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DSST Introduction To Law Enforcement

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Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The local police cover a wide range of law enforcement agencies such as the municipal police - sheriff's departments - campus and _______ police.






2. A warrant is a _____ issued by the court to justify the arrest of a suspect. It offers protection to the officer executing the warrant against damages; for example for wrongful arrest.






3. This is the venue for police training and the value of training has experienced a dramatic _________ in status since its inception.






4. 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 __________.






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






6. 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.






7. 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.






8. 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.






9. August Vollmer believed that policing standards needed to be improved and corruption stamped out. He advocated training and __________ for officers.






10. Apart from reducing crime - the mission of community policing is to _______ the trend of the negative public perception of the police






11. 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.






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






13. Officers may feel that the rules are there to catch them out and that the system mistrusts them. This may encourage officers to work at a deliberately _____ pace.






14. 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






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






16. 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.






17. This occurs where criminal and non-criminal actions are used by an officer in the course of his/her working activities or committed when pretending it is within his/her ___________ police authority. An example is sleeping on the job or a racial slur






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






19. This was the ruling of the court. Many commentators were surprised but the court decided that although arrest for trivial offences (in this case a seat belt violation) may be embarrassing - it was not so extraordinary as to breach the ____ amendment






20. This was the bright-line rule (one that can ______ be crossed) that emerged from this case.






21. 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 _________.






22. The 911 communications center is the _____ of a modern police department.






23. 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






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






25. This is one of the reports produced by the FBI in its law _____________ role.






26. 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 __________.






27. The Uniform Crime Reports (UCR) is an annualized report published by the ___ that states the statistical rate of reported crime in the US based on data from police reports.






28. In order to police __________ crimes - officers generally have to resort to undercover work.






29. Officers have very broad discretion - yet this subject is _______ taught or sufficiently taught to better aid the officers in making an appropriate decision.






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






31. Under the 6th Amendment to the Constitution - every defendant has the right to a ____ trial.






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






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






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






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






36. 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.






37. Some legal experts believe that police discretion should be abolished because it is _______.






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






39. 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.






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






41. Domestic violence must be distinguished from a domestic ___________ in the sense that in the former a serious crime has been committed and so the officers can exercise their powers of arrest - if they choose to do so although research shows that offi






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






43. Individuals have the right to live in their homes peacefully and not be subjected to unreasonable searches and seizures by virtue of the ___ amendment.






44. 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






45. 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






46. The county level of government supplies citizens with police services - for example the county ________.






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.






48. In 1837 - the slave patrol consisted of about 100 officers and they were responsible for finding ________ slaves and ensuring that they were well-behaved.






49. 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 _______.






50. _________ policing took off in the 1980s and 1990s - with the realization that the police could not fight crime on their own.