Test your basic knowledge |

DSST Introduction To Law Enforcement

Subjects : dsst, law-enforcement
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
  • If you are not ready to take this test, you can study here.
  • Match each statement with the correct term.
  • Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.

This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. The rights of the accused (and of prisoners) have been defined mostly through the _______________'s interpretation of the Bill of Rights.






2. 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.






3. In serious cases - this may be the outcome. However - hospital care for the mentally ill is very disjointed and it may be difficult to hospitalize a person without their ________. Also - these hospitals or shelters may refuse to admit these patients.






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






5. 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.






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






7. Law enforcement in the US is extremely large and ___________ and hence this many agencies currently exist.






8. 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






9. 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.






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






11. 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






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






13. This was the bright-line rule (one that can ______ be crossed) that emerged from this case.






14. The public perception of the police is of a distant and alienated law enforcement unit. Through community policing - police-community relations should ________ as the public have a greater stake and say in their problems and needs.






15. When it comes to prostitution - low-level street-walking is usually tolerated so that the role of the police is normally ___________ and maintaining the peace.






16. Where offenders are not captured red-handed - an arrest _______ issued by an officer of the court is required to supply the legal foundation for the act of detention.






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






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






19. Between the data in the UCR and NCVS - most experts tend to prefer the ____.






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






21. One of the most controversial incidents in recent American police history occurred in ___________ in 1991 when officers subdued Rodney King using considerable force; resulting in 2 criminal trials and a riot that seriously damaged PCR for several yea






22. Training is one of the roles a ______-level enforcement agency usually engages in.






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






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






25. 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






26. In order to police __________ crimes - officers generally have to resort to undercover work.






27. In US v. __________ (1950) - the US Supreme Court ruled that a warrantless search upon a lawful arrest was permitted as long as it was reasonable given the circumstances.






28. Domestic disturbances may be fuelled by alcohol and drug abuse - financial difficulties or many other reasons that are beyond the ________ of the officers.






29. 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.






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






31. This is training in relation to _____________ rules and was spurred by the decisions of the US Supreme Court in the 1960s.






32. Criminalistics relies on __________ to analyze firearms and munitions as well as various forensic techniques to determine issues such as time of death.






33. The _________ Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS)is the term coined for this annual study.






34. 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.






35. There are over _____ sheriff's departments in the US.






36. 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.






37. This was the step taken in 1965 to remedy _________ discrimination.






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






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






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






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






42. 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






43. It is believed that the average citizen plays a vital part in the ________________ of officers.






44. 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.






45. 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






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






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






48. The first ___ amendments to the Constitution are called the Bill of Rights. They were created to restrict government actions against the individual.






49. The assessment stage evaluates the response based on detailed _________ and surveys. The police are also encouraged to conduct a self-analysis to see if they identified the problem correctly in the first place and revise that response if needed.






50. Since the 1980s - there have been some very public crackdowns on _____ driving but rates of this offence which creep down during the crackdown soon return to the original levels because the publicity forces a temporary change in behavior which is not