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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 office of coroner is considered a local law enforcement agency because they determine the cause of _____ of victims and perpetrators in criminal cases.






2. 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.






3. The drawbacks of the administrative rule-making route are that they can never cover every conceivable situation; it may promote lying - avoidance - confusion and a negative ________ from officers.






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






5. The written policies method is called '________________ rule-making' and it is presently the most popular method of controlling discretion.






6. 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 ______.






7. 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.






8. Another source of PCR tension is discriminatory employment practices of the ______ force.






9. 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






10. The first landmark case that forms the foundation of the exclusionary rule is the US Supreme court decision of _____ v US (1914).






11. 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.






12. 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.






13. 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






14. Parens patriae is Latin for 'the ______ as parent'.






15. The 3 purposes of patrol are to deter crime - increase feelings of public ________ and prepare officers for service through effective dispersal in the neighborhood.






16. They believe that _____-reporting provides more accurate information than police reports.






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






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






19. 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 _______.






20. 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.






21. Wilson believed in the necessity to continue and encourage _____________________ within the police force. He was the chief of police in Wichita from 1928 to 1935 - the Dean of Criminology at the University of California from 1950 to 1960 and the supe






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






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






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






25. It is believed that the average citizen plays a vital part in the ________________ of officers.






26. 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






27. Research into police work and activities conducted between the 1950s and 1970s concluded that police-community relations were very ____ and officers regularly breached legal rules






28. 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.






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






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






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






32. 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.






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






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






35. Their perception of the amount of danger faced in their jobs results in the development of constant __________ of people






36. This is the way criminal trials are conducted in the US and it is governed by strict rules of __________.






37. Criminalistics relies on __________ to analyze firearms and munitions as well as various forensic techniques to determine issues such as time of death.






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






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






40. 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 _






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






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






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






44. This is the term coined to describe this diagrammatic representation. It differentiates between ________ crimes such as murder and rape and property crime such as burglary and arson.






45. Police training programs do suffer from ___________ - particularly as important areas such as domestic violence - ethics and police discretion - which are not usually covered






46. 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.






47. 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.






48. Able-bodied men who could hear the commotion caused by the victim were obliged to form a posse and join the shire reeve (term from which ________ is derived) or mounted officer in pursuit of the offender.






49. 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.






50. The police ___________ of secrecy - public hostility and solidarity meant they were very isolated from the community - especially the black community.