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DSST Introduction To Law Enforcement

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Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. This is to ensure that ___________ with the administrative rules is maintained.






2. 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.






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






4. 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.






5. 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






6. 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






7. 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.






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






9. 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.






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






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






12. 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.






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






14. The drawbacks of the administrative rule-making route are that they can never cover every conceivable situation; it may promote lying - avoidance - confusion and a negative ________ from officers.






15. _________ policing took off in the 1980s and 1990s - with the realization that the police could not fight crime on their own.






16. When an appellate court is asked to review a judgment - they may ______ it - require the lower court to set it aside or modify it.






17. 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.






18. 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.






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






20. The first landmark case that forms the foundation of the exclusionary rule is the US Supreme court decision of _____ v US (1914).






21. 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.






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






23. The professionalization movement started by Vollmer was nurtured by his prot






24. In serious cases - this may be the outcome. However - hospital care for the mentally ill is very disjointed and it may be difficult to hospitalize a person without their ________. Also - these hospitals or shelters may refuse to admit these patients.






25. After the arrest - suspects are brought before a __________ for their first appearance so that the charges brought against them can be read out and if appropriate they may be released on their own recognizance.






26. 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.






27. 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.






28. The first ___ amendments to the Constitution are called the Bill of Rights. They were created to restrict government actions against the individual.






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






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






31. Research into police work and activities conducted between the 1950s and 1970s concluded that police-community relations were very ____ and officers regularly breached legal rules






32. J Edgar ______ - the Director of the FBI in the 1930s had a critical impact on local policing in setting educational and training models for officers - the development of the Uniform Crime Reports (UCR) and the establishment of the FBI crime lab.






33. Police subculture is determined by the potential of ______ and because of this they stereotype certain categories of persons - such as low-income males - as possible threats.






34. Law enforcement in the US is extremely large and ___________ and hence this many agencies currently exist.






35. 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.






36. It is believed that the average citizen plays a vital part in the ________________ of officers.






37. 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 _






38. 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






39. ____ did not become regulated officer equipment until the late 19th Century.






40. The rights of the accused (and of prisoners) have been defined mostly through the _______________'s interpretation of the Bill of Rights.






41. 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.






42. August Vollmer believed that policing standards needed to be improved and corruption stamped out. He advocated training and __________ for officers.






43. 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






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






45. 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.






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






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






48. The 1980s and 1990s saw the creation of _______ oversight of police groups to monitor or investigate complaints by individuals against police actions.






49. 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






50. The office of coroner is considered a local law enforcement agency because they determine the cause of _____ of victims and perpetrators in criminal cases.