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DSST Introduction To Law Enforcement
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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.
Heart
Danger
Searching
Education
2. Individuals have the right to live in their homes peacefully and not be subjected to unreasonable searches and seizures by virtue of the ___ amendment.
Control
Poor
4th
Previous
3. There are over _____ sheriff's departments in the US.
Reaffirm
Serving
3100
Outside
4. A critical function that the police play in society is crime __________ and this role is primarily executed through routine patrolling.
Escobedo
Prevention
Accountability
Uphold
5. 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.
Protect
Bureaucracy
Drawback
Crime
6. In dealing with federal criminal law enforcement - the duty of the FBI upon investigation is to gather evidence and perform personnel investigations - especially in major programs such as _________ crime and white-collar crime.
FBI
Organized
Jury
Self
7. Organized law enforcement in Britain can be traced back to 1200 AD when identified law breakers were pursued by a _____ led by the shire reeve or mounted officer.
4th
Posse
Written
Prohibit
8. 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
Ten
Drunk
Leon
Organized
9. Field training consists of practical on-the-job training with a __________ field training officer.
Bureaucracy
Qualified
Black
Subculture
10. The 911 communications center is the _____ of a modern police department.
Danger
Real problem
Heart
Wiretaps
11. Training is one of the roles a ______-level enforcement agency usually engages in.
Slave
Real problem
Sheriff
State
12. This is widely recognized as a police role - though they do share the burden with other institutions such as schools and _____________.
Election
Communities
Blind
Organized
13. Some departments allow for bidding of new patrol areas once or twice _________.
Executions
Effectiveness
Annually
Adversarial
14. In order to police __________ crimes - officers generally have to resort to undercover work.
Same time
Directorates
Victimless
State
15. 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.
Feedback
Accountability
Escobedo
State
16. The Hispanic community is growing faster than expected and therefore police departments should take steps to hire more Hispanic officers through active recruitment processes and offering incentive ___ for bilingual officers.
Annually
Pay
Improperly
Bargain
17. Campus police is probably the most important example of the special district police force. The also participate in the ____ program.
Containment
Professionalization
UCR
4th
18. Patrol is meant to reassure citizens that their environment is _____ and protected from crime.
Enforcement
Safe
Without
Executions
19. In US v. Irizarry (1982) - the US Supreme Court held that evidence found above a ceiling panel that was out of place was _______ the scope of the plain-view doctrine
National
Outside
State
Warrant
20. _________ policing took off in the 1980s and 1990s - with the realization that the police could not fight crime on their own.
State
Crime
Fragmented
Community
21. 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
Investigations
Bilingual
Los Angeles
Runaway
22. Bail describes the circumstance when suspects are released from custody but on condition that money or property is offered as __________ against flight.
Improve
Collateral
Community
Black
23. 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.
Academies
Classroom
Mentally
Professionalization
24. 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.
Effectiveness
Executive
Procedures
Enabled
25. 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 __________.
Prevention
Ballistics
Violent
Cooperation
26. 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 _________.
Activity
Foreign
Cause
Parens
27. 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
FBI
Obvious
Improperly
28. 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
Incidents
Poor
Inadmissible
UCR
29. 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.
National
Runaway
Parens
Adversarial
30. 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
Decentralization
Collateral
Frequency
Reports
31. The rights of the accused (and of prisoners) have been defined mostly through the _______________'s interpretation of the Bill of Rights.
Los Angeles
Executive
Highly
Supreme Court
32. 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.
Consecutive
Wiretaps
Legitimate
Communities
33. One of the major problems facing patrol officers is high-speed pursuits is a high ________ rate.
Accident
Violence
Copies
Younger
34. A concurrent sentence is one that is served at the __________ as another sentence.
Never
Analysis
Graduate
Same time
35. 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.
Wilson
Illegal
Uphold
Danger
36. 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.
Containment
Illegally
Limitations
Ballistics
37. The _________ Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS)is the term coined for this annual study.
Drawback
Drunk
Never
National
38. When an appellate court is asked to review a judgment - they may ______ it - require the lower court to set it aside or modify it.
Never
Uphold
Investigations
Reaffirm
39. In the 1950s training for police officers consisted mainly of firearm skill development but over the years - classroom training has emphasized criminal __________.
Procedures
UCR
Searching
Organized
40. Law enforcement in the US is extremely large and ___________ and hence this many agencies currently exist.
Containment
Leon
Fragmented
Foreign
41. The office of coroner is considered a local law enforcement agency because they determine the cause of _____ of victims and perpetrators in criminal cases.
Los Angeles
Death
Classroom
Education
42. The 3 purposes of patrol are to deter crime - increase feelings of public ________ and prepare officers for service through effective dispersal in the neighborhood.
Organized
Forfeited
Decentralization
Security
43. Officers are commonly offered bribes to let suspects go or to turn a blind eye to ________ activities.
Copies
Citizen
Illegal
Safe
44. The local police cover a wide range of law enforcement agencies such as the municipal police - sheriff's departments - campus and _______ police.
Supreme Court
Warrant
Partnership
Transit
45. The 1980s and 1990s saw the creation of _______ oversight of police groups to monitor or investigate complaints by individuals against police actions.
Accident
Supreme Court
Citizen
Reduced
46. Under the 6th Amendment to the Constitution - every defendant has the right to a ____ trial.
Partnership
Jury
Guns
Accountability
47. The most organized and distinctly American officer force was the _____ patrol based in Charleston - South Carolina.
Rarely
17000
Feedback
Slave
48. Officers have very broad discretion - yet this subject is _______ taught or sufficiently taught to better aid the officers in making an appropriate decision.
Rarely
Same time
Patrol
Occupational
49. The UCR has a hierarchy rule whereby multiple types of incidents can only be recorded as 1 incident. This is a _________ of the system.
Drawback
Death
Professionalization
Valid
50. Deterrence prevents crime through using an example or threat of ___________ to persuade the public against committing the crime.
Outside
Drawback
Bargain
Punishment