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DSST Introduction To Law Enforcement

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. In order to police __________ crimes - officers generally have to resort to undercover work.






2. The CIA is divided into 3 ____________ and 5 mission support offices (MSOs).






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






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






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






6. The next most critical factor that impacts on PCR after race and ethnicity is ___.






7. 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.






8. 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.






9. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






15. 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






16. 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.






17. In the 1950s training for police officers consisted mainly of firearm skill development but over the years - classroom training has emphasized criminal __________.






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






19. The Supreme Court created a good faith exception to the exclusionary rule when police officers use search warrants (US v. ____ - 1984).






20. 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.






21. In 1837 - the slave patrol consisted of about 100 officers and they were responsible for finding ________ slaves and ensuring that they were well-behaved.






22. 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 _______.






23. The courts of general jurisdiction utilize a fact-finding foundation known as the ___________ process which pits the State's interest - as represented by the prosecution against the Defendant's - as represented by defense counsel.






24. The local police cover a wide range of law enforcement agencies such as the municipal police - sheriff's departments - campus and _______ police.






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






26. 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.






27. The ________ stage of SARA refers to the creation of strategies based on the analyzed data to deal with the problem whereas the assessment stage requires an evaluation of the effectiveness of the response.






28. 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






29. 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.






30. 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.






31. 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.






32. 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.






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






34. 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






35. Community policing is widely implemented in the US today but critics are concerned that the police role of crime control has been hijacked - the police are increasingly getting involved at a political level and ________________ will lead to the loss






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






37. 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.






38. The controversial 'broken window' theory made the connection between disorder - neighborhood decay and _____.






39. 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.






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






41. A warrant is a _____ issued by the court to justify the arrest of a suspect. It offers protection to the officer executing the warrant against damages; for example for wrongful arrest.






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






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






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






45. There is usually a degree of competition between detectives and _______ officers. The latter sometimes withhold information in the hope of beating detectives to solving a case.






46. 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.






47. Criminalistics relies on __________ to analyze firearms and munitions as well as various forensic techniques to determine issues such as time of death.






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 UCR has a hierarchy rule whereby multiple types of incidents can only be recorded as 1 incident. This is a _________ of the system.






50. The 911 communications center is the _____ of a modern police department.