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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 rights of the accused (and of prisoners) have been defined mostly through the _______________'s interpretation of the Bill of Rights.






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






3. In 1837 - the slave patrol consisted of about 100 officers and they were responsible for finding ________ slaves and ensuring that they were well-behaved.






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






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






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






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






8. This is to ensure that ___________ with the administrative rules is maintained.






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






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






11. 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.






12. 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.






13. Due to an increase in _________ and disorder by citizens - officers turned to weaponry to protect themselves.






14. 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.






15. It is interesting to note that the city of Detroit is the only state in which blacks rate the police force more ______ than their white counterparts.






16. Parens patriae is Latin for 'the ______ as parent'.






17. Campus police is probably the most important example of the special district police force. The also participate in the ____ program.






18. 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.






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






20. 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






21. 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.






22. A critical function that the police play in society is crime __________ and this role is primarily executed through routine patrolling.






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






24. The CIA also engages in ______ operations sanctioned by the President as part of their role in ensuring national security.






25. 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.






26. 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.






27. 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






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






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






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






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






32. When considering detective productivity and _____________ - more important than the number of arrests is the quality of those arrests.






33. 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.






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






35. 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.






36. 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 __________.






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






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






39. 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.






40. It is believed that the average citizen plays a vital part in the ________________ of officers.






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






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






43. 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.






44. This was the only way they could ________ themselves and their property from the bandits. They did try to apply the accepted standards of decency of the day to their actions.






45. 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.






46. 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.






47. The evidence had to be plainly in sight and even though the officers may have concluded that some items may have been located behind the ceiling panel; it was not in plain view and hence was ______________ as evidence. Furthermore - the officers are






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






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






50. 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.