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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. Domestic disturbances may be fuelled by alcohol and drug abuse - financial difficulties or many other reasons that are beyond the ________ of the officers.






2. 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






3. This is widely recognized as a police role - though they do share the burden with other institutions such as schools and _____________.






4. 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






5. This has resulted in an under ________________ of blacks - women and ethnic minorities in the police force.






6. Criminalistics relies on __________ to analyze firearms and munitions as well as various forensic techniques to determine issues such as time of death.






7. Apart from reducing crime - the mission of community policing is to _______ the trend of the negative public perception of the police






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






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






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






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






12. 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.






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






14. Sheriff departments are usually responsible for _______ court papers - civil summons - and managing security in state courtrooms.






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






16. Since these crimes are usually not reported - in order to discover them - undercover work using devices such as _________ are utilized.






17. 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






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






19. The first ___ amendments to the Constitution are called the Bill of Rights. They were created to restrict government actions against the individual.






20. 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






21. In dealing with federal criminal law enforcement - the duty of the FBI upon investigation is to gather evidence and perform personnel investigations - especially in major programs such as _________ crime and white-collar crime.






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






23. 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.






24. 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.






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






26. 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






27. This is due to the dominance of the local political structure by ______ persons. Detroit has had a black mayor since 1973 and the police force is dominated by black persons. Thus - the black community can better relate with their local police






28. The _________ Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS)is the term coined for this annual study.






29. 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.






30. 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.






31. 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.






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






33. There is usually a degree of competition between detectives and _______ officers. The latter sometimes withhold information in the hope of beating detectives to solving a case.






34. Officers at the academy undergo _________ training and most academies also offer field training.






35. A centralized state-level agency - which merges patrol with ______________ will usually assist in local criminal investigations when asked - patrol the state's highways - operate identification bureaus - manage criminal records and provide training t






36. 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.






37. 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.






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






39. 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.






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.






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






42. There are around _____ federal - state and local law enforcement agencies in the US.






43. Tensions between the police and racial minorities continue despite the many advances made since the 1960s; major complaints are still made regularly and these include use of excessive force and ______ profiling.






44. 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.






45. In US v. Irizarry (1982) - the US Supreme Court held that evidence found above a ceiling panel that was out of place was _______ the scope of the plain-view doctrine






46. 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 _






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






48. The spoils system is greatly reduced in modern politics - though not entirely eliminated. Most ________ workers do not have to be concerned about losing their jobs when a new party takes office.






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






50. 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