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DSST Introduction To Law Enforcement

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Campus police is probably the most important example of the special district police force. The also participate in the ____ program.






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






3. 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.






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






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






6. 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.






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






8. 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.






9. Public concern led to the start of the crackdown and this is viewed as an important police role but it is very difficult to spot the minority of drunk drivers amongst those who are ______.






10. 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






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






13. In 1837 - the slave patrol consisted of about 100 officers and they were responsible for finding ________ slaves and ensuring that they were well-behaved.






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






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






16. 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.






17. 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 __________.






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






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






20. 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.






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






22. 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






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






24. Officers are allocated to specific shifts and patrol areas based on _________ or using a rotation system.






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






26. 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 ________.






27. A concurrent sentence is one that is served at the __________ as another sentence.






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






29. 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.






30. Research into police work and activities conducted between the 1950s and 1970s concluded that police-community relations were very ____ and officers regularly breached legal rules






31. The spoils system is greatly reduced in modern politics - though not entirely eliminated. Most ________ workers do not have to be concerned about losing their jobs when a new party takes office.






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






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.






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






35. 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






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






37. 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.






38. Wilson and Kelling believed that the broken window symbolized a deteriorating neighborhood and not repaired led to the eventual decline of an area - thereby encouraging criminal _________.






39. The FBI has the responsibility to investigate - analyze and neutralize any potential terrorist threats and to investigate and analyze terrorist __________ in the US.






40. 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.






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






42. The first ___ amendments to the Constitution are called the Bill of Rights. They were created to restrict government actions against the individual.






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






44. 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






45. The rights of the accused (and of prisoners) have been defined mostly through the _______________'s interpretation of the Bill of Rights.






46. 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






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






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






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






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