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DSST Introduction To Law Enforcement
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Apart from reducing crime - the mission of community policing is to _______ the trend of the negative public perception of the police
Imprisonment
Reverse
Age
Classroom
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.
Partnership
State
Parens
Reports
3. The exclusionary rule was modified by the __________ exception in the US Supreme Court decision of US v. Leon (1984).
Good-faith
Prohibit
Academies
Hoover
4. This is the right granted under the Constitution but the Supreme Court has held that it can be exercised only for offences carrying a term of ______________ exceeding 6 months or where the extra penalties such as fines and community service are suffi
Imprisonment
Organized
Transit
Blind
5. The county level of government supplies citizens with police services - for example the county ________.
Legitimate
Organized
Sheriff
Reports
6. This occurs where criminal and non-criminal actions are used by an officer in the course of his/her working activities or committed when pretending it is within his/her ___________ police authority. An example is sleeping on the job or a racial slur
Ten
Cooperation
Legitimate
Community
7. The controversial 'broken window' theory made the connection between disorder - neighborhood decay and _____.
3100
Crime
NCVS
Escobedo
8. Able-bodied men who could hear the commotion caused by the victim were obliged to form a posse and join the shire reeve (term from which ________ is derived) or mounted officer in pursuit of the offender.
Previous
Sheriff
Reverse
Reports
9. The majority of criminal cases do not go to trial but are instead settled via a plea _______.
Slave
Mentally
Special
Bargain
10. 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
Obvious
Accountability
Reduced
4th
11. 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
Punishment
Younger
Blind
Control
12. The ________ rule was further emphasized in Edwards v. Arizona (1981) - when the court prohibited investigators from continuing questioning once the suspect has requested an attorney.
Younger
Escobedo
Hoover
Procedure
13. The UCR has a hierarchy rule whereby multiple types of incidents can only be recorded as 1 incident. This is a _________ of the system.
Seniority
Ten
Drawback
Racial
14. 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.
Response
Bargain
Prevention
Illegal
15. The CID within the FBI is responsible for organized crime - violent crime - ____________ and money laundering.
Warrant
Technology
Racketeering
17000
16. 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.
Lawfully
Accident
Uphold
Jury
17. August Vollmer believed that policing standards needed to be improved and corruption stamped out. He advocated training and __________ for officers.
Education
Procedures
Good-faith
Organized
18. 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.
Illegal
Obvious
Searching
Executions
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.
Never
Without
Control
Accountability
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
Prohibit
Improperly
Justice
Sheriff
21. The Supreme Court created a good faith exception to the exclusionary rule when police officers use search warrants (US v. ____ - 1984).
Safe
Leon
Prohibit
Forfeited
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.
Bilingual
Reduced
Copies
3100
23. Sheriff departments are usually responsible for _______ court papers - civil summons - and managing security in state courtrooms.
Real problem
Feedback
Serving
Qualified
24. Upon conviction - the defendant is punished through a sentence passed by the judge and if convicted of more than one crime - then may be subject to a ___________ or concurrent sentence.
Consecutive
Communities
Pendleton
Weeks
25. Their perception of the amount of danger faced in their jobs results in the development of constant __________ of people
Suspicion
Valid
Transit
Black
26. 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.
Federal
Posses
Drawback
Medical
27. 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.
Forfeited
Seniority
Executive
Violent
28. 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
Mentally
Outside
Slave
29. 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 __________.
Prohibit
Prevention
Attrition
Justice
30. Field training consists of practical on-the-job training with a __________ field training officer.
Warrant
Qualified
Valid
Procedure
31. 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
Outside
Danger
Executive
State
32. This may also be called '________ officer.' The investigative nature of their jobs has resulted in their classification as a local law enforcement agency.
Seniority
Medical
Activity
Effectiveness
33. The most organized and distinctly American officer force was the _____ patrol based in Charleston - South Carolina.
Slave
Warrant
Consecutive
Effectiveness
34. 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.
Seniority
Suspicion
Cooperation
Executions
35. 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
Mentally
Classroom
Real problem
Partnership
36. Prospective police officers are trained at police _________ - with the average pre-service training program lasting about 1000 hours.
Slow
Parens
Academies
Danger
37. This is training in relation to _____________ rules and was spurred by the decisions of the US Supreme Court in the 1960s.
Annually
Due process
Investigations
Organized
38. Officers are commonly offered bribes to let suspects go or to turn a blind eye to ________ activities.
Illegal
Effectiveness
UCR
Racial
39. ____ did not become regulated officer equipment until the late 19th Century.
Hoover
Guns
Drawback
Professionalization
40. This describes the Pendleton Act. This was a big step in the government becoming the huge _____________ it is today.
Annually
Detectives
Prevention
Bureaucracy
41. 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.
Mainstream
Parens
Containment
Protect
42. This is the way criminal trials are conducted in the US and it is governed by strict rules of __________.
Citizen
Attrition
Activity
Procedure
43. Between the data in the UCR and NCVS - most experts tend to prefer the ____.
Mentally
Reverse
Justice
NCVS
44. 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.
Rabinowitz
Victimization
Ballistics
FBI
45. 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.
Consecutive
Feedback
Warrant
Written
46. 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 _______.
Illegal
Imprisonment
Racial
Justice
47. 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.
Posse
National
Feedback
Procedure
48. One of the major problems facing patrol officers is high-speed pursuits is a high ________ rate.
Policy
Accident
Improperly
Violent
49. Since these crimes are usually not reported - in order to discover them - undercover work using devices such as _________ are utilized.
Representation
Sober
Wiretaps
Supreme Court
50. Research has revealed that in about 80% of such situations - no formal action - such as _______ was necessary.
Arrest
Covert
Death
Collateral