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DSST Introduction To Law Enforcement
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1. In 1837 - the slave patrol consisted of about 100 officers and they were responsible for finding ________ slaves and ensuring that they were well-behaved.
Valid
Weeks
Racial
Runaway
2. When an appellate court is asked to review a judgment - they may ______ it - require the lower court to set it aside or modify it.
Suspicion
Uphold
Unqualified
Organized
3. Sheriff departments are usually responsible for _______ court papers - civil summons - and managing security in state courtrooms.
Protect
Self
Serving
Frequency
4. 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
Supervision
Victimless
Increase
5. 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.
Self
Federal
Patrol
Pendleton
6. 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.
17000
Organized
Illegal
Consecutive
7. This has resulted in an under ________________ of blacks - women and ethnic minorities in the police force.
Representation
Sheriff
4th
Magistrate
8. 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.
Age
Hoover
National
Writ
9. 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
State
Ballistics
Patrol
10. 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.
Mainstream
Control
Seniority
Slow
11. 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
Reduced
Bilingual
Imprisonment
Without
12. 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.
Frequency
Directorates
Attrition
Danger
13. The FBI has the responsibility to investigate - analyze and neutralize any potential terrorist threats and to investigate and analyze terrorist __________ in the US.
Supreme Court
Posse
Reduced
Incidents
14. This means that the court releases the suspect into their own custody or into the care of another. This occurs where the suspect poses a low flight risk and is not __________ to the community.
Lawfully
Decentralization
Dangerous
Breached
15. Good faith means that when the police act with the honest belief that they are following proper rules. According to the ruling in US v. Leon - when officers have acted in good faith reliance on a warrant - the evidence will not be excluded even if th
Improperly
Enforcement
Rabinowitz
Vollmer
16. 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.
Racketeering
Containment
Legitimate
Improve
17. Apart from police corruption - another form of police deviance is ____________ deviance.
Reports
Accountability
Occupational
Procedure
18. It is believed that the average citizen plays a vital part in the ________________ of officers.
Mainstream
Response
Accountability
Good-faith
19. The _________ Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS)is the term coined for this annual study.
Due process
National
Prevention
17000
20. The rise of police professionalism and reform was spearheaded by August _______ who served as the chief of police in Berkeley - California from 1905 to 1932.
Patrol
Prevention
Administrative
Vollmer
21. This is the venue for police training and the value of training has experienced a dramatic _________ in status since its inception.
Drunk
Attrition
Consent
Increase
22. The _________ Act passed by Congress in 1883 put an end to Andrew Jackson's 'spoils system -' and created a system of hiring government employees based on their qualifications.
Lawfully
Patrol
Pendleton
Technology
23. The 3 purposes of patrol are to deter crime - increase feelings of public ________ and prepare officers for service through effective dispersal in the neighborhood.
Security
Patrol
Due process
Increase
24. Parens patriae is Latin for 'the ______ as parent'.
State
Reduced
FBI
3100
25. The Hispanic community is growing faster than expected and therefore police departments should take steps to hire more Hispanic officers through active recruitment processes and offering incentive ___ for bilingual officers.
Pay
Suspicion
Prohibit
4th
26. 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.
Bargain
Patrol
Blind
Incidents
27. The UCR has a hierarchy rule whereby multiple types of incidents can only be recorded as 1 incident. This is a _________ of the system.
Drawback
Arrest
Suspicion
Danger
28. Patrol is meant to reassure citizens that their environment is _____ and protected from crime.
Supreme Court
Safe
Policy
Reverse
29. 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.
Wilson
FBI
Education
Copies
30. Campus police is probably the most important example of the special district police force. The also participate in the ____ program.
Escobedo
Technology
Security
UCR
31. The CIA has operations officers and recruits ________ agents as part of their intelligence activities and this may involve covert operations.
Foreign
Ballistics
Victimization
Highly
32. The Supreme Court created a good faith exception to the exclusionary rule when police officers use search warrants (US v. ____ - 1984).
Leon
Accountability
Representation
Detectives
33. Apart from reducing crime - the mission of community policing is to _______ the trend of the negative public perception of the police
Ballistics
Professionalization
Reverse
Vollmer
34. A concurrent sentence is one that is served at the __________ as another sentence.
Occupational
Disturbance
Same time
Improve
35. 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
Policy
Security
Posses
Inadmissible
36. 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 ______.
Wiretaps
Sober
Searching
Valid
37. 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
Inadmissible
Bribes
Special
4th
38. This may also be called '________ officer.' The investigative nature of their jobs has resulted in their classification as a local law enforcement agency.
Medical
Directorates
Jury
Poor
39. Officers at the academy undergo _________ training and most academies also offer field training.
Partnership
Racial
Classroom
Violence
40. 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
Qualified
Legitimate
Lawfully
41. Criminalistics relies on __________ to analyze firearms and munitions as well as various forensic techniques to determine issues such as time of death.
Graduate
Adversarial
Ballistics
Self
42. This is the way criminal trials are conducted in the US and it is governed by strict rules of __________.
Procedure
Wilson
Victimization
Disturbance
43. This is the problem of case __________. Research has shown that only about half of felony arrests result in convictions. The question is whether this is due to poor police work or some other reason.
Attrition
Parens
Annually
Black
44. Research has revealed that in about 80% of such situations - no formal action - such as _______ was necessary.
Organized
Organized
Arrest
Mentally
45. Decentralization means reduced _____________ of rank and file officers who have greater discretion in making decisions.
Professionalization
Detectives
Heart
Supervision
46. Deterrence prevents crime through using an example or threat of ___________ to persuade the public against committing the crime.
Inadmissible
Punishment
Protect
Victimless
47. The 911 communications center is the _____ of a modern police department.
Uphold
Heart
Illegal
Good-faith
48. The spoils system refers to firing supporters of the opponent and replacing them with one's own supporters upon ________.
Election
Suspicion
Reaffirm
Imprisonment
49. The controversial 'broken window' theory made the connection between disorder - neighborhood decay and _____.
Hoover
Wilson
Previous
Crime
50. In the 1950s training for police officers consisted mainly of firearm skill development but over the years - classroom training has emphasized criminal __________.
Procedures
Drunk
Highly
Pay
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