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DSST Introduction To Law Enforcement

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. In 2001 - the US Supreme Court held in Atwater v. Lago Vista that the 4th amendment did not ________ warrantless arrests for minor offenses.






2. There was no __________ form of criminal justice law in those days. Guilt was assumed; the execution carried out and accepted by all as an act of retribution.






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






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






5. J Edgar ______ - the Director of the FBI in the 1930s had a critical impact on local policing in setting educational and training models for officers - the development of the Uniform Crime Reports (UCR) and the establishment of the FBI crime lab.






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






7. 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.






8. This occurs where criminal and non-criminal actions are used by an officer in the course of his/her working activities or committed when pretending it is within his/her ___________ police authority. An example is sleeping on the job or a racial slur






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






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






11. 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 __________.






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






13. Able-bodied men who could hear the commotion caused by the victim were obliged to form a posse and join the shire reeve (term from which ________ is derived) or mounted officer in pursuit of the offender.






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






15. 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.






16. The written policies method is called '________________ rule-making' and it is presently the most popular method of controlling discretion.






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






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






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






20. ____ did not become regulated officer equipment until the late 19th Century.






21. This is the venue for police training and the value of training has experienced a dramatic _________ in status since its inception.






22. 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.






23. 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 _






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






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






26. 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






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






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






29. Some legal experts believe that police discretion should be abolished because it is _______.






30. 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.






31. 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.






32. 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.






33. When considering detective productivity and _____________ - more important than the number of arrests is the quality of those arrests.






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






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






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. Police subculture is determined by the potential of ______ and because of this they stereotype certain categories of persons - such as low-income males - as possible threats.






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






39. 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 __________.






40. 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.






41. Generally - surveys have revealed that ________ people tend to be more dissatisfied with the police than older persons. Some youths seem to believe that the police target them simply because they are young and think that all teenagers are up to no go






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






43. The CIA is divided into 3 ____________ and 5 mission support offices (MSOs).






44. 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






45. This is to ensure that ___________ with the administrative rules is maintained.






46. Wilson believed in the necessity to continue and encourage _____________________ within the police force. He was the chief of police in Wichita from 1928 to 1935 - the Dean of Criminology at the University of California from 1950 to 1960 and the supe






47. 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.






48. 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






49. The FBI has the responsibility to investigate - analyze and neutralize any potential terrorist threats and to investigate and analyze terrorist __________ in the US.






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