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DSST Introduction To Law Enforcement
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1. The local police cover a wide range of law enforcement agencies such as the municipal police - sheriff's departments - campus and _______ police.
Leon
UCR
Executions
Transit
2. 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
Imprisonment
Enforcement
Incidents
Los Angeles
3. 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
Drunk
Administrative
Policy
Legitimate
4. The role of the police academy is to provide formal training - root out ___________ recruits and immerse the trainees in the police subculture.
Unqualified
Inadmissible
Forfeited
Patrol
5. 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.
Effectiveness
Mentally
Magistrate
Previous
6. 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.
Federal
Posse
Transit
Guns
7. The CIA is divided into 3 ____________ and 5 mission support offices (MSOs).
Rarely
Directorates
Supreme Court
National
8. Apart from police corruption - another form of police deviance is ____________ deviance.
Inadmissible
Occupational
Enforcement
4th
9. Police training programs do suffer from ___________ - particularly as important areas such as domestic violence - ethics and police discretion - which are not usually covered
Ten
Limitations
FBI
Parens
10. Due to an increase in _________ and disorder by citizens - officers turned to weaponry to protect themselves.
Effectiveness
Supreme Court
Violence
Illegal
11. The Supreme Court created a good faith exception to the exclusionary rule when police officers use search warrants (US v. ____ - 1984).
Executive
Leon
Poor
State
12. 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.
Writ
Wilson
Vollmer
Weeks
13. 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
Ballistics
Policy
Representation
Enforcement
14. The ATF was previously an organization within the Department of the Treasury but since 24th January 2003 - their agency was transferred to the Department of _______.
Justice
Sheriff
Mentally
Weeks
15. The next most critical factor that impacts on PCR after race and ethnicity is ___.
Age
Never
Pendleton
Cooperation
16. Domestic disturbances may be fuelled by alcohol and drug abuse - financial difficulties or many other reasons that are beyond the ________ of the officers.
Victimization
Protect
Frequency
Control
17. The controversial 'broken window' theory made the connection between disorder - neighborhood decay and _____.
Crime
Improve
Posses
Slave
18. The 1980s and 1990s saw the creation of _______ oversight of police groups to monitor or investigate complaints by individuals against police actions.
Cause
Executions
Citizen
Imprisonment
19. 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.
Feedback
Attrition
Hoover
Activity
20. 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
Collateral
Drawback
Reduced
Slow
21. 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 _
State
Covert
Real problem
Reports
22. August Vollmer believed that policing standards needed to be improved and corruption stamped out. He advocated training and __________ for officers.
Education
Federal
Consecutive
Sheriff
23. The office of coroner is considered a local law enforcement agency because they determine the cause of _____ of victims and perpetrators in criminal cases.
Slow
Protect
Death
Supreme Court
24. This is the way criminal trials are conducted in the US and it is governed by strict rules of __________.
Procedure
Prohibit
Foreign
Bargain
25. 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
Valid
Election
Dangerous
Response
26. 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.
Policy
Incidents
4th
Searching
27. Campus police is probably the most important example of the special district police force. The also participate in the ____ program.
Ten
UCR
Police
Effectiveness
28. Training is one of the roles a ______-level enforcement agency usually engages in.
Slow
State
Hoover
Response
29. When an appellate court is asked to review a judgment - they may ______ it - require the lower court to set it aside or modify it.
Violent
Collateral
Uphold
Written
30. 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 __________.
Representation
Partnership
Subculture
Prevention
31. 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.
Self
Serving
Imprisonment
Parens
32. Some departments allow for bidding of new patrol areas once or twice _________.
Escobedo
Annually
Ballistics
State
33. 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.
Runaway
Writ
Special
Adversarial
34. 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.
Violence
Highly
Covert
Dangerous
35. 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.
Consent
Bargain
Serving
Fragmented
36. 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.
Supreme Court
Never
Containment
Feedback
37. There are over _____ sheriff's departments in the US.
Wilson
3100
Procedure
Bribes
38. 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.
Jury
Danger
Smaller
Medical
39. One of the major problems facing patrol officers is high-speed pursuits is a high ________ rate.
Consent
Age
Mentally
Accident
40. 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.
3100
Highly
Incidents
Attrition
41. Officers must file written _______ in certain circumstances when they exercise their discretion - for example when they fire their weapon and these reports must be reviewed by their superiors.
Blind
Response
Transit
Reports
42. Domestic violence must be distinguished from a domestic ___________ in the sense that in the former a serious crime has been committed and so the officers can exercise their powers of arrest - if they choose to do so although research shows that offi
Highly
Graduate
Disturbance
Pendleton
43. 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.
Adversarial
4th
Sheriff
Subculture
44. The CID within the FBI is responsible for organized crime - violent crime - ____________ and money laundering.
Academies
Illegal
Qualified
Racketeering
45. 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 ________.
Racketeering
Obvious
Frequency
Arrest
46. 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.
Procedures
Lawfully
Searching
Forfeited
47. In 1837 - the slave patrol consisted of about 100 officers and they were responsible for finding ________ slaves and ensuring that they were well-behaved.
Frequency
FBI
Runaway
Protect
48. 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.
Blind
Policy
Organized
Representation
49. 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.
Containment
National
Leon
Victimization
50. 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.
FBI
Directorates
Response
Bilingual
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