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DSST Introduction To Law Enforcement
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The 911 communications center is the _____ of a modern police department.
Slow
Searching
Supreme Court
Heart
2. 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.
Danger
FBI
Inadmissible
Real problem
3. The 3 CIA directorates are the directorate of Intelligence - directorate of Operations and the directorate of Science and ___________.
Ten
Technology
Control
Good-faith
4. Since these crimes are usually not reported - in order to discover them - undercover work using devices such as _________ are utilized.
Writ
Bureaucracy
Wiretaps
Communities
5. 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
Supreme Court
Improperly
Guns
Lawfully
6. 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 __________.
FBI
Victimization
Prevention
Self
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.
Administrative
Cause
Fragmented
Feedback
8. The police ___________ of secrecy - public hostility and solidarity meant they were very isolated from the community - especially the black community.
Prevention
Ballistics
Security
Subculture
9. Officers at the academy undergo _________ training and most academies also offer field training.
Procedures
FBI
Suspicion
Classroom
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
Illegally
Control
Improve
Runaway
11. Another word for uphold is _________. This is the result for most appellate court decisions whereby they confirm the decision of the lower court.
Protect
Justice
Reaffirm
4th
12. 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.
Victimization
Inadmissible
Parens
Imprisonment
13. The first ___ amendments of the Constitution are commonly called the Bill of Rights and offer the individual considerable protection in the criminal justice system.
NCVS
Violence
Ten
Accident
14. The spoils system refers to firing supporters of the opponent and replacing them with one's own supporters upon ________.
Occupational
Election
Medical
Response
15. 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.
Improve
Escobedo
Rabinowitz
Federal
16. 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.
Community
Warrant
Prohibit
Leon
17. Wilson believed in the necessity to continue and encourage _____________________ within the police force. He was the chief of police in Wichita from 1928 to 1935 - the Dean of Criminology at the University of California from 1950 to 1960 and the supe
Searching
Runaway
Professionalization
Self
18. Officers are commonly offered bribes to let suspects go or to turn a blind eye to ________ activities.
Executions
Violent
Los Angeles
Illegal
19. The UCR statistics are used to create the FBI Crime Clock which creates a picture of crime _________ in the US.
Frequency
Leon
Real problem
Mainstream
20. 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.
Copies
Occupational
Consecutive
Racial
21. 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.
Without
Black
Foreign
Improperly
22. The CID within the FBI is responsible for organized crime - violent crime - ____________ and money laundering.
Federal
Seniority
Written
Racketeering
23. 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.
Graduate
Limitations
Smaller
Bribes
24. The exclusionary rule relates to illegally seized evidence. In this case - the police searched and seized personal effects as well as incriminating evidence from the Defendant's house without a warrant. On the basis of this evidence - the Defendant w
Effectiveness
Posses
Breached
Guns
25. This is to ensure that ___________ with the administrative rules is maintained.
Pendleton
Compliance
Patrol
Administrative
26. ____ did not become regulated officer equipment until the late 19th Century.
Guns
Frequency
Good-faith
Patrol
27. Officers have very broad discretion - yet this subject is _______ taught or sufficiently taught to better aid the officers in making an appropriate decision.
Rarely
Real problem
Illegally
Heart
28. The county level of government supplies citizens with police services - for example the county ________.
Transit
Sheriff
Age
Breached
29. 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 _______.
Executive
Bureaucracy
Justice
Citizen
30. When considering detective productivity and _____________ - more important than the number of arrests is the quality of those arrests.
17000
Lawfully
Supervision
Effectiveness
31. Prospective police officers are trained at police _________ - with the average pre-service training program lasting about 1000 hours.
Academies
Prohibit
Feedback
Classroom
32. 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.
Procedures
Highly
Outside
Response
33. 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
Drunk
Protect
State
Forfeited
34. The written policies method is called '________________ rule-making' and it is presently the most popular method of controlling discretion.
Analysis
Fragmented
Administrative
Improve
35. 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.
Pay
Mainstream
Prohibit
Enforcement
36. Apart from police corruption - another form of police deviance is ____________ deviance.
Occupational
Qualified
Posse
Ballistics
37. This is one of the reports produced by the FBI in its law _____________ role.
Drawback
Pay
Enforcement
Good-faith
38. The 1980s and 1990s saw the creation of _______ oversight of police groups to monitor or investigate complaints by individuals against police actions.
FBI
Citizen
Los Angeles
Graduate
39. 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.
Patrol
Pay
Enabled
Reaffirm
40. 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.
Prevention
Analysis
UCR
Obvious
41. This is the problem of case __________. Research has shown that only about half of felony arrests result in convictions. The question is whether this is due to poor police work or some other reason.
FBI
Procedure
Compliance
Attrition
42. Field training consists of practical on-the-job training with a __________ field training officer.
Wilson
Qualified
Violent
Racial
43. There are over _____ sheriff's departments in the US.
Prevention
3100
UCR
Safe
44. 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
Prevention
Poor
Illegal
Occupational
45. The CIA has operations officers and recruits ________ agents as part of their intelligence activities and this may involve covert operations.
Representation
State
Reduced
Foreign
46. A critical function that the police play in society is crime __________ and this role is primarily executed through routine patrolling.
Violent
Limitations
Response
Prevention
47. This was the bright-line rule (one that can ______ be crossed) that emerged from this case.
Executions
Never
Victimless
Security
48. Officers appointed to carry out investigative work are known as __________.
Reverse
Bribes
Detectives
Vollmer
49. The first ___ amendments to the Constitution are called the Bill of Rights. They were created to restrict government actions against the individual.
Inadmissible
Ten
Justice
Patrol
50. 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.
Subculture
Blind
Guns
Valid