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DSST Introduction To Law Enforcement
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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.
Effectiveness
Highly
State
Collateral
2. The nature of police work also promotes deviant activities because officers are often offered ______ - they are regularly unsupervised and so think they can get away with it and fed on a diet of illegality may succumb to criminality too.
Bribes
Classroom
Analysis
Prevention
3. This was the step taken in 1965 to remedy _________ discrimination.
Drawback
Copies
Special
Previous
4. Their perception of the amount of danger faced in their jobs results in the development of constant __________ of people
Valid
Younger
Warrant
Suspicion
5. This has resulted in an under ________________ of blacks - women and ethnic minorities in the police force.
Mentally
Representation
National
Graduate
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
Younger
Organized
Legitimate
Feedback
7. They believe that _____-reporting provides more accurate information than police reports.
Self
Wilson
Accountability
Police
8. 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
Runaway
Inadmissible
Wilson
National
9. Officers are allocated to specific shifts and patrol areas based on _________ or using a rotation system.
Seniority
Weeks
Unqualified
Supreme Court
10. The majority of criminal cases do not go to trial but are instead settled via a plea _______.
Classroom
Obvious
Guns
Bargain
11. A concurrent sentence is one that is served at the __________ as another sentence.
Control
Incidents
Same time
Accident
12. The 3 purposes of patrol are to deter crime - increase feelings of public ________ and prepare officers for service through effective dispersal in the neighborhood.
Security
Lawfully
Black
Containment
13. 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.
Black
Victimization
Illegal
Organized
14. 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.
Escobedo
Danger
Writ
Valid
15. This was the ruling of the court. Many commentators were surprised but the court decided that although arrest for trivial offences (in this case a seat belt violation) may be embarrassing - it was not so extraordinary as to breach the ____ amendment
4th
Medical
Activity
Arrest
16. This is training in relation to _____________ rules and was spurred by the decisions of the US Supreme Court in the 1960s.
Organized
Special
Due process
NCVS
17. 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 _______.
Covert
Police
Racial
Justice
18. The first ___ amendments of the Constitution are commonly called the Bill of Rights and offer the individual considerable protection in the criminal justice system.
Poor
Victimization
Collateral
Ten
19. 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
UCR
Self
Adversarial
Outside
20. 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.
UCR
Incidents
Ballistics
Due process
21. _________ policing took off in the 1980s and 1990s - with the realization that the police could not fight crime on their own.
Uphold
Sheriff
Dangerous
Community
22. 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.
Suspicion
Due process
17000
Rabinowitz
23. 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.
Medical
Executions
Same time
Violent
24. When an appellate court is asked to review a judgment - they may ______ it - require the lower court to set it aside or modify it.
Uphold
Previous
3100
Police
25. 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.
Sober
Administrative
Warrant
UCR
26. When it comes to prostitution - low-level street-walking is usually tolerated so that the role of the police is normally ___________ and maintaining the peace.
Containment
Annually
UCR
Los Angeles
27. Prospective police officers are trained at police _________ - with the average pre-service training program lasting about 1000 hours.
Academies
Drunk
Searching
Subculture
28. 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 _
Activity
Highly
Real problem
Breached
29. The office of coroner is considered a local law enforcement agency because they determine the cause of _____ of victims and perpetrators in criminal cases.
Writ
Warrant
Compliance
Death
30. The role of the police academy is to provide formal training - root out ___________ recruits and immerse the trainees in the police subculture.
Dangerous
Unqualified
Mentally
17000
31. 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
Slave
Sober
Slow
Breached
32. The first ___ amendments to the Constitution are called the Bill of Rights. They were created to restrict government actions against the individual.
Security
Protect
Ten
Younger
33. 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.
Self
Without
Unqualified
Executive
34. This describes the Pendleton Act. This was a big step in the government becoming the huge _____________ it is today.
Bureaucracy
Occupational
Professionalization
Magistrate
35. Campus police are a type of _______ district police force - and many of these larger forces have been state certified as law enforcement agencies with general arrest powers.
Rarely
Good-faith
Federal
Special
36. The public perception of the police is of a distant and alienated law enforcement unit. Through community policing - police-community relations should ________ as the public have a greater stake and say in their problems and needs.
Blind
Improve
Enforcement
Investigations
37. The Uniform Crime Reports (UCR) is an annualized report published by the ___ that states the statistical rate of reported crime in the US based on data from police reports.
FBI
Without
Detectives
Escobedo
38. It is believed that the average citizen plays a vital part in the ________________ of officers.
Runaway
Subculture
Accountability
Patrol
39. The UCR statistics are used to create the FBI Crime Clock which creates a picture of crime _________ in the US.
Prohibit
Frequency
Real problem
Academies
40. The first landmark case that forms the foundation of the exclusionary rule is the US Supreme court decision of _____ v US (1914).
Accountability
4th
Weeks
Enabled
41. The local police cover a wide range of law enforcement agencies such as the municipal police - sheriff's departments - campus and _______ police.
Illegal
Good-faith
Transit
Racketeering
42. 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.
Subculture
Uphold
Violent
Slow
43. Another word for uphold is _________. This is the result for most appellate court decisions whereby they confirm the decision of the lower court.
Searching
Warrant
Legitimate
Reaffirm
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.
FBI
Smaller
Rabinowitz
Heart
45. Officers have very broad discretion - yet this subject is _______ taught or sufficiently taught to better aid the officers in making an appropriate decision.
Rarely
Sheriff
Occupational
Compliance
46. 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
Organized
Annually
Written
Reduced
47. August Vollmer believed that policing standards needed to be improved and corruption stamped out. He advocated training and __________ for officers.
State
Security
Consecutive
Education
48. 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.
Dangerous
Magistrate
Copies
Improve
49. 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
Without
Subculture
Detectives
50. This may also be called '________ officer.' The investigative nature of their jobs has resulted in their classification as a local law enforcement agency.
UCR
Medical
Accident
4th