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DSST Introduction To Law Enforcement
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1. The majority of criminal cases do not go to trial but are instead settled via a plea _______.
Bargain
Compliance
4th
Highly
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.
Reports
Response
Qualified
Breached
3. Some legal experts believe that police discretion should be abolished because it is _______.
Disturbance
Illegal
Bargain
Uphold
4. The county level of government supplies citizens with police services - for example the county ________.
Qualified
Executions
Death
Sheriff
5. Patrol is meant to reassure citizens that their environment is _____ and protected from crime.
Rabinowitz
Analysis
Safe
Frequency
6. Officers appointed to carry out investigative work are known as __________.
Feedback
Detectives
Prevention
Transit
7. 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.
Policy
Covert
Improperly
Feedback
8. The 3 purposes of patrol are to deter crime - increase feelings of public ________ and prepare officers for service through effective dispersal in the neighborhood.
Detectives
Safe
Increase
Security
9. J Edgar ______ - the Director of the FBI in the 1930s had a critical impact on local policing in setting educational and training models for officers - the development of the Uniform Crime Reports (UCR) and the establishment of the FBI crime lab.
Hoover
Decentralization
Bilingual
Attrition
10. The exclusionary rule was modified by the __________ exception in the US Supreme Court decision of US v. Leon (1984).
Executive
Good-faith
Supervision
Illegally
11. Individuals have the right to live in their homes peacefully and not be subjected to unreasonable searches and seizures by virtue of the ___ amendment.
Technology
4th
Organized
Partnership
12. Domestic disturbances may be fuelled by alcohol and drug abuse - financial difficulties or many other reasons that are beyond the ________ of the officers.
Control
Never
Effectiveness
Searching
13. 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
Violence
Due process
Posses
Reduced
14. 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 _______.
Lawfully
Effectiveness
Self
Justice
15. Officers are commonly offered bribes to let suspects go or to turn a blind eye to ________ activities.
Illegal
Consent
Subculture
Vollmer
16. Some departments allow for bidding of new patrol areas once or twice _________.
4th
Annually
Decentralization
Citizen
17. The CIA also engages in ______ operations sanctioned by the President as part of their role in ensuring national security.
Covert
Supervision
Wiretaps
Enabled
18. Another word for uphold is _________. This is the result for most appellate court decisions whereby they confirm the decision of the lower court.
Slave
Breached
Reaffirm
Disturbance
19. 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.
Real problem
Policy
Response
Annually
20. Their perception of the amount of danger faced in their jobs results in the development of constant __________ of people
Detectives
Suspicion
Rabinowitz
Jury
21. 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.
Enforcement
Protect
Federal
Detectives
22. The role of the police academy is to provide formal training - root out ___________ recruits and immerse the trainees in the police subculture.
Unqualified
Safe
Warrant
Prevention
23. Law enforcement in the US is extremely large and ___________ and hence this many agencies currently exist.
FBI
Supervision
Graduate
Fragmented
24. The 1980s and 1990s saw the creation of _______ oversight of police groups to monitor or investigate complaints by individuals against police actions.
Citizen
Sober
Wilson
Communities
25. 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.
Prohibit
Covert
Cooperation
Federal
26. 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.
Bribes
Enabled
Procedure
Posse
27. 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.
Executive
Partnership
Parens
Written
28. In dealing with federal criminal law enforcement - the duty of the FBI upon investigation is to gather evidence and perform personnel investigations - especially in major programs such as _________ crime and white-collar crime.
Organized
Inadmissible
Protect
Pay
29. Officers at the academy undergo _________ training and most academies also offer field training.
Searching
Classroom
Writ
Wilson
30. 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
Response
Frequency
Danger
Illegally
31. A concurrent sentence is one that is served at the __________ as another sentence.
Detectives
Same time
Imprisonment
Patrol
32. 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.
Slow
Compliance
Wilson
Containment
33. Campus police are a type of _______ district police force - and many of these larger forces have been state certified as law enforcement agencies with general arrest powers.
Sober
Special
Suspicion
Consent
34. When considering detective productivity and _____________ - more important than the number of arrests is the quality of those arrests.
Effectiveness
Supreme Court
4th
Real problem
35. A critical function that the police play in society is crime __________ and this role is primarily executed through routine patrolling.
Technology
Poor
Directorates
Prevention
36. This is one of the reports produced by the FBI in its law _____________ role.
Illegally
Drawback
Enforcement
Procedures
37. 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.
Warrant
Reverse
Mentally
Leon
38. 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 _________.
Seniority
Activity
Bureaucracy
Rabinowitz
39. Apart from police corruption - another form of police deviance is ____________ deviance.
Subculture
Age
Increase
Occupational
40. 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.
Lawfully
Copies
Classroom
Escobedo
41. The first landmark case that forms the foundation of the exclusionary rule is the US Supreme court decision of _____ v US (1914).
Weeks
Police
Arrest
Covert
42. The Hispanic community is growing faster than expected and therefore police departments should take steps to hire more Hispanic officers through active recruitment processes and offering incentive ___ for bilingual officers.
3100
Pay
Improve
Attrition
43. The controversial 'broken window' theory made the connection between disorder - neighborhood decay and _____.
Feedback
Classroom
Crime
Serving
44. 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.
Executive
Citizen
Covert
Los Angeles
45. This is because patrol consists of the majority of police work and this is ________ through the police communications network - which is triggered by 911 calls.
Enabled
Valid
Crime
Federal
46. 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.
Victimization
Response
Decentralization
Parens
47. 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
Valid
Wiretaps
FBI
Rabinowitz
48. This has resulted in an under ________________ of blacks - women and ethnic minorities in the police force.
Representation
FBI
Security
NCVS
49. 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
Los Angeles
Disturbance
Patrol
Prohibit
50. Community policing is widely implemented in the US today but critics are concerned that the police role of crime control has been hijacked - the police are increasingly getting involved at a political level and ________________ will lead to the loss
Decentralization
Slave
Analysis
Wiretaps
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