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DSST Introduction To Law Enforcement

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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






2. 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






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






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






5. 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






6. The Defendant was _________ arrested in his office - which consisted of a single room. The search was valid and reasonable given the circumstances of the arrest and small space of the area he was arrested in.






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






8. The rise of police professionalism and reform was spearheaded by August _______ who served as the chief of police in Berkeley - California from 1905 to 1932.






9. Plea bargains avoid an expensive court trial. Prosecutors may offer and defendants may accept a bargained plea to avoid the uncertainty of a jury trial. In many cases - the Defendant agrees to plead guilty to a lesser charge or for a ________ sentenc






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






11. This is one of the main functions of the police academy and ensures that unsuitable recruits do not make it as officers. About 10% of recruits do not _________ from the academy.






12. 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.






13. Domestic disturbances may be fuelled by alcohol and drug abuse - financial difficulties or many other reasons that are beyond the ________ of the officers.






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






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






16. 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






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






18. The role of the ___ is to investigate breaches of federal criminal law - to protect the country from foreign counterintelligence and terrorist activities and to provide law enforcement assistance to other agencies.






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






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






21. 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






22. 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.






23. 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.






24. 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.






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






26. J Edgar ______ - the Director of the FBI in the 1930s had a critical impact on local policing in setting educational and training models for officers - the development of the Uniform Crime Reports (UCR) and the establishment of the FBI crime lab.






27. 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






28. 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






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






30. 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.






31. One of the most controversial incidents in recent American police history occurred in ___________ in 1991 when officers subdued Rodney King using considerable force; resulting in 2 criminal trials and a riot that seriously damaged PCR for several yea






32. 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.






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






34. 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.






35. 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.






36. Officers are commonly offered bribes to let suspects go or to turn a blind eye to ________ activities.






37. 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.






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






39. 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 __________.






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






41. 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






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






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






44. 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.






45. The nature of police work also promotes deviant activities because officers are often offered ______ - they are regularly unsupervised and so think they can get away with it and fed on a diet of illegality may succumb to criminality too.






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






47. Research has revealed that in about 80% of such situations - no formal action - such as _______ was necessary.






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






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






50. 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.