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






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.






3. The 3 CIA directorates are the directorate of Intelligence - directorate of Operations and the directorate of Science and ___________.






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






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






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 __________.






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.






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






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






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






11. Another word for uphold is _________. This is the result for most appellate court decisions whereby they confirm the decision of the lower court.






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.






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.






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






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.






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.






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






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






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






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.






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.






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






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.






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






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






26. ____ did not become regulated officer equipment until the late 19th Century.






27. Officers have very broad discretion - yet this subject is _______ taught or sufficiently taught to better aid the officers in making an appropriate decision.






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






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 _______.






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






31. Prospective police officers are trained at police _________ - with the average pre-service training program lasting about 1000 hours.






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.






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






34. The written policies method is called '________________ rule-making' and it is presently the most popular method of controlling discretion.






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.






36. Apart from police corruption - another form of police deviance is ____________ deviance.






37. This is one of the reports produced by the FBI in its law _____________ role.






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






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.






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.






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.






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






43. There are over _____ sheriff's departments in the US.






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






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






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






47. This was the bright-line rule (one that can ______ be crossed) that emerged from this case.






48. Officers appointed to carry out investigative work are known as __________.






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






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.