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DSST Introduction To Law Enforcement

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Decentralization means reduced _____________ of rank and file officers who have greater discretion in making decisions.






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






3. They believe that _____-reporting provides more accurate information than police reports.






4. There is no _________ method of centralized policing in the US as police services are provided by the 4 levels of government which are the city - county - state and federal levels.






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






6. 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






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






8. The rights of the accused (and of prisoners) have been defined mostly through the _______________'s interpretation of the Bill of Rights.






9. 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






10. 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 __________.






11. 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






12. 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.






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






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






15. 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






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






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






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






19. 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






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






21. This was the step taken in 1965 to remedy _________ discrimination.






22. 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






23. 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.






24. 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.






25. Prospective police officers are trained at police _________ - with the average pre-service training program lasting about 1000 hours.






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






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






28. The CID within the FBI is responsible for organized crime - violent crime - ____________ and money laundering.






29. 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.






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






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






33. The next most critical factor that impacts on PCR after race and ethnicity is ___.






34. 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






35. Apart from police corruption - another form of police deviance is ____________ deviance.






36. 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.






37. It is believed that the average citizen plays a vital part in the ________________ of officers.






38. The most organized and distinctly American officer force was the _____ patrol based in Charleston - South Carolina.






39. 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.






40. J Edgar ______ - the Director of the FBI in the 1930s had a critical impact on local policing in setting educational and training models for officers - the development of the Uniform Crime Reports (UCR) and the establishment of the FBI crime lab.






41. 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






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






43. The public perception of the police is of a distant and alienated law enforcement unit. Through community policing - police-community relations should ________ as the public have a greater stake and say in their problems and needs.






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






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






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






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






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






49. 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 _






50. Officers are allocated to specific shifts and patrol areas based on _________ or using a rotation system.