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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 3 main approaches to controlling police discretion are removing it - improving the professional judgment of officers through better training and managing it through _______ policies.






2. 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.






3. Able-bodied men who could hear the commotion caused by the victim were obliged to form a posse and join the shire reeve (term from which ________ is derived) or mounted officer in pursuit of the offender.






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






5. Some departments allow for bidding of new patrol areas once or twice _________.






6. In 1837 - the slave patrol consisted of about 100 officers and they were responsible for finding ________ slaves and ensuring that they were well-behaved.






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






8. 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.






9. _________ policing took off in the 1980s and 1990s - with the realization that the police could not fight crime on their own.






10. 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






11. Campus police is probably the most important example of the special district police force. The also participate in the ____ program.






12. ____ did not become regulated officer equipment until the late 19th Century.






13. The rights of the accused (and of prisoners) have been defined mostly through the _______________'s interpretation of the Bill of Rights.






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






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






16. Research showed that patrol was of little deterrence and speedier response times did not increase the arrest rate nor assisted in the solving of crimes. Community policing is meant to create a _____________ between police and community to develop pro






17. 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.






18. Parens patriae is Latin for 'the ______ as parent'.






19. This was the step taken in 1965 to remedy _________ discrimination.






20. The CIA also engages in ______ operations sanctioned by the President as part of their role in ensuring national security.






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






22. 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.






23. The 1980s and 1990s saw the creation of _______ oversight of police groups to monitor or investigate complaints by individuals against police actions.






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






25. Decentralization means reduced _____________ of rank and file officers who have greater discretion in making decisions.






26. The FBI has the responsibility to investigate - analyze and neutralize any potential terrorist threats and to investigate and analyze terrorist __________ in the US.






27. 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.






28. 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.






29. 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.






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






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






32. The _________ Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS)is the term coined for this annual study.






33. 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.






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






35. 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.






36. 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.






37. 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






38. 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.






39. 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






40. 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.






41. 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 ______.






42. The UCR statistics are used to create the FBI Crime Clock which creates a picture of crime _________ in the US.






43. 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.






44. This means that the court releases the suspect into their own custody or into the care of another. This occurs where the suspect poses a low flight risk and is not __________ to the community.






45. In order to police __________ crimes - officers generally have to resort to undercover work.






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






47. 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 _________.






48. 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






49. 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.






50. August Vollmer believed that policing standards needed to be improved and corruption stamped out. He advocated training and __________ for officers.