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DSST Introduction To Law Enforcement

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Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. It can be argued that __________ officers possess an additional skill and therefore the extra pay can be justified on those grounds.






2. The Supreme Court created a good faith exception to the exclusionary rule when police officers use search warrants (US v. ____ - 1984).






3. 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.






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






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






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






7. Since these crimes are usually not reported - in order to discover them - undercover work using devices such as _________ are utilized.






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






9. 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.






10. 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






11. The next most critical factor that impacts on PCR after race and ethnicity is ___.






12. The Defendant was _________ arrested in his office - which consisted of a single room. The search was valid and reasonable given the circumstances of the arrest and small space of the area he was arrested in.






13. 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






14. Bail describes the circumstance when suspects are released from custody but on condition that money or property is offered as __________ against flight.






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






16. 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 _________.






17. 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.






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






19. 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






20. 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.






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






22. 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.






23. There are over _____ sheriff's departments in the US.






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






25. 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.






26. 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 __________.






27. 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.






28. Police training programs do suffer from ___________ - particularly as important areas such as domestic violence - ethics and police discretion - which are not usually covered






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






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






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






32. When a 911 call comes in - the operator answers it - makes a decision whether to send out a patrol car and then informs the dispatcher who then communicates the details to the ______ officer.






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






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






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






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






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






38. 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






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






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






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






42. 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.






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






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






45. 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






46. 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.






47. Domestic disturbances may be fuelled by alcohol and drug abuse - financial difficulties or many other reasons that are beyond the ________ of the officers.






48. 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.






49. Field training consists of practical on-the-job training with a __________ field training officer.






50. Between the data in the UCR and NCVS - most experts tend to prefer the ____.