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






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






3. Decentralization means reduced _____________ of rank and file officers who have greater discretion in making decisions.






4. Due to an increase in _________ and disorder by citizens - officers turned to weaponry to protect themselves.






5. 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.






6. _________ policing took off in the 1980s and 1990s - with the realization that the police could not fight crime on their own.






7. Since these crimes are usually not reported - in order to discover them - undercover work using devices such as _________ are utilized.






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






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






10. Officers have very broad discretion - yet this subject is _______ taught or sufficiently taught to better aid the officers in making an appropriate decision.






11. In this case - the Defendants were suspected of evading taxes but they refused to hand over their company books. An illegal search and seizure was performed and the books returned soon after - when the Defendant's lawyer objected. At the trial - the






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






13. The next most critical factor that impacts on PCR after race and ethnicity is ___.






14. 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






15. This may also be called '________ officer.' The investigative nature of their jobs has resulted in their classification as a local law enforcement agency.






16. 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.






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






18. Deterrence prevents crime through using an example or threat of ___________ to persuade the public against committing the crime.






19. 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.






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






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






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






23. 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






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






25. 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.






26. The Hispanic community is growing faster than expected and therefore police departments should take steps to hire more Hispanic officers through active recruitment processes and offering incentive ___ for bilingual officers.






27. 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.






28. J Edgar ______ - the Director of the FBI in the 1930s had a critical impact on local policing in setting educational and training models for officers - the development of the Uniform Crime Reports (UCR) and the establishment of the FBI crime lab.






29. This is the venue for police training and the value of training has experienced a dramatic _________ in status since its inception.






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






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






32. 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.






33. Bail describes the circumstance when suspects are released from custody but on condition that money or property is offered as __________ against flight.






34. The CID within the FBI is responsible for organized crime - violent crime - ____________ and money laundering.






35. 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.






36. 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






37. 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






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






39. Community policing is widely implemented in the US today but critics are concerned that the police role of crime control has been hijacked - the police are increasingly getting involved at a political level and ________________ will lead to the loss






40. 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.






41. Apart from reducing crime - the mission of community policing is to _______ the trend of the negative public perception of the police






42. There are over _____ sheriff's departments in the US.






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






44. 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






45. In the 1950s training for police officers consisted mainly of firearm skill development but over the years - classroom training has emphasized criminal __________.






46. 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 _






47. 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.






48. 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.






49. In US v. __________ (1950) - the US Supreme Court ruled that a warrantless search upon a lawful arrest was permitted as long as it was reasonable given the circumstances.






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 __________.