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DSST Introduction To Law Enforcement

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. They believe that _____-reporting provides more accurate information than police reports.






2. 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.






3. 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






4. The police receive a sizeable number of calls about ________ ill persons and in exercising their discretion these matters are normally dealt with through arrest - hospitalization or informal disposition.






5. 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






6. 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.






7. Ballistics is the scientific _________ of firearms - ammunition - projectiles - bombs and explosives.






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






9. 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.






10. 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.






11. 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






12. When an appellate court is asked to review a judgment - they may ______ it - require the lower court to set it aside or modify it.






13. 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.






14. 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 _






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






16. 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






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






18. 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.






19. 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.






20. 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.






21. The professionalization movement started by Vollmer was nurtured by his prot






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






23. The courts of general jurisdiction utilize a fact-finding foundation known as the ___________ process which pits the State's interest - as represented by the prosecution against the Defendant's - as represented by defense counsel.






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






25. 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






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






27. 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






28. The UCR statistics are used to create the FBI Crime Clock which creates a picture of crime _________ in the US.






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






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. It can be argued that __________ officers possess an additional skill and therefore the extra pay can be justified on those grounds.






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






33. Where offenders are not captured red-handed - an arrest _______ issued by an officer of the court is required to supply the legal foundation for the act of detention.






34. 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 ________.






35. In 2001 - the US Supreme Court held in Atwater v. Lago Vista that the 4th amendment did not ________ warrantless arrests for minor offenses.






36. The role of the police academy is to provide formal training - root out ___________ recruits and immerse the trainees in the police subculture.






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






38. One of the major problems facing patrol officers is high-speed pursuits is a high ________ rate.






39. In serious cases - this may be the outcome. However - hospital care for the mentally ill is very disjointed and it may be difficult to hospitalize a person without their ________. Also - these hospitals or shelters may refuse to admit these patients.






40. In US v. __________ (1950) - the US Supreme Court ruled that a warrantless search upon a lawful arrest was permitted as long as it was reasonable given the circumstances.






41. Citizen ______ and vigilante groups were the main means of policing the frontier and well-known figures who took up this challenge in the 19th Century include Wild Bill Hickok and Wyatt Earp.






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






43. 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 _______.






44. 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.






45. 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






46. 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.






47. After the arrest - suspects are brought before a __________ for their first appearance so that the charges brought against them can be read out and if appropriate they may be released on their own recognizance.






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






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






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