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DSST Introduction To Law Enforcement

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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.






2. 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.






3. 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 ______.






4. When considering detective productivity and _____________ - more important than the number of arrests is the quality of those arrests.






5. Decentralization means reduced _____________ of rank and file officers who have greater discretion in making decisions.






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






7. This may also be called '________ officer.' The investigative nature of their jobs has resulted in their classification as a local law enforcement agency.






8. 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






9. 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.






10. The 3 CIA directorates are the directorate of Intelligence - directorate of Operations and the directorate of Science and ___________.






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






12. This is to ensure that ___________ with the administrative rules is maintained.






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






14. Due to an increase in _________ and disorder by citizens - officers turned to weaponry to protect themselves.






15. 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.






16. Generally - surveys have revealed that ________ people tend to be more dissatisfied with the police than older persons. Some youths seem to believe that the police target them simply because they are young and think that all teenagers are up to no go






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






18. A limited amount of streetwalking is tolerated if it is restricted to a particular part of town - usually a business district and it is not too ________.






19. This was the step taken in 1965 to remedy _________ discrimination.






20. There are over _____ sheriff's departments in the US.






21. 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 _






22. 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.






23. 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.






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






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






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






27. Since these crimes are usually not reported - in order to discover them - undercover work using devices such as _________ are utilized.






28. Between the data in the UCR and NCVS - most experts tend to prefer the ____.






29. The role of the police academy is to provide formal training - root out ___________ recruits and immerse the trainees in the police subculture.






30. 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






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






32. Officers are allocated to specific shifts and patrol areas based on _________ or using a rotation system.






33. 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






34. 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.






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






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. 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.






38. The local police cover a wide range of law enforcement agencies such as the municipal police - sheriff's departments - campus and _______ police.






39. The first ___ amendments to the Constitution are called the Bill of Rights. They were created to restrict government actions against the individual.






40. 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.






41. The exclusionary rule relates to illegally seized evidence. In this case - the police searched and seized personal effects as well as incriminating evidence from the Defendant's house without a warrant. On the basis of this evidence - the Defendant w






42. The _________ Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS)is the term coined for this annual study.






43. 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






44. 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






45. One of the major problems facing patrol officers is high-speed pursuits is a high ________ rate.






46. The UCR has a hierarchy rule whereby multiple types of incidents can only be recorded as 1 incident. This is a _________ of the system.






47. 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






48. This describes the Pendleton Act. This was a big step in the government becoming the huge _____________ it is today.






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






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