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






2. The police receive a sizeable number of calls about ________ ill persons and in exercising their discretion these matters are normally dealt with through arrest - hospitalization or informal disposition.






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






4. 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.






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






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






7. The 3 main approaches to controlling police discretion are removing it - improving the professional judgment of officers through better training and managing it through _______ policies.






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






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






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






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






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






13. 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.






14. 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 ________.






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






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






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






18. It can be argued that __________ officers possess an additional skill and therefore the extra pay can be justified on those grounds.






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






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






21. 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.






22. Officers appointed to carry out investigative work are known as __________.






23. 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 _______.






24. 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






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






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






27. 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.






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






29. The Supreme Court created a good faith exception to the exclusionary rule when police officers use search warrants (US v. ____ - 1984).






30. 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.






31. 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






32. In dealing with federal criminal law enforcement - the duty of the FBI upon investigation is to gather evidence and perform personnel investigations - especially in major programs such as _________ crime and white-collar crime.






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






34. 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.






35. Patrol is meant to reassure citizens that their environment is _____ and protected from crime.






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






37. This means that the court releases the suspect into their own custody or into the care of another. This occurs where the suspect poses a low flight risk and is not __________ to the community.






38. 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






39. Upon conviction - the defendant is punished through a sentence passed by the judge and if convicted of more than one crime - then may be subject to a ___________ or concurrent sentence.






40. By dealing with the underlying issues - for example mental health or financial service problems - then a solution may be found to get them off the street and back into a more ___________ existence.






41. 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.






42. 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






43. 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.






44. This has resulted in an under ________________ of blacks - women and ethnic minorities in the police force.






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






46. 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.






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






48. 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.






49. 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






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