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DSST Introduction To Law Enforcement

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1. The CIA has operations officers and recruits ________ agents as part of their intelligence activities and this may involve covert operations.






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






3. 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.






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






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






6. 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 _______.






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






8. 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.






9. Due to an increase in _________ and disorder by citizens - officers turned to weaponry to protect themselves.






10. This is the problem of case __________. Research has shown that only about half of felony arrests result in convictions. The question is whether this is due to poor police work or some other reason.






11. The exclusionary rule was modified by the __________ exception in the US Supreme Court decision of US v. Leon (1984).






12. 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.






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






14. The Hispanic community is growing faster than expected and therefore police departments should take steps to hire more Hispanic officers through active recruitment processes and offering incentive ___ for bilingual officers.






15. Between the data in the UCR and NCVS - most experts tend to prefer the ____.






16. ____ did not become regulated officer equipment until the late 19th Century.






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






18. 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.






19. 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.






20. 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 __________.






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






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






23. Campus police are a type of _______ district police force - and many of these larger forces have been state certified as law enforcement agencies with general arrest powers.






24. 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.






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






26. One of the major problems facing patrol officers is high-speed pursuits is a high ________ rate.






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






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






29. 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.






30. This is the definition of bail. If the suspect fails to appear for the next court hearing - then the money or property pledged may be __________.






31. The role of the ___ is to investigate breaches of federal criminal law - to protect the country from foreign counterintelligence and terrorist activities and to provide law enforcement assistance to other agencies.






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






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






34. 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.






35. 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






36. This is training in relation to _____________ rules and was spurred by the decisions of the US Supreme Court in the 1960s.






37. In the 1950s training for police officers consisted mainly of firearm skill development but over the years - classroom training has emphasized criminal __________.






38. The FBI has the responsibility to investigate - analyze and neutralize any potential terrorist threats and to investigate and analyze terrorist __________ in the US.






39. The police ___________ of secrecy - public hostility and solidarity meant they were very isolated from the community - especially the black community.






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






41. A centralized state-level agency - which merges patrol with ______________ will usually assist in local criminal investigations when asked - patrol the state's highways - operate identification bureaus - manage criminal records and provide training t






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






43. The professionalization movement started by Vollmer was nurtured by his prot






44. 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.






45. 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.






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






47. 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






48. This is one of the reports produced by the FBI in its law _____________ role.






49. 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






50. 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.






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