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DSST Introduction To Law Enforcement
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1. 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.
Improve
Ballistics
Protect
FBI
2. 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.
Same time
Accident
Protect
Illegal
3. It can be argued that __________ officers possess an additional skill and therefore the extra pay can be justified on those grounds.
Danger
Wiretaps
Bilingual
Uphold
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.
Safe
Supreme Court
Pendleton
Limitations
5. Public concern led to the start of the crackdown and this is viewed as an important police role but it is very difficult to spot the minority of drunk drivers amongst those who are ______.
Ten
Improperly
Sober
Warrant
6. 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.
Reverse
Adversarial
Organized
Sheriff
7. 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
Warrant
Valid
Transit
Writ
8. 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
Subculture
Supervision
Accident
Investigations
9. 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.
Pay
Foreign
Organized
Enabled
10. 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
Detectives
Black
Communities
Decentralization
11. 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.
Slow
Improperly
Vollmer
Classroom
12. When the offender was apprehended by the posse - trials were rarely held and public __________ were held to dispense justice.
Previous
Supreme Court
Executions
Weeks
13. 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.
4th
Attrition
Mainstream
Age
14. The exclusionary rule was extended by the US Supreme Court in the case of Silverthorne Lumber Co. v. US (1920) - which held that ______ of illegally seized evidence were inadmissible in court.
Real problem
Breached
Copies
Writ
15. The public perception of the police is of a distant and alienated law enforcement unit. Through community policing - police-community relations should ________ as the public have a greater stake and say in their problems and needs.
Improve
Organized
Poor
Leon
16. 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.
Younger
Rabinowitz
Drawback
4th
17. Law enforcement in the US is extremely large and ___________ and hence this many agencies currently exist.
Election
Searching
Fragmented
Containment
18. 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.
Reports
Outside
Imprisonment
Citizen
19. 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
Policy
Activity
Covert
Escobedo
20. The first landmark case that forms the foundation of the exclusionary rule is the US Supreme court decision of _____ v US (1914).
Weeks
Incidents
State
Enforcement
21. This is to ensure that ___________ with the administrative rules is maintained.
Magistrate
Patrol
Compliance
Bribes
22. Patrol is meant to reassure citizens that their environment is _____ and protected from crime.
Classroom
Drawback
Unqualified
Safe
23. Ballistics is the scientific _________ of firearms - ammunition - projectiles - bombs and explosives.
Analysis
Cooperation
Improperly
Containment
24. This is one of the reports produced by the FBI in its law _____________ role.
Qualified
Punishment
Enforcement
Same time
25. The UCR has a hierarchy rule whereby multiple types of incidents can only be recorded as 1 incident. This is a _________ of the system.
FBI
Drawback
Leon
Representation
26. When called to attend to a non-crime incident - the police have to exercise discretion and can usually handle the situation _______ taking formal police action.
Ballistics
Consecutive
Dangerous
Without
27. Due to an increase in _________ and disorder by citizens - officers turned to weaponry to protect themselves.
Leon
Runaway
Justice
Violence
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.
Directorates
Writ
Transit
Cause
29. Some departments allow for bidding of new patrol areas once or twice _________.
Annually
Detectives
Seniority
Election
30. Officers are allocated to specific shifts and patrol areas based on _________ or using a rotation system.
Seniority
Containment
Subculture
Victimization
31. This is the way criminal trials are conducted in the US and it is governed by strict rules of __________.
Procedure
Partnership
Racketeering
Academies
32. Affirmative action is mandated by a Presidential _________ Order in 1965 - so that all private employers and government agencies who receive federal monies have to develop written affirmative action plans.
Improve
Executive
Bargain
Administrative
33. 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.
Leon
Escobedo
Frequency
Arrest
34. The role of the police academy is to provide formal training - root out ___________ recruits and immerse the trainees in the police subculture.
Unqualified
Warrant
Violence
Classroom
35. Prospective police officers are trained at police _________ - with the average pre-service training program lasting about 1000 hours.
Academies
Sheriff
Reduced
Disturbance
36. Wilson and Kelling believed that the broken window symbolized a deteriorating neighborhood and not repaired led to the eventual decline of an area - thereby encouraging criminal _________.
Education
Reports
Serving
Activity
37. When an appellate court is asked to review a judgment - they may ______ it - require the lower court to set it aside or modify it.
Prevention
Uphold
Patrol
Technology
38. The CIA also engages in ______ operations sanctioned by the President as part of their role in ensuring national security.
Covert
Pendleton
Administrative
Pay
39. 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.
Special
Prevention
Decentralization
Forfeited
40. Domestic disturbances may be fuelled by alcohol and drug abuse - financial difficulties or many other reasons that are beyond the ________ of the officers.
Suspicion
Weeks
Control
State
41. In 2001 - the US Supreme Court held in Atwater v. Lago Vista that the 4th amendment did not ________ warrantless arrests for minor offenses.
Victimization
Supervision
Prohibit
Highly
42. Research has revealed that in about 80% of such situations - no formal action - such as _______ was necessary.
Writ
Technology
Reaffirm
Arrest
43. 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
Containment
Procedures
Never
Reduced
44. 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.
National
Dangerous
Federal
Warrant
45. In 1837 - the slave patrol consisted of about 100 officers and they were responsible for finding ________ slaves and ensuring that they were well-behaved.
Adversarial
Organized
FBI
Runaway
46. Police training programs do suffer from ___________ - particularly as important areas such as domestic violence - ethics and police discretion - which are not usually covered
NCVS
Limitations
Illegal
Mainstream
47. 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.
Federal
Patrol
Highly
Cooperation
48. 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.
Cause
Written
Federal
Pay
49. Upon conviction - the defendant is punished through a sentence passed by the judge and if convicted of more than one crime - then may be subject to a ___________ or concurrent sentence.
Sheriff
Consecutive
Parens
Real problem
50. The UCR statistics are used to create the FBI Crime Clock which creates a picture of crime _________ in the US.
Frequency
Security
Bribes
Qualified
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