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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 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.






2. Parens patriae is Latin for 'the ______ as parent'.






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






4. The FBI has the responsibility to investigate - analyze and neutralize any potential terrorist threats and to investigate and analyze terrorist __________ in the US.






5. 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






6. The first ___ amendments of the Constitution are commonly called the Bill of Rights and offer the individual considerable protection in the criminal justice system.






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






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






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






10. Able-bodied men who could hear the commotion caused by the victim were obliged to form a posse and join the shire reeve (term from which ________ is derived) or mounted officer in pursuit of the offender.






11. 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






12. Some legal experts believe that police discretion should be abolished because it is _______.






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






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






15. 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.






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






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






18. In order to police __________ crimes - officers generally have to resort to undercover work.






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






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






21. 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.






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






23. This may also be called '________ officer.' The investigative nature of their jobs has resulted in their classification as a local law enforcement agency.






24. 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.






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






26. Field training consists of practical on-the-job training with a __________ field training officer.






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






28. When the offender was apprehended by the posse - trials were rarely held and public __________ were held to dispense justice.






29. In this case - the police applied for and obtained a search warrant from a magistrate for the Defendant's homes. Drugs were found there and the Defendant convicted. He appealed on the grounds that the original affidavit drawn up to obtain the search






30. Decentralization means reduced _____________ of rank and file officers who have greater discretion in making decisions.






31. 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.






32. 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






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






34. 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.






35. 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






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






37. 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






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






39. Training is one of the roles a ______-level enforcement agency usually engages in.






40. 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.






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






42. 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.






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






44. In this case - the Defendants were suspected of evading taxes but they refused to hand over their company books. An illegal search and seizure was performed and the books returned soon after - when the Defendant's lawyer objected. At the trial - the






45. 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.






46. Increasing ___________ and reducing competition between patrol officers and detectives as well as improving police-citizen relationships are 2 important methods of enhancing the quality of investigative work.






47. Another source of PCR tension is discriminatory employment practices of the ______ force.






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






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






50. 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