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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 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 _






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






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






4. 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.






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






6. 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.






7. One of the major problems facing patrol officers is high-speed pursuits is a high ________ rate.






8. 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






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






10. 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.






11. This is the term coined to describe this diagrammatic representation. It differentiates between ________ crimes such as murder and rape and property crime such as burglary and arson.






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






13. The first landmark case that forms the foundation of the exclusionary rule is the US Supreme court decision of _____ v US (1914).






14. Patrol is meant to reassure citizens that their environment is _____ and protected from crime.






15. The spoils system refers to firing supporters of the opponent and replacing them with one's own supporters upon ________.






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






17. 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






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






19. The majority of criminal cases do not go to trial but are instead settled via a plea _______.






20. The 3 purposes of patrol are to deter crime - increase feelings of public ________ and prepare officers for service through effective dispersal in the neighborhood.






21. 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.






22. When an appellate court is asked to review a judgment - they may ______ it - require the lower court to set it aside or modify it.






23. Campus police is probably the most important example of the special district police force. The also participate in the ____ program.






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






25. Some departments allow for bidding of new patrol areas once or twice _________.






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






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






28. The most organized and distinctly American officer force was the _____ patrol based in Charleston - South Carolina.






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






30. 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.






31. Officers appointed to carry out investigative work are known as __________.






32. 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.






33. 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.






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






35. 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






36. Between the data in the UCR and NCVS - most experts tend to prefer the ____.






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






38. The CIA also engages in ______ operations sanctioned by the President as part of their role in ensuring national security.






39. 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.






40. 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






41. The professionalization movement started by Vollmer was nurtured by his prot






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






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






44. 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.






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






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






47. 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.






48. The role of the police academy is to provide formal training - root out ___________ recruits and immerse the trainees in the police subculture.






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






50. 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.