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DSST Introduction To Law Enforcement

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Their perception of the amount of danger faced in their jobs results in the development of constant __________ of people






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






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






4. 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






5. 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.






6. 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.






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






8. These experts contend that officers do not have the authority to subvert the criminal law. Some states have criminalized the failure of criminal justice officials who turn a ______ eye to enforcement.






9. According to the doctrine of ______ patriae - the state has a duty to care for children who are neglected or delinquent - and to assume the role of parent if necessary.






10. Officers at the academy undergo _________ training and most academies also offer field training.






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






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






13. 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.






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






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






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






17. 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






18. 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.






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






20. 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.






21. The CIA has operations officers and recruits ________ agents as part of their intelligence activities and this may involve covert operations.






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






23. 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






24. 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.






25. Research into police work and activities conducted between the 1950s and 1970s concluded that police-community relations were very ____ and officers regularly breached legal rules






26. The first ___ amendments of the Constitution are commonly called the Bill of Rights and offer the individual considerable protection in the criminal justice system.






27. There are around _____ federal - state and local law enforcement agencies in the US.






28. When the offender was apprehended by the posse - trials were rarely held and public __________ were held to dispense justice.






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






30. Officers must file written _______ in certain circumstances when they exercise their discretion - for example when they fire their weapon and these reports must be reviewed by their superiors.






31. 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 _






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






33. 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.






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






35. Sheriff departments are usually responsible for _______ court papers - civil summons - and managing security in state courtrooms.






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






37. 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.






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






39. 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.






40. Decentralization means reduced _____________ of rank and file officers who have greater discretion in making decisions.






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






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






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






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






45. The first landmark case that forms the foundation of the exclusionary rule is the US Supreme court decision of _____ v US (1914).






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






47. 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






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






49. Since these crimes are usually not reported - in order to discover them - undercover work using devices such as _________ are utilized.






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