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DSST Introduction To Law Enforcement
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Under the ___ system - if last night Jim killed John - then set fire to a car and robbed an old lady - these multiple crimes would be recorded as a single incident.
Black
Decentralization
UCR
Forfeited
2. ____ did not become regulated officer equipment until the late 19th Century.
Guns
Danger
Imprisonment
Wilson
3. 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 ________.
Bribes
Obvious
Classroom
Heart
4. It is believed that the average citizen plays a vital part in the ________________ of officers.
Accident
Same time
Black
Accountability
5. 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.
Pay
Inadmissible
Annually
Bureaucracy
6. 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.
Wilson
Posses
Lawfully
Detectives
7. The UCR statistics are used to create the FBI Crime Clock which creates a picture of crime _________ in the US.
Obvious
Security
Frequency
Enabled
8. 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
Security
Inadmissible
Black
Seniority
9. In 1837 - the slave patrol consisted of about 100 officers and they were responsible for finding ________ slaves and ensuring that they were well-behaved.
Jury
Runaway
Guns
Education
10. The 1980s and 1990s saw the creation of _______ oversight of police groups to monitor or investigate complaints by individuals against police actions.
Citizen
Cooperation
Enforcement
Academies
11. Ballistics is the scientific _________ of firearms - ammunition - projectiles - bombs and explosives.
Inadmissible
UCR
Professionalization
Analysis
12. 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.
Investigations
Reports
Copies
Ten
13. The office of coroner is considered a local law enforcement agency because they determine the cause of _____ of victims and perpetrators in criminal cases.
Classroom
Death
Communities
Collateral
14. The Supreme Court created a good faith exception to the exclusionary rule when police officers use search warrants (US v. ____ - 1984).
Classroom
Weeks
Improperly
Leon
15. 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
Supreme Court
Adversarial
Slow
4th
16. 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.
Feedback
Serving
Fragmented
Never
17. There are over _____ sheriff's departments in the US.
Procedure
Foreign
Investigations
3100
18. 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
Annually
Enforcement
Prevention
Los Angeles
19. There is no _________ method of centralized policing in the US as police services are provided by the 4 levels of government which are the city - county - state and federal levels.
Organized
Education
Response
Victimization
20. 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
Supervision
Qualified
Bilingual
Disturbance
21. 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.
Medical
FBI
Wilson
Victimization
22. 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.
Accountability
Police
Patrol
Posse
23. A concurrent sentence is one that is served at the __________ as another sentence.
Reduced
Same time
Crime
Posse
24. In 2001 - the US Supreme Court held in Atwater v. Lago Vista that the 4th amendment did not ________ warrantless arrests for minor offenses.
Classroom
Prohibit
Danger
Breached
25. In US v. Irizarry (1982) - the US Supreme Court held that evidence found above a ceiling panel that was out of place was _______ the scope of the plain-view doctrine
Procedure
Bureaucracy
Outside
Consecutive
26. This is widely recognized as a police role - though they do share the burden with other institutions such as schools and _____________.
Valid
Communities
Escobedo
Directorates
27. Public concern led to the start of the crackdown and this is viewed as an important police role but it is very difficult to spot the minority of drunk drivers amongst those who are ______.
Directorates
Reaffirm
Outside
Sober
28. 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.
Warrant
Collateral
Prevention
Danger
29. 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
Improve
UCR
Response
Breached
30. The CIA has operations officers and recruits ________ agents as part of their intelligence activities and this may involve covert operations.
Danger
Guns
Ballistics
Foreign
31. A critical function that the police play in society is crime __________ and this role is primarily executed through routine patrolling.
UCR
Response
Prevention
Sober
32. 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.
State
Slow
UCR
Justice
33. 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.
Age
Writ
Reaffirm
Education
34. The controversial 'broken window' theory made the connection between disorder - neighborhood decay and _____.
Arrest
Obvious
Crime
Wilson
35. This means that the court releases the suspect into their own custody or into the care of another. This occurs where the suspect poses a low flight risk and is not __________ to the community.
Pendleton
Dangerous
3100
Effectiveness
36. 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.
Rabinowitz
Cooperation
Smaller
Posses
37. 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.
Self
Magistrate
Forfeited
Incidents
38. 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
Communities
Poor
Citizen
Real problem
39. 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
Younger
Disturbance
Imprisonment
Supreme Court
40. The FBI has the responsibility to investigate - analyze and neutralize any potential terrorist threats and to investigate and analyze terrorist __________ in the US.
Reports
Incidents
UCR
Accountability
41. The written policies method is called '________________ rule-making' and it is presently the most popular method of controlling discretion.
Heart
Ten
Administrative
Enabled
42. Another word for uphold is _________. This is the result for most appellate court decisions whereby they confirm the decision of the lower court.
Sober
Prevention
Reaffirm
Serving
43. The exclusionary rule was modified by the __________ exception in the US Supreme Court decision of US v. Leon (1984).
Good-faith
Organized
Heart
National
44. Incapacitation refers to the act of confinement so that the offender is restrained from committing the crime again whereas the deterrence has the overall aim of crime __________.
Prevention
Security
Self
State
45. This is the way criminal trials are conducted in the US and it is governed by strict rules of __________.
Weeks
Slave
Procedure
Mainstream
46. 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
Partnership
Age
Decentralization
Obvious
47. Some departments allow for bidding of new patrol areas once or twice _________.
Sheriff
Covert
Annually
Poor
48. Officers have very broad discretion - yet this subject is _______ taught or sufficiently taught to better aid the officers in making an appropriate decision.
Disturbance
Highly
Rarely
Writ
49. 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.
Reverse
Lawfully
3100
Adversarial
50. This is training in relation to _____________ rules and was spurred by the decisions of the US Supreme Court in the 1960s.
Due process
Bureaucracy
Real problem
FBI