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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 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.






2. 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






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






4. In 2001 - the US Supreme Court held in Atwater v. Lago Vista that the 4th amendment did not ________ warrantless arrests for minor offenses.






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






6. Prospective police officers are trained at police _________ - with the average pre-service training program lasting about 1000 hours.






7. 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






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






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 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.






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






12. Apart from police corruption - another form of police deviance is ____________ deviance.






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






14. Plea bargains avoid an expensive court trial. Prosecutors may offer and defendants may accept a bargained plea to avoid the uncertainty of a jury trial. In many cases - the Defendant agrees to plead guilty to a lesser charge or for a ________ sentenc






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






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






17. The UCR statistics are used to create the FBI Crime Clock which creates a picture of crime _________ in the US.






18. The controversial 'broken window' theory made the connection between disorder - neighborhood decay and _____.






19. After the arrest - suspects are brought before a __________ for their first appearance so that the charges brought against them can be read out and if appropriate they may be released on their own recognizance.






20. The rights of the accused (and of prisoners) have been defined mostly through the _______________'s interpretation of the Bill of Rights.






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






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






23. 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.






24. 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.






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






26. Deterrence prevents crime through using an example or threat of ___________ to persuade the public against committing the crime.






27. The FBI has the responsibility to investigate - analyze and neutralize any potential terrorist threats and to investigate and analyze terrorist __________ in the US.






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






29. 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






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






31. 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






32. The NCVS Survey is a yearly study by the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) of specific households to determine the level of criminal _____________ - particularly unreported victimization - in the US.






33. 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 _






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.






35. There is no _________ method of centralized policing in the US as police services are provided by the 4 levels of government which are the city - county - state and federal levels.






36. Under the ___ system - if last night Jim killed John - then set fire to a car and robbed an old lady - these multiple crimes would be recorded as a single incident.






37. 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






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






39. 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






40. 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 __________.






41. The professionalization movement started by Vollmer was nurtured by his prot






42. The CIA is divided into 3 ____________ and 5 mission support offices (MSOs).






43. The exclusionary rule was modified by the __________ exception in the US Supreme Court decision of US v. Leon (1984).






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






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






46. When an appellate court is asked to review a judgment - they may ______ it - require the lower court to set it aside or modify it.






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






48. 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.






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






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