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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 local police cover a wide range of law enforcement agencies such as the municipal police - sheriff's departments - campus and _______ police.
Victimization
Transit
FBI
Hoover
2. 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.
Classroom
Lawfully
Rarely
Wiretaps
3. 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.
Response
NCVS
Drawback
Directorates
4. 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
Medical
Unqualified
Improve
Breached
5. Where offenders are not captured red-handed - an arrest _______ issued by an officer of the court is required to supply the legal foundation for the act of detention.
Imprisonment
Warrant
FBI
Citizen
6. 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.
Increase
Searching
Ten
4th
7. 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
Prevention
Imprisonment
Sheriff
Illegally
8. The police receive a sizeable number of calls about ________ ill persons and in exercising their discretion these matters are normally dealt with through arrest - hospitalization or informal disposition.
Cause
Posses
Classroom
Mentally
9. 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.
Illegally
Bargain
Patrol
Pay
10. Police training programs do suffer from ___________ - particularly as important areas such as domestic violence - ethics and police discretion - which are not usually covered
Pendleton
Violent
Representation
Limitations
11. _________ policing took off in the 1980s and 1990s - with the realization that the police could not fight crime on their own.
Copies
Analysis
Highly
Community
12. Research has revealed that in about 80% of such situations - no formal action - such as _______ was necessary.
State
Education
Adversarial
Arrest
13. A concurrent sentence is one that is served at the __________ as another sentence.
Supervision
Same time
Illegal
State
14. Prospective police officers are trained at police _________ - with the average pre-service training program lasting about 1000 hours.
Academies
Reduced
Arrest
Organized
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
Bilingual
Administrative
Response
Decentralization
16. The UCR has a hierarchy rule whereby multiple types of incidents can only be recorded as 1 incident. This is a _________ of the system.
Death
FBI
Slave
Drawback
17. Officers are allocated to specific shifts and patrol areas based on _________ or using a rotation system.
Seniority
Inadmissible
Detectives
Jury
18. By dealing with the underlying issues - for example mental health or financial service problems - then a solution may be found to get them off the street and back into a more ___________ existence.
Mainstream
Incidents
Magistrate
Policy
19. 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 ______.
Annually
Feedback
4th
Sober
20. The professionalization movement started by Vollmer was nurtured by his prot
Wilson
Reaffirm
Justice
Increase
21. They believe that _____-reporting provides more accurate information than police reports.
Self
Violent
Violence
Accountability
22. 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
Adversarial
Professionalization
Parens
Vollmer
23. The office of coroner is considered a local law enforcement agency because they determine the cause of _____ of victims and perpetrators in criminal cases.
Death
Citizen
Occupational
Bilingual
24. 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.
Sheriff
Valid
Policy
Disturbance
25. Deterrence prevents crime through using an example or threat of ___________ to persuade the public against committing the crime.
Collateral
Punishment
Community
Death
26. This was the bright-line rule (one that can ______ be crossed) that emerged from this case.
Obvious
Never
Younger
Legitimate
27. 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.
Age
Incidents
Danger
Prevention
28. Officers are commonly offered bribes to let suspects go or to turn a blind eye to ________ activities.
Illegal
Security
Victimless
Leon
29. 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
Fragmented
Partnership
State
Control
30. August Vollmer believed that policing standards needed to be improved and corruption stamped out. He advocated training and __________ for officers.
Education
Mentally
Sheriff
Activity
31. Training is one of the roles a ______-level enforcement agency usually engages in.
Heart
Patrol
Danger
State
32. 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.
Organized
Written
Qualified
Ten
33. The county level of government supplies citizens with police services - for example the county ________.
Reports
Decentralization
Runaway
Sheriff
34. 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.
Control
Escobedo
Due process
Covert
35. The controversial 'broken window' theory made the connection between disorder - neighborhood decay and _____.
Qualified
Accident
Containment
Crime
36. 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
Ten
Sheriff
Detectives
Black
37. Research into police work and activities conducted between the 1950s and 1970s concluded that police-community relations were very ____ and officers regularly breached legal rules
Ten
FBI
Poor
Blind
38. This has resulted in an under ________________ of blacks - women and ethnic minorities in the police force.
Qualified
Patrol
Representation
Feedback
39. 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
Without
Leon
Disturbance
Education
40. 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.
Patrol
Containment
Violent
Technology
41. 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 _________.
UCR
Uphold
Community
Activity
42. Officers appointed to carry out investigative work are known as __________.
Jury
Rarely
Detectives
Uphold
43. 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.
Drunk
Drawback
Partnership
Improve
44. Domestic disturbances are a common order maintenance issue handled by the police but officers generally find them frustrating to handle because there is little that they can do about the _____ of the problem.
Cause
Community
Response
Citizen
45. The Uniform Crime Reports (UCR) is an annualized report published by the ___ that states the statistical rate of reported crime in the US based on data from police reports.
FBI
Medical
Attrition
Qualified
46. 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.
Black
Prevention
Safe
Writ
47. This was the only way they could ________ themselves and their property from the bandits. They did try to apply the accepted standards of decency of the day to their actions.
Highly
Escobedo
Protect
Response
48. 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.
Heart
Wilson
UCR
Reports
49. The police ___________ of secrecy - public hostility and solidarity meant they were very isolated from the community - especially the black community.
Subculture
Magistrate
Good-faith
Younger
50. The CIA is divided into 3 ____________ and 5 mission support offices (MSOs).
Illegal
Directorates
Prevention
Adversarial