.
Without
Previous
Racial
Bribes
34. 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
Compliance
Professionalization
Patrol
Jury
35. A critical function that the police play in society is crime __________ and this role is primarily executed through routine patrolling.
Annually
Heart
Prevention
Reverse
36. By dealing with the underlying issues - for example mental health or financial service problems - then a solution may be found to get them off the street and back into a more ___________ existence.
National
Mainstream
Special
Activity
37. Parens patriae is Latin for 'the ______ as parent'.
Decentralization
Self
State
Annually
38. 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.
FBI
Smaller
Organized
Violence
39. 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.
Cause
Reverse
Increase
Procedure
40. The exclusionary rule was modified by the __________ exception in the US Supreme Court decision of US v. Leon (1984).
Victimization
Consent
Special
Good-faith
41. The first landmark case that forms the foundation of the exclusionary rule is the US Supreme court decision of _____ v US (1914).
Same time
Control
Federal
Weeks
42. A centralized state-level agency - which merges patrol with ______________ will usually assist in local criminal investigations when asked - patrol the state's highways - operate identification bureaus - manage criminal records and provide training t
Same time
State
Leon
Investigations
43. Officers are allocated to specific shifts and patrol areas based on _________ or using a rotation system.
Seniority
Jury
Supervision
Technology
44. Officers are commonly offered bribes to let suspects go or to turn a blind eye to ________ activities.
Sober
Illegal
Response
Racial
45. 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.
State
Victimization
Heart
Foreign
46. The CID within the FBI is responsible for organized crime - violent crime - ____________ and money laundering.
Copies
Posses
Forfeited
Racketeering
47. The written policies method is called '________________ rule-making' and it is presently the most popular method of controlling discretion.
Community
Improperly
Administrative
Disturbance
48. The 911 communications center is the _____ of a modern police department.
Slow
Cause
Enforcement
Heart
49. In the 1950s training for police officers consisted mainly of firearm skill development but over the years - classroom training has emphasized criminal __________.
Los Angeles
Blind
Improve
Procedures
50. The UCR has a hierarchy rule whereby multiple types of incidents can only be recorded as 1 incident. This is a _________ of the system.
Slow
Drawback
Mainstream
NCVS