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






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






3. Police subculture is determined by the potential of ______ and because of this they stereotype certain categories of persons - such as low-income males - as possible threats.






4. This is one of the main functions of the police academy and ensures that unsuitable recruits do not make it as officers. About 10% of recruits do not _________ from the academy.






5. 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






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






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






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






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






10. 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.






11. It is interesting to note that the city of Detroit is the only state in which blacks rate the police force more ______ than their white counterparts.






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






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






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






15. 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






16. By dealing with the underlying issues - for example mental health or financial service problems - then a solution may be found to get them off the street and back into a more ___________ existence.






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






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






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






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






21. 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.






22. Under the 6th Amendment to the Constitution - every defendant has the right to a ____ trial.






23. 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.






24. 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.






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






26. 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.






27. 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 __________.






28. 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






29. 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.






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






31. 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 _________.






32. 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.






33. The 1980s and 1990s saw the creation of _______ oversight of police groups to monitor or investigate complaints by individuals against police actions.






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






35. 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.






36. 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.






37. 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.






38. Some legal experts believe that police discretion should be abolished because it is _______.






39. 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






40. ____ did not become regulated officer equipment until the late 19th Century.






41. 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.






42. The 911 communications center is the _____ of a modern police department.






43. When called to attend to a non-crime incident - the police have to exercise discretion and can usually handle the situation _______ taking formal police action.






44. 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.






45. 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.






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






47. Decentralization means reduced _____________ of rank and file officers who have greater discretion in making decisions.






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






49. 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.






50. Since the 1980s - there have been some very public crackdowns on _____ driving but rates of this offence which creep down during the crackdown soon return to the original levels because the publicity forces a temporary change in behavior which is not