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DSST Introduction To Law Enforcement
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. In 2001 - the US Supreme Court held in Atwater v. Lago Vista that the 4th amendment did not ________ warrantless arrests for minor offenses.
Prohibit
Previous
Administrative
3100
2. 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.
State
Fragmented
Executive
Increase
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
Consecutive
Los Angeles
Safe
Sheriff
4. This describes the Pendleton Act. This was a big step in the government becoming the huge _____________ it is today.
National
Bribes
Bureaucracy
Poor
5. Apart from police corruption - another form of police deviance is ____________ deviance.
Occupational
Drunk
Smaller
Supreme Court
6. 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.
Disturbance
Patrol
Drawback
Sober
7. 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.
17000
Enabled
Organized
Parens
8. 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
Violence
Imprisonment
Parens
Safe
9. Training is one of the roles a ______-level enforcement agency usually engages in.
Reverse
Federal
Classroom
State
10. The controversial 'broken window' theory made the connection between disorder - neighborhood decay and _____.
Due process
Posses
Crime
Bilingual
11. 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.
Improve
Incidents
Federal
Victimless
12. The professionalization movement started by Vollmer was nurtured by his prot
Jury
Ballistics
Wilson
Vollmer
13. 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.
Cooperation
Reverse
Slave
Response
14. The county level of government supplies citizens with police services - for example the county ________.
Technology
Younger
Sheriff
Poor
15. 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
Covert
Communities
Slave
16. 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
Younger
Ten
Breached
Enabled
17. This is to ensure that ___________ with the administrative rules is maintained.
Victimization
Compliance
Wiretaps
Disturbance
18. 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.
FBI
Same time
Blind
Racial
19. In 1837 - the slave patrol consisted of about 100 officers and they were responsible for finding ________ slaves and ensuring that they were well-behaved.
Directorates
Sheriff
Runaway
Federal
20. In order to police __________ crimes - officers generally have to resort to undercover work.
Victimless
Organized
Disturbance
Leon
21. The rights of the accused (and of prisoners) have been defined mostly through the _______________'s interpretation of the Bill of Rights.
Supreme Court
Reports
Representation
Collateral
22. The majority of criminal cases do not go to trial but are instead settled via a plea _______.
Bargain
Death
Vollmer
Same time
23. 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.
Magistrate
Pay
Violence
Medical
24. In this case - the police applied for and obtained a search warrant from a magistrate for the Defendant's homes. Drugs were found there and the Defendant convicted. He appealed on the grounds that the original affidavit drawn up to obtain the search
Los Angeles
Valid
Classroom
Professionalization
25. Another word for uphold is _________. This is the result for most appellate court decisions whereby they confirm the decision of the lower court.
Increase
Previous
Reaffirm
Pay
26. Criminalistics relies on __________ to analyze firearms and munitions as well as various forensic techniques to determine issues such as time of death.
Dangerous
Ballistics
Bargain
Prevention
27. 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.
Mentally
Jury
Patrol
Copies
28. The first ___ amendments to the Constitution are called the Bill of Rights. They were created to restrict government actions against the individual.
Enforcement
Ten
Police
Investigations
29. The Supreme Court created a good faith exception to the exclusionary rule when police officers use search warrants (US v. ____ - 1984).
Los Angeles
Leon
Written
Fragmented
30. When the offender was apprehended by the posse - trials were rarely held and public __________ were held to dispense justice.
Executions
Medical
Classroom
Incidents
31. This may also be called '________ officer.' The investigative nature of their jobs has resulted in their classification as a local law enforcement agency.
Magistrate
Consecutive
Medical
Vollmer
32. 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 __________.
Election
Prevention
Reverse
Bureaucracy
33. Domestic disturbances may be fuelled by alcohol and drug abuse - financial difficulties or many other reasons that are beyond the ________ of the officers.
Control
Copies
Vollmer
Racial
34. Campus police is probably the most important example of the special district police force. The also participate in the ____ program.
Patrol
Analysis
UCR
Annually
35. 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.
Analysis
Cause
Patrol
Graduate
36. Patrol is meant to reassure citizens that their environment is _____ and protected from crime.
Due process
Drawback
National
Safe
37. 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.
Wilson
17000
Policy
Hoover
38. This is one of the main functions of the police academy and ensures that unsuitable recruits do not make it as officers. About 10% of recruits do not _________ from the academy.
Graduate
Searching
Activity
Foreign
39. 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
Wiretaps
Searching
Illegal
Disturbance
40. Field training consists of practical on-the-job training with a __________ field training officer.
Transit
Written
Qualified
Forfeited
41. 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.
Posses
Reverse
Justice
Consent
42. 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 ______.
Technology
Parens
Sober
Mainstream
43. 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.
Black
Reverse
Adversarial
Smaller
44. The most organized and distinctly American officer force was the _____ patrol based in Charleston - South Carolina.
Feedback
Reports
Slave
Medical
45. Organized law enforcement in Britain can be traced back to 1200 AD when identified law breakers were pursued by a _____ led by the shire reeve or mounted officer.
Posse
Classroom
Good-faith
Decentralization
46. The office of coroner is considered a local law enforcement agency because they determine the cause of _____ of victims and perpetrators in criminal cases.
Ten
Activity
Death
Drawback
47. It can be argued that __________ officers possess an additional skill and therefore the extra pay can be justified on those grounds.
Punishment
NCVS
Bilingual
Black
48. The exclusionary rule was modified by the __________ exception in the US Supreme Court decision of US v. Leon (1984).
Good-faith
Fragmented
Response
Enforcement
49. 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.
Valid
Medical
Improperly
Containment
50. Due to an increase in _________ and disorder by citizens - officers turned to weaponry to protect themselves.
Technology
Imprisonment
Violence
Patrol