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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. 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






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






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






4. The role of the ___ is to investigate breaches of federal criminal law - to protect the country from foreign counterintelligence and terrorist activities and to provide law enforcement assistance to other agencies.






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






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






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






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






9. 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.






10. 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.






11. Officers have very broad discretion - yet this subject is _______ taught or sufficiently taught to better aid the officers in making an appropriate decision.






12. 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.






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






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






15. 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 _






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






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






18. 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






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






20. 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.






21. 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.






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






23. 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.






24. 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.






25. The Uniform Crime Reports (UCR) is an annualized report published by the ___ that states the statistical rate of reported crime in the US based on data from police reports.






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






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






28. 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






29. 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.






30. 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.






31. In 1837 - the slave patrol consisted of about 100 officers and they were responsible for finding ________ slaves and ensuring that they were well-behaved.






32. 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.






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






34. The FBI has the responsibility to investigate - analyze and neutralize any potential terrorist threats and to investigate and analyze terrorist __________ in the US.






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






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






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






38. Generally - surveys have revealed that ________ people tend to be more dissatisfied with the police than older persons. Some youths seem to believe that the police target them simply because they are young and think that all teenagers are up to no go






39. When considering detective productivity and _____________ - more important than the number of arrests is the quality of those arrests.






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






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






42. 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.






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






44. Domestic disturbances are a common order maintenance issue handled by the police but officers generally find them frustrating to handle because there is little that they can do about the _____ of the problem.






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






46. 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.






47. 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.






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






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






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