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DSST Introduction To Law Enforcement
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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
Sheriff
Administrative
Investigations
Breached
2. Some departments allow for bidding of new patrol areas once or twice _________.
Annually
Violence
Accident
4th
3. 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.
Drawback
Response
Improve
3100
4. Criminalistics relies on __________ to analyze firearms and munitions as well as various forensic techniques to determine issues such as time of death.
Leon
Decentralization
Ballistics
Investigations
5. 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
Accountability
4th
Outside
Valid
6. The CIA also engages in ______ operations sanctioned by the President as part of their role in ensuring national security.
Covert
Illegal
Policy
Cause
7. Decentralization means reduced _____________ of rank and file officers who have greater discretion in making decisions.
Wiretaps
Prohibit
Detectives
Supervision
8. 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
Supervision
Jury
Wilson
9. There are around _____ federal - state and local law enforcement agencies in the US.
Racial
National
17000
Blind
10. 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.
Executive
Drunk
4th
Danger
11. This was the bright-line rule (one that can ______ be crossed) that emerged from this case.
Investigations
Partnership
Highly
Never
12. 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
Transit
Arrest
Outside
Classroom
13. This means that the court releases the suspect into their own custody or into the care of another. This occurs where the suspect poses a low flight risk and is not __________ to the community.
Adversarial
Dangerous
Illegally
Real problem
14. The first ___ amendments to the Constitution are called the Bill of Rights. They were created to restrict government actions against the individual.
Ten
Bargain
Graduate
Highly
15. Sheriff departments are usually responsible for _______ court papers - civil summons - and managing security in state courtrooms.
Obvious
Serving
Graduate
Poor
16. After the arrest - suspects are brought before a __________ for their first appearance so that the charges brought against them can be read out and if appropriate they may be released on their own recognizance.
Magistrate
Writ
Special
Adversarial
17. Officers have very broad discretion - yet this subject is _______ taught or sufficiently taught to better aid the officers in making an appropriate decision.
Illegal
Slave
Rarely
Feedback
18. 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.
National
Pendleton
Reports
FBI
19. The office of coroner is considered a local law enforcement agency because they determine the cause of _____ of victims and perpetrators in criminal cases.
Death
Pay
Obvious
Executions
20. 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.
Previous
Enabled
Bribes
Mentally
21. 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
Sheriff
Same time
Organized
22. 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.
Adversarial
Written
Runaway
Copies
23. The CIA is divided into 3 ____________ and 5 mission support offices (MSOs).
Directorates
Education
Breached
Academies
24. Law enforcement in the US is extremely large and ___________ and hence this many agencies currently exist.
Representation
4th
Fragmented
Breached
25. The local police cover a wide range of law enforcement agencies such as the municipal police - sheriff's departments - campus and _______ police.
Police
Transit
Prevention
Collateral
26. Good faith means that when the police act with the honest belief that they are following proper rules. According to the ruling in US v. Leon - when officers have acted in good faith reliance on a warrant - the evidence will not be excluded even if th
Improperly
State
UCR
Wilson
27. 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
Drunk
Medical
Adversarial
Violent
28. The CID within the FBI is responsible for organized crime - violent crime - ____________ and money laundering.
Effectiveness
Unqualified
Racketeering
Leon
29. In 1837 - the slave patrol consisted of about 100 officers and they were responsible for finding ________ slaves and ensuring that they were well-behaved.
Communities
Runaway
Arrest
Victimization
30. Field training consists of practical on-the-job training with a __________ field training officer.
Bribes
Younger
Los Angeles
Qualified
31. 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 _______.
Education
Activity
Leon
Justice
32. Their perception of the amount of danger faced in their jobs results in the development of constant __________ of people
Protect
NCVS
Supervision
Suspicion
33. 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.
Victimization
Self
Improperly
Black
34. 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.
Reaffirm
Legitimate
Consent
Activity
35. 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 _
Real problem
Election
Subculture
Danger
36. Since these crimes are usually not reported - in order to discover them - undercover work using devices such as _________ are utilized.
Warrant
Wiretaps
Without
Accident
37. Deterrence prevents crime through using an example or threat of ___________ to persuade the public against committing the crime.
Compliance
Punishment
Consent
FBI
38. This is to ensure that ___________ with the administrative rules is maintained.
Classroom
Compliance
Los Angeles
Parens
39. 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.
Communities
FBI
Previous
Lawfully
40. The rise of police professionalism and reform was spearheaded by August _______ who served as the chief of police in Berkeley - California from 1905 to 1932.
Disturbance
Reverse
Vollmer
Bureaucracy
41. The controversial 'broken window' theory made the connection between disorder - neighborhood decay and _____.
Response
Containment
Crime
Mentally
42. The exclusionary rule was modified by the __________ exception in the US Supreme Court decision of US v. Leon (1984).
Medical
Drawback
Bilingual
Good-faith
43. 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.
Foreign
Prevention
Patrol
Jury
44. Under the 6th Amendment to the Constitution - every defendant has the right to a ____ trial.
Los Angeles
Reports
Rarely
Jury
45. 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
Collateral
Unqualified
Executive
46. This is widely recognized as a police role - though they do share the burden with other institutions such as schools and _____________.
Bilingual
Communities
Smaller
Directorates
47. A concurrent sentence is one that is served at the __________ as another sentence.
Victimless
Illegal
Same time
UCR
48. 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.
Punishment
Cause
Adversarial
Obvious
49. According to the doctrine of ______ patriae - the state has a duty to care for children who are neglected or delinquent - and to assume the role of parent if necessary.
Guns
Parens
National
Effectiveness
50. 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.
Previous
Serving
UCR
Copies