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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 _________ Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS)is the term coined for this annual study.
Police
Graduate
National
Detectives
2. 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
Mainstream
Pay
Fragmented
Investigations
3. Another word for uphold is _________. This is the result for most appellate court decisions whereby they confirm the decision of the lower court.
Consecutive
Slow
Poor
Reaffirm
4. The office of coroner is considered a local law enforcement agency because they determine the cause of _____ of victims and perpetrators in criminal cases.
Age
Control
Slave
Death
5. Training is one of the roles a ______-level enforcement agency usually engages in.
State
Imprisonment
Arrest
Qualified
6. 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
Crime
Mainstream
7. According to the doctrine of ______ patriae - the state has a duty to care for children who are neglected or delinquent - and to assume the role of parent if necessary.
17000
Parens
Investigations
Highly
8. 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
Professionalization
Illegally
Victimization
Lawfully
9. The local police cover a wide range of law enforcement agencies such as the municipal police - sheriff's departments - campus and _______ police.
Hoover
Transit
Drawback
Representation
10. 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.
Improve
Federal
Blind
Compliance
11. The most organized and distinctly American officer force was the _____ patrol based in Charleston - South Carolina.
Slave
Frequency
Escobedo
Without
12. 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.
Increase
Due process
Covert
Smaller
13. Police training programs do suffer from ___________ - particularly as important areas such as domestic violence - ethics and police discretion - which are not usually covered
Posses
Control
Arrest
Limitations
14. The exclusionary rule was extended by the US Supreme Court in the case of Silverthorne Lumber Co. v. US (1920) - which held that ______ of illegally seized evidence were inadmissible in court.
Violence
Copies
Pendleton
Seniority
15. In 2001 - the US Supreme Court held in Atwater v. Lago Vista that the 4th amendment did not ________ warrantless arrests for minor offenses.
Fragmented
Legitimate
Consent
Prohibit
16. The controversial 'broken window' theory made the connection between disorder - neighborhood decay and _____.
Analysis
Uphold
Crime
Activity
17. Officers are commonly offered bribes to let suspects go or to turn a blind eye to ________ activities.
Supreme Court
Illegal
Violence
Response
18. Individuals have the right to live in their homes peacefully and not be subjected to unreasonable searches and seizures by virtue of the ___ amendment.
Previous
Special
4th
Pay
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.
Executive
Attrition
Safe
Organized
20. 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.
Feedback
Violent
Medical
Danger
21. 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.
Victimization
Partnership
Justice
Posses
22. Apart from police corruption - another form of police deviance is ____________ deviance.
Administrative
Fragmented
Occupational
Investigations
23. 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
Election
Illegal
Bargain
4th
24. Some legal experts believe that police discretion should be abolished because it is _______.
UCR
Reverse
Illegal
Citizen
25. Bail describes the circumstance when suspects are released from custody but on condition that money or property is offered as __________ against flight.
Leon
Organized
Slow
Collateral
26. The first ___ amendments to the Constitution are called the Bill of Rights. They were created to restrict government actions against the individual.
Executions
Decentralization
Enabled
Ten
27. Wilson believed in the necessity to continue and encourage _____________________ within the police force. He was the chief of police in Wichita from 1928 to 1935 - the Dean of Criminology at the University of California from 1950 to 1960 and the supe
Professionalization
Due process
Compliance
Imprisonment
28. This is the venue for police training and the value of training has experienced a dramatic _________ in status since its inception.
Increase
Transit
Unqualified
Enforcement
29. 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.
UCR
Ten
Slow
Bilingual
30. The role of the police academy is to provide formal training - root out ___________ recruits and immerse the trainees in the police subculture.
Black
Directorates
Unqualified
Ten
31. Domestic disturbances may be fuelled by alcohol and drug abuse - financial difficulties or many other reasons that are beyond the ________ of the officers.
Control
Cause
Community
Victimization
32. Field training consists of practical on-the-job training with a __________ field training officer.
Frequency
Valid
Qualified
Obvious
33. This has resulted in an under ________________ of blacks - women and ethnic minorities in the police force.
Citizen
Safe
Directorates
Representation
34. Another source of PCR tension is discriminatory employment practices of the ______ force.
Safe
Prevention
Annually
Police
35. Prospective police officers are trained at police _________ - with the average pre-service training program lasting about 1000 hours.
Special
Patrol
Detectives
Academies
36. This is because patrol consists of the majority of police work and this is ________ through the police communications network - which is triggered by 911 calls.
Enabled
Special
Federal
Attrition
37. 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 _______.
Justice
Breached
Enabled
4th
38. 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
Breached
Blind
Guns
Ten
39. In US v. __________ (1950) - the US Supreme Court ruled that a warrantless search upon a lawful arrest was permitted as long as it was reasonable given the circumstances.
Prohibit
Response
Bilingual
Rabinowitz
40. When considering detective productivity and _____________ - more important than the number of arrests is the quality of those arrests.
Occupational
Effectiveness
Control
Poor
41. 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
FBI
Imprisonment
Violence
Medical
42. This is to ensure that ___________ with the administrative rules is maintained.
Annually
Victimization
Compliance
Mentally
43. When the offender was apprehended by the posse - trials were rarely held and public __________ were held to dispense justice.
Searching
Community
Guns
Executions
44. Deterrence prevents crime through using an example or threat of ___________ to persuade the public against committing the crime.
Procedure
Punishment
4th
Forfeited
45. 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.
Illegally
State
Occupational
Organized
46. It can be argued that __________ officers possess an additional skill and therefore the extra pay can be justified on those grounds.
Bilingual
Security
Federal
Breached
47. Officers have very broad discretion - yet this subject is _______ taught or sufficiently taught to better aid the officers in making an appropriate decision.
Outside
Cooperation
Sober
Rarely
48. Some departments allow for bidding of new patrol areas once or twice _________.
Ten
Annually
Sheriff
Unqualified
49. In serious cases - this may be the outcome. However - hospital care for the mentally ill is very disjointed and it may be difficult to hospitalize a person without their ________. Also - these hospitals or shelters may refuse to admit these patients.
Escobedo
Incidents
Uphold
Consent
50. J Edgar ______ - the Director of the FBI in the 1930s had a critical impact on local policing in setting educational and training models for officers - the development of the Uniform Crime Reports (UCR) and the establishment of the FBI crime lab.
Hoover
Reaffirm
Danger
Heart