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DSST Introduction To Law Enforcement
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Organized law enforcement in Britain can be traced back to 1200 AD when identified law breakers were pursued by a _____ led by the shire reeve or mounted officer.
Federal
FBI
Posse
Protect
2. Various studies have shown that these pursuits have between an 18% to 33% chance of resulting in an accident. As a consequence - many departments have a restrictive - discouraging or discretionary _______ regarding high-speed pursuits for officers to
Technology
Rarely
Policy
Seniority
3. 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.
Organized
Policy
Procedures
Suspicion
4. The nature of police work also promotes deviant activities because officers are often offered ______ - they are regularly unsupervised and so think they can get away with it and fed on a diet of illegality may succumb to criminality too.
FBI
Bribes
Enforcement
Rarely
5. The first ___ amendments to the Constitution are called the Bill of Rights. They were created to restrict government actions against the individual.
Community
Technology
Ten
Drawback
6. 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 ______.
Patrol
Sober
Classroom
Seniority
7. 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
Seniority
Foreign
Improperly
Vollmer
8. Individuals have the right to live in their homes peacefully and not be subjected to unreasonable searches and seizures by virtue of the ___ amendment.
Academies
4th
Medical
Bureaucracy
9. The UCR has a hierarchy rule whereby multiple types of incidents can only be recorded as 1 incident. This is a _________ of the system.
Drawback
Citizen
Breached
Outside
10. The _________ Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS)is the term coined for this annual study.
Procedures
Searching
FBI
National
11. This is the venue for police training and the value of training has experienced a dramatic _________ in status since its inception.
Victimless
Highly
Increase
Transit
12. 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.
Procedures
Written
Racial
Lawfully
13. When the offender was apprehended by the posse - trials were rarely held and public __________ were held to dispense justice.
Representation
Searching
Crime
Executions
14. 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.
Hoover
Same time
Slow
FBI
15. The professionalization movement started by Vollmer was nurtured by his prot
UCR
Weeks
Wilson
Foreign
16. 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
Real problem
Same time
Reduced
Pay
17. Upon conviction - the defendant is punished through a sentence passed by the judge and if convicted of more than one crime - then may be subject to a ___________ or concurrent sentence.
Highly
Unqualified
Consecutive
Protect
18. The Supreme Court created a good faith exception to the exclusionary rule when police officers use search warrants (US v. ____ - 1984).
Prohibit
Leon
Illegal
State
19. Domestic disturbances may be fuelled by alcohol and drug abuse - financial difficulties or many other reasons that are beyond the ________ of the officers.
Control
Punishment
Increase
17000
20. 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
Searching
Drunk
Detectives
Reports
21. Their perception of the amount of danger faced in their jobs results in the development of constant __________ of people
Racketeering
Suspicion
Good-faith
Annually
22. 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
UCR
Copies
Valid
Without
23. 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.
Education
Danger
Response
Detectives
24. The role of the police academy is to provide formal training - root out ___________ recruits and immerse the trainees in the police subculture.
Hoover
Executive
Unqualified
Victimless
25. In order to police __________ crimes - officers generally have to resort to undercover work.
Victimless
Punishment
Blind
Community
26. There are over _____ sheriff's departments in the US.
Procedure
Age
Vollmer
3100
27. 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
Qualified
Black
Activity
Adversarial
28. Field training consists of practical on-the-job training with a __________ field training officer.
Patrol
Qualified
Heart
Covert
29. The office of coroner is considered a local law enforcement agency because they determine the cause of _____ of victims and perpetrators in criminal cases.
Organized
Racial
Death
Previous
30. Officers are commonly offered bribes to let suspects go or to turn a blind eye to ________ activities.
Illegal
Partnership
Victimless
Graduate
31. The courts of general jurisdiction utilize a fact-finding foundation known as the ___________ process which pits the State's interest - as represented by the prosecution against the Defendant's - as represented by defense counsel.
Adversarial
Federal
Leon
Self
32. The CIA has operations officers and recruits ________ agents as part of their intelligence activities and this may involve covert operations.
Response
Procedures
Foreign
Patrol
33. This was the step taken in 1965 to remedy _________ discrimination.
Qualified
Previous
Racial
Danger
34. 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 __________.
Bilingual
Safe
Reaffirm
Prevention
35. Apart from reducing crime - the mission of community policing is to _______ the trend of the negative public perception of the police
Improve
Covert
Reverse
Citizen
36. 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.
Unqualified
Investigations
Communities
Copies
37. This has resulted in an under ________________ of blacks - women and ethnic minorities in the police force.
Procedures
Reverse
Mentally
Representation
38. 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
Executions
Compliance
Younger
Effectiveness
39. 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
Inadmissible
Racketeering
Security
Procedure
40. The spoils system refers to firing supporters of the opponent and replacing them with one's own supporters upon ________.
Bureaucracy
Prevention
Effectiveness
Election
41. 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.
Reports
Education
Ten
Due process
42. When an appellate court is asked to review a judgment - they may ______ it - require the lower court to set it aside or modify it.
Uphold
Self
Accident
Accountability
43. A critical function that the police play in society is crime __________ and this role is primarily executed through routine patrolling.
Posse
Prevention
Sheriff
Forfeited
44. 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
Mainstream
Illegally
Rarely
FBI
45. A concurrent sentence is one that is served at the __________ as another sentence.
Due process
Policy
Valid
Same time
46. 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.
Improperly
Vollmer
Mainstream
Heart
47. Decentralization means reduced _____________ of rank and file officers who have greater discretion in making decisions.
Violence
Writ
Supervision
Illegal
48. 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
Ten
17000
Attrition
Disturbance
49. 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.
Patrol
Representation
Ten
Age
50. Officers at the academy undergo _________ training and most academies also offer field training.
Justice
Classroom
Runaway
Suspicion