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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. 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.






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






3. 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.






4. Campus police is probably the most important example of the special district police force. The also participate in the ____ program.






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






6. 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.






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






8. Some departments allow for bidding of new patrol areas once or twice _________.






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






10. This may also be called '________ officer.' The investigative nature of their jobs has resulted in their classification as a local law enforcement agency.






11. The Uniform Crime Reports (UCR) is an annualized report published by the ___ that states the statistical rate of reported crime in the US based on data from police reports.






12. The exclusionary rule relates to illegally seized evidence. In this case - the police searched and seized personal effects as well as incriminating evidence from the Defendant's house without a warrant. On the basis of this evidence - the Defendant w






13. 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






14. 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.






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






16. The _________ Act passed by Congress in 1883 put an end to Andrew Jackson's 'spoils system -' and created a system of hiring government employees based on their qualifications.






17. Another word for uphold is _________. This is the result for most appellate court decisions whereby they confirm the decision of the lower court.






18. Community policing is widely implemented in the US today but critics are concerned that the police role of crime control has been hijacked - the police are increasingly getting involved at a political level and ________________ will lead to the loss






19. Officers are allocated to specific shifts and patrol areas based on _________ or using a rotation system.






20. 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.






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






22. 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.






23. Police training programs do suffer from ___________ - particularly as important areas such as domestic violence - ethics and police discretion - which are not usually covered






24. 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.






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






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






27. The 3 purposes of patrol are to deter crime - increase feelings of public ________ and prepare officers for service through effective dispersal in the neighborhood.






28. The police ___________ of secrecy - public hostility and solidarity meant they were very isolated from the community - especially the black community.






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






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






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






32. This is the definition of bail. If the suspect fails to appear for the next court hearing - then the money or property pledged may be __________.






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






34. 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.






35. Due to an increase in _________ and disorder by citizens - officers turned to weaponry to protect themselves.






36. 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.






37. 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 ________.






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






39. The professionalization movement started by Vollmer was nurtured by his prot






40. 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.






41. The majority of criminal cases do not go to trial but are instead settled via a plea _______.






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






43. 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






44. One of the major problems facing patrol officers is high-speed pursuits is a high ________ rate.






45. The office of coroner is considered a local law enforcement agency because they determine the cause of _____ of victims and perpetrators in criminal cases.






46. 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






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






48. 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.






49. Parens patriae is Latin for 'the ______ as parent'.






50. 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.