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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 was the step taken in 1965 to remedy _________ discrimination.






2. Apart from police corruption - another form of police deviance is ____________ deviance.






3. The local police cover a wide range of law enforcement agencies such as the municipal police - sheriff's departments - campus and _______ police.






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






5. The county level of government supplies citizens with police services - for example the county ________.






6. 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






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






8. 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






9. Sheriff departments are usually responsible for _______ court papers - civil summons - and managing security in state courtrooms.






10. The 911 communications center is the _____ of a modern police department.






11. 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






12. The _________ Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS)is the term coined for this annual study.






13. This is the venue for police training and the value of training has experienced a dramatic _________ in status since its inception.






14. The evidence had to be plainly in sight and even though the officers may have concluded that some items may have been located behind the ceiling panel; it was not in plain view and hence was ______________ as evidence. Furthermore - the officers are






15. 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 __________.






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






17. When considering detective productivity and _____________ - more important than the number of arrests is the quality of those arrests.






18. 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.






19. 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






20. The FBI has the responsibility to investigate - analyze and neutralize any potential terrorist threats and to investigate and analyze terrorist __________ in the US.






21. 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






22. 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.






23. 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.






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






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






26. Between the data in the UCR and NCVS - most experts tend to prefer the ____.






27. When an appellate court is asked to review a judgment - they may ______ it - require the lower court to set it aside or modify it.






28. 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.






29. 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






30. The controversial 'broken window' theory made the connection between disorder - neighborhood decay and _____.






31. Some departments allow for bidding of new patrol areas once or twice _________.






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






33. 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.






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






35. The rights of the accused (and of prisoners) have been defined mostly through the _______________'s interpretation of the Bill of Rights.






36. The next most critical factor that impacts on PCR after race and ethnicity is ___.






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.






38. 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.






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






40. 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.






41. Ballistics is the scientific _________ of firearms - ammunition - projectiles - bombs and explosives.






42. When the offender was apprehended by the posse - trials were rarely held and public __________ were held to dispense justice.






43. Domestic disturbances are a common order maintenance issue handled by the police but officers generally find them frustrating to handle because there is little that they can do about the _____ of the problem.






44. 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.






45. 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






46. 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






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






48. 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






49. The first ___ amendments to the Constitution are called the Bill of Rights. They were created to restrict government actions against the individual.






50. 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.