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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. 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






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






3. 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.






4. The local police cover a wide range of law enforcement agencies such as the municipal police - sheriff's departments - campus and _______ police.






5. 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.






6. 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.






7. 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.






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






9. 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.






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






11. The police ___________ of secrecy - public hostility and solidarity meant they were very isolated from the community - especially the black community.






12. Wilson and Kelling believed that the broken window symbolized a deteriorating neighborhood and not repaired led to the eventual decline of an area - thereby encouraging criminal _________.






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






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






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






16. 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






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






18. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






25. 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.






26. 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.






27. Individuals have the right to live in their homes peacefully and not be subjected to unreasonable searches and seizures by virtue of the ___ amendment.






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






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






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






31. 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.






32. 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.






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






34. 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.






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






36. 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.






37. 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.






38. This is the problem of case __________. Research has shown that only about half of felony arrests result in convictions. The question is whether this is due to poor police work or some other reason.






39. This is the way criminal trials are conducted in the US and it is governed by strict rules of __________.






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






41. 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.






42. 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.






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






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






45. The majority of criminal cases do not go to trial but are instead settled via a plea _______.






46. Officers must file written _______ in certain circumstances when they exercise their discretion - for example when they fire their weapon and these reports must be reviewed by their superiors.






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






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






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






50. 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.