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DSST Introduction To Law Enforcement
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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.
State
Wilson
Representation
Transit
2. The controversial 'broken window' theory made the connection between disorder - neighborhood decay and _____.
Crime
Executive
Response
17000
3. Parens patriae is Latin for 'the ______ as parent'.
Valid
Fragmented
Dangerous
State
4. The CID within the FBI is responsible for organized crime - violent crime - ____________ and money laundering.
Racketeering
Copies
Subculture
Weeks
5. Apart from reducing crime - the mission of community policing is to _______ the trend of the negative public perception of the police
Election
Reverse
Supervision
Organized
6. Between the data in the UCR and NCVS - most experts tend to prefer the ____.
Reports
Black
NCVS
Mainstream
7. The police ___________ of secrecy - public hostility and solidarity meant they were very isolated from the community - especially the black community.
Bureaucracy
Vollmer
Subculture
Patrol
8. Since these crimes are usually not reported - in order to discover them - undercover work using devices such as _________ are utilized.
Rarely
Wiretaps
Seniority
Never
9. Field training consists of practical on-the-job training with a __________ field training officer.
Victimization
Qualified
Unqualified
Cooperation
10. The Supreme Court created a good faith exception to the exclusionary rule when police officers use search warrants (US v. ____ - 1984).
Protect
Runaway
Leon
Executive
11. This describes the Pendleton Act. This was a big step in the government becoming the huge _____________ it is today.
Adversarial
Consent
Organized
Bureaucracy
12. The written policies method is called '________________ rule-making' and it is presently the most popular method of controlling discretion.
Age
Administrative
Analysis
Special
13. The first ___ amendments to the Constitution are called the Bill of Rights. They were created to restrict government actions against the individual.
Ten
Justice
Dangerous
Representation
14. The professionalization movement started by Vollmer was nurtured by his prot
Warrant
Danger
Procedure
Wilson
15. This is to ensure that ___________ with the administrative rules is maintained.
Drawback
Sheriff
Compliance
4th
16. Under the 6th Amendment to the Constitution - every defendant has the right to a ____ trial.
Jury
Ballistics
Outside
Prohibit
17. The CIA is divided into 3 ____________ and 5 mission support offices (MSOs).
Subculture
Directorates
Sheriff
Violence
18. 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.
Smaller
Attrition
Vollmer
Compliance
19. Training is one of the roles a ______-level enforcement agency usually engages in.
Subculture
Disturbance
Classroom
State
20. In 2001 - the US Supreme Court held in Atwater v. Lago Vista that the 4th amendment did not ________ warrantless arrests for minor offenses.
Bribes
Drunk
Citizen
Prohibit
21. The _________ Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS)is the term coined for this annual study.
Younger
Bilingual
Warrant
National
22. Some legal experts believe that police discretion should be abolished because it is _______.
Hoover
Sheriff
Illegal
Jury
23. The exclusionary rule was modified by the __________ exception in the US Supreme Court decision of US v. Leon (1984).
Procedure
Sober
Warrant
Good-faith
24. Criminalistics relies on __________ to analyze firearms and munitions as well as various forensic techniques to determine issues such as time of death.
Forfeited
Security
Ballistics
Los Angeles
25. 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
Safe
Improperly
Qualified
Dangerous
26. 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.
Wilson
FBI
Enabled
Blind
27. This is the way criminal trials are conducted in the US and it is governed by strict rules of __________.
Illegally
Control
Procedure
Writ
28. It is interesting to note that the city of Detroit is the only state in which blacks rate the police force more ______ than their white counterparts.
Containment
Cause
Highly
Due process
29. _________ policing took off in the 1980s and 1990s - with the realization that the police could not fight crime on their own.
Foreign
Justice
Obvious
Community
30. The most organized and distinctly American officer force was the _____ patrol based in Charleston - South Carolina.
FBI
Response
Slave
Never
31. Another word for uphold is _________. This is the result for most appellate court decisions whereby they confirm the decision of the lower court.
4th
Safe
Vollmer
Reaffirm
32. This is the venue for police training and the value of training has experienced a dramatic _________ in status since its inception.
Prevention
Reaffirm
Increase
Executions
33. 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
Writ
Imprisonment
Education
Due process
34. 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.
Bribes
Limitations
Writ
Highly
35. Due to an increase in _________ and disorder by citizens - officers turned to weaponry to protect themselves.
Previous
Compliance
Violence
Magistrate
36. Apart from police corruption - another form of police deviance is ____________ deviance.
Sober
Occupational
Enforcement
Graduate
37. The next most critical factor that impacts on PCR after race and ethnicity is ___.
Vollmer
Drawback
Prevention
Age
38. Patrol is meant to reassure citizens that their environment is _____ and protected from crime.
Younger
Vollmer
Forfeited
Safe
39. This is due to the dominance of the local political structure by ______ persons. Detroit has had a black mayor since 1973 and the police force is dominated by black persons. Thus - the black community can better relate with their local police
Qualified
Black
Foreign
Reverse
40. 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.
FBI
Posse
Blind
FBI
41. 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
Reports
Federal
Previous
4th
42. Officers at the academy undergo _________ training and most academies also offer field training.
Classroom
Escobedo
Los Angeles
Accountability
43. The first ___ amendments of the Constitution are commonly called the Bill of Rights and offer the individual considerable protection in the criminal justice system.
Organized
Ten
Accountability
Lawfully
44. 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.
Professionalization
Limitations
Cause
Consent
45. ____ did not become regulated officer equipment until the late 19th Century.
Real problem
Guns
Policy
Supervision
46. 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
UCR
Ten
Illegally
Smaller
47. In US v. __________ (1950) - the US Supreme Court ruled that a warrantless search upon a lawful arrest was permitted as long as it was reasonable given the circumstances.
Slow
Rabinowitz
Consent
Posse
48. The 3 CIA directorates are the directorate of Intelligence - directorate of Operations and the directorate of Science and ___________.
Bilingual
Escobedo
Technology
Written
49. Increasing ___________ and reducing competition between patrol officers and detectives as well as improving police-citizen relationships are 2 important methods of enhancing the quality of investigative work.
Cooperation
Wilson
Incidents
Prohibit
50. One of the major problems facing patrol officers is high-speed pursuits is a high ________ rate.
Arrest
Accident
Victimless
Writ
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