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DSST Introduction To Law Enforcement

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The UCR statistics are used to create the FBI Crime Clock which creates a picture of crime _________ in the US.






2. Various studies have shown that these pursuits have between an 18% to 33% chance of resulting in an accident. As a consequence - many departments have a restrictive - discouraging or discretionary _______ regarding high-speed pursuits for officers to






3. 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.






4. This is because patrol consists of the majority of police work and this is ________ through the police communications network - which is triggered by 911 calls.






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






6. 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






7. The written policies method is called '________________ rule-making' and it is presently the most popular method of controlling discretion.






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






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






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






11. 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.






12. 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.






13. 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.






14. 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 ______.






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






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.






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






18. 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.






19. 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






20. 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.






21. The ________ rule was further emphasized in Edwards v. Arizona (1981) - when the court prohibited investigators from continuing questioning once the suspect has requested an attorney.






22. 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.






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 _______.






24. 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.






25. Due to an increase in _________ and disorder by citizens - officers turned to weaponry to protect themselves.






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






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






28. 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.






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






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






31. A limited amount of streetwalking is tolerated if it is restricted to a particular part of town - usually a business district and it is not too ________.






32. 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






33. 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






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. 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.






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






37. 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.






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






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






40. 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 _






41. Their perception of the amount of danger faced in their jobs results in the development of constant __________ of people






42. 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.






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






44. 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.






45. 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






46. _________ policing took off in the 1980s and 1990s - with the realization that the police could not fight crime on their own.






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






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






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






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