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DSST Introduction To Law Enforcement

Subjects : dsst, law-enforcement
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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






2. 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.






3. Training is one of the roles a ______-level enforcement agency usually engages in.






4. 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 __________.






5. The Supreme Court created a good faith exception to the exclusionary rule when police officers use search warrants (US v. ____ - 1984).






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






7. 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.






8. This is training in relation to _____________ rules and was spurred by the decisions of the US Supreme Court in the 1960s.






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






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






11. Bail describes the circumstance when suspects are released from custody but on condition that money or property is offered as __________ against flight.






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






13. The 911 communications center is the _____ of a modern police department.






14. 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






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






16. 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.






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






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






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






20. 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.






21. 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.






22. 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.






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






24. 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.






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






26. Prospective police officers are trained at police _________ - with the average pre-service training program lasting about 1000 hours.






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






28. 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.






29. Research into police work and activities conducted between the 1950s and 1970s concluded that police-community relations were very ____ and officers regularly breached legal rules






30. 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.






31. 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.






32. 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.






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






34. 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 ________.






35. Officers have very broad discretion - yet this subject is _______ taught or sufficiently taught to better aid the officers in making an appropriate decision.






36. 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.






37. This may also be called '________ officer.' The investigative nature of their jobs has resulted in their classification as a local law enforcement agency.






38. Patrol is meant to reassure citizens that their environment is _____ and protected from crime.






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






40. The Hispanic community is growing faster than expected and therefore police departments should take steps to hire more Hispanic officers through active recruitment processes and offering incentive ___ for bilingual officers.






41. Officers appointed to carry out investigative work are known as __________.






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






43. 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.






44. There are around _____ federal - state and local law enforcement agencies in the US.






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






46. Police training programs do suffer from ___________ - particularly as important areas such as domestic violence - ethics and police discretion - which are not usually covered






47. They believe that _____-reporting provides more accurate information than police reports.






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






49. 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.






50. 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