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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. The police ___________ of secrecy - public hostility and solidarity meant they were very isolated from the community - especially the black community.






2. 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






3. The UCR has a hierarchy rule whereby multiple types of incidents can only be recorded as 1 incident. This is a _________ of the system.






4. The local police cover a wide range of law enforcement agencies such as the municipal police - sheriff's departments - campus and _______ police.






5. 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.






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






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






8. Ballistics is the scientific _________ of firearms - ammunition - projectiles - bombs and explosives.






9. This is widely recognized as a police role - though they do share the burden with other institutions such as schools and _____________.






10. The ________ rule was further emphasized in Edwards v. Arizona (1981) - when the court prohibited investigators from continuing questioning once the suspect has requested an attorney.






11. 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.






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






13. 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.






14. The CIA also engages in ______ operations sanctioned by the President as part of their role in ensuring national security.






15. A limited amount of streetwalking is tolerated if it is restricted to a particular part of town - usually a business district and it is not too ________.






16. The CIA is divided into 3 ____________ and 5 mission support offices (MSOs).






17. A concurrent sentence is one that is served at the __________ as another sentence.






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






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






20. 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






21. 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.






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






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






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






25. 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






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






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






28. 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.






29. 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.






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






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






32. The rights of the accused (and of prisoners) have been defined mostly through the _______________'s interpretation of the Bill of Rights.






33. 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.






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






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






36. This was the only way they could ________ themselves and their property from the bandits. They did try to apply the accepted standards of decency of the day to their actions.






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 _______.






38. This may also be called '________ officer.' The investigative nature of their jobs has resulted in their classification as a local law enforcement agency.






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






40. 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.






41. 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.






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






43. A critical function that the police play in society is crime __________ and this role is primarily executed through routine patrolling.






44. 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.






45. 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.






46. 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






47. 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.






48. 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.






49. 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.






50. 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.