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DSST Introduction To Law Enforcement
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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.
Representation
Victimless
Attrition
Magistrate
2. Officers have very broad discretion - yet this subject is _______ taught or sufficiently taught to better aid the officers in making an appropriate decision.
Slow
Ballistics
Seniority
Rarely
3. 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.
Drunk
Writ
Previous
Citizen
4. There are over _____ sheriff's departments in the US.
Danger
3100
Wilson
Foreign
5. 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.
Academies
Transit
FBI
Lawfully
6. The first landmark case that forms the foundation of the exclusionary rule is the US Supreme court decision of _____ v US (1914).
Subculture
Consent
Weeks
Executive
7. The _________ Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS)is the term coined for this annual study.
National
Cause
Organized
Los Angeles
8. 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
Election
Citizen
Poor
Directorates
9. 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
Imprisonment
Escobedo
Attrition
Response
10. Law enforcement in the US is extremely large and ___________ and hence this many agencies currently exist.
Enforcement
Posse
Fragmented
Organized
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.
17000
Transit
Special
Bribes
12. 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
Slow
Guns
Partnership
Poor
13. A concurrent sentence is one that is served at the __________ as another sentence.
Compliance
Wilson
Procedure
Same time
14. The exclusionary rule was modified by the __________ exception in the US Supreme Court decision of US v. Leon (1984).
Attrition
Highly
Good-faith
Education
15. 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
Lawfully
Improperly
Accident
Racial
16. The office of coroner is considered a local law enforcement agency because they determine the cause of _____ of victims and perpetrators in criminal cases.
Enforcement
Special
Response
Death
17. By dealing with the underlying issues - for example mental health or financial service problems - then a solution may be found to get them off the street and back into a more ___________ existence.
Directorates
Mainstream
Racketeering
Procedure
18. The local police cover a wide range of law enforcement agencies such as the municipal police - sheriff's departments - campus and _______ police.
Transit
Prohibit
Inadmissible
Safe
19. 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.
Victimization
Patrol
Poor
Organized
20. The 3 purposes of patrol are to deter crime - increase feelings of public ________ and prepare officers for service through effective dispersal in the neighborhood.
Increase
Security
Lawfully
Forfeited
21. The 3 CIA directorates are the directorate of Intelligence - directorate of Operations and the directorate of Science and ___________.
Suspicion
Technology
Increase
Runaway
22. This may also be called '________ officer.' The investigative nature of their jobs has resulted in their classification as a local law enforcement agency.
Rabinowitz
Accountability
Enabled
Medical
23. The most organized and distinctly American officer force was the _____ patrol based in Charleston - South Carolina.
Bribes
Victimization
Wiretaps
Slave
24. 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
Cooperation
Valid
Forfeited
Effectiveness
25. Criminalistics relies on __________ to analyze firearms and munitions as well as various forensic techniques to determine issues such as time of death.
Dangerous
Ballistics
Covert
Posses
26. When considering detective productivity and _____________ - more important than the number of arrests is the quality of those arrests.
Bilingual
Effectiveness
Imprisonment
Cooperation
27. 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.
Good-faith
UCR
Parens
Consent
28. 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.
Without
Safe
Ballistics
State
29. The spoils system refers to firing supporters of the opponent and replacing them with one's own supporters upon ________.
Previous
Illegally
Classroom
Election
30. The CIA has operations officers and recruits ________ agents as part of their intelligence activities and this may involve covert operations.
Foreign
Danger
Frequency
Incidents
31. Some departments allow for bidding of new patrol areas once or twice _________.
Outside
Prevention
Rabinowitz
Annually
32. This is training in relation to _____________ rules and was spurred by the decisions of the US Supreme Court in the 1960s.
Reaffirm
Increase
Due process
Dangerous
33. Prospective police officers are trained at police _________ - with the average pre-service training program lasting about 1000 hours.
Transit
Academies
Imprisonment
Warrant
34. 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 _
Adversarial
Due process
Real problem
Dangerous
35. 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.
Response
Supervision
Racial
Covert
36. This is widely recognized as a police role - though they do share the burden with other institutions such as schools and _____________.
Academies
Jury
Communities
Ballistics
37. 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
Adversarial
Reduced
Posse
Without
38. Campus police is probably the most important example of the special district police force. The also participate in the ____ program.
Police
Real problem
UCR
Slow
39. Ballistics is the scientific _________ of firearms - ammunition - projectiles - bombs and explosives.
Analysis
Policy
Prevention
Protect
40. 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.
Drunk
Annually
Pay
Wilson
41. _________ policing took off in the 1980s and 1990s - with the realization that the police could not fight crime on their own.
Community
Executions
Death
Previous
42. 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 _______.
Lawfully
Previous
Justice
Activity
43. This was the bright-line rule (one that can ______ be crossed) that emerged from this case.
Never
Containment
Foreign
Procedure
44. 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.
Directorates
Protect
Real problem
Copies
45. Research has revealed that in about 80% of such situations - no formal action - such as _______ was necessary.
Pay
Representation
Arrest
State
46. 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
Security
Illegally
Blind
Executions
47. Apart from reducing crime - the mission of community policing is to _______ the trend of the negative public perception of the police
Posses
Younger
Reverse
Subculture
48. 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
Professionalization
Magistrate
Activity
Inadmissible
49. The Uniform Crime Reports (UCR) is an annualized report published by the ___ that states the statistical rate of reported crime in the US based on data from police reports.
Highly
FBI
Prevention
Without
50. The next most critical factor that impacts on PCR after race and ethnicity is ___.
Enforcement
Warrant
Age
Technology