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DSST Introduction To Law Enforcement
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Another source of PCR tension is discriminatory employment practices of the ______ force.
Police
Younger
Qualified
Bureaucracy
2. 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
Serving
Violent
Administrative
Improperly
3. 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.
4th
Executive
Seniority
Enabled
4. This was the step taken in 1965 to remedy _________ discrimination.
Previous
Escobedo
Medical
Unqualified
5. This is the way criminal trials are conducted in the US and it is governed by strict rules of __________.
Special
Procedure
Poor
Pendleton
6. The CIA is divided into 3 ____________ and 5 mission support offices (MSOs).
Directorates
Community
Limitations
Heart
7. The most organized and distinctly American officer force was the _____ patrol based in Charleston - South Carolina.
Partnership
Activity
Slave
Collateral
8. 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.
Copies
Rarely
Lawfully
Effectiveness
9. The local police cover a wide range of law enforcement agencies such as the municipal police - sheriff's departments - campus and _______ police.
Posses
Jury
Outside
Transit
10. Under the 6th Amendment to the Constitution - every defendant has the right to a ____ trial.
Highly
Sheriff
Jury
Real problem
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 __________.
Supervision
Lawfully
Prevention
Slow
12. The role of the police academy is to provide formal training - root out ___________ recruits and immerse the trainees in the police subculture.
Unqualified
Writ
Reduced
Drunk
13. The role of the ___ is to investigate breaches of federal criminal law - to protect the country from foreign counterintelligence and terrorist activities and to provide law enforcement assistance to other agencies.
FBI
Forfeited
Compliance
Policy
14. The FBI has the responsibility to investigate - analyze and neutralize any potential terrorist threats and to investigate and analyze terrorist __________ in the US.
Policy
Incidents
Rarely
Bilingual
15. 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
Education
Frequency
Disturbance
Slow
16. Law enforcement in the US is extremely large and ___________ and hence this many agencies currently exist.
Real problem
Fragmented
Suspicion
Crime
17. In 2001 - the US Supreme Court held in Atwater v. Lago Vista that the 4th amendment did not ________ warrantless arrests for minor offenses.
Reaffirm
Prohibit
Effectiveness
Never
18. This is to ensure that ___________ with the administrative rules is maintained.
FBI
UCR
Compliance
Medical
19. The police receive a sizeable number of calls about ________ ill persons and in exercising their discretion these matters are normally dealt with through arrest - hospitalization or informal disposition.
Highly
Punishment
Mentally
Enabled
20. In the 1950s training for police officers consisted mainly of firearm skill development but over the years - classroom training has emphasized criminal __________.
Representation
Procedures
Occupational
Racial
21. The first ___ amendments of the Constitution are commonly called the Bill of Rights and offer the individual considerable protection in the criminal justice system.
Organized
Election
Ten
Magistrate
22. 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
Parens
Policy
Written
Slow
23. 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.
Slave
Safe
Enforcement
Posse
24. After the arrest - suspects are brought before a __________ for their first appearance so that the charges brought against them can be read out and if appropriate they may be released on their own recognizance.
Activity
Weeks
Racial
Magistrate
25. 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.
Uphold
Self
Warrant
4th
26. 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.
Fragmented
Blind
Writ
Investigations
27. Ballistics is the scientific _________ of firearms - ammunition - projectiles - bombs and explosives.
Highly
Analysis
Guns
Bureaucracy
28. Police training programs do suffer from ___________ - particularly as important areas such as domestic violence - ethics and police discretion - which are not usually covered
Limitations
Illegally
Enabled
Magistrate
29. 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 _
Vollmer
Reports
Security
Real problem
30. 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.
Accident
Consent
Cooperation
Procedure
31. The 3 main approaches to controlling police discretion are removing it - improving the professional judgment of officers through better training and managing it through _______ policies.
Written
Supervision
Searching
Organized
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.
Procedure
Blind
Vollmer
Analysis
33. 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
Incidents
Ten
Legitimate
Runaway
34. 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.
Good-faith
Posse
Hoover
Searching
35. 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.
Smaller
Parens
Reverse
Reports
36. This is training in relation to _____________ rules and was spurred by the decisions of the US Supreme Court in the 1960s.
Due process
Mainstream
Improperly
Racial
37. A critical function that the police play in society is crime __________ and this role is primarily executed through routine patrolling.
Communities
Poor
Prevention
Response
38. This is widely recognized as a police role - though they do share the burden with other institutions such as schools and _____________.
Guns
Legitimate
Communities
Posses
39. In this case - the Defendants were suspected of evading taxes but they refused to hand over their company books. An illegal search and seizure was performed and the books returned soon after - when the Defendant's lawyer objected. At the trial - the
Illegally
Citizen
Representation
Ten
40. 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.
Prohibit
Feedback
State
Posses
41. Apart from reducing crime - the mission of community policing is to _______ the trend of the negative public perception of the police
Reverse
Attrition
Written
Improperly
42. 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 _______.
Bribes
Justice
Election
Response
43. Domestic disturbances may be fuelled by alcohol and drug abuse - financial difficulties or many other reasons that are beyond the ________ of the officers.
Jury
Policy
Citizen
Control
44. Officers at the academy undergo _________ training and most academies also offer field training.
Weeks
Classroom
Containment
Policy
45. Between the data in the UCR and NCVS - most experts tend to prefer the ____.
Representation
Hoover
Illegal
NCVS
46. 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.
Special
Justice
Consent
Escobedo
47. 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.
Reverse
Hoover
Response
Procedure
48. The CID within the FBI is responsible for organized crime - violent crime - ____________ and money laundering.
Racketeering
Vollmer
Leon
NCVS
49. The county level of government supplies citizens with police services - for example the county ________.
Representation
Illegally
Age
Sheriff
50. When the offender was apprehended by the posse - trials were rarely held and public __________ were held to dispense justice.
Cause
Pay
Weeks
Executions