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DSST Introduction To Law Enforcement

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. It is believed that the average citizen plays a vital part in the ________________ of officers.






2. 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






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






4. In this case - the police applied for and obtained a search warrant from a magistrate for the Defendant's homes. Drugs were found there and the Defendant convicted. He appealed on the grounds that the original affidavit drawn up to obtain the search






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






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






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






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






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






10. There was no __________ form of criminal justice law in those days. Guilt was assumed; the execution carried out and accepted by all as an act of retribution.






11. 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






12. 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






13. 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






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






15. This is the term coined to describe this diagrammatic representation. It differentiates between ________ crimes such as murder and rape and property crime such as burglary and arson.






16. 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






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






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






19. 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.






20. 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.






21. 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 _






22. 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.






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






24. 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.






25. 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






26. Officers at the academy undergo _________ training and most academies also offer field training.






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






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






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






30. Domestic disturbances may be fuelled by alcohol and drug abuse - financial difficulties or many other reasons that are beyond the ________ of the officers.






31. 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 __________.






32. In this case - the Defendants were suspected of evading taxes but they refused to hand over their company books. An illegal search and seizure was performed and the books returned soon after - when the Defendant's lawyer objected. At the trial - the






33. 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.






34. Research has revealed that in about 80% of such situations - no formal action - such as _______ was necessary.






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






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






37. Their perception of the amount of danger faced in their jobs results in the development of constant __________ of people






38. 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.






39. 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






40. 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 _________.






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






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






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






44. 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






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






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






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






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






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






50. Between the data in the UCR and NCVS - most experts tend to prefer the ____.