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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 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.






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






3. Another word for uphold is _________. This is the result for most appellate court decisions whereby they confirm the decision of the lower court.






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






5. 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






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






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






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






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






10. This is widely recognized as a police role - though they do share the burden with other institutions such as schools and _____________.






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






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






13. According to the doctrine of ______ patriae - the state has a duty to care for children who are neglected or delinquent - and to assume the role of parent if necessary.






14. 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






15. 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






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






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






19. 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 ________.






20. 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






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






22. 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






23. 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






24. 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






25. 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.






26. 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.






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






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






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






30. 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






31. 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.






32. When it comes to prostitution - low-level street-walking is usually tolerated so that the role of the police is normally ___________ and maintaining the peace.






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






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






35. 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.






36. This was the only way they could ________ themselves and their property from the bandits. They did try to apply the accepted standards of decency of the day to their actions.






37. 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






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






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






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






41. 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.






42. The next most critical factor that impacts on PCR after race and ethnicity is ___.






43. 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.






44. 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.






45. Apart from reducing crime - the mission of community policing is to _______ the trend of the negative public perception of the police






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






47. 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 _






48. This describes the Pendleton Act. This was a big step in the government becoming the huge _____________ it is today.






49. 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.






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