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DSST Introduction To Law Enforcement
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The police ___________ of secrecy - public hostility and solidarity meant they were very isolated from the community - especially the black community.
Drunk
Inadmissible
FBI
Subculture
2. The CIA has operations officers and recruits ________ agents as part of their intelligence activities and this may involve covert operations.
Warrant
Detectives
Foreign
Serving
3. Training is one of the roles a ______-level enforcement agency usually engages in.
State
Bureaucracy
Sheriff
Ten
4. 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
Annually
Representation
FBI
5. 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.
Racial
Decentralization
Sheriff
Supreme Court
6. The 911 communications center is the _____ of a modern police department.
Heart
Patrol
NCVS
Ten
7. This is one of the reports produced by the FBI in its law _____________ role.
Enforcement
Valid
Improperly
Prevention
8. 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.
Response
Due process
Slow
Runaway
9. 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.
Breached
Death
4th
Attrition
10. 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.
Forfeited
Adversarial
Self
Pay
11. Under the 6th Amendment to the Constitution - every defendant has the right to a ____ trial.
Citizen
Education
Highly
Jury
12. The 3 CIA directorates are the directorate of Intelligence - directorate of Operations and the directorate of Science and ___________.
Increase
Crime
Sheriff
Technology
13. 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.
Prevention
Highly
Transit
Good-faith
14. Field training consists of practical on-the-job training with a __________ field training officer.
Suspicion
Illegally
Occupational
Qualified
15. The majority of criminal cases do not go to trial but are instead settled via a plea _______.
Slave
Bargain
Obvious
Violence
16. A critical function that the police play in society is crime __________ and this role is primarily executed through routine patrolling.
State
Prevention
Investigations
Previous
17. Sheriff departments are usually responsible for _______ court papers - civil summons - and managing security in state courtrooms.
Serving
Leon
Age
Cooperation
18. 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.
Detectives
Wilson
Executive
Academies
19. Racial profiling is the practice of stopping and or __________ a person not because of any suspected criminal activity but because of that person's race.
Illegal
Directorates
FBI
Searching
20. 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.
Forfeited
17000
Posses
Runaway
21. 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
Police
Racketeering
Posse
22. The exclusionary rule was modified by the __________ exception in the US Supreme Court decision of US v. Leon (1984).
17000
Enforcement
Good-faith
Reduced
23. In 2001 - the US Supreme Court held in Atwater v. Lago Vista that the 4th amendment did not ________ warrantless arrests for minor offenses.
Prohibit
Adversarial
Special
Analysis
24. Patrol is meant to reassure citizens that their environment is _____ and protected from crime.
Safe
Due process
Feedback
Punishment
25. 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.
Patrol
Obvious
Frequency
Consecutive
26. 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.
4th
Arrest
Cooperation
Crime
27. Their perception of the amount of danger faced in their jobs results in the development of constant __________ of people
Sheriff
Heart
Election
Suspicion
28. 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.
Organized
Leon
Without
Accountability
29. It is believed that the average citizen plays a vital part in the ________________ of officers.
Citizen
Seniority
4th
Accountability
30. 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.
Crime
Academies
NCVS
Special
31. 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
Black
Ten
Posses
Danger
32. 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.
Sheriff
Executions
Policy
Racial
33. 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.
Cause
UCR
Directorates
Representation
34. 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
State
Imprisonment
Covert
Victimization
35. A limited amount of streetwalking is tolerated if it is restricted to a particular part of town - usually a business district and it is not too ________.
Transit
Classroom
Ballistics
Obvious
36. 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
Wiretaps
Self
FBI
Partnership
37. This is because patrol consists of the majority of police work and this is ________ through the police communications network - which is triggered by 911 calls.
Detectives
Enabled
Accountability
Valid
38. _________ policing took off in the 1980s and 1990s - with the realization that the police could not fight crime on their own.
Community
Collateral
4th
Increase
39. 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.
Procedure
Lawfully
Warrant
UCR
40. 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 __________.
Lawfully
Cooperation
Forfeited
Racial
41. The CIA is divided into 3 ____________ and 5 mission support offices (MSOs).
Mentally
Pay
Directorates
UCR
42. The Supreme Court created a good faith exception to the exclusionary rule when police officers use search warrants (US v. ____ - 1984).
Death
Rarely
Self
Leon
43. When considering detective productivity and _____________ - more important than the number of arrests is the quality of those arrests.
Illegal
17000
Smaller
Effectiveness
44. The most organized and distinctly American officer force was the _____ patrol based in Charleston - South Carolina.
Patrol
Professionalization
Slave
Ten
45. 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
Directorates
Younger
Suspicion
Self
46. 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
Magistrate
Writ
Organized
47. The 3 purposes of patrol are to deter crime - increase feelings of public ________ and prepare officers for service through effective dispersal in the neighborhood.
Wiretaps
Control
Accountability
Security
48. Prospective police officers are trained at police _________ - with the average pre-service training program lasting about 1000 hours.
Outside
Reduced
Academies
National
49. 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
Qualified
Organized
Accountability
50. 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
Transit
Valid
Effectiveness
Procedure