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DSST Introduction To Law Enforcement
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Police training programs do suffer from ___________ - particularly as important areas such as domestic violence - ethics and police discretion - which are not usually covered
Response
Limitations
Blind
Medical
2. 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.
Technology
Searching
Heart
Magistrate
3. 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.
Slow
Drunk
Due process
Mainstream
4. A warrant is a _____ issued by the court to justify the arrest of a suspect. It offers protection to the officer executing the warrant against damages; for example for wrongful arrest.
FBI
Consecutive
Writ
Parens
5. The CIA also engages in ______ operations sanctioned by the President as part of their role in ensuring national security.
Searching
Representation
Covert
Racial
6. The 3 purposes of patrol are to deter crime - increase feelings of public ________ and prepare officers for service through effective dispersal in the neighborhood.
Serving
Supervision
Pendleton
Security
7. Apart from reducing crime - the mission of community policing is to _______ the trend of the negative public perception of the police
Reverse
4th
Control
Accident
8. The 1980s and 1990s saw the creation of _______ oversight of police groups to monitor or investigate complaints by individuals against police actions.
Death
Leon
Citizen
Rabinowitz
9. Bail describes the circumstance when suspects are released from custody but on condition that money or property is offered as __________ against flight.
Collateral
Warrant
Racial
Safe
10. The office of coroner is considered a local law enforcement agency because they determine the cause of _____ of victims and perpetrators in criminal cases.
Death
Policy
Ballistics
3100
11. 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.
Posses
Enabled
Procedure
Obvious
12. There is usually a degree of competition between detectives and _______ officers. The latter sometimes withhold information in the hope of beating detectives to solving a case.
Lawfully
Jury
Reverse
Patrol
13. 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.
Pendleton
FBI
Incidents
Accountability
14. 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
Patrol
Lawfully
Legitimate
Seniority
15. Affirmative action is mandated by a Presidential _________ Order in 1965 - so that all private employers and government agencies who receive federal monies have to develop written affirmative action plans.
Without
Procedure
Executive
Sober
16. 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
Arrest
Breached
Outside
Supervision
17. 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.
Election
FBI
Danger
Real problem
18. 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
Los Angeles
17000
Patrol
Fragmented
19. 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
Unqualified
Professionalization
Federal
Reaffirm
20. When considering detective productivity and _____________ - more important than the number of arrests is the quality of those arrests.
Enforcement
Effectiveness
Searching
Patrol
21. Plea bargains avoid an expensive court trial. Prosecutors may offer and defendants may accept a bargained plea to avoid the uncertainty of a jury trial. In many cases - the Defendant agrees to plead guilty to a lesser charge or for a ________ sentenc
Enabled
Self
Reduced
Smaller
22. The local police cover a wide range of law enforcement agencies such as the municipal police - sheriff's departments - campus and _______ police.
Medical
Rarely
Inadmissible
Transit
23. Parens patriae is Latin for 'the ______ as parent'.
Escobedo
Punishment
Seniority
State
24. The first landmark case that forms the foundation of the exclusionary rule is the US Supreme court decision of _____ v US (1914).
Weeks
Prevention
Good-faith
Investigations
25. 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
FBI
UCR
4th
Organized
26. 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.
Subculture
Control
Rarely
Response
27. Sheriff departments are usually responsible for _______ court papers - civil summons - and managing security in state courtrooms.
Prevention
Drunk
Obvious
Serving
28. The written policies method is called '________________ rule-making' and it is presently the most popular method of controlling discretion.
Policy
Never
Vollmer
Administrative
29. There are around _____ federal - state and local law enforcement agencies in the US.
Ten
Wiretaps
17000
Graduate
30. Criminalistics relies on __________ to analyze firearms and munitions as well as various forensic techniques to determine issues such as time of death.
Ballistics
Decentralization
Annually
Parens
31. Law enforcement in the US is extremely large and ___________ and hence this many agencies currently exist.
Age
Fragmented
Violent
Searching
32. A limited amount of streetwalking is tolerated if it is restricted to a particular part of town - usually a business district and it is not too ________.
Obvious
State
Without
Good-faith
33. The Defendant was _________ arrested in his office - which consisted of a single room. The search was valid and reasonable given the circumstances of the arrest and small space of the area he was arrested in.
Organized
Education
Leon
Lawfully
34. There is no _________ method of centralized policing in the US as police services are provided by the 4 levels of government which are the city - county - state and federal levels.
Escobedo
Transit
Professionalization
Organized
35. Ballistics is the scientific _________ of firearms - ammunition - projectiles - bombs and explosives.
Analysis
Cooperation
Protect
Reports
36. Another source of PCR tension is discriminatory employment practices of the ______ force.
Citizen
Police
Procedure
Imprisonment
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.
Wilson
Danger
Death
Covert
38. This has resulted in an under ________________ of blacks - women and ethnic minorities in the police force.
Medical
Foreign
Leon
Representation
39. 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.
Improve
Classroom
Frequency
Victimization
40. The exclusionary rule was modified by the __________ exception in the US Supreme Court decision of US v. Leon (1984).
Valid
Incidents
Good-faith
Citizen
41. Another word for uphold is _________. This is the result for most appellate court decisions whereby they confirm the decision of the lower court.
Limitations
Increase
Jury
Reaffirm
42. This is the problem of case __________. Research has shown that only about half of felony arrests result in convictions. The question is whether this is due to poor police work or some other reason.
Hoover
Patrol
Racial
Attrition
43. The UCR has a hierarchy rule whereby multiple types of incidents can only be recorded as 1 incident. This is a _________ of the system.
Drawback
Cause
Supreme Court
Previous
44. This is the way criminal trials are conducted in the US and it is governed by strict rules of __________.
Procedure
Hoover
Decentralization
Reports
45. 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.
Serving
Directorates
Copies
Due process
46. 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.
Vollmer
Illegal
Prevention
Jury
47. 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.
Runaway
Control
Feedback
Same time
48. 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
Black
Improperly
Partnership
Academies
49. Wilson and Kelling believed that the broken window symbolized a deteriorating neighborhood and not repaired led to the eventual decline of an area - thereby encouraging criminal _________.
Activity
Collateral
Pendleton
Organized
50. This was the only way they could ________ themselves and their property from the bandits. They did try to apply the accepted standards of decency of the day to their actions.
Ten
Pay
Security
Protect