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DSST Introduction To Law Enforcement
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Campus police is probably the most important example of the special district police force. The also participate in the ____ program.
Ten
Foreign
Accountability
UCR
2. The first ___ amendments of the Constitution are commonly called the Bill of Rights and offer the individual considerable protection in the criminal justice system.
Lawfully
Patrol
Cause
Ten
3. 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.
Directorates
Searching
Suspicion
Security
4. It is believed that the average citizen plays a vital part in the ________________ of officers.
Accountability
Victimization
Improperly
Rarely
5. In this case - the police applied for and obtained a search warrant from a magistrate for the Defendant's homes. Drugs were found there and the Defendant convicted. He appealed on the grounds that the original affidavit drawn up to obtain the search
Organized
Professionalization
Valid
Imprisonment
6. 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.
Consent
Los Angeles
Forfeited
Slave
7. Law enforcement in the US is extremely large and ___________ and hence this many agencies currently exist.
Highly
Supervision
Legitimate
Fragmented
8. 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.
Bribes
Written
Uphold
Danger
9. 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 ______.
Supreme Court
Slave
Sober
Breached
10. This is the right granted under the Constitution but the Supreme Court has held that it can be exercised only for offences carrying a term of ______________ exceeding 6 months or where the extra penalties such as fines and community service are suffi
Limitations
Previous
Victimless
Imprisonment
11. 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
Written
State
Partnership
12. The majority of criminal cases do not go to trial but are instead settled via a plea _______.
Bargain
Sheriff
Racketeering
Written
13. In 1837 - the slave patrol consisted of about 100 officers and they were responsible for finding ________ slaves and ensuring that they were well-behaved.
Imprisonment
Highly
Runaway
Age
14. Patrol is meant to reassure citizens that their environment is _____ and protected from crime.
Bribes
Punishment
Control
Safe
15. August Vollmer believed that policing standards needed to be improved and corruption stamped out. He advocated training and __________ for officers.
Partnership
Education
Activity
Written
16. There was no __________ form of criminal justice law in those days. Guilt was assumed; the execution carried out and accepted by all as an act of retribution.
Illegal
UCR
Reaffirm
Organized
17. 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 __________.
Justice
Ten
Real problem
Prevention
18. ____ did not become regulated officer equipment until the late 19th Century.
Citizen
Same time
Consecutive
Guns
19. A critical function that the police play in society is crime __________ and this role is primarily executed through routine patrolling.
Prevention
Enabled
Victimless
Heart
20. 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.
Investigations
Enabled
Written
Victimization
21. The 3 CIA directorates are the directorate of Intelligence - directorate of Operations and the directorate of Science and ___________.
Dangerous
FBI
Younger
Technology
22. 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
Improperly
NCVS
Hoover
Patrol
23. Their perception of the amount of danger faced in their jobs results in the development of constant __________ of people
Professionalization
Imprisonment
Suspicion
Effectiveness
24. Officers are allocated to specific shifts and patrol areas based on _________ or using a rotation system.
Weeks
Legitimate
Seniority
Ballistics
25. This is the venue for police training and the value of training has experienced a dramatic _________ in status since its inception.
Police
Increase
Compliance
Procedure
26. 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
Cooperation
Victimization
Disturbance
27. A concurrent sentence is one that is served at the __________ as another sentence.
Feedback
Same time
Medical
Protect
28. Bail describes the circumstance when suspects are released from custody but on condition that money or property is offered as __________ against flight.
Collateral
Guns
Federal
Forfeited
29. 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.
Enabled
Medical
Written
Organized
30. 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
Attrition
3100
Inadmissible
Poor
31. 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.
Graduate
Written
Dangerous
Federal
32. Prospective police officers are trained at police _________ - with the average pre-service training program lasting about 1000 hours.
Academies
Attrition
Procedure
Magistrate
33. The NCVS Survey is a yearly study by the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) of specific households to determine the level of criminal _____________ - particularly unreported victimization - in the US.
Pendleton
Victimization
FBI
Real problem
34. The _________ Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS)is the term coined for this annual study.
Special
Racketeering
Medical
National
35. In US v. Irizarry (1982) - the US Supreme Court held that evidence found above a ceiling panel that was out of place was _______ the scope of the plain-view doctrine
Ballistics
Outside
Federal
Written
36. The controversial 'broken window' theory made the connection between disorder - neighborhood decay and _____.
Feedback
Poor
Crime
Policy
37. 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.
Suspicion
Administrative
Warrant
Qualified
38. 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 _________.
Community
Partnership
Activity
Investigations
39. The FBI has the responsibility to investigate - analyze and neutralize any potential terrorist threats and to investigate and analyze terrorist __________ in the US.
Incidents
Foreign
Danger
Without
40. 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.
Prohibit
Frequency
Without
Graduate
41. Under the 6th Amendment to the Constitution - every defendant has the right to a ____ trial.
Detectives
Jury
Never
Qualified
42. The first ___ amendments to the Constitution are called the Bill of Rights. They were created to restrict government actions against the individual.
Prevention
Reverse
Safe
Ten
43. The office of coroner is considered a local law enforcement agency because they determine the cause of _____ of victims and perpetrators in criminal cases.
Mentally
Improperly
Death
Analysis
44. 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
Sober
Violence
Drunk
Blind
45. The rights of the accused (and of prisoners) have been defined mostly through the _______________'s interpretation of the Bill of Rights.
Supreme Court
Organized
Bureaucracy
Bargain
46. 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
Directorates
Illegally
Previous
Decentralization
47. Officers have very broad discretion - yet this subject is _______ taught or sufficiently taught to better aid the officers in making an appropriate decision.
Hoover
Rarely
UCR
Directorates
48. The local police cover a wide range of law enforcement agencies such as the municipal police - sheriff's departments - campus and _______ police.
Pendleton
Transit
Guns
Valid
49. When considering detective productivity and _____________ - more important than the number of arrests is the quality of those arrests.
Drawback
Illegally
Effectiveness
Racketeering
50. This has resulted in an under ________________ of blacks - women and ethnic minorities in the police force.
Without
Representation
Police
Violent