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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. This is because patrol consists of the majority of police work and this is ________ through the police communications network - which is triggered by 911 calls.






2. 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.






3. 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.






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






5. 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.






6. 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.






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






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






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






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






11. 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.






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






13. 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.






14. 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.






15. The spoils system refers to firing supporters of the opponent and replacing them with one's own supporters upon ________.






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






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






18. This is the problem of case __________. Research has shown that only about half of felony arrests result in convictions. The question is whether this is due to poor police work or some other reason.






19. The drawbacks of the administrative rule-making route are that they can never cover every conceivable situation; it may promote lying - avoidance - confusion and a negative ________ from officers.






20. 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.






21. It can be argued that __________ officers possess an additional skill and therefore the extra pay can be justified on those grounds.






22. The CID within the FBI is responsible for organized crime - violent crime - ____________ and money laundering.






23. This was the bright-line rule (one that can ______ be crossed) that emerged from this case.






24. 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.






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






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






27. 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.






28. This is widely recognized as a police role - though they do share the burden with other institutions such as schools and _____________.






29. Another source of PCR tension is discriminatory employment practices of the ______ force.






30. 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.






31. In 2001 - the US Supreme Court held in Atwater v. Lago Vista that the 4th amendment did not ________ warrantless arrests for minor offenses.






32. 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






33. Due to an increase in _________ and disorder by citizens - officers turned to weaponry to protect themselves.






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






35. The _________ Act passed by Congress in 1883 put an end to Andrew Jackson's 'spoils system -' and created a system of hiring government employees based on their qualifications.






36. 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.






37. Training is one of the roles a ______-level enforcement agency usually engages in.






38. 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 ______.






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






40. Research has revealed that in about 80% of such situations - no formal action - such as _______ was necessary.






41. 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






42. One of the major problems facing patrol officers is high-speed pursuits is a high ________ rate.






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






44. Racial profiling is the practice of stopping and or __________ a person not because of any suspected criminal activity but because of that person's race.






45. 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






46. Officers appointed to carry out investigative work are known as __________.






47. 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.






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






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






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