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






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






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. Affirmative action is mandated by a Presidential _________ Order in 1965 - so that all private employers and government agencies who receive federal monies have to develop written affirmative action plans.






5. 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.






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






7. 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






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






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






10. Campus police are a type of _______ district police force - and many of these larger forces have been state certified as law enforcement agencies with general arrest powers.






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






12. 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






13. This is the venue for police training and the value of training has experienced a dramatic _________ in status since its inception.






14. Between the data in the UCR and NCVS - most experts tend to prefer the ____.






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






16. 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.






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






18. Bail describes the circumstance when suspects are released from custody but on condition that money or property is offered as __________ against flight.






19. 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.






20. This was the only way they could ________ themselves and their property from the bandits. They did try to apply the accepted standards of decency of the day to their actions.






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






22. In the 1950s training for police officers consisted mainly of firearm skill development but over the years - classroom training has emphasized criminal __________.






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






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






25. 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.






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






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






28. 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.






29. 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






30. 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.






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






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






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






34. This is training in relation to _____________ rules and was spurred by the decisions of the US Supreme Court in the 1960s.






35. 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 __________.






36. A warrant is a _____ issued by the court to justify the arrest of a suspect. It offers protection to the officer executing the warrant against damages; for example for wrongful arrest.






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






38. 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.






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






40. Organized law enforcement in Britain can be traced back to 1200 AD when identified law breakers were pursued by a _____ led by the shire reeve or mounted officer.






41. The rise of police professionalism and reform was spearheaded by August _______ who served as the chief of police in Berkeley - California from 1905 to 1932.






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






43. 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.






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






45. 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.






46. Officers appointed to carry out investigative work are known as __________.






47. 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.






48. 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.






49. Law enforcement in the US is extremely large and ___________ and hence this many agencies currently exist.






50. These experts contend that officers do not have the authority to subvert the criminal law. Some states have criminalized the failure of criminal justice officials who turn a ______ eye to enforcement.