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DSST Introduction To Law Enforcement
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Parens patriae is Latin for 'the ______ as parent'.
State
Wiretaps
Victimization
Serving
2. The UCR statistics are used to create the FBI Crime Clock which creates a picture of crime _________ in the US.
Improve
Mentally
Victimization
Frequency
3. 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.
Decentralization
Graduate
Reverse
Without
4. 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.
Slow
Parens
Victimization
Blind
5. 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 _
Real problem
Runaway
Rarely
Technology
6. The 3 CIA directorates are the directorate of Intelligence - directorate of Operations and the directorate of Science and ___________.
Technology
Lawfully
Violent
Academies
7. In 2001 - the US Supreme Court held in Atwater v. Lago Vista that the 4th amendment did not ________ warrantless arrests for minor offenses.
Good-faith
Leon
Prohibit
Education
8. Field training consists of practical on-the-job training with a __________ field training officer.
Qualified
Legitimate
UCR
Forfeited
9. 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.
Consent
Classroom
Never
Racial
10. The next most critical factor that impacts on PCR after race and ethnicity is ___.
Racial
Age
4th
Victimization
11. The professionalization movement started by Vollmer was nurtured by his prot
Wilson
Sober
Special
Vollmer
12. Officers at the academy undergo _________ training and most academies also offer field training.
Enforcement
Classroom
3100
Leon
13. When the offender was apprehended by the posse - trials were rarely held and public __________ were held to dispense justice.
4th
Ten
Executions
Organized
14. 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.
Technology
Victimless
Pendleton
UCR
15. The _________ Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS)is the term coined for this annual study.
Guns
National
Covert
Ten
16. It is believed that the average citizen plays a vital part in the ________________ of officers.
Good-faith
Violent
Accountability
Bilingual
17. 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.
State
Response
Uphold
Jury
18. 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.
Improve
Medical
FBI
Control
19. Their perception of the amount of danger faced in their jobs results in the development of constant __________ of people
Black
Federal
Cooperation
Suspicion
20. The 911 communications center is the _____ of a modern police department.
Heart
Mainstream
Procedure
Never
21. 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
Partnership
Outside
Serving
Cooperation
22. Police training programs do suffer from ___________ - particularly as important areas such as domestic violence - ethics and police discretion - which are not usually covered
Supreme Court
UCR
Limitations
Mentally
23. Research into police work and activities conducted between the 1950s and 1970s concluded that police-community relations were very ____ and officers regularly breached legal rules
Younger
Magistrate
Poor
Patrol
24. 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.
17000
FBI
Feedback
Safe
25. 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.
Younger
Danger
Sheriff
Copies
26. 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
Sheriff
Illegally
NCVS
Warrant
27. Campus police is probably the most important example of the special district police force. The also participate in the ____ program.
UCR
Analysis
Age
Reaffirm
28. 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.
Accountability
Subculture
Election
Rabinowitz
29. Patrol is meant to reassure citizens that their environment is _____ and protected from crime.
Illegal
Lawfully
Inadmissible
Safe
30. This is to ensure that ___________ with the administrative rules is maintained.
Cooperation
Compliance
Ten
Unqualified
31. The 1980s and 1990s saw the creation of _______ oversight of police groups to monitor or investigate complaints by individuals against police actions.
Drunk
Citizen
Imprisonment
Covert
32. There are over _____ sheriff's departments in the US.
3100
Qualified
Inadmissible
Disturbance
33. This is the way criminal trials are conducted in the US and it is governed by strict rules of __________.
Qualified
Education
Procedure
Decentralization
34. 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.
Bribes
Professionalization
Consent
Collateral
35. The Supreme Court created a good faith exception to the exclusionary rule when police officers use search warrants (US v. ____ - 1984).
Leon
National
Violence
Younger
36. Officers are allocated to specific shifts and patrol areas based on _________ or using a rotation system.
Seniority
Adversarial
Drunk
Election
37. 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.
Accident
Pay
Enabled
Dangerous
38. Since these crimes are usually not reported - in order to discover them - undercover work using devices such as _________ are utilized.
Poor
Rabinowitz
Uphold
Wiretaps
39. 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.
Classroom
Writ
Sheriff
Dangerous
40. Law enforcement in the US is extremely large and ___________ and hence this many agencies currently exist.
Fragmented
Professionalization
Parens
Activity
41. 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.
Reduced
Smaller
Wiretaps
Patrol
42. 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.
Serving
Organized
UCR
Warrant
43. The written policies method is called '________________ rule-making' and it is presently the most popular method of controlling discretion.
Administrative
Uphold
Decentralization
Serving
44. This is one of the reports produced by the FBI in its law _____________ role.
Academies
Analysis
Inadmissible
Enforcement
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
Activity
Reduced
Safe
Accountability
46. Deterrence prevents crime through using an example or threat of ___________ to persuade the public against committing the crime.
Technology
Punishment
Control
Consent
47. 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
Leon
Enabled
Executions
4th
48. Some legal experts believe that police discretion should be abolished because it is _______.
Sheriff
Illegal
Foreign
Fragmented
49. There are around _____ federal - state and local law enforcement agencies in the US.
17000
Mentally
Sheriff
Accountability
50. 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
Serving
Investigations
Foreign
Outside