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






2. 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 _________.






3. Officers are allocated to specific shifts and patrol areas based on _________ or using a rotation system.






4. The CIA has operations officers and recruits ________ agents as part of their intelligence activities and this may involve covert operations.






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






6. This is one of the reports produced by the FBI in its law _____________ role.






7. 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.






8. Deterrence prevents crime through using an example or threat of ___________ to persuade the public against committing the crime.






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






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






11. 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 _______.






12. Since the 1980s - there have been some very public crackdowns on _____ driving but rates of this offence which creep down during the crackdown soon return to the original levels because the publicity forces a temporary change in behavior which is not






13. The majority of criminal cases do not go to trial but are instead settled via a plea _______.






14. 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.






15. 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.






16. 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.






17. This means that the court releases the suspect into their own custody or into the care of another. This occurs where the suspect poses a low flight risk and is not __________ to the community.






18. There are over _____ sheriff's departments in the US.






19. 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.






20. This is to ensure that ___________ with the administrative rules is maintained.






21. Campus police is probably the most important example of the special district police force. The also participate in the ____ program.






22. 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






23. Patrol is meant to reassure citizens that their environment is _____ and protected from crime.






24. The exclusionary rule relates to illegally seized evidence. In this case - the police searched and seized personal effects as well as incriminating evidence from the Defendant's house without a warrant. On the basis of this evidence - the Defendant w






25. 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






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






27. 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.






28. 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.






29. A critical function that the police play in society is crime __________ and this role is primarily executed through routine patrolling.






30. 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 ______.






31. 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.






32. Upon conviction - the defendant is punished through a sentence passed by the judge and if convicted of more than one crime - then may be subject to a ___________ or concurrent sentence.






33. Police training programs do suffer from ___________ - particularly as important areas such as domestic violence - ethics and police discretion - which are not usually covered






34. 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.






35. 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.






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






37. 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






38. The evidence had to be plainly in sight and even though the officers may have concluded that some items may have been located behind the ceiling panel; it was not in plain view and hence was ______________ as evidence. Furthermore - the officers are






39. 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.






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






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






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






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






44. 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.






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






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






47. 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 _






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






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






50. 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.