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DSST Introduction To Law Enforcement

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The county level of government supplies citizens with police services - for example the county ________.






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






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






4. The most organized and distinctly American officer force was the _____ patrol based in Charleston - South Carolina.






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






6. The ________ stage of SARA refers to the creation of strategies based on the analyzed data to deal with the problem whereas the assessment stage requires an evaluation of the effectiveness of the response.






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






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






9. 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.






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






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






12. 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.






13. Campus police are a type of _______ district police force - and many of these larger forces have been state certified as law enforcement agencies with general arrest powers.






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






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






16. 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.






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






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






19. 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 _






20. 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






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






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






23. 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






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






25. 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.






26. 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.






27. 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.






28. The exclusionary rule was modified by the __________ exception in the US Supreme Court decision of US v. Leon (1984).






29. 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.






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






31. 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.






32. The 3 CIA directorates are the directorate of Intelligence - directorate of Operations and the directorate of Science and ___________.






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






34. 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






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






36. The local police cover a wide range of law enforcement agencies such as the municipal police - sheriff's departments - campus and _______ police.






37. Under the 6th Amendment to the Constitution - every defendant has the right to a ____ trial.






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






39. 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.






40. 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






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






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






43. 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.






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






45. 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.






46. In the 1950s training for police officers consisted mainly of firearm skill development but over the years - classroom training has emphasized criminal __________.






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






48. 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.






49. 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.






50. The next most critical factor that impacts on PCR after race and ethnicity is ___.