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DSST Introduction To Law Enforcement
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1. Campus police is probably the most important example of the special district police force. The also participate in the ____ program.
UCR
3100
Consecutive
Executions
2. There was no __________ form of criminal justice law in those days. Guilt was assumed; the execution carried out and accepted by all as an act of retribution.
Disturbance
Transit
Wilson
Organized
3. Between the data in the UCR and NCVS - most experts tend to prefer the ____.
Decentralization
Enabled
Annually
NCVS
4. 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.
Directorates
Procedures
Slow
Parens
5. The CIA also engages in ______ operations sanctioned by the President as part of their role in ensuring national security.
Covert
Enabled
Safe
UCR
6. 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
Cause
Previous
Death
7. 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.
Accountability
Written
Executive
FBI
8. Law enforcement in the US is extremely large and ___________ and hence this many agencies currently exist.
Fragmented
Prohibit
Drunk
Limitations
9. 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
Escobedo
Executive
Prevention
Outside
10. The number of homeless people in the US has spiraled upwards in the last 2 decades so that the function of the police in dealing with them is shifting from one of containment and peacekeeping to the delivery of proactive strategies to deal with the _
Rarely
4th
Citizen
Real problem
11. Due to an increase in _________ and disorder by citizens - officers turned to weaponry to protect themselves.
Black
FBI
Copies
Violence
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.
Blind
Communities
Annually
Victimization
13. 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.
FBI
Lawfully
Escobedo
Parens
14. 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
4th
Younger
Transit
Procedures
15. In the 1950s training for police officers consisted mainly of firearm skill development but over the years - classroom training has emphasized criminal __________.
Never
Arrest
Procedures
Election
16. Officers have very broad discretion - yet this subject is _______ taught or sufficiently taught to better aid the officers in making an appropriate decision.
Activity
Los Angeles
Rarely
Danger
17. 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.
Smaller
Posses
Cooperation
Accident
18. This is one of the reports produced by the FBI in its law _____________ role.
Heart
Academies
Executions
Enforcement
19. 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 _________.
Escobedo
Occupational
Activity
Forfeited
20. The first ___ amendments of the Constitution are commonly called the Bill of Rights and offer the individual considerable protection in the criminal justice system.
Without
Reports
Unqualified
Ten
21. The CID within the FBI is responsible for organized crime - violent crime - ____________ and money laundering.
Activity
Danger
State
Racketeering
22. This is training in relation to _____________ rules and was spurred by the decisions of the US Supreme Court in the 1960s.
Attrition
Organized
Due process
Blind
23. 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.
Racial
Reverse
Enforcement
Collateral
24. This is the definition of bail. If the suspect fails to appear for the next court hearing - then the money or property pledged may be __________.
Accident
Self
Academies
Forfeited
25. Under the 6th Amendment to the Constitution - every defendant has the right to a ____ trial.
Organized
Jury
Copies
Slow
26. 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
Collateral
Occupational
Inadmissible
Limitations
27. Domestic disturbances are a common order maintenance issue handled by the police but officers generally find them frustrating to handle because there is little that they can do about the _____ of the problem.
Punishment
Feedback
Cause
Dangerous
28. The spoils system refers to firing supporters of the opponent and replacing them with one's own supporters upon ________.
Outside
Election
Control
Highly
29. The FBI has the responsibility to investigate - analyze and neutralize any potential terrorist threats and to investigate and analyze terrorist __________ in the US.
Magistrate
UCR
Incidents
Compliance
30. Individuals have the right to live in their homes peacefully and not be subjected to unreasonable searches and seizures by virtue of the ___ amendment.
Violence
4th
Slow
Reaffirm
31. This has resulted in an under ________________ of blacks - women and ethnic minorities in the police force.
Racketeering
Representation
Pay
Classroom
32. 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.
Protect
Victimization
Consecutive
Wiretaps
33. 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.
Mainstream
Reaffirm
Organized
Annually
34. One of the major problems facing patrol officers is high-speed pursuits is a high ________ rate.
Activity
Self
Executions
Accident
35. This is widely recognized as a police role - though they do share the burden with other institutions such as schools and _____________.
Incidents
Supreme Court
4th
Communities
36. They believe that _____-reporting provides more accurate information than police reports.
Self
Citizen
Drawback
Seniority
37. There is no _________ method of centralized policing in the US as police services are provided by the 4 levels of government which are the city - county - state and federal levels.
Communities
Drawback
Escobedo
Organized
38. 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.
Same time
Patrol
Illegally
Victimization
39. Criminalistics relies on __________ to analyze firearms and munitions as well as various forensic techniques to determine issues such as time of death.
Uphold
Accountability
Education
Ballistics
40. 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
Poor
Safe
Federal
Rarely
41. 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.
Feedback
Racketeering
Violence
Copies
42. Sheriff departments are usually responsible for _______ court papers - civil summons - and managing security in state courtrooms.
Ten
Forfeited
Serving
Seniority
43. This was the step taken in 1965 to remedy _________ discrimination.
Previous
Detectives
Annually
Foreign
44. _________ policing took off in the 1980s and 1990s - with the realization that the police could not fight crime on their own.
Black
Collateral
Community
Procedure
45. There are around _____ federal - state and local law enforcement agencies in the US.
17000
Medical
Age
Directorates
46. Another source of PCR tension is discriminatory employment practices of the ______ force.
Procedure
Slow
Special
Police
47. 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
Reduced
Response
Organized
Police
48. 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.
Frequency
Rabinowitz
Wilson
Hoover
49. Police training programs do suffer from ___________ - particularly as important areas such as domestic violence - ethics and police discretion - which are not usually covered
Sheriff
Reports
Parens
Limitations
50. 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
Patrol
Never
Improperly
Attrition
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