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DSST Introduction To Law Enforcement

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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.






2. 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.






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






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






5. This has resulted in an under ________________ of blacks - women and ethnic minorities in the police force.






6. 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






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






8. The evidence had to be plainly in sight and even though the officers may have concluded that some items may have been located behind the ceiling panel; it was not in plain view and hence was ______________ as evidence. Furthermore - the officers are






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






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






11. A concurrent sentence is one that is served at the __________ as another sentence.






12. The 3 purposes of patrol are to deter crime - increase feelings of public ________ and prepare officers for service through effective dispersal in the neighborhood.






13. 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.






14. 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.






15. 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






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






17. 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 _______.






18. The first ___ amendments of the Constitution are commonly called the Bill of Rights and offer the individual considerable protection in the criminal justice system.






19. 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






20. 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.






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






22. 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.






23. 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.






24. When an appellate court is asked to review a judgment - they may ______ it - require the lower court to set it aside or modify it.






25. 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.






26. 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.






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






28. The number of homeless people in the US has spiraled upwards in the last 2 decades so that the function of the police in dealing with them is shifting from one of containment and peacekeeping to the delivery of proactive strategies to deal with the _






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.






30. The role of the police academy is to provide formal training - root out ___________ recruits and immerse the trainees in the police subculture.






31. 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






32. The first ___ amendments to the Constitution are called the Bill of Rights. They were created to restrict government actions against the individual.






33. 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.






34. This describes the Pendleton Act. This was a big step in the government becoming the huge _____________ it is today.






35. 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.






36. 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.






37. The Uniform Crime Reports (UCR) is an annualized report published by the ___ that states the statistical rate of reported crime in the US based on data from police reports.






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






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






40. The first landmark case that forms the foundation of the exclusionary rule is the US Supreme court decision of _____ v US (1914).






41. The local police cover a wide range of law enforcement agencies such as the municipal police - sheriff's departments - campus and _______ police.






42. Officers may feel that the rules are there to catch them out and that the system mistrusts them. This may encourage officers to work at a deliberately _____ pace.






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






44. The role of the ___ is to investigate breaches of federal criminal law - to protect the country from foreign counterintelligence and terrorist activities and to provide law enforcement assistance to other agencies.






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






46. Plea bargains avoid an expensive court trial. Prosecutors may offer and defendants may accept a bargained plea to avoid the uncertainty of a jury trial. In many cases - the Defendant agrees to plead guilty to a lesser charge or for a ________ sentenc






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






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.






49. Upon conviction - the defendant is punished through a sentence passed by the judge and if convicted of more than one crime - then may be subject to a ___________ or concurrent sentence.






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