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






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






3. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






10. 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.






11. The NCVS Survey is a yearly study by the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) of specific households to determine the level of criminal _____________ - particularly unreported victimization - in the US.






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






13. 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.






14. In this case - the police applied for and obtained a search warrant from a magistrate for the Defendant's homes. Drugs were found there and the Defendant convicted. He appealed on the grounds that the original affidavit drawn up to obtain the search






15. 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.






16. 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.






17. 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.






18. 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.






19. 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.






20. There are over _____ sheriff's departments in the US.






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






22. The UCR has a hierarchy rule whereby multiple types of incidents can only be recorded as 1 incident. This is a _________ of the system.






23. The written policies method is called '________________ rule-making' and it is presently the most popular method of controlling discretion.






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






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






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






27. 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 _________.






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






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






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






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






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






33. A warrant is a _____ issued by the court to justify the arrest of a suspect. It offers protection to the officer executing the warrant against damages; for example for wrongful arrest.






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






35. Research showed that patrol was of little deterrence and speedier response times did not increase the arrest rate nor assisted in the solving of crimes. Community policing is meant to create a _____________ between police and community to develop pro






36. _________ policing took off in the 1980s and 1990s - with the realization that the police could not fight crime on their own.






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






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






39. The number of homeless people in the US has spiraled upwards in the last 2 decades so that the function of the police in dealing with them is shifting from one of containment and peacekeeping to the delivery of proactive strategies to deal with the _






40. 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.






41. 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






42. 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






43. Domestic violence must be distinguished from a domestic ___________ in the sense that in the former a serious crime has been committed and so the officers can exercise their powers of arrest - if they choose to do so although research shows that offi






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






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






46. Officers are allocated to specific shifts and patrol areas based on _________ or using a rotation system.






47. Campus police are a type of _______ district police force - and many of these larger forces have been state certified as law enforcement agencies with general arrest powers.






48. 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






49. This is the definition of bail. If the suspect fails to appear for the next court hearing - then the money or property pledged may be __________.






50. August Vollmer believed that policing standards needed to be improved and corruption stamped out. He advocated training and __________ for officers.