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DSST Introduction To Law Enforcement
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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.
Enabled
Reaffirm
Improperly
Prevention
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.
Communities
Prevention
Improve
Rabinowitz
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.
Consecutive
Serving
Previous
Posse
4. The UCR statistics are used to create the FBI Crime Clock which creates a picture of crime _________ in the US.
Frequency
Occupational
Breached
Investigations
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.
Incidents
Highly
Mentally
Lawfully
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.
Without
Reports
Improperly
Posse
7. The majority of criminal cases do not go to trial but are instead settled via a plea _______.
Bargain
Good-faith
Safe
Smaller
8. The role of the police academy is to provide formal training - root out ___________ recruits and immerse the trainees in the police subculture.
Bilingual
4th
Compliance
Unqualified
9. This was the step taken in 1965 to remedy _________ discrimination.
Occupational
Previous
Professionalization
Executive
10. Under the 6th Amendment to the Constitution - every defendant has the right to a ____ trial.
Illegally
Leon
Disturbance
Jury
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.
Leon
Improve
Without
Imprisonment
12. The written policies method is called '________________ rule-making' and it is presently the most popular method of controlling discretion.
Cooperation
Administrative
National
Subculture
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.
Slow
Highly
Transit
Partnership
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.
Escobedo
Improperly
Posses
Same time
15. The spoils system refers to firing supporters of the opponent and replacing them with one's own supporters upon ________.
Community
Academies
Election
Partnership
16. In the 1950s training for police officers consisted mainly of firearm skill development but over the years - classroom training has emphasized criminal __________.
Procedures
Representation
Illegal
Illegally
17. This may also be called '________ officer.' The investigative nature of their jobs has resulted in their classification as a local law enforcement agency.
Rabinowitz
State
4th
Medical
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.
Attrition
Forfeited
Previous
Incidents
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.
Fragmented
Accountability
Outside
Response
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.
Vollmer
Patrol
Federal
Academies
21. It can be argued that __________ officers possess an additional skill and therefore the extra pay can be justified on those grounds.
Bilingual
Classroom
Enforcement
Los Angeles
22. The CID within the FBI is responsible for organized crime - violent crime - ____________ and money laundering.
Organized
Obvious
Police
Racketeering
23. This was the bright-line rule (one that can ______ be crossed) that emerged from this case.
Improperly
Pendleton
Warrant
Never
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.
Frequency
Patrol
Dangerous
Slow
25. It is believed that the average citizen plays a vital part in the ________________ of officers.
Accountability
Smaller
Mainstream
Supreme Court
26. Since these crimes are usually not reported - in order to discover them - undercover work using devices such as _________ are utilized.
Posse
Bilingual
Wiretaps
Attrition
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.
Racial
Violent
Pendleton
Limitations
28. This is widely recognized as a police role - though they do share the burden with other institutions such as schools and _____________.
Sheriff
Communities
Sheriff
Fragmented
29. Another source of PCR tension is discriminatory employment practices of the ______ force.
Seniority
UCR
Writ
Police
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.
FBI
Leon
Reaffirm
Directorates
31. In 2001 - the US Supreme Court held in Atwater v. Lago Vista that the 4th amendment did not ________ warrantless arrests for minor offenses.
Prohibit
Obvious
Uphold
Classroom
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
Los Angeles
Mentally
Citizen
UCR
33. Due to an increase in _________ and disorder by citizens - officers turned to weaponry to protect themselves.
Security
Violence
UCR
Reports
34. This is training in relation to _____________ rules and was spurred by the decisions of the US Supreme Court in the 1960s.
Due process
Good-faith
Los Angeles
Improve
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.
Pendleton
Reports
Policy
Patrol
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.
Pendleton
Written
Academies
Ballistics
37. Training is one of the roles a ______-level enforcement agency usually engages in.
Danger
Same time
Classroom
State
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 ______.
Sober
Warrant
17000
Pendleton
39. The exclusionary rule was modified by the __________ exception in the US Supreme Court decision of US v. Leon (1984).
Increase
Good-faith
Occupational
Drunk
40. Research has revealed that in about 80% of such situations - no formal action - such as _______ was necessary.
Arrest
Imprisonment
Suspicion
Drunk
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
Illegally
Serving
Copies
Decentralization
42. One of the major problems facing patrol officers is high-speed pursuits is a high ________ rate.
Education
Justice
Accident
Election
43. Apart from reducing crime - the mission of community policing is to _______ the trend of the negative public perception of the police
Reverse
Enabled
Highly
Executions
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.
Searching
Transit
Imprisonment
Vollmer
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
Breached
Poor
3100
Procedures
46. Officers appointed to carry out investigative work are known as __________.
Detectives
Real problem
4th
Administrative
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.
Slow
17000
Academies
Parens
48. Bail describes the circumstance when suspects are released from custody but on condition that money or property is offered as __________ against flight.
Cooperation
Covert
Collateral
Directorates
49. Another word for uphold is _________. This is the result for most appellate court decisions whereby they confirm the decision of the lower court.
Wiretaps
Supervision
Policy
Reaffirm
50. The police ___________ of secrecy - public hostility and solidarity meant they were very isolated from the community - especially the black community.
Compliance
Warrant
Subculture
Attrition