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DSST Introduction To Law Enforcement

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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.






2. 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 __________.






3. 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.






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






5. 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.






6. 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.






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






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






9. 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.






10. Domestic disturbances are a common order maintenance issue handled by the police but officers generally find them frustrating to handle because there is little that they can do about the _____ of the problem.






11. 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






12. Another word for uphold is _________. This is the result for most appellate court decisions whereby they confirm the decision of the lower court.






13. The first landmark case that forms the foundation of the exclusionary rule is the US Supreme court decision of _____ v US (1914).






14. 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






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






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






17. A centralized state-level agency - which merges patrol with ______________ will usually assist in local criminal investigations when asked - patrol the state's highways - operate identification bureaus - manage criminal records and provide training t






18. Law enforcement in the US is extremely large and ___________ and hence this many agencies currently exist.






19. 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.






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






21. 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 __________.






22. 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






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






24. Campus police is probably the most important example of the special district police force. The also participate in the ____ program.






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






26. Apart from reducing crime - the mission of community policing is to _______ the trend of the negative public perception of the police






27. In the 1950s training for police officers consisted mainly of firearm skill development but over the years - classroom training has emphasized criminal __________.






28. 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






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






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






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






32. The ATF was previously an organization within the Department of the Treasury but since 24th January 2003 - their agency was transferred to the Department of _______.






33. 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.






34. Patrol is meant to reassure citizens that their environment is _____ and protected from crime.






35. 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






36. Officers are allocated to specific shifts and patrol areas based on _________ or using a rotation system.






37. 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






38. 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






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






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






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






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






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






44. 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.






45. 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






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






47. 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.






48. 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.






49. 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.






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