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DSST Introduction To Law Enforcement
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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
Bilingual
Victimization
Qualified
Imprisonment
2. The 3 purposes of patrol are to deter crime - increase feelings of public ________ and prepare officers for service through effective dispersal in the neighborhood.
Patrol
Serving
Searching
Security
3. 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
Hoover
Outside
Drunk
Never
4. 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 _______.
Searching
Academies
Drunk
Justice
5. Some legal experts believe that police discretion should be abolished because it is _______.
Collateral
Illegal
Accident
Special
6. 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.
Procedures
4th
Escobedo
Bargain
7. 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 ________.
Obvious
Academies
Heart
Real problem
8. 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
Enforcement
Improperly
Ballistics
Pendleton
9. The controversial 'broken window' theory made the connection between disorder - neighborhood decay and _____.
Crime
Activity
3100
Transit
10. Research has revealed that in about 80% of such situations - no formal action - such as _______ was necessary.
Warrant
Arrest
Covert
Fragmented
11. 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.
Illegal
Copies
Reverse
Uphold
12. 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.
Graduate
Cause
Victimization
Los Angeles
13. The rights of the accused (and of prisoners) have been defined mostly through the _______________'s interpretation of the Bill of Rights.
Analysis
Graduate
Supreme Court
Classroom
14. This is one of the main functions of the police academy and ensures that unsuitable recruits do not make it as officers. About 10% of recruits do not _________ from the academy.
Sober
Writ
Graduate
Drunk
15. 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.
Enabled
Violence
Compliance
Good-faith
16. This was the bright-line rule (one that can ______ be crossed) that emerged from this case.
Organized
Justice
Never
Age
17. 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 __________.
Punishment
Classroom
Prevention
Racketeering
18. Training is one of the roles a ______-level enforcement agency usually engages in.
State
Cooperation
Racial
Decentralization
19. 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.
Illegal
Without
Serving
Smaller
20. Under the 6th Amendment to the Constitution - every defendant has the right to a ____ trial.
Jury
Consent
Medical
Adversarial
21. 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.
Ten
Leon
Organized
Blind
22. It can be argued that __________ officers possess an additional skill and therefore the extra pay can be justified on those grounds.
Illegal
Bilingual
Sober
Highly
23. Field training consists of practical on-the-job training with a __________ field training officer.
Executive
Danger
Qualified
Posses
24. Officers are commonly offered bribes to let suspects go or to turn a blind eye to ________ activities.
Copies
Illegal
Citizen
Disturbance
25. 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.
Policy
Decentralization
Parens
Drunk
26. This is training in relation to _____________ rules and was spurred by the decisions of the US Supreme Court in the 1960s.
Cause
Drunk
Racial
Due process
27. 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.
Consecutive
Decentralization
Posse
Violent
28. 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.
UCR
Response
Weeks
Smaller
29. 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
4th
Wiretaps
State
Cooperation
30. 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
Black
FBI
Reduced
4th
31. 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
Bilingual
Justice
Disturbance
Compliance
32. 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.
Serving
Writ
Patrol
Bribes
33. 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.
Victimless
Disturbance
Highly
Supervision
34. 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.
Slow
Procedure
Incidents
Wilson
35. In this case - the police applied for and obtained a search warrant from a magistrate for the Defendant's homes. Drugs were found there and the Defendant convicted. He appealed on the grounds that the original affidavit drawn up to obtain the search
Racial
Valid
Bilingual
Containment
36. 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 _
Magistrate
Medical
Annually
Real problem
37. 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.
Increase
Bribes
Violent
Executive
38. In order to police __________ crimes - officers generally have to resort to undercover work.
Technology
Bureaucracy
Partnership
Victimless
39. Decentralization means reduced _____________ of rank and file officers who have greater discretion in making decisions.
Written
Crime
Valid
Supervision
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.
Posse
Bilingual
Organized
Los Angeles
41. 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.
Directorates
Slow
Adversarial
Executive
42. Officers at the academy undergo _________ training and most academies also offer field training.
Activity
Organized
Classroom
Supreme Court
43. The police ___________ of secrecy - public hostility and solidarity meant they were very isolated from the community - especially the black community.
Subculture
Heart
Improperly
Patrol
44. The majority of criminal cases do not go to trial but are instead settled via a plea _______.
Supreme Court
Bargain
Enforcement
Enabled
45. Officers are allocated to specific shifts and patrol areas based on _________ or using a rotation system.
Seniority
Analysis
FBI
Disturbance
46. There are around _____ federal - state and local law enforcement agencies in the US.
Bribes
17000
Due process
Prevention
47. The spoils system is greatly reduced in modern politics - though not entirely eliminated. Most ________ workers do not have to be concerned about losing their jobs when a new party takes office.
Danger
Reverse
Federal
Posses
48. The first ___ amendments of the Constitution are commonly called the Bill of Rights and offer the individual considerable protection in the criminal justice system.
Ten
Victimization
Policy
Administrative
49. This is the problem of case __________. Research has shown that only about half of felony arrests result in convictions. The question is whether this is due to poor police work or some other reason.
Attrition
Escobedo
Consecutive
Election
50. 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.
Procedure
Los Angeles
Policy
Response