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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 can be argued that __________ officers possess an additional skill and therefore the extra pay can be justified on those grounds.
Improperly
Bilingual
Response
Blind
2. It is believed that the average citizen plays a vital part in the ________________ of officers.
Bargain
Accountability
Education
Supreme Court
3. Police subculture is determined by the potential of ______ and because of this they stereotype certain categories of persons - such as low-income males - as possible threats.
Danger
Prevention
Reduced
Heart
4. 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.
Due process
Graduate
Prohibit
Detectives
5. 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
Legitimate
Pay
FBI
Crime
6. The UCR statistics are used to create the FBI Crime Clock which creates a picture of crime _________ in the US.
Due process
Frequency
Black
Technology
7. Parens patriae is Latin for 'the ______ as parent'.
Self
Consecutive
State
Imprisonment
8. Some departments allow for bidding of new patrol areas once or twice _________.
Previous
Annually
Slave
Analysis
9. This is the venue for police training and the value of training has experienced a dramatic _________ in status since its inception.
Arrest
Lawfully
Ten
Increase
10. The drawbacks of the administrative rule-making route are that they can never cover every conceivable situation; it may promote lying - avoidance - confusion and a negative ________ from officers.
Feedback
Black
Response
Due process
11. 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.
Bargain
National
Highly
Occupational
12. _________ policing took off in the 1980s and 1990s - with the realization that the police could not fight crime on their own.
Community
Valid
Wiretaps
Writ
13. Officers appointed to carry out investigative work are known as __________.
NCVS
Citizen
Fragmented
Detectives
14. August Vollmer believed that policing standards needed to be improved and corruption stamped out. He advocated training and __________ for officers.
Mainstream
Occupational
Education
Victimless
15. 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
Occupational
Same time
Breached
Weeks
16. 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.
Detectives
Mainstream
Posses
Special
17. When the offender was apprehended by the posse - trials were rarely held and public __________ were held to dispense justice.
Executions
Sheriff
Limitations
Patrol
18. In 2001 - the US Supreme Court held in Atwater v. Lago Vista that the 4th amendment did not ________ warrantless arrests for minor offenses.
Previous
Prohibit
Rabinowitz
Patrol
19. This is training in relation to _____________ rules and was spurred by the decisions of the US Supreme Court in the 1960s.
Effectiveness
Due process
Ballistics
UCR
20. Sheriff departments are usually responsible for _______ court papers - civil summons - and managing security in state courtrooms.
Serving
Slave
Same time
Danger
21. 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.
Guns
Prevention
Bribes
Legitimate
22. Under the 6th Amendment to the Constitution - every defendant has the right to a ____ trial.
Runaway
Written
Improve
Jury
23. In dealing with federal criminal law enforcement - the duty of the FBI upon investigation is to gather evidence and perform personnel investigations - especially in major programs such as _________ crime and white-collar crime.
Accountability
Posses
Protect
Organized
24. 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.
Cooperation
Decentralization
Education
Cause
25. 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
17000
Outside
Same time
Accountability
26. 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
Education
Forfeited
Slave
27. 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 __________.
Forfeited
Accident
UCR
Victimization
28. 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
Crime
Inadmissible
State
Organized
29. 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.
Violence
Feedback
Lawfully
17000
30. This is to ensure that ___________ with the administrative rules is maintained.
Copies
Compliance
Improve
Violent
31. 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 _________.
Limitations
Activity
Good-faith
Same time
32. 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.
Patrol
Decentralization
Academies
Bribes
33. The 1980s and 1990s saw the creation of _______ oversight of police groups to monitor or investigate complaints by individuals against police actions.
Parens
Danger
Federal
Citizen
34. The controversial 'broken window' theory made the connection between disorder - neighborhood decay and _____.
Patrol
UCR
3100
Crime
35. 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.
Attrition
Procedure
Ballistics
Directorates
36. 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.
Analysis
FBI
Justice
Rarely
37. Able-bodied men who could hear the commotion caused by the victim were obliged to form a posse and join the shire reeve (term from which ________ is derived) or mounted officer in pursuit of the offender.
Prevention
Highly
Policy
Sheriff
38. Some legal experts believe that police discretion should be abolished because it is _______.
Imprisonment
Illegal
Police
Younger
39. 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
Illegal
Drunk
Poor
Unqualified
40. ____ did not become regulated officer equipment until the late 19th Century.
Consent
Guns
Drunk
Smaller
41. 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.
Dangerous
Adversarial
Education
Violence
42. The 911 communications center is the _____ of a modern police department.
Heart
Racketeering
Drunk
Organized
43. 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.
Partnership
Without
Administrative
Los Angeles
44. 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.
Good-faith
Writ
Improve
Enabled
45. 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.
4th
Foreign
Mainstream
Posse
46. Police training programs do suffer from ___________ - particularly as important areas such as domestic violence - ethics and police discretion - which are not usually covered
Without
Vollmer
Limitations
Partnership
47. Decentralization means reduced _____________ of rank and file officers who have greater discretion in making decisions.
Supervision
Parens
Election
Outside
48. The 3 CIA directorates are the directorate of Intelligence - directorate of Operations and the directorate of Science and ___________.
Drunk
Imprisonment
Technology
Representation
49. Some police departments may have a separate detective unit with further specialized units such as homicide and vice. ________ ones will have a single department to handle all cases or no department at all.
Smaller
Accountability
Control
Serving
50. 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
Good-faith
Victimless
Incidents
Drunk