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DSST Introduction To Law Enforcement

Subjects : dsst, law-enforcement
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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.






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






3. The ________ stage of SARA refers to the creation of strategies based on the analyzed data to deal with the problem whereas the assessment stage requires an evaluation of the effectiveness of the response.






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. 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.






6. 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.






7. Able-bodied men who could hear the commotion caused by the victim were obliged to form a posse and join the shire reeve (term from which ________ is derived) or mounted officer in pursuit of the offender.






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






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






10. 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






11. 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






12. The Supreme Court created a good faith exception to the exclusionary rule when police officers use search warrants (US v. ____ - 1984).






13. 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.






14. After the arrest - suspects are brought before a __________ for their first appearance so that the charges brought against them can be read out and if appropriate they may be released on their own recognizance.






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






16. They believe that _____-reporting provides more accurate information than police reports.






17. 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.






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






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






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






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






22. This is one of the main functions of the police academy and ensures that unsuitable recruits do not make it as officers. About 10% of recruits do not _________ from the academy.






23. There are around _____ federal - state and local law enforcement agencies in the US.






24. 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 ______.






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






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






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






28. 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.






29. The CIA also engages in ______ operations sanctioned by the President as part of their role in ensuring national security.






30. Wilson and Kelling believed that the broken window symbolized a deteriorating neighborhood and not repaired led to the eventual decline of an area - thereby encouraging criminal _________.






31. Plea bargains avoid an expensive court trial. Prosecutors may offer and defendants may accept a bargained plea to avoid the uncertainty of a jury trial. In many cases - the Defendant agrees to plead guilty to a lesser charge or for a ________ sentenc






32. 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.






33. 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.






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






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






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






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






38. 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.






39. This is one of the reports produced by the FBI in its law _____________ role.






40. 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 __________.






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






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






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






44. Police subculture is determined by the potential of ______ and because of this they stereotype certain categories of persons - such as low-income males - as possible threats.






45. 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






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






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






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






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






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