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DSST Introduction To Law Enforcement

Subjects : dsst, law-enforcement
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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.






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






3. 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.






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






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






6. The 3 main approaches to controlling police discretion are removing it - improving the professional judgment of officers through better training and managing it through _______ policies.






7. 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.






8. The controversial 'broken window' theory made the connection between disorder - neighborhood decay and _____.






9. The Supreme Court created a good faith exception to the exclusionary rule when police officers use search warrants (US v. ____ - 1984).






10. The role of the police academy is to provide formal training - root out ___________ recruits and immerse the trainees in the police subculture.






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






12. 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






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






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






15. The office of coroner is considered a local law enforcement agency because they determine the cause of _____ of victims and perpetrators in criminal cases.






16. This is due to the dominance of the local political structure by ______ persons. Detroit has had a black mayor since 1973 and the police force is dominated by black persons. Thus - the black community can better relate with their local police






17. The police receive a sizeable number of calls about ________ ill persons and in exercising their discretion these matters are normally dealt with through arrest - hospitalization or informal disposition.






18. There are around _____ federal - state and local law enforcement agencies in the US.






19. This describes the Pendleton Act. This was a big step in the government becoming the huge _____________ it is today.






20. Law enforcement in the US is extremely large and ___________ and hence this many agencies currently exist.






21. 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






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






23. Officers must file written _______ in certain circumstances when they exercise their discretion - for example when they fire their weapon and these reports must be reviewed by their superiors.






24. In order to police __________ crimes - officers generally have to resort to undercover work.






25. The first landmark case that forms the foundation of the exclusionary rule is the US Supreme court decision of _____ v US (1914).






26. 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.






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 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.






29. 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.






30. The exclusionary rule was modified by the __________ exception in the US Supreme Court decision of US v. Leon (1984).






31. The FBI has the responsibility to investigate - analyze and neutralize any potential terrorist threats and to investigate and analyze terrorist __________ in the US.






32. There is usually a degree of competition between detectives and _______ officers. The latter sometimes withhold information in the hope of beating detectives to solving a case.






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






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






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






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






37. This is training in relation to _____________ rules and was spurred by the decisions of the US Supreme Court in the 1960s.






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






39. Some legal experts believe that police discretion should be abolished because it is _______.






40. 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






41. 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.






42. Research has revealed that in about 80% of such situations - no formal action - such as _______ was necessary.






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






44. Organized law enforcement in Britain can be traced back to 1200 AD when identified law breakers were pursued by a _____ led by the shire reeve or mounted officer.






45. 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.






46. The courts of general jurisdiction utilize a fact-finding foundation known as the ___________ process which pits the State's interest - as represented by the prosecution against the Defendant's - as represented by defense counsel.






47. 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.






48. 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.






49. 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






50. 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 __________.