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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. The police ___________ of secrecy - public hostility and solidarity meant they were very isolated from the community - especially the black community.






2. The CIA has operations officers and recruits ________ agents as part of their intelligence activities and this may involve covert operations.






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






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






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.






6. The 911 communications center is the _____ of a modern police department.






7. This is one of the reports produced by the FBI in its law _____________ role.






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.






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.






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.






11. Under the 6th Amendment to the Constitution - every defendant has the right to a ____ trial.






12. The 3 CIA directorates are the directorate of Intelligence - directorate of Operations and the directorate of Science and ___________.






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.






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






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






16. A critical function that the police play in society is crime __________ and this role is primarily executed through routine patrolling.






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






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.






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.






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.






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.






22. The exclusionary rule was modified by the __________ exception in the US Supreme Court decision of US v. Leon (1984).






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






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






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.






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.






27. Their perception of the amount of danger faced in their jobs results in the development of constant __________ of people






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.






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






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.






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






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.






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.






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






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 ________.






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






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.






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






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.






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 __________.






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






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






43. When considering detective productivity and _____________ - more important than the number of arrests is the quality of those arrests.






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






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






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.






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.






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






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






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