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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 has resulted in an under ________________ of blacks - women and ethnic minorities in the police force.
Representation
Medical
Illegally
Pay
2. The role of the police academy is to provide formal training - root out ___________ recruits and immerse the trainees in the police subculture.
Response
3100
Unqualified
17000
3. The written policies method is called '________________ rule-making' and it is presently the most popular method of controlling discretion.
Pendleton
Wiretaps
Forfeited
Administrative
4. Officers have very broad discretion - yet this subject is _______ taught or sufficiently taught to better aid the officers in making an appropriate decision.
Rarely
Ten
Disturbance
Community
5. _________ policing took off in the 1980s and 1990s - with the realization that the police could not fight crime on their own.
Executive
Inadmissible
Community
3100
6. Parens patriae is Latin for 'the ______ as parent'.
Pay
Special
State
Disturbance
7. 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.
FBI
Consecutive
Parens
Reports
8. ____ did not become regulated officer equipment until the late 19th Century.
Guns
3100
Slave
Cause
9. One of the major problems facing patrol officers is high-speed pursuits is a high ________ rate.
Without
Age
Accident
Policy
10. 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 _________.
Activity
Seniority
Bargain
Collateral
11. The next most critical factor that impacts on PCR after race and ethnicity is ___.
Age
Bribes
Written
Protect
12. It can be argued that __________ officers possess an additional skill and therefore the extra pay can be justified on those grounds.
Bilingual
Executive
Response
Cooperation
13. 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.
Pay
Danger
UCR
Foreign
14. 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.
Parens
Control
Election
Bribes
15. The UCR has a hierarchy rule whereby multiple types of incidents can only be recorded as 1 incident. This is a _________ of the system.
Containment
Supreme Court
Drawback
Patrol
16. This is widely recognized as a police role - though they do share the burden with other institutions such as schools and _____________.
Communities
Citizen
Annually
Illegal
17. 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.
Security
Highly
3100
UCR
18. This is one of the reports produced by the FBI in its law _____________ role.
Enforcement
Cause
Attrition
Wiretaps
19. The NCVS Survey is a yearly study by the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) of specific households to determine the level of criminal _____________ - particularly unreported victimization - in the US.
Violence
4th
Victimization
Compliance
20. The CIA is divided into 3 ____________ and 5 mission support offices (MSOs).
Suspicion
Smaller
Directorates
Mainstream
21. Apart from reducing crime - the mission of community policing is to _______ the trend of the negative public perception of the police
Reverse
FBI
Community
Activity
22. 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.
Organized
Compliance
Obvious
UCR
23. 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 _______.
Imprisonment
Writ
Justice
Good-faith
24. One of the most controversial incidents in recent American police history occurred in ___________ in 1991 when officers subdued Rodney King using considerable force; resulting in 2 criminal trials and a riot that seriously damaged PCR for several yea
Los Angeles
Pay
Legitimate
Warrant
25. 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
Violent
Age
Drunk
Without
26. This was the ruling of the court. Many commentators were surprised but the court decided that although arrest for trivial offences (in this case a seat belt violation) may be embarrassing - it was not so extraordinary as to breach the ____ amendment
Highly
Parens
Posses
4th
27. 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.
Bribes
Uphold
Younger
Pendleton
28. Police training programs do suffer from ___________ - particularly as important areas such as domestic violence - ethics and police discretion - which are not usually covered
Patrol
Posse
Limitations
Decentralization
29. 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.
Violent
Federal
Containment
Supreme Court
30. Under the 6th Amendment to the Constitution - every defendant has the right to a ____ trial.
Slave
Jury
Illegally
Magistrate
31. Apart from police corruption - another form of police deviance is ____________ deviance.
Fragmented
Partnership
Containment
Occupational
32. Another word for uphold is _________. This is the result for most appellate court decisions whereby they confirm the decision of the lower court.
Forfeited
Reaffirm
Sheriff
Black
33. 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.
Serving
Organized
Patrol
Pendleton
34. Officers at the academy undergo _________ training and most academies also offer field training.
Posse
Posses
Classroom
Special
35. Individuals have the right to live in their homes peacefully and not be subjected to unreasonable searches and seizures by virtue of the ___ amendment.
Crime
4th
Effectiveness
Mentally
36. Between the data in the UCR and NCVS - most experts tend to prefer the ____.
Real problem
NCVS
Escobedo
Reports
37. Deterrence prevents crime through using an example or threat of ___________ to persuade the public against committing the crime.
Graduate
Foreign
Punishment
Technology
38. 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.
Self
Parens
Real problem
Heart
39. This was the step taken in 1965 to remedy _________ discrimination.
Decentralization
Professionalization
Sober
Previous
40. The exclusionary rule was extended by the US Supreme Court in the case of Silverthorne Lumber Co. v. US (1920) - which held that ______ of illegally seized evidence were inadmissible in court.
Incidents
Copies
Highly
Death
41. Training is one of the roles a ______-level enforcement agency usually engages in.
Slow
Bilingual
State
Guns
42. Racial profiling is the practice of stopping and or __________ a person not because of any suspected criminal activity but because of that person's race.
Heart
Posse
Searching
Rabinowitz
43. Officers are allocated to specific shifts and patrol areas based on _________ or using a rotation system.
Transit
Seniority
Never
Serving
44. 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
Graduate
Reports
Decentralization
45. 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.
Bureaucracy
Parens
Violent
Writ
46. The first landmark case that forms the foundation of the exclusionary rule is the US Supreme court decision of _____ v US (1914).
Weeks
Illegal
Improperly
NCVS
47. This is the definition of bail. If the suspect fails to appear for the next court hearing - then the money or property pledged may be __________.
Victimless
Consent
Patrol
Forfeited
48. 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
Violent
Younger
Bribes
Runaway
49. 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
Ten
Increase
17000
Legitimate
50. 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
Breached
Partnership
Decentralization
Victimization