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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 ________ 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.






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






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






4. 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






5. 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.






6. Ballistics is the scientific _________ of firearms - ammunition - projectiles - bombs and explosives.






7. 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.






8. 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






9. Some police departments may have a separate detective unit with further specialized units such as homicide and vice. ________ ones will have a single department to handle all cases or no department at all.






10. 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.






11. The CIA has operations officers and recruits ________ agents as part of their intelligence activities and this may involve covert operations.






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






13. 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.






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






15. When a 911 call comes in - the operator answers it - makes a decision whether to send out a patrol car and then informs the dispatcher who then communicates the details to the ______ officer.






16. This is the way criminal trials are conducted in the US and it is governed by strict rules of __________.






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






18. This is one of the main functions of the police academy and ensures that unsuitable recruits do not make it as officers. About 10% of recruits do not _________ from the academy.






19. 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






20. 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.






21. 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 _______.






22. 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






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






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






25. 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.






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






27. Citizen ______ and vigilante groups were the main means of policing the frontier and well-known figures who took up this challenge in the 19th Century include Wild Bill Hickok and Wyatt Earp.






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






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






30. 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.






31. Since these crimes are usually not reported - in order to discover them - undercover work using devices such as _________ are utilized.






32. A centralized state-level agency - which merges patrol with ______________ will usually assist in local criminal investigations when asked - patrol the state's highways - operate identification bureaus - manage criminal records and provide training t






33. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






40. Public concern led to the start of the crackdown and this is viewed as an important police role but it is very difficult to spot the minority of drunk drivers amongst those who are ______.






41. 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.






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






43. 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.






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






45. 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.






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






47. Under the ___ system - if last night Jim killed John - then set fire to a car and robbed an old lady - these multiple crimes would be recorded as a single incident.






48. The county level of government supplies citizens with police services - for example the county ________.






49. 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.






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