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DSST Introduction To Law Enforcement

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The _________ Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS)is the term coined for this annual study.






2. 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






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






4. The office of coroner is considered a local law enforcement agency because they determine the cause of _____ of victims and perpetrators in criminal cases.






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






6. In 1837 - the slave patrol consisted of about 100 officers and they were responsible for finding ________ slaves and ensuring that they were well-behaved.






7. According to the doctrine of ______ patriae - the state has a duty to care for children who are neglected or delinquent - and to assume the role of parent if necessary.






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






10. These experts contend that officers do not have the authority to subvert the criminal law. Some states have criminalized the failure of criminal justice officials who turn a ______ eye to enforcement.






11. The most organized and distinctly American officer force was the _____ patrol based in Charleston - South Carolina.






12. 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.






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






14. 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.






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






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






17. Officers are commonly offered bribes to let suspects go or to turn a blind eye to ________ activities.






18. Individuals have the right to live in their homes peacefully and not be subjected to unreasonable searches and seizures by virtue of the ___ amendment.






19. Affirmative action is mandated by a Presidential _________ Order in 1965 - so that all private employers and government agencies who receive federal monies have to develop written affirmative action plans.






20. 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.






21. 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.






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






23. 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






24. Some legal experts believe that police discretion should be abolished because it is _______.






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






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






27. Wilson believed in the necessity to continue and encourage _____________________ within the police force. He was the chief of police in Wichita from 1928 to 1935 - the Dean of Criminology at the University of California from 1950 to 1960 and the supe






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






29. 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.






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






31. Domestic disturbances may be fuelled by alcohol and drug abuse - financial difficulties or many other reasons that are beyond the ________ of the officers.






32. Field training consists of practical on-the-job training with a __________ field training officer.






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






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






35. Prospective police officers are trained at police _________ - with the average pre-service training program lasting about 1000 hours.






36. 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.






37. 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 _______.






38. 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






39. 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.






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






41. 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






42. This is to ensure that ___________ with the administrative rules is maintained.






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






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






45. There is no _________ method of centralized policing in the US as police services are provided by the 4 levels of government which are the city - county - state and federal levels.






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






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






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






49. 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.






50. J Edgar ______ - the Director of the FBI in the 1930s had a critical impact on local policing in setting educational and training models for officers - the development of the Uniform Crime Reports (UCR) and the establishment of the FBI crime lab.