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DSST Introduction To Law Enforcement
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1. The county level of government supplies citizens with police services - for example the county ________.
Policy
Directorates
Lawfully
Sheriff
2. ____ did not become regulated officer equipment until the late 19th Century.
Imprisonment
Special
Guns
Rabinowitz
3. Parens patriae is Latin for 'the ______ as parent'.
4th
State
Disturbance
Wilson
4. 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.
Pendleton
Age
UCR
Protect
5. The role of the police academy is to provide formal training - root out ___________ recruits and immerse the trainees in the police subculture.
Bureaucracy
Unqualified
Supreme Court
Prevention
6. 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.
Self
Organized
Writ
Pay
7. 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 _
Real problem
Activity
Rabinowitz
Mentally
8. 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.
3100
Poor
FBI
Graduate
9. Between the data in the UCR and NCVS - most experts tend to prefer the ____.
Consent
NCVS
Protect
Reduced
10. 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.
Response
Bureaucracy
Communities
Enabled
11. This is the definition of bail. If the suspect fails to appear for the next court hearing - then the money or property pledged may be __________.
Posses
Subculture
Forfeited
Jury
12. Some legal experts believe that police discretion should be abolished because it is _______.
Policy
Illegal
FBI
Covert
13. The CID within the FBI is responsible for organized crime - violent crime - ____________ and money laundering.
Racketeering
NCVS
Younger
Rarely
14. Deterrence prevents crime through using an example or threat of ___________ to persuade the public against committing the crime.
Fragmented
Punishment
Improperly
National
15. 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
17000
Partnership
Real problem
Graduate
16. One of the major problems facing patrol officers is high-speed pursuits is a high ________ rate.
Accident
Legitimate
Fragmented
Crime
17. _________ policing took off in the 1980s and 1990s - with the realization that the police could not fight crime on their own.
Community
Detectives
Classroom
NCVS
18. Since these crimes are usually not reported - in order to discover them - undercover work using devices such as _________ are utilized.
Wiretaps
Forfeited
Qualified
Suspicion
19. There is usually a degree of competition between detectives and _______ officers. The latter sometimes withhold information in the hope of beating detectives to solving a case.
Good-faith
Illegally
Patrol
Security
20. 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.
Annually
Academies
Federal
Forfeited
21. In the 1950s training for police officers consisted mainly of firearm skill development but over the years - classroom training has emphasized criminal __________.
Parens
Partnership
Procedures
Bribes
22. 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.
Patrol
Communities
FBI
Occupational
23. The exclusionary rule was modified by the __________ exception in the US Supreme Court decision of US v. Leon (1984).
Good-faith
Procedure
Due process
Guns
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.
Collateral
Victimization
Classroom
Writ
25. In 1837 - the slave patrol consisted of about 100 officers and they were responsible for finding ________ slaves and ensuring that they were well-behaved.
Victimless
Prohibit
Ten
Runaway
26. 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.
Bribes
Supreme Court
Copies
Safe
27. 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
Disturbance
Decentralization
State
Bribes
28. 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.
Suspicion
Drawback
Rabinowitz
Cause
29. This is the way criminal trials are conducted in the US and it is governed by strict rules of __________.
Procedure
State
Protect
3100
30. Criminalistics relies on __________ to analyze firearms and munitions as well as various forensic techniques to determine issues such as time of death.
Community
Ballistics
Parens
Real problem
31. 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.
Mentally
Uphold
Protect
Posses
32. The 1980s and 1990s saw the creation of _______ oversight of police groups to monitor or investigate complaints by individuals against police actions.
Bureaucracy
Prohibit
Citizen
Breached
33. Their perception of the amount of danger faced in their jobs results in the development of constant __________ of people
Searching
Professionalization
Punishment
Suspicion
34. This may also be called '________ officer.' The investigative nature of their jobs has resulted in their classification as a local law enforcement agency.
Fragmented
Sheriff
Medical
Cooperation
35. Some police departments may have a separate detective unit with further specialized units such as homicide and vice. ________ ones will have a single department to handle all cases or no department at all.
Weeks
Bargain
Smaller
Qualified
36. Another source of PCR tension is discriminatory employment practices of the ______ force.
Occupational
Covert
Organized
Police
37. Another word for uphold is _________. This is the result for most appellate court decisions whereby they confirm the decision of the lower court.
Procedures
Black
Reaffirm
Illegal
38. 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
Suspicion
Inadmissible
Security
Posse
39. 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
Administrative
Illegally
Crime
Reverse
40. They believe that _____-reporting provides more accurate information than police reports.
Illegal
Police
Subculture
Self
41. When an appellate court is asked to review a judgment - they may ______ it - require the lower court to set it aside or modify it.
FBI
Reverse
Uphold
Partnership
42. 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.
Vollmer
Same time
Sober
Occupational
43. The local police cover a wide range of law enforcement agencies such as the municipal police - sheriff's departments - campus and _______ police.
Transit
Victimless
Violence
Age
44. By dealing with the underlying issues - for example mental health or financial service problems - then a solution may be found to get them off the street and back into a more ___________ existence.
Sheriff
Mainstream
Citizen
Disturbance
45. 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.
Feedback
Bribes
Executions
Organized
46. The first landmark case that forms the foundation of the exclusionary rule is the US Supreme court decision of _____ v US (1914).
Weeks
Transit
Incidents
Administrative
47. 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
Representation
UCR
Improve
48. The majority of criminal cases do not go to trial but are instead settled via a plea _______.
Bargain
Bureaucracy
Disturbance
Valid
49. 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.
Increase
17000
Special
Investigations
50. This was the step taken in 1965 to remedy _________ discrimination.
Fragmented
Citizen
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