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DSST Introduction To Law Enforcement
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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 __________.
Occupational
Legitimate
Prevention
Lawfully
2. Apart from police corruption - another form of police deviance is ____________ deviance.
Occupational
Enforcement
Blind
Executive
3. In order to police __________ crimes - officers generally have to resort to undercover work.
Crime
Victimless
Justice
Adversarial
4. The CIA has operations officers and recruits ________ agents as part of their intelligence activities and this may involve covert operations.
Guns
Foreign
Prevention
Procedures
5. The local police cover a wide range of law enforcement agencies such as the municipal police - sheriff's departments - campus and _______ police.
Organized
Transit
Executions
Violence
6. J Edgar ______ - the Director of the FBI in the 1930s had a critical impact on local policing in setting educational and training models for officers - the development of the Uniform Crime Reports (UCR) and the establishment of the FBI crime lab.
Victimization
Drawback
Hoover
Vollmer
7. Another word for uphold is _________. This is the result for most appellate court decisions whereby they confirm the decision of the lower court.
Protect
Wiretaps
Pendleton
Reaffirm
8. Law enforcement in the US is extremely large and ___________ and hence this many agencies currently exist.
Poor
Drunk
Consecutive
Fragmented
9. 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.
Executive
Pendleton
Ballistics
Communities
10. The first ___ amendments of the Constitution are commonly called the Bill of Rights and offer the individual considerable protection in the criminal justice system.
Ten
Los Angeles
Accident
Prohibit
11. When an appellate court is asked to review a judgment - they may ______ it - require the lower court to set it aside or modify it.
Uphold
Rarely
Directorates
Posses
12. Some departments allow for bidding of new patrol areas once or twice _________.
Annually
Detectives
Medical
Directorates
13. This has resulted in an under ________________ of blacks - women and ethnic minorities in the police force.
Smaller
Executive
Representation
Containment
14. The _________ Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS)is the term coined for this annual study.
National
Valid
Self
Violent
15. Generally - surveys have revealed that ________ people tend to be more dissatisfied with the police than older persons. Some youths seem to believe that the police target them simply because they are young and think that all teenagers are up to no go
Occupational
Organized
Consecutive
Younger
16. 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
Outside
Poor
Victimless
Uphold
17. The first landmark case that forms the foundation of the exclusionary rule is the US Supreme court decision of _____ v US (1914).
Posse
Weeks
Citizen
State
18. The 911 communications center is the _____ of a modern police department.
Heart
Wilson
Bribes
Serving
19. 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.
Previous
Accident
Warrant
Communities
20. This is one of the reports produced by the FBI in its law _____________ role.
Subculture
4th
Racial
Enforcement
21. In 1837 - the slave patrol consisted of about 100 officers and they were responsible for finding ________ slaves and ensuring that they were well-behaved.
Academies
Runaway
Annually
Due process
22. The Supreme Court created a good faith exception to the exclusionary rule when police officers use search warrants (US v. ____ - 1984).
Wilson
Reduced
Community
Leon
23. Decentralization means reduced _____________ of rank and file officers who have greater discretion in making decisions.
Supervision
Administrative
Academies
Education
24. 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.
Supreme Court
Written
Smaller
UCR
25. The CID within the FBI is responsible for organized crime - violent crime - ____________ and money laundering.
Danger
Racketeering
Racial
Good-faith
26. The rights of the accused (and of prisoners) have been defined mostly through the _______________'s interpretation of the Bill of Rights.
Supreme Court
Ballistics
Classroom
Security
27. When considering detective productivity and _____________ - more important than the number of arrests is the quality of those arrests.
Due process
Prevention
Effectiveness
Sheriff
28. The UCR statistics are used to create the FBI Crime Clock which creates a picture of crime _________ in the US.
Posses
Frequency
Professionalization
Protect
29. The office of coroner is considered a local law enforcement agency because they determine the cause of _____ of victims and perpetrators in criminal cases.
Violent
Never
Death
FBI
30. In US v. __________ (1950) - the US Supreme Court ruled that a warrantless search upon a lawful arrest was permitted as long as it was reasonable given the circumstances.
Rabinowitz
Violent
Victimless
Racial
31. This was the step taken in 1965 to remedy _________ discrimination.
Previous
Decentralization
Communities
Ballistics
32. 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.
Blind
Transit
Previous
Writ
33. 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
Arrest
Professionalization
Drawback
Classroom
34. Campus police is probably the most important example of the special district police force. The also participate in the ____ program.
Security
Occupational
UCR
Representation
35. Criminalistics relies on __________ to analyze firearms and munitions as well as various forensic techniques to determine issues such as time of death.
Citizen
Copies
Patrol
Ballistics
36. Due to an increase in _________ and disorder by citizens - officers turned to weaponry to protect themselves.
Guns
Violence
Reverse
Victimless
37. 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.
Patrol
Crime
Education
Justice
38. The next most critical factor that impacts on PCR after race and ethnicity is ___.
Age
Prevention
Previous
Administrative
39. In the 1950s training for police officers consisted mainly of firearm skill development but over the years - classroom training has emphasized criminal __________.
Partnership
Procedures
Writ
Analysis
40. Officers must file written _______ in certain circumstances when they exercise their discretion - for example when they fire their weapon and these reports must be reviewed by their superiors.
Frequency
Reports
Limitations
Smaller
41. 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.
Feedback
4th
Suspicion
Valid
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 _______.
Response
Rabinowitz
Justice
Federal
43. This describes the Pendleton Act. This was a big step in the government becoming the huge _____________ it is today.
Bureaucracy
Covert
Death
Suspicion
44. The FBI has the responsibility to investigate - analyze and neutralize any potential terrorist threats and to investigate and analyze terrorist __________ in the US.
Decentralization
Consent
Forfeited
Incidents
45. This was the bright-line rule (one that can ______ be crossed) that emerged from this case.
Death
Warrant
Education
Never
46. Since these crimes are usually not reported - in order to discover them - undercover work using devices such as _________ are utilized.
Graduate
Reduced
Wiretaps
Seniority
47. 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.
Arrest
Bureaucracy
Weeks
Graduate
48. 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.
Partnership
Improve
Copies
Posses
49. The police ___________ of secrecy - public hostility and solidarity meant they were very isolated from the community - especially the black community.
Enabled
Control
Subculture
Improve
50. This is to ensure that ___________ with the administrative rules is maintained.
Patrol
Enforcement
Compliance
Representation