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DSST Introduction To Law Enforcement

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Apart from reducing crime - the mission of community policing is to _______ the trend of the negative public perception of the police






2. Officers must file written _______ in certain circumstances when they exercise their discretion - for example when they fire their weapon and these reports must be reviewed by their superiors.






3. The exclusionary rule was modified by the __________ exception in the US Supreme Court decision of US v. Leon (1984).






4. 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






5. The county level of government supplies citizens with police services - for example the county ________.






6. 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






7. The controversial 'broken window' theory made the connection between disorder - neighborhood decay and _____.






8. 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.






9. The majority of criminal cases do not go to trial but are instead settled via a plea _______.






10. Plea bargains avoid an expensive court trial. Prosecutors may offer and defendants may accept a bargained plea to avoid the uncertainty of a jury trial. In many cases - the Defendant agrees to plead guilty to a lesser charge or for a ________ sentenc






11. 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






12. 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.






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






14. 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.






15. The CID within the FBI is responsible for organized crime - violent crime - ____________ and money laundering.






16. 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.






17. August Vollmer believed that policing standards needed to be improved and corruption stamped out. He advocated training and __________ for officers.






18. Racial profiling is the practice of stopping and or __________ a person not because of any suspected criminal activity but because of that person's race.






19. 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.






20. 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






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






22. 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.






23. Sheriff departments are usually responsible for _______ court papers - civil summons - and managing security in state courtrooms.






24. 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.






25. Their perception of the amount of danger faced in their jobs results in the development of constant __________ of people






26. 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.






27. 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.






28. 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.






29. 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 __________.






30. Field training consists of practical on-the-job training with a __________ field training officer.






31. In US v. Irizarry (1982) - the US Supreme Court held that evidence found above a ceiling panel that was out of place was _______ the scope of the plain-view doctrine






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






33. The most organized and distinctly American officer force was the _____ patrol based in Charleston - South Carolina.






34. 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.






35. 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






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






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






38. Officers are commonly offered bribes to let suspects go or to turn a blind eye to ________ activities.






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






40. This describes the Pendleton Act. This was a big step in the government becoming the huge _____________ it is today.






41. 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.






42. This is the way criminal trials are conducted in the US and it is governed by strict rules of __________.






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






44. 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.






45. Where offenders are not captured red-handed - an arrest _______ issued by an officer of the court is required to supply the legal foundation for the act of detention.






46. 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 _______.






47. The assessment stage evaluates the response based on detailed _________ and surveys. The police are also encouraged to conduct a self-analysis to see if they identified the problem correctly in the first place and revise that response if needed.






48. One of the major problems facing patrol officers is high-speed pursuits is a high ________ rate.






49. Since these crimes are usually not reported - in order to discover them - undercover work using devices such as _________ are utilized.






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