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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. When the offender was apprehended by the posse - trials were rarely held and public __________ were held to dispense justice.






2. In serious cases - this may be the outcome. However - hospital care for the mentally ill is very disjointed and it may be difficult to hospitalize a person without their ________. Also - these hospitals or shelters may refuse to admit these patients.






3. 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






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






5. 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.






6. The 3 purposes of patrol are to deter crime - increase feelings of public ________ and prepare officers for service through effective dispersal in the neighborhood.






7. 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 _________.






8. 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.






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






10. 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






11. Individuals have the right to live in their homes peacefully and not be subjected to unreasonable searches and seizures by virtue of the ___ amendment.






12. The first ___ amendments of the Constitution are commonly called the Bill of Rights and offer the individual considerable protection in the criminal justice system.






13. A centralized state-level agency - which merges patrol with ______________ will usually assist in local criminal investigations when asked - patrol the state's highways - operate identification bureaus - manage criminal records and provide training t






14. The CIA is divided into 3 ____________ and 5 mission support offices (MSOs).






15. When an appellate court is asked to review a judgment - they may ______ it - require the lower court to set it aside or modify it.






16. Patrol is meant to reassure citizens that their environment is _____ and protected from crime.






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






18. Police training programs do suffer from ___________ - particularly as important areas such as domestic violence - ethics and police discretion - which are not usually covered






19. 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.






20. It can be argued that __________ officers possess an additional skill and therefore the extra pay can be justified on those grounds.






21. This has resulted in an under ________________ of blacks - women and ethnic minorities in the police force.






22. The majority of criminal cases do not go to trial but are instead settled via a plea _______.






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






24. Between the data in the UCR and NCVS - most experts tend to prefer the ____.






25. 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.






26. 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






27. Parens patriae is Latin for 'the ______ as parent'.






28. One of the major problems facing patrol officers is high-speed pursuits is a high ________ rate.






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






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






31. This was the step taken in 1965 to remedy _________ discrimination.






32. 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.






33. 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.






34. This is the way criminal trials are conducted in the US and it is governed by strict rules of __________.






35. The _________ Act passed by Congress in 1883 put an end to Andrew Jackson's 'spoils system -' and created a system of hiring government employees based on their qualifications.






36. 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.






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






38. In 1837 - the slave patrol consisted of about 100 officers and they were responsible for finding ________ slaves and ensuring that they were well-behaved.






39. 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.






40. In this case - the police applied for and obtained a search warrant from a magistrate for the Defendant's homes. Drugs were found there and the Defendant convicted. He appealed on the grounds that the original affidavit drawn up to obtain the search






41. 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






42. Their perception of the amount of danger faced in their jobs results in the development of constant __________ of people






43. In 2001 - the US Supreme Court held in Atwater v. Lago Vista that the 4th amendment did not ________ warrantless arrests for minor offenses.






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






45. Domestic violence must be distinguished from a domestic ___________ in the sense that in the former a serious crime has been committed and so the officers can exercise their powers of arrest - if they choose to do so although research shows that offi






46. Criminalistics relies on __________ to analyze firearms and munitions as well as various forensic techniques to determine issues such as time of death.






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






48. 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.






49. It is believed that the average citizen plays a vital part in the ________________ of officers.






50. The _________ Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS)is the term coined for this annual study.