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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. 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.






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






3. 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 ________.






4. Officers at the academy undergo _________ training and most academies also offer field training.






5. Domestic disturbances may be fuelled by alcohol and drug abuse - financial difficulties or many other reasons that are beyond the ________ of the officers.






6. 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






7. 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.






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






9. The UCR statistics are used to create the FBI Crime Clock which creates a picture of crime _________ in the US.






10. The UCR has a hierarchy rule whereby multiple types of incidents can only be recorded as 1 incident. This is a _________ of the system.






11. This was the bright-line rule (one that can ______ be crossed) that emerged from this case.






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






13. 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






14. The local police cover a wide range of law enforcement agencies such as the municipal police - sheriff's departments - campus and _______ police.






15. The county level of government supplies citizens with police services - for example the county ________.






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






17. In 2001 - the US Supreme Court held in Atwater v. Lago Vista that the 4th amendment did not ________ warrantless arrests for minor offenses.






18. Training is one of the roles a ______-level enforcement agency usually engages in.






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






20. 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.






21. 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






22. 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 __________.






23. 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.






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






25. August Vollmer believed that policing standards needed to be improved and corruption stamped out. He advocated training and __________ for officers.






26. The _________ Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS)is the term coined for this annual study.






27. 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.






28. 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.






29. 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.






30. Where offenders are not captured red-handed - an arrest _______ issued by an officer of the court is required to supply the legal foundation for the act of detention.






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






32. 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.






33. 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






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






35. Sheriff departments are usually responsible for _______ court papers - civil summons - and managing security in state courtrooms.






36. 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






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






38. One of the most controversial incidents in recent American police history occurred in ___________ in 1991 when officers subdued Rodney King using considerable force; resulting in 2 criminal trials and a riot that seriously damaged PCR for several yea






39. 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.






40. ____ did not become regulated officer equipment until the late 19th Century.






41. 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.






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






43. 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.






44. Another source of PCR tension is discriminatory employment practices of the ______ force.






45. 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.






46. 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.






47. The first ___ amendments of the Constitution are commonly called the Bill of Rights and offer the individual considerable protection in the criminal justice system.






48. 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.






49. Ballistics is the scientific _________ of firearms - ammunition - projectiles - bombs and explosives.






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