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






2. 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






3. 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.






4. Ballistics is the scientific _________ of firearms - ammunition - projectiles - bombs and explosives.






5. 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.






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






7. Research has revealed that in about 80% of such situations - no formal action - such as _______ was necessary.






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






9. 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.






10. 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.






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






12. Some departments allow for bidding of new patrol areas once or twice _________.






13. Field training consists of practical on-the-job training with a __________ field training officer.






14. The 1980s and 1990s saw the creation of _______ oversight of police groups to monitor or investigate complaints by individuals against police actions.






15. This is widely recognized as a police role - though they do share the burden with other institutions such as schools and _____________.






16. 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.






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






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






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






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






21. 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.






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






23. 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.






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






25. 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






26. The rise of police professionalism and reform was spearheaded by August _______ who served as the chief of police in Berkeley - California from 1905 to 1932.






27. Tensions between the police and racial minorities continue despite the many advances made since the 1960s; major complaints are still made regularly and these include use of excessive force and ______ profiling.






28. There was no __________ form of criminal justice law in those days. Guilt was assumed; the execution carried out and accepted by all as an act of retribution.






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






30. Officers are commonly offered bribes to let suspects go or to turn a blind eye to ________ activities.






31. 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






32. Some police departments may have a separate detective unit with further specialized units such as homicide and vice. ________ ones will have a single department to handle all cases or no department at all.






33. 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.






34. ____ did not become regulated officer equipment until the late 19th Century.






35. 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






36. The CIA also engages in ______ operations sanctioned by the President as part of their role in ensuring national security.






37. 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






38. 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.






39. 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 __________.






40. 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 _______.






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






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






43. The nature of police work also promotes deviant activities because officers are often offered ______ - they are regularly unsupervised and so think they can get away with it and fed on a diet of illegality may succumb to criminality too.






44. 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.






45. The Defendant was _________ arrested in his office - which consisted of a single room. The search was valid and reasonable given the circumstances of the arrest and small space of the area he was arrested in.






46. 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 _________.






47. The spoils system refers to firing supporters of the opponent and replacing them with one's own supporters upon ________.






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






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






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