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DSST Introduction To Law Enforcement

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1. 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.






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






3. The UCR statistics are used to create the FBI Crime Clock which creates a picture of crime _________ in the US.






4. 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






5. 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.






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






7. 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.






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






9. 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 __________.






10. 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.






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






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






13. 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.






14. 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.






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






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






17. 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.






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






19. 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.






20. The 3 CIA directorates are the directorate of Intelligence - directorate of Operations and the directorate of Science and ___________.






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






22. 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.






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






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






25. This may also be called '________ officer.' The investigative nature of their jobs has resulted in their classification as a local law enforcement agency.






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






27. The ATF was previously an organization within the Department of the Treasury but since 24th January 2003 - their agency was transferred to the Department of _______.






28. Research has revealed that in about 80% of such situations - no formal action - such as _______ was necessary.






29. A critical function that the police play in society is crime __________ and this role is primarily executed through routine patrolling.






30. The first ___ amendments of the Constitution are commonly called the Bill of Rights and offer the individual considerable protection in the criminal justice system.






31. A concurrent sentence is one that is served at the __________ as another sentence.






32. Campus police is probably the most important example of the special district police force. The also participate in the ____ program.






33. 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






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.






35. The _________ Act passed by Congress in 1883 put an end to Andrew Jackson's 'spoils system -' and created a system of hiring government employees based on their qualifications.






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






37. Decentralization means reduced _____________ of rank and file officers who have greater discretion in making decisions.






38. 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.






39. 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






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






41. 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.






42. In US v. __________ (1950) - the US Supreme Court ruled that a warrantless search upon a lawful arrest was permitted as long as it was reasonable given the circumstances.






43. The spoils system is greatly reduced in modern politics - though not entirely eliminated. Most ________ workers do not have to be concerned about losing their jobs when a new party takes office.






44. The assessment stage evaluates the response based on detailed _________ and surveys. The police are also encouraged to conduct a self-analysis to see if they identified the problem correctly in the first place and revise that response if needed.






45. 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






46. This has resulted in an under ________________ of blacks - women and ethnic minorities in the police force.






47. The _________ Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS)is the term coined for this annual study.






48. This is the way criminal trials are conducted in the US and it is governed by strict rules of __________.






49. Under the ___ system - if last night Jim killed John - then set fire to a car and robbed an old lady - these multiple crimes would be recorded as a single incident.






50. 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.