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






2. 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.






3. 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






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






5. Between the data in the UCR and NCVS - most experts tend to prefer the ____.






6. The police ___________ of secrecy - public hostility and solidarity meant they were very isolated from the community - especially the black community.






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






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






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






10. 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.






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






12. Generally - surveys have revealed that ________ people tend to be more dissatisfied with the police than older persons. Some youths seem to believe that the police target them simply because they are young and think that all teenagers are up to no go






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






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






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. 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.






17. The FBI has the responsibility to investigate - analyze and neutralize any potential terrorist threats and to investigate and analyze terrorist __________ in the US.






18. 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.






19. 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






20. 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






21. This is the term coined to describe this diagrammatic representation. It differentiates between ________ crimes such as murder and rape and property crime such as burglary and arson.






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






23. 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.






24. 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.






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






26. The UCR statistics are used to create the FBI Crime Clock which creates a picture of crime _________ in the US.






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






28. 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.






29. 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.






30. 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.






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. 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.






33. This is the venue for police training and the value of training has experienced a dramatic _________ in status since its inception.






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






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






36. 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.






37. Since these crimes are usually not reported - in order to discover them - undercover work using devices such as _________ are utilized.






38. 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.






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






40. The CID within the FBI is responsible for organized crime - violent crime - ____________ and money laundering.






41. 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






42. The spoils system refers to firing supporters of the opponent and replacing them with one's own supporters upon ________.






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






44. 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






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






46. 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 __________.






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






48. The rise of police professionalism and reform was spearheaded by August _______ who served as the chief of police in Berkeley - California from 1905 to 1932.






49. 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.






50. When an appellate court is asked to review a judgment - they may ______ it - require the lower court to set it aside or modify it.