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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. 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.






2. 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.






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






4. 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.






5. 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.






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






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






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






9. This was the bright-line rule (one that can ______ be crossed) that emerged from this case.






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






11. The 3 main approaches to controlling police discretion are removing it - improving the professional judgment of officers through better training and managing it through _______ policies.






12. 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






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






14. 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






15. 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






16. 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.






17. It is believed that the average citizen plays a vital part in the ________________ of officers.






18. 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






19. This describes the Pendleton Act. This was a big step in the government becoming the huge _____________ it is today.






20. 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






21. 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.






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






23. 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






24. 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.






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






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






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






28. Increasing ___________ and reducing competition between patrol officers and detectives as well as improving police-citizen relationships are 2 important methods of enhancing the quality of investigative work.






29. When a 911 call comes in - the operator answers it - makes a decision whether to send out a patrol car and then informs the dispatcher who then communicates the details to the ______ officer.






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






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






32. 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






33. 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.






34. The CID within the FBI is responsible for organized crime - violent crime - ____________ and money laundering.






35. 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.






36. 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.






37. When called to attend to a non-crime incident - the police have to exercise discretion and can usually handle the situation _______ taking formal police action.






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






39. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






49. The first landmark case that forms the foundation of the exclusionary rule is the US Supreme court decision of _____ v US (1914).






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.