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






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






3. 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.






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






5. 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






6. In order to police __________ crimes - officers generally have to resort to undercover work.






7. 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






8. 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 __________.






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






10. 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.






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






12. The _________ Act passed by Congress in 1883 put an end to Andrew Jackson's 'spoils system -' and created a system of hiring government employees based on their qualifications.






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






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






15. The assessment stage evaluates the response based on detailed _________ and surveys. The police are also encouraged to conduct a self-analysis to see if they identified the problem correctly in the first place and revise that response if needed.






16. 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.






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






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






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






20. Various studies have shown that these pursuits have between an 18% to 33% chance of resulting in an accident. As a consequence - many departments have a restrictive - discouraging or discretionary _______ regarding high-speed pursuits for officers to






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






22. This is the way criminal trials are conducted in the US and it is governed by strict rules of __________.






23. Parens patriae is Latin for 'the ______ as parent'.






24. The police receive a sizeable number of calls about ________ ill persons and in exercising their discretion these matters are normally dealt with through arrest - hospitalization or informal disposition.






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






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






27. 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 ________.






28. 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.






29. 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.






30. 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.






31. The ________ stage of SARA refers to the creation of strategies based on the analyzed data to deal with the problem whereas the assessment stage requires an evaluation of the effectiveness of the response.






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






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






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






35. 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.






36. 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.






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






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






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






40. 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.






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






42. 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






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






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






46. The ________ rule was further emphasized in Edwards v. Arizona (1981) - when the court prohibited investigators from continuing questioning once the suspect has requested an attorney.






47. 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.






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






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






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