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DSST Introduction To Law Enforcement
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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.
Smaller
Accident
Investigations
Containment
2. A critical function that the police play in society is crime __________ and this role is primarily executed through routine patrolling.
Prevention
Death
Violent
Improve
3. 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
Feedback
Vollmer
Obvious
4. 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.
Cooperation
Racketeering
Blind
Rabinowitz
5. Officers are commonly offered bribes to let suspects go or to turn a blind eye to ________ activities.
Response
Illegal
Leon
Justice
6. 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.
Valid
Fragmented
Protect
Frequency
7. This was the step taken in 1965 to remedy _________ discrimination.
Obvious
Heart
Jury
Previous
8. 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.
Cause
Leon
Valid
Consecutive
9. Between the data in the UCR and NCVS - most experts tend to prefer the ____.
Leon
Arrest
Posses
NCVS
10. 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.
Communities
Reports
Patrol
State
11. When considering detective productivity and _____________ - more important than the number of arrests is the quality of those arrests.
Security
Effectiveness
State
Bureaucracy
12. 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.
Victimless
Punishment
Academies
Escobedo
13. 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.
FBI
Consecutive
Response
Never
14. The CIA is divided into 3 ____________ and 5 mission support offices (MSOs).
Directorates
Community
Previous
Frequency
15. Deterrence prevents crime through using an example or threat of ___________ to persuade the public against committing the crime.
Subculture
Punishment
Slave
Forfeited
16. 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
Analysis
Magistrate
Previous
17. 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.
Executive
Consecutive
FBI
Activity
18. This was the bright-line rule (one that can ______ be crossed) that emerged from this case.
Never
Improve
Bribes
Weeks
19. In the 1950s training for police officers consisted mainly of firearm skill development but over the years - classroom training has emphasized criminal __________.
Pendleton
Sheriff
Procedures
Consent
20. Officers at the academy undergo _________ training and most academies also offer field training.
Classroom
Procedure
Control
Accident
21. This means that the court releases the suspect into their own custody or into the care of another. This occurs where the suspect poses a low flight risk and is not __________ to the community.
Protect
Medical
Arrest
Dangerous
22. Police training programs do suffer from ___________ - particularly as important areas such as domestic violence - ethics and police discretion - which are not usually covered
Procedures
Limitations
Valid
Consecutive
23. The 3 CIA directorates are the directorate of Intelligence - directorate of Operations and the directorate of Science and ___________.
Technology
Bribes
Election
Sheriff
24. The county level of government supplies citizens with police services - for example the county ________.
Sheriff
Leon
Uphold
Directorates
25. This is one of the reports produced by the FBI in its law _____________ role.
Enforcement
Police
Bureaucracy
Activity
26. 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.
Procedures
Subculture
Seniority
Improve
27. Citizen ______ and vigilante groups were the main means of policing the frontier and well-known figures who took up this challenge in the 19th Century include Wild Bill Hickok and Wyatt Earp.
Executions
Blind
Election
Posses
28. The next most critical factor that impacts on PCR after race and ethnicity is ___.
Ten
Sheriff
Dangerous
Age
29. ____ did not become regulated officer equipment until the late 19th Century.
Community
Organized
Sober
Guns
30. The first ___ amendments of the Constitution are commonly called the Bill of Rights and offer the individual considerable protection in the criminal justice system.
Younger
Rabinowitz
Ten
Blind
31. The exclusionary rule was modified by the __________ exception in the US Supreme Court decision of US v. Leon (1984).
Serving
Good-faith
Sheriff
Jury
32. The majority of criminal cases do not go to trial but are instead settled via a plea _______.
Consent
Victimization
Serving
Bargain
33. The Supreme Court created a good faith exception to the exclusionary rule when police officers use search warrants (US v. ____ - 1984).
Consent
Subculture
Leon
Cause
34. The office of coroner is considered a local law enforcement agency because they determine the cause of _____ of victims and perpetrators in criminal cases.
Enforcement
Violence
Death
Academies
35. The FBI has the responsibility to investigate - analyze and neutralize any potential terrorist threats and to investigate and analyze terrorist __________ in the US.
Serving
Procedures
Incidents
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.
Technology
Good-faith
Feedback
Copies
37. 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.
Reaffirm
Searching
Reports
Mentally
38. Research has revealed that in about 80% of such situations - no formal action - such as _______ was necessary.
Crime
Annually
Death
Arrest
39. Increasing ___________ and reducing competition between patrol officers and detectives as well as improving police-citizen relationships are 2 important methods of enhancing the quality of investigative work.
Cooperation
Leon
Qualified
Policy
40. The ________ stage of SARA refers to the creation of strategies based on the analyzed data to deal with the problem whereas the assessment stage requires an evaluation of the effectiveness of the response.
Communities
Response
Wiretaps
Enforcement
41. 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.
Ten
Academies
Special
Blind
42. This is widely recognized as a police role - though they do share the burden with other institutions such as schools and _____________.
Response
Citizen
Feedback
Communities
43. Under the 6th Amendment to the Constitution - every defendant has the right to a ____ trial.
Administrative
Jury
Safe
Partnership
44. Apart from police corruption - another form of police deviance is ____________ deviance.
4th
Escobedo
4th
Occupational
45. The CID within the FBI is responsible for organized crime - violent crime - ____________ and money laundering.
Bribes
Slave
Heart
Racketeering
46. One of the major problems facing patrol officers is high-speed pursuits is a high ________ rate.
Suspicion
Accident
Professionalization
Consecutive
47. Decentralization means reduced _____________ of rank and file officers who have greater discretion in making decisions.
Supervision
Parens
Representation
Analysis
48. 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
Community
Illegally
Adversarial
Classroom
49. This is to ensure that ___________ with the administrative rules is maintained.
Procedure
Compliance
Runaway
Consecutive
50. _________ policing took off in the 1980s and 1990s - with the realization that the police could not fight crime on their own.
Transit
Community
Prevention
Technology