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DSST Introduction To Law Enforcement

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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






2. The majority of criminal cases do not go to trial but are instead settled via a plea _______.






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






4. 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.






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






6. 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.






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






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






9. 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






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






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






12. Law enforcement in the US is extremely large and ___________ and hence this many agencies currently exist.






13. It is believed that the average citizen plays a vital part in the ________________ of officers.






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






15. 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.






16. Ballistics is the scientific _________ of firearms - ammunition - projectiles - bombs and explosives.






17. 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






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






19. Apart from reducing crime - the mission of community policing is to _______ the trend of the negative public perception of the police






20. 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.






21. The written policies method is called '________________ rule-making' and it is presently the most popular method of controlling discretion.






22. 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.






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






24. Increasing ___________ and reducing competition between patrol officers and detectives as well as improving police-citizen relationships are 2 important methods of enhancing the quality of investigative work.






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






26. Under the ___ system - if last night Jim killed John - then set fire to a car and robbed an old lady - these multiple crimes would be recorded as a single incident.






27. 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.






28. 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 ______.






29. 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.






30. When considering detective productivity and _____________ - more important than the number of arrests is the quality of those arrests.






31. In dealing with federal criminal law enforcement - the duty of the FBI upon investigation is to gather evidence and perform personnel investigations - especially in major programs such as _________ crime and white-collar crime.






32. 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.






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






34. 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.






35. 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






36. 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






37. 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.






38. In the 1950s training for police officers consisted mainly of firearm skill development but over the years - classroom training has emphasized criminal __________.






39. 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






40. 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






41. 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.






42. Apart from police corruption - another form of police deviance is ____________ deviance.






43. The controversial 'broken window' theory made the connection between disorder - neighborhood decay and _____.






44. 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 __________.






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






46. 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.






47. 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 _______.






48. 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.






49. 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.






50. Officers at the academy undergo _________ training and most academies also offer field training.