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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 local police cover a wide range of law enforcement agencies such as the municipal police - sheriff's departments - campus and _______ police.
Transit
Outside
Bargain
Uphold
2. 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.
17000
Writ
Detectives
Slave
3. This is the venue for police training and the value of training has experienced a dramatic _________ in status since its inception.
Enforcement
Increase
Ten
Detectives
4. 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 __________.
Forfeited
Copies
Patrol
Without
5. Law enforcement in the US is extremely large and ___________ and hence this many agencies currently exist.
Directorates
Special
Ballistics
Fragmented
6. The role of the ___ is to investigate breaches of federal criminal law - to protect the country from foreign counterintelligence and terrorist activities and to provide law enforcement assistance to other agencies.
Disturbance
Foreign
Occupational
FBI
7. 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.
Organized
Technology
Bribes
Containment
8. 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.
Searching
Breached
Partnership
Violent
9. August Vollmer believed that policing standards needed to be improved and corruption stamped out. He advocated training and __________ for officers.
FBI
Education
Prevention
Patrol
10. Apart from reducing crime - the mission of community policing is to _______ the trend of the negative public perception of the police
Reverse
Illegally
State
Consecutive
11. 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.
Hoover
Executive
Vollmer
Without
12. The office of coroner is considered a local law enforcement agency because they determine the cause of _____ of victims and perpetrators in criminal cases.
Los Angeles
Wilson
Collateral
Death
13. 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.
Collateral
Supreme Court
Slow
Security
14. 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
Investigations
Control
Transit
Patrol
15. The written policies method is called '________________ rule-making' and it is presently the most popular method of controlling discretion.
Foreign
Administrative
Vollmer
Death
16. 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.
Racketeering
Arrest
Illegal
Copies
17. 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
Legitimate
Younger
Los Angeles
Suspicion
18. The CID within the FBI is responsible for organized crime - violent crime - ____________ and money laundering.
Slave
UCR
Racketeering
Compliance
19. 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
Ten
Rarely
4th
Justice
20. This was the bright-line rule (one that can ______ be crossed) that emerged from this case.
Communities
Never
Ten
Attrition
21. 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 _________.
Professionalization
Administrative
Compliance
Activity
22. The 911 communications center is the _____ of a modern police department.
Breached
Ten
Heart
Police
23. 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
Professionalization
Inadmissible
Covert
Death
24. Another source of PCR tension is discriminatory employment practices of the ______ force.
Police
Security
Valid
Prevention
25. This is one of the reports produced by the FBI in its law _____________ role.
Disturbance
Inadmissible
Enforcement
Transit
26. 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 __________.
Vollmer
Prevention
Dangerous
Ten
27. 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.
Serving
Medical
FBI
Breached
28. In order to police __________ crimes - officers generally have to resort to undercover work.
FBI
Victimless
Disturbance
UCR
29. Officers have very broad discretion - yet this subject is _______ taught or sufficiently taught to better aid the officers in making an appropriate decision.
Rarely
Education
Medical
Decentralization
30. Parens patriae is Latin for 'the ______ as parent'.
Wiretaps
Covert
State
Heart
31. Under the 6th Amendment to the Constitution - every defendant has the right to a ____ trial.
Escobedo
Jury
Organized
Illegal
32. The next most critical factor that impacts on PCR after race and ethnicity is ___.
Ten
Occupational
Age
Collateral
33. Police training programs do suffer from ___________ - particularly as important areas such as domestic violence - ethics and police discretion - which are not usually covered
Limitations
Outside
Prevention
Representation
34. The 3 purposes of patrol are to deter crime - increase feelings of public ________ and prepare officers for service through effective dispersal in the neighborhood.
Consecutive
Security
Magistrate
Frequency
35. A critical function that the police play in society is crime __________ and this role is primarily executed through routine patrolling.
Prevention
Inadmissible
Obvious
Attrition
36. 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.
Professionalization
Response
Classroom
Supreme Court
37. Some legal experts believe that police discretion should be abolished because it is _______.
Weeks
Illegal
Response
Crime
38. Their perception of the amount of danger faced in their jobs results in the development of constant __________ of people
Justice
Special
Good-faith
Suspicion
39. 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.
Younger
Obvious
Bureaucracy
Enabled
40. Bail describes the circumstance when suspects are released from custody but on condition that money or property is offered as __________ against flight.
Unqualified
Collateral
Organized
Citizen
41. Domestic violence must be distinguished from a domestic ___________ in the sense that in the former a serious crime has been committed and so the officers can exercise their powers of arrest - if they choose to do so although research shows that offi
Drunk
Supervision
Foreign
Disturbance
42. They believe that _____-reporting provides more accurate information than police reports.
Self
Enforcement
Outside
Black
43. 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
Rabinowitz
Qualified
Posse
44. Research showed that patrol was of little deterrence and speedier response times did not increase the arrest rate nor assisted in the solving of crimes. Community policing is meant to create a _____________ between police and community to develop pro
Illegal
Policy
Partnership
3100
45. 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
Accountability
NCVS
Effectiveness
Professionalization
46. The county level of government supplies citizens with police services - for example the county ________.
Sheriff
Prevention
Organized
Outside
47. 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.
Policy
Procedure
Consent
Same time
48. In 1837 - the slave patrol consisted of about 100 officers and they were responsible for finding ________ slaves and ensuring that they were well-behaved.
Consecutive
Runaway
Medical
Unqualified
49. 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 _______.
Response
Justice
Response
Victimless
50. _________ policing took off in the 1980s and 1990s - with the realization that the police could not fight crime on their own.
Younger
Community
Frequency
Highly