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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 1837 - the slave patrol consisted of about 100 officers and they were responsible for finding ________ slaves and ensuring that they were well-behaved.
Runaway
Enabled
Drawback
Blind
2. The FBI has the responsibility to investigate - analyze and neutralize any potential terrorist threats and to investigate and analyze terrorist __________ in the US.
Incidents
Victimization
4th
FBI
3. This is training in relation to _____________ rules and was spurred by the decisions of the US Supreme Court in the 1960s.
Due process
Prevention
Victimless
Graduate
4. Criminalistics relies on __________ to analyze firearms and munitions as well as various forensic techniques to determine issues such as time of death.
Due process
Leon
Ballistics
Danger
5. Individuals have the right to live in their homes peacefully and not be subjected to unreasonable searches and seizures by virtue of the ___ amendment.
Annually
Illegally
Illegal
4th
6. 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 _________.
Executions
Covert
3100
Activity
7. The role of the police academy is to provide formal training - root out ___________ recruits and immerse the trainees in the police subculture.
Compliance
Unqualified
Heart
4th
8. The 911 communications center is the _____ of a modern police department.
Improperly
Heart
Death
Magistrate
9. The 3 main approaches to controlling police discretion are removing it - improving the professional judgment of officers through better training and managing it through _______ policies.
Vollmer
Death
Protect
Written
10. 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
Community
Los Angeles
Unqualified
Without
11. In US v. __________ (1950) - the US Supreme Court ruled that a warrantless search upon a lawful arrest was permitted as long as it was reasonable given the circumstances.
Graduate
Rabinowitz
Age
Effectiveness
12. The nature of police work also promotes deviant activities because officers are often offered ______ - they are regularly unsupervised and so think they can get away with it and fed on a diet of illegality may succumb to criminality too.
Bribes
Violence
Academies
Forfeited
13. Apart from reducing crime - the mission of community policing is to _______ the trend of the negative public perception of the police
FBI
Lawfully
Transit
Reverse
14. 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
Breached
Death
Crime
Organized
15. 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
Breached
Due process
Security
16. The drawbacks of the administrative rule-making route are that they can never cover every conceivable situation; it may promote lying - avoidance - confusion and a negative ________ from officers.
Never
Danger
Patrol
Response
17. The controversial 'broken window' theory made the connection between disorder - neighborhood decay and _____.
Crime
Consecutive
Reaffirm
Safe
18. One of the major problems facing patrol officers is high-speed pursuits is a high ________ rate.
Limitations
Accident
Response
Consent
19. When considering detective productivity and _____________ - more important than the number of arrests is the quality of those arrests.
Effectiveness
Organized
Decentralization
Escobedo
20. The NCVS Survey is a yearly study by the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) of specific households to determine the level of criminal _____________ - particularly unreported victimization - in the US.
Victimization
Representation
Adversarial
Violence
21. The police receive a sizeable number of calls about ________ ill persons and in exercising their discretion these matters are normally dealt with through arrest - hospitalization or informal disposition.
Racketeering
Mentally
Executive
Unqualified
22. 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 __________.
Reverse
Magistrate
Prevention
Detectives
23. 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 ______.
Graduate
Enabled
Sober
Mentally
24. Officers are commonly offered bribes to let suspects go or to turn a blind eye to ________ activities.
Illegal
Uphold
Self
Organized
25. Parens patriae is Latin for 'the ______ as parent'.
Violence
Escobedo
Racketeering
State
26. 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
Magistrate
Policy
Accountability
Crime
27. The number of homeless people in the US has spiraled upwards in the last 2 decades so that the function of the police in dealing with them is shifting from one of containment and peacekeeping to the delivery of proactive strategies to deal with the _
Poor
Consent
Breached
Real problem
28. 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.
Bribes
Writ
Copies
Jury
29. ____ did not become regulated officer equipment until the late 19th Century.
Lawfully
Guns
4th
Disturbance
30. 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
Bribes
Increase
4th
Danger
31. Officers have very broad discretion - yet this subject is _______ taught or sufficiently taught to better aid the officers in making an appropriate decision.
Medical
Rarely
Directorates
Leon
32. 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.
Patrol
Cause
Mainstream
Serving
33. Due to an increase in _________ and disorder by citizens - officers turned to weaponry to protect themselves.
Heart
Supreme Court
Violence
Prohibit
34. The written policies method is called '________________ rule-making' and it is presently the most popular method of controlling discretion.
Administrative
Prohibit
Election
Directorates
35. 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.
Previous
Slow
Highly
Activity
36. There are over _____ sheriff's departments in the US.
Dangerous
Election
3100
Community
37. The spoils system refers to firing supporters of the opponent and replacing them with one's own supporters upon ________.
Education
Organized
Election
Violence
38. 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.
Improve
Disturbance
Containment
Drunk
39. The 1980s and 1990s saw the creation of _______ oversight of police groups to monitor or investigate complaints by individuals against police actions.
Due process
Guns
Procedures
Citizen
40. _________ policing took off in the 1980s and 1990s - with the realization that the police could not fight crime on their own.
Hoover
Sheriff
Community
Black
41. 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
Reports
Academies
Response
42. The police ___________ of secrecy - public hostility and solidarity meant they were very isolated from the community - especially the black community.
Same time
Cause
Subculture
Policy
43. 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.
Foreign
Written
Imprisonment
Posse
44. 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
Justice
Valid
Response
Highly
45. 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.
Supreme Court
Administrative
Uphold
FBI
46. The first ___ amendments of the Constitution are commonly called the Bill of Rights and offer the individual considerable protection in the criminal justice system.
3100
Pay
Ten
Covert
47. This is one of the reports produced by the FBI in its law _____________ role.
Rabinowitz
Enforcement
Violent
Slow
48. There is no _________ method of centralized policing in the US as police services are provided by the 4 levels of government which are the city - county - state and federal levels.
Warrant
Feedback
Organized
Policy
49. 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
FBI
Blind
Partnership
Magistrate
50. The next most critical factor that impacts on PCR after race and ethnicity is ___.
Occupational
Compliance
Serving
Age