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






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






3. A limited amount of streetwalking is tolerated if it is restricted to a particular part of town - usually a business district and it is not too ________.






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






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






6. 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.






7. This means that the court releases the suspect into their own custody or into the care of another. This occurs where the suspect poses a low flight risk and is not __________ to the community.






8. 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.






9. 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.






10. 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






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






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






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






14. 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.






15. Law enforcement in the US is extremely large and ___________ and hence this many agencies currently exist.






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. 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.






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






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






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






21. 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.






22. 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






23. In serious cases - this may be the outcome. However - hospital care for the mentally ill is very disjointed and it may be difficult to hospitalize a person without their ________. Also - these hospitals or shelters may refuse to admit these patients.






24. When it comes to prostitution - low-level street-walking is usually tolerated so that the role of the police is normally ___________ and maintaining the peace.






25. 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.






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






27. 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.






28. This was the step taken in 1965 to remedy _________ discrimination.






29. 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.






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






31. 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.






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






33. The local police cover a wide range of law enforcement agencies such as the municipal police - sheriff's departments - campus and _______ police.






34. 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 _________.






35. 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.






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






37. This is widely recognized as a police role - though they do share the burden with other institutions such as schools and _____________.






38. 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.






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






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






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






42. 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






43. 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.






44. According to the doctrine of ______ patriae - the state has a duty to care for children who are neglected or delinquent - and to assume the role of parent if necessary.






45. The next most critical factor that impacts on PCR after race and ethnicity is ___.






46. 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 __________.






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






48. 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.






49. In order to police __________ crimes - officers generally have to resort to undercover work.






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