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DSST Introduction To Law Enforcement

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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.






2. Police training programs do suffer from ___________ - particularly as important areas such as domestic violence - ethics and police discretion - which are not usually covered






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






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






5. This is due to the dominance of the local political structure by ______ persons. Detroit has had a black mayor since 1973 and the police force is dominated by black persons. Thus - the black community can better relate with their local police






6. The office of coroner is considered a local law enforcement agency because they determine the cause of _____ of victims and perpetrators in criminal cases.






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






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






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






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






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






14. 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






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






16. The ________ stage of SARA refers to the creation of strategies based on the analyzed data to deal with the problem whereas the assessment stage requires an evaluation of the effectiveness of the response.






17. 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.






18. 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.






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. 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.






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






22. Research showed that patrol was of little deterrence and speedier response times did not increase the arrest rate nor assisted in the solving of crimes. Community policing is meant to create a _____________ between police and community to develop pro






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






24. 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.






25. 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






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






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






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






29. 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.






30. 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.






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






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






33. This occurs where criminal and non-criminal actions are used by an officer in the course of his/her working activities or committed when pretending it is within his/her ___________ police authority. An example is sleeping on the job or a racial slur






34. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






42. This was the bright-line rule (one that can ______ be crossed) that emerged from this case.






43. 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






44. The spoils system is greatly reduced in modern politics - though not entirely eliminated. Most ________ workers do not have to be concerned about losing their jobs when a new party takes office.






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






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






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






48. This describes the Pendleton Act. This was a big step in the government becoming the huge _____________ it is today.






49. 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






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