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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 was the only way they could ________ themselves and their property from the bandits. They did try to apply the accepted standards of decency of the day to their actions.






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






3. 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.






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






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






6. Another word for uphold is _________. This is the result for most appellate court decisions whereby they confirm the decision of the lower court.






7. 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.






8. 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.






9. 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.






10. 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.






11. 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.






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






13. There was no __________ form of criminal justice law in those days. Guilt was assumed; the execution carried out and accepted by all as an act of retribution.






14. 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.






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






16. The police ___________ of secrecy - public hostility and solidarity meant they were very isolated from the community - especially the black community.






17. Prospective police officers are trained at police _________ - with the average pre-service training program lasting about 1000 hours.






18. The _________ Act passed by Congress in 1883 put an end to Andrew Jackson's 'spoils system -' and created a system of hiring government employees based on their qualifications.






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






20. Officers are commonly offered bribes to let suspects go or to turn a blind eye to ________ activities.






21. One of the major problems facing patrol officers is high-speed pursuits is a high ________ rate.






22. When a 911 call comes in - the operator answers it - makes a decision whether to send out a patrol car and then informs the dispatcher who then communicates the details to the ______ officer.






23. Apart from reducing crime - the mission of community policing is to _______ the trend of the negative public perception of the police






24. This has resulted in an under ________________ of blacks - women and ethnic minorities in the police force.






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






26. 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.






27. 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






28. 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 _






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






30. The county level of government supplies citizens with police services - for example the county ________.






31. 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 _______.






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






33. 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.






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






35. 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.






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






37. 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.






38. A concurrent sentence is one that is served at the __________ as another sentence.






39. Officers at the academy undergo _________ training and most academies also offer field training.






40. The 3 purposes of patrol are to deter crime - increase feelings of public ________ and prepare officers for service through effective dispersal in the neighborhood.






41. 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.






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






43. When considering detective productivity and _____________ - more important than the number of arrests is the quality of those arrests.






44. 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






45. The CID within the FBI is responsible for organized crime - violent crime - ____________ and money laundering.






46. 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.






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






48. 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.






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






50. 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.