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DSST Introduction To Law Enforcement
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1. 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.
Academies
Containment
Graduate
Patrol
2. 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.
Annually
Violent
Escobedo
Rabinowitz
3. The 3 CIA directorates are the directorate of Intelligence - directorate of Operations and the directorate of Science and ___________.
Lawfully
Technology
Foreign
Drunk
4. One of the most controversial incidents in recent American police history occurred in ___________ in 1991 when officers subdued Rodney King using considerable force; resulting in 2 criminal trials and a riot that seriously damaged PCR for several yea
Vollmer
Crime
Los Angeles
Supreme Court
5. _________ policing took off in the 1980s and 1990s - with the realization that the police could not fight crime on their own.
Community
Ten
Self
Supervision
6. The _________ Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS)is the term coined for this annual study.
Collateral
Wilson
National
Academies
7. Deterrence prevents crime through using an example or threat of ___________ to persuade the public against committing the crime.
Racketeering
Communities
Punishment
Heart
8. Field training consists of practical on-the-job training with a __________ field training officer.
Smaller
Rarely
Activity
Qualified
9. This is to ensure that ___________ with the administrative rules is maintained.
Supervision
Compliance
Medical
4th
10. The courts of general jurisdiction utilize a fact-finding foundation known as the ___________ process which pits the State's interest - as represented by the prosecution against the Defendant's - as represented by defense counsel.
Wilson
Hoover
Partnership
Adversarial
11. 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.
Compliance
Previous
Feedback
Uphold
12. Individuals have the right to live in their homes peacefully and not be subjected to unreasonable searches and seizures by virtue of the ___ amendment.
Frequency
4th
Black
Writ
13. The CID within the FBI is responsible for organized crime - violent crime - ____________ and money laundering.
Effectiveness
Age
Bureaucracy
Racketeering
14. 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.
UCR
Parens
Consent
Mentally
15. Research has revealed that in about 80% of such situations - no formal action - such as _______ was necessary.
Organized
Decentralization
Slave
Arrest
16. Good faith means that when the police act with the honest belief that they are following proper rules. According to the ruling in US v. Leon - when officers have acted in good faith reliance on a warrant - the evidence will not be excluded even if th
Legitimate
Prohibit
Improperly
Rabinowitz
17. In the 1950s training for police officers consisted mainly of firearm skill development but over the years - classroom training has emphasized criminal __________.
Procedure
Bargain
Danger
Procedures
18. ____ did not become regulated officer equipment until the late 19th Century.
Executive
Guns
Special
Bureaucracy
19. 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.
Weeks
UCR
Writ
Danger
20. Under the 6th Amendment to the Constitution - every defendant has the right to a ____ trial.
Copies
Jury
Breached
Ten
21. The professionalization movement started by Vollmer was nurtured by his prot
Sheriff
Wilson
17000
Fragmented
22. 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
Drawback
Prohibit
Sheriff
23. This is due to the dominance of the local political structure by ______ persons. Detroit has had a black mayor since 1973 and the police force is dominated by black persons. Thus - the black community can better relate with their local police
Black
Organized
Ten
Pay
24. 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
Consent
Victimless
4th
Supervision
25. 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
Breached
Crime
Self
Slave
26. 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.
Death
Pay
Technology
Incidents
27. 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.
Covert
Never
4th
Written
28. The 1980s and 1990s saw the creation of _______ oversight of police groups to monitor or investigate complaints by individuals against police actions.
Citizen
Supervision
Weeks
Same time
29. The 911 communications center is the _____ of a modern police department.
Reaffirm
Heart
Parens
Representation
30. The spoils system is greatly reduced in modern politics - though not entirely eliminated. Most ________ workers do not have to be concerned about losing their jobs when a new party takes office.
Citizen
Control
Mentally
Federal
31. 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.
Vollmer
Frequency
Response
Consent
32. 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.
Organized
Accident
Ten
Death
33. Domestic violence must be distinguished from a domestic ___________ in the sense that in the former a serious crime has been committed and so the officers can exercise their powers of arrest - if they choose to do so although research shows that offi
Arrest
Disturbance
Violence
Bargain
34. 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.
Unqualified
Reports
4th
Analysis
35. The role of the police academy is to provide formal training - root out ___________ recruits and immerse the trainees in the police subculture.
Pay
Academies
Sheriff
Unqualified
36. The police ___________ of secrecy - public hostility and solidarity meant they were very isolated from the community - especially the black community.
Fragmented
Reports
Subculture
Crime
37. 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.
Organized
Illegal
17000
Executive
38. 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 __________.
Black
Prevention
FBI
Posse
39. 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
Outside
Partnership
Professionalization
Effectiveness
40. The FBI has the responsibility to investigate - analyze and neutralize any potential terrorist threats and to investigate and analyze terrorist __________ in the US.
Communities
Incidents
Posses
NCVS
41. Bail describes the circumstance when suspects are released from custody but on condition that money or property is offered as __________ against flight.
Collateral
Medical
Attrition
Organized
42. In order to police __________ crimes - officers generally have to resort to undercover work.
Containment
3100
Due process
Victimless
43. 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.
Magistrate
Response
Collateral
State
44. The controversial 'broken window' theory made the connection between disorder - neighborhood decay and _____.
Reverse
Crime
Improve
17000
45. Organized law enforcement in Britain can be traced back to 1200 AD when identified law breakers were pursued by a _____ led by the shire reeve or mounted officer.
Guns
Posse
FBI
Hoover
46. August Vollmer believed that policing standards needed to be improved and corruption stamped out. He advocated training and __________ for officers.
Poor
Heart
Education
Black
47. 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
3100
Imprisonment
Ten
Limitations
48. The rise of police professionalism and reform was spearheaded by August _______ who served as the chief of police in Berkeley - California from 1905 to 1932.
Vollmer
Parens
Special
Sober
49. Parens patriae is Latin for 'the ______ as parent'.
Bargain
Accident
State
Classroom
50. 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.
Patrol
Disturbance
Annually
Mentally
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