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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. There is usually a degree of competition between detectives and _______ officers. The latter sometimes withhold information in the hope of beating detectives to solving a case.






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






3. This has resulted in an under ________________ of blacks - women and ethnic minorities in the police force.






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






5. A concurrent sentence is one that is served at the __________ as another sentence.






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






7. The ________ rule was further emphasized in Edwards v. Arizona (1981) - when the court prohibited investigators from continuing questioning once the suspect has requested an attorney.






8. Some police departments may have a separate detective unit with further specialized units such as homicide and vice. ________ ones will have a single department to handle all cases or no department at all.






9. The professionalization movement started by Vollmer was nurtured by his prot






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






11. 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 ______.






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






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






14. Generally - surveys have revealed that ________ people tend to be more dissatisfied with the police than older persons. Some youths seem to believe that the police target them simply because they are young and think that all teenagers are up to no go






15. 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






16. This is the way criminal trials are conducted in the US and it is governed by strict rules of __________.






17. Law enforcement in the US is extremely large and ___________ and hence this many agencies currently exist.






18. 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.






19. This occurs where criminal and non-criminal actions are used by an officer in the course of his/her working activities or committed when pretending it is within his/her ___________ police authority. An example is sleeping on the job or a racial slur






20. A critical function that the police play in society is crime __________ and this role is primarily executed through routine patrolling.






21. Since the 1980s - there have been some very public crackdowns on _____ driving but rates of this offence which creep down during the crackdown soon return to the original levels because the publicity forces a temporary change in behavior which is not






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






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






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






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






26. 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.






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






28. The 3 CIA directorates are the directorate of Intelligence - directorate of Operations and the directorate of Science and ___________.






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






30. The ATF was previously an organization within the Department of the Treasury but since 24th January 2003 - their agency was transferred to the Department of _______.






31. ____ did not become regulated officer equipment until the late 19th Century.






32. 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.






33. 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.






34. 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.






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






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






37. 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.






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






39. Officers have very broad discretion - yet this subject is _______ taught or sufficiently taught to better aid the officers in making an appropriate decision.






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






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






42. 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.






43. 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.






44. Campus police is probably the most important example of the special district police force. The also participate in the ____ program.






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






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






47. 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






48. A limited amount of streetwalking is tolerated if it is restricted to a particular part of town - usually a business district and it is not too ________.






49. Parens patriae is Latin for 'the ______ as parent'.






50. Deterrence prevents crime through using an example or threat of ___________ to persuade the public against committing the crime.