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DSST Introduction To Law Enforcement
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. It can be argued that __________ officers possess an additional skill and therefore the extra pay can be justified on those grounds.
Enabled
Policy
Improve
Bilingual
2. The CIA has operations officers and recruits ________ agents as part of their intelligence activities and this may involve covert operations.
Bargain
Partnership
Foreign
Reaffirm
3. 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.
State
FBI
State
Black
4. 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.
Prevention
Special
Jury
Effectiveness
5. 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 _________.
Improve
Activity
Ballistics
Serving
6. 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.
Executive
Qualified
Feedback
Collateral
7. The role of the police academy is to provide formal training - root out ___________ recruits and immerse the trainees in the police subculture.
Sheriff
Adversarial
Unqualified
Mainstream
8. This is to ensure that ___________ with the administrative rules is maintained.
NCVS
FBI
Compliance
Younger
9. This is due to the dominance of the local political structure by ______ persons. Detroit has had a black mayor since 1973 and the police force is dominated by black persons. Thus - the black community can better relate with their local police
Increase
Heart
Black
Cooperation
10. 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.
Classroom
Written
Smaller
Investigations
11. The police ___________ of secrecy - public hostility and solidarity meant they were very isolated from the community - especially the black community.
Subculture
Inadmissible
Illegally
Activity
12. 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.
Foreign
Outside
Forfeited
Lawfully
13. 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
Investigations
Slow
Self
Illegally
14. The 1980s and 1990s saw the creation of _______ oversight of police groups to monitor or investigate complaints by individuals against police actions.
Annually
Bargain
Response
Citizen
15. Officers appointed to carry out investigative work are known as __________.
Improperly
Detectives
Outside
Dangerous
16. 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.
Drunk
Education
Bribes
Searching
17. 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.
Racial
Improve
Written
Ballistics
18. The police receive a sizeable number of calls about ________ ill persons and in exercising their discretion these matters are normally dealt with through arrest - hospitalization or informal disposition.
Representation
Racketeering
Mentally
Ten
19. Parens patriae is Latin for 'the ______ as parent'.
Investigations
Drunk
Written
State
20. Sheriff departments are usually responsible for _______ court papers - civil summons - and managing security in state courtrooms.
Reports
Serving
Age
Enforcement
21. Decentralization means reduced _____________ of rank and file officers who have greater discretion in making decisions.
Supervision
Citizen
Illegally
Previous
22. The UCR has a hierarchy rule whereby multiple types of incidents can only be recorded as 1 incident. This is a _________ of the system.
Illegal
Pay
Technology
Drawback
23. Under the 6th Amendment to the Constitution - every defendant has the right to a ____ trial.
Procedures
Analysis
Consent
Jury
24. 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
Containment
Protect
3100
Partnership
25. 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
Professionalization
Ten
State
26. August Vollmer believed that policing standards needed to be improved and corruption stamped out. He advocated training and __________ for officers.
Organized
Magistrate
Weeks
Education
27. The _________ Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS)is the term coined for this annual study.
4th
Organized
Enforcement
National
28. This was the bright-line rule (one that can ______ be crossed) that emerged from this case.
Attrition
Never
Enabled
4th
29. When the offender was apprehended by the posse - trials were rarely held and public __________ were held to dispense justice.
Compliance
Executions
Forfeited
Same time
30. The next most critical factor that impacts on PCR after race and ethnicity is ___.
Poor
Death
Same time
Age
31. 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
Violence
Executions
Imprisonment
Bargain
32. 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
Hoover
Leon
Black
Improperly
33. Due to an increase in _________ and disorder by citizens - officers turned to weaponry to protect themselves.
Reduced
Violence
Citizen
Occupational
34. 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
Searching
Age
Foreign
Disturbance
35. This has resulted in an under ________________ of blacks - women and ethnic minorities in the police force.
Representation
Effectiveness
FBI
Frequency
36. The written policies method is called '________________ rule-making' and it is presently the most popular method of controlling discretion.
Administrative
Legitimate
Rarely
Executive
37. This is the venue for police training and the value of training has experienced a dramatic _________ in status since its inception.
Organized
Increase
Victimless
FBI
38. Officers may feel that the rules are there to catch them out and that the system mistrusts them. This may encourage officers to work at a deliberately _____ pace.
Subculture
National
Slow
Response
39. This is widely recognized as a police role - though they do share the burden with other institutions such as schools and _____________.
Good-faith
Breached
Communities
Illegal
40. Individuals have the right to live in their homes peacefully and not be subjected to unreasonable searches and seizures by virtue of the ___ amendment.
4th
Never
Limitations
Smaller
41. The professionalization movement started by Vollmer was nurtured by his prot
Good-faith
Breached
Wilson
Crime
42. The majority of criminal cases do not go to trial but are instead settled via a plea _______.
Punishment
Organized
Ballistics
Bargain
43. Apart from police corruption - another form of police deviance is ____________ deviance.
Graduate
Rarely
Occupational
Heart
44. Apart from reducing crime - the mission of community policing is to _______ the trend of the negative public perception of the police
Professionalization
Reverse
Classroom
State
45. Their perception of the amount of danger faced in their jobs results in the development of constant __________ of people
Subculture
Federal
Suspicion
Written
46. This was the step taken in 1965 to remedy _________ discrimination.
Due process
Previous
Unqualified
Forfeited
47. This is training in relation to _____________ rules and was spurred by the decisions of the US Supreme Court in the 1960s.
Graduate
Organized
Security
Due process
48. 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.
Ballistics
Parens
Victimization
Real problem
49. They believe that _____-reporting provides more accurate information than police reports.
Policy
Vollmer
Self
Covert
50. Field training consists of practical on-the-job training with a __________ field training officer.
Cause
Communities
Containment
Qualified