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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 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.
Previous
Victimization
Blind
Bilingual
2. 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 _______.
Valid
Justice
Executive
3100
3. 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
Professionalization
Prevention
Los Angeles
Enabled
4. Tensions between the police and racial minorities continue despite the many advances made since the 1960s; major complaints are still made regularly and these include use of excessive force and ______ profiling.
Covert
Adversarial
Medical
Racial
5. This is the way criminal trials are conducted in the US and it is governed by strict rules of __________.
Racketeering
Copies
Procedure
Vollmer
6. Decentralization means reduced _____________ of rank and file officers who have greater discretion in making decisions.
Mentally
Attrition
Incidents
Supervision
7. Ballistics is the scientific _________ of firearms - ammunition - projectiles - bombs and explosives.
Analysis
Organized
Warrant
Bilingual
8. 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.
Foreign
Pay
Protect
UCR
9. August Vollmer believed that policing standards needed to be improved and corruption stamped out. He advocated training and __________ for officers.
Education
Breached
Copies
Punishment
10. When an appellate court is asked to review a judgment - they may ______ it - require the lower court to set it aside or modify it.
Uphold
Bargain
Suspicion
Real problem
11. Bail describes the circumstance when suspects are released from custody but on condition that money or property is offered as __________ against flight.
Wilson
Collateral
Police
Highly
12. 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.
Violent
Racketeering
Organized
Occupational
13. Upon conviction - the defendant is punished through a sentence passed by the judge and if convicted of more than one crime - then may be subject to a ___________ or concurrent sentence.
NCVS
Administrative
Consecutive
FBI
14. 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
Black
Feedback
Professionalization
Reduced
15. These experts contend that officers do not have the authority to subvert the criminal law. Some states have criminalized the failure of criminal justice officials who turn a ______ eye to enforcement.
Suspicion
Blind
Mentally
Real problem
16. 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.
Searching
Slow
Improve
Administrative
17. 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.
Consent
Covert
Forfeited
Violent
18. Campus police are a type of _______ district police force - and many of these larger forces have been state certified as law enforcement agencies with general arrest powers.
Special
Jury
Academies
Unqualified
19. 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.
Posses
Procedure
Professionalization
Weeks
20. 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
Prohibit
Illegally
Same time
Safe
21. This describes the Pendleton Act. This was a big step in the government becoming the huge _____________ it is today.
Patrol
Enabled
Bureaucracy
Warrant
22. Domestic disturbances may be fuelled by alcohol and drug abuse - financial difficulties or many other reasons that are beyond the ________ of the officers.
Patrol
Frequency
Previous
Control
23. The spoils system refers to firing supporters of the opponent and replacing them with one's own supporters upon ________.
Copies
Election
Written
Bilingual
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.
Victimless
Cooperation
Smaller
Legitimate
25. The controversial 'broken window' theory made the connection between disorder - neighborhood decay and _____.
Slave
Crime
Uphold
Illegal
26. Under the 6th Amendment to the Constitution - every defendant has the right to a ____ trial.
Racketeering
Valid
Jury
Frequency
27. There are around _____ federal - state and local law enforcement agencies in the US.
17000
Detectives
Organized
Sheriff
28. ____ did not become regulated officer equipment until the late 19th Century.
Prohibit
Cooperation
Unqualified
Guns
29. In 1837 - the slave patrol consisted of about 100 officers and they were responsible for finding ________ slaves and ensuring that they were well-behaved.
Election
Runaway
Patrol
Jury
30. 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.
Education
Improve
Federal
Pay
31. They believe that _____-reporting provides more accurate information than police reports.
Reaffirm
Suspicion
Administrative
Self
32. The 3 purposes of patrol are to deter crime - increase feelings of public ________ and prepare officers for service through effective dispersal in the neighborhood.
Protect
Security
Patrol
Collateral
33. 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.
Without
Posses
Los Angeles
Police
34. The exclusionary rule was modified by the __________ exception in the US Supreme Court decision of US v. Leon (1984).
Racketeering
Technology
Good-faith
Suspicion
35. The professionalization movement started by Vollmer was nurtured by his prot
Wilson
Reports
4th
Academies
36. Parens patriae is Latin for 'the ______ as parent'.
State
Crime
Investigations
Cooperation
37. 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.
Academies
Prohibit
Smaller
Slow
38. Individuals have the right to live in their homes peacefully and not be subjected to unreasonable searches and seizures by virtue of the ___ amendment.
4th
Election
Leon
Containment
39. Prospective police officers are trained at police _________ - with the average pre-service training program lasting about 1000 hours.
Wiretaps
Academies
Procedures
Uphold
40. Some legal experts believe that police discretion should be abolished because it is _______.
Justice
Supreme Court
Ballistics
Illegal
41. 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 __________.
Escobedo
Fragmented
Policy
Forfeited
42. This was the step taken in 1965 to remedy _________ discrimination.
Consecutive
Transit
Previous
Adversarial
43. 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 ______.
Partnership
Transit
Containment
Sober
44. 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.
Accountability
Feedback
Compliance
Graduate
45. 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.
Detectives
Mainstream
Ten
FBI
46. The 3 CIA directorates are the directorate of Intelligence - directorate of Operations and the directorate of Science and ___________.
Technology
Escobedo
Bureaucracy
Communities
47. In order to police __________ crimes - officers generally have to resort to undercover work.
Special
Citizen
Runaway
Victimless
48. Since these crimes are usually not reported - in order to discover them - undercover work using devices such as _________ are utilized.
Wiretaps
FBI
Ten
Never
49. 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.
Graduate
17000
Racketeering
Patrol
50. 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 _________.
Communities
Procedures
Activity
Community