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DSST Introduction To Law Enforcement

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Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The county level of government supplies citizens with police services - for example the county ________.






2. 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






3. Research into police work and activities conducted between the 1950s and 1970s concluded that police-community relations were very ____ and officers regularly breached legal rules






4. 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.






5. Law enforcement in the US is extremely large and ___________ and hence this many agencies currently exist.






6. 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.






7. 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.






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






9. The first ___ amendments to the Constitution are called the Bill of Rights. They were created to restrict government actions against the individual.






10. 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.






11. This is widely recognized as a police role - though they do share the burden with other institutions such as schools and _____________.






12. The _________ Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS)is the term coined for this annual study.






13. 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.






14. 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.






15. The courts of general jurisdiction utilize a fact-finding foundation known as the ___________ process which pits the State's interest - as represented by the prosecution against the Defendant's - as represented by defense counsel.






16. In this case - the Defendants were suspected of evading taxes but they refused to hand over their company books. An illegal search and seizure was performed and the books returned soon after - when the Defendant's lawyer objected. At the trial - the






17. 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.






18. 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 __________.






19. Domestic disturbances may be fuelled by alcohol and drug abuse - financial difficulties or many other reasons that are beyond the ________ of the officers.






20. The CIA has operations officers and recruits ________ agents as part of their intelligence activities and this may involve covert operations.






21. The 1980s and 1990s saw the creation of _______ oversight of police groups to monitor or investigate complaints by individuals against police actions.






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. 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.






24. 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






25. Officers at the academy undergo _________ training and most academies also offer field training.






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






27. 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.






28. The next most critical factor that impacts on PCR after race and ethnicity is ___.






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






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






31. A concurrent sentence is one that is served at the __________ as another sentence.






32. Training is one of the roles a ______-level enforcement agency usually engages in.






33. After the arrest - suspects are brought before a __________ for their first appearance so that the charges brought against them can be read out and if appropriate they may be released on their own recognizance.






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






35. 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.






36. This was the step taken in 1965 to remedy _________ discrimination.






37. Deterrence prevents crime through using an example or threat of ___________ to persuade the public against committing the crime.






38. They believe that _____-reporting provides more accurate information than police reports.






39. 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 __________.






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






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






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






43. Under the ___ system - if last night Jim killed John - then set fire to a car and robbed an old lady - these multiple crimes would be recorded as a single incident.






44. 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.






45. When the offender was apprehended by the posse - trials were rarely held and public __________ were held to dispense justice.






46. 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






47. By dealing with the underlying issues - for example mental health or financial service problems - then a solution may be found to get them off the street and back into a more ___________ existence.






48. 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.






49. The first ___ amendments of the Constitution are commonly called the Bill of Rights and offer the individual considerable protection in the criminal justice system.






50. Citizen ______ and vigilante groups were the main means of policing the frontier and well-known figures who took up this challenge in the 19th Century include Wild Bill Hickok and Wyatt Earp.