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DSST Introduction To Law Enforcement
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. They believe that _____-reporting provides more accurate information than police reports.
Accountability
Never
Warrant
Self
2. Racial profiling is the practice of stopping and or __________ a person not because of any suspected criminal activity but because of that person's race.
Searching
Annually
Copies
Adversarial
3. In 1837 - the slave patrol consisted of about 100 officers and they were responsible for finding ________ slaves and ensuring that they were well-behaved.
Escobedo
Subculture
Blind
Runaway
4. Apart from reducing crime - the mission of community policing is to _______ the trend of the negative public perception of the police
Obvious
Vollmer
Reverse
Organized
5. 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.
Los Angeles
Control
Magistrate
Writ
6. The first landmark case that forms the foundation of the exclusionary rule is the US Supreme court decision of _____ v US (1914).
Los Angeles
National
Weeks
Illegally
7. Parens patriae is Latin for 'the ______ as parent'.
Rabinowitz
State
Violence
Never
8. 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
Collateral
Medical
Representation
Partnership
9. 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 _________.
Lawfully
Violent
Supreme Court
Activity
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.
Analysis
Illegal
Procedures
Copies
11. August Vollmer believed that policing standards needed to be improved and corruption stamped out. He advocated training and __________ for officers.
17000
Serving
Communities
Education
12. Domestic disturbances may be fuelled by alcohol and drug abuse - financial difficulties or many other reasons that are beyond the ________ of the officers.
Younger
Representation
Mainstream
Control
13. Officers appointed to carry out investigative work are known as __________.
Violence
FBI
Detectives
Security
14. 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.
Attrition
Jury
Real problem
Cause
15. 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.
Illegal
Posses
Real problem
Reaffirm
16. 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
Slow
Younger
Effectiveness
Outside
17. In order to police __________ crimes - officers generally have to resort to undercover work.
Blind
Violence
Administrative
Victimless
18. The police ___________ of secrecy - public hostility and solidarity meant they were very isolated from the community - especially the black community.
Vollmer
Bureaucracy
Subculture
Transit
19. The drawbacks of the administrative rule-making route are that they can never cover every conceivable situation; it may promote lying - avoidance - confusion and a negative ________ from officers.
Prevention
Bargain
Escobedo
Response
20. The most organized and distinctly American officer force was the _____ patrol based in Charleston - South Carolina.
Organized
Drunk
Containment
Slave
21. The 3 purposes of patrol are to deter crime - increase feelings of public ________ and prepare officers for service through effective dispersal in the neighborhood.
Policy
Security
Ten
Serving
22. 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 _
Cause
Real problem
Never
Security
23. 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.
Organized
Enabled
Good-faith
Without
24. 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.
Good-faith
Highly
Executions
Smaller
25. Research has revealed that in about 80% of such situations - no formal action - such as _______ was necessary.
Illegal
Representation
Arrest
Consent
26. The CID within the FBI is responsible for organized crime - violent crime - ____________ and money laundering.
Real problem
Racketeering
Victimless
Sheriff
27. This is to ensure that ___________ with the administrative rules is maintained.
Danger
FBI
Compliance
Medical
28. The county level of government supplies citizens with police services - for example the county ________.
Obvious
Jury
Sheriff
Previous
29. 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.
Improve
Professionalization
Written
UCR
30. In the 1950s training for police officers consisted mainly of firearm skill development but over the years - classroom training has emphasized criminal __________.
Sheriff
4th
Procedures
Special
31. 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.
Enforcement
Victimization
Writ
4th
32. 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.
Adversarial
UCR
Compliance
Wilson
33. 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.
Without
Bureaucracy
Magistrate
Cooperation
34. Field training consists of practical on-the-job training with a __________ field training officer.
Qualified
4th
Prevention
UCR
35. 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.
Reaffirm
Decentralization
Racial
Professionalization
36. Officers may feel that the rules are there to catch them out and that the system mistrusts them. This may encourage officers to work at a deliberately _____ pace.
Response
Incidents
Outside
Slow
37. The 3 CIA directorates are the directorate of Intelligence - directorate of Operations and the directorate of Science and ___________.
Technology
Poor
Analysis
Imprisonment
38. 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.
Self
Enforcement
Without
Rabinowitz
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
Black
Violence
Consent
Organized
40. Another word for uphold is _________. This is the result for most appellate court decisions whereby they confirm the decision of the lower court.
Victimization
Covert
Reaffirm
Accident
41. 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.
Citizen
Highly
Mainstream
Prohibit
42. 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.
Wilson
Protect
Heart
Classroom
43. 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
Citizen
Imprisonment
Improperly
Self
44. The CIA has operations officers and recruits ________ agents as part of their intelligence activities and this may involve covert operations.
Slow
Parens
Foreign
Illegal
45. When a 911 call comes in - the operator answers it - makes a decision whether to send out a patrol car and then informs the dispatcher who then communicates the details to the ______ officer.
Improve
Patrol
Copies
Supervision
46. This may also be called '________ officer.' The investigative nature of their jobs has resulted in their classification as a local law enforcement agency.
FBI
Medical
Jury
4th
47. Ballistics is the scientific _________ of firearms - ammunition - projectiles - bombs and explosives.
Analysis
Posse
Medical
UCR
48. Another source of PCR tension is discriminatory employment practices of the ______ force.
Improperly
Accident
Guns
Police
49. Apart from police corruption - another form of police deviance is ____________ deviance.
Self
Pay
Occupational
Cooperation
50. The CIA also engages in ______ operations sanctioned by the President as part of their role in ensuring national security.
Covert
Cooperation
Warrant
Escobedo