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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. 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.






2. The CIA is divided into 3 ____________ and 5 mission support offices (MSOs).






3. A warrant is a _____ issued by the court to justify the arrest of a suspect. It offers protection to the officer executing the warrant against damages; for example for wrongful arrest.






4. Another source of PCR tension is discriminatory employment practices of the ______ force.






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






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






7. 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.






8. 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






9. 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






10. 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






11. Since the 1980s - there have been some very public crackdowns on _____ driving but rates of this offence which creep down during the crackdown soon return to the original levels because the publicity forces a temporary change in behavior which is not






12. It can be argued that __________ officers possess an additional skill and therefore the extra pay can be justified on those grounds.






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






14. Some departments allow for bidding of new patrol areas once or twice _________.






15. 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.






16. The 3 purposes of patrol are to deter crime - increase feelings of public ________ and prepare officers for service through effective dispersal in the neighborhood.






17. 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






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






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. Officers are allocated to specific shifts and patrol areas based on _________ or using a rotation system.






21. Some legal experts believe that police discretion should be abolished because it is _______.






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






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






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






25. 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 _________.






26. Bail describes the circumstance when suspects are released from custody but on condition that money or property is offered as __________ against flight.






27. 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.






28. In the 1950s training for police officers consisted mainly of firearm skill development but over the years - classroom training has emphasized criminal __________.






29. 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 __________.






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






31. The office of coroner is considered a local law enforcement agency because they determine the cause of _____ of victims and perpetrators in criminal cases.






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






33. 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 _






34. The 911 communications center is the _____ of a modern police department.






35. 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.






36. 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.






37. 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.






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






39. Individuals have the right to live in their homes peacefully and not be subjected to unreasonable searches and seizures by virtue of the ___ amendment.






40. There are around _____ federal - state and local law enforcement agencies in the US.






41. 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.






42. Police training programs do suffer from ___________ - particularly as important areas such as domestic violence - ethics and police discretion - which are not usually covered






43. There are over _____ sheriff's departments in the US.






44. 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






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






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






47. Officers have very broad discretion - yet this subject is _______ taught or sufficiently taught to better aid the officers in making an appropriate decision.






48. 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






49. 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.






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