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DSST Introduction To Law Enforcement

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1. Apart from reducing crime - the mission of community policing is to _______ the trend of the negative public perception of the police






2. 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.






3. The office of coroner is considered a local law enforcement agency because they determine the cause of _____ of victims and perpetrators in criminal cases.






4. Prospective police officers are trained at police _________ - with the average pre-service training program lasting about 1000 hours.






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






6. The CIA also engages in ______ operations sanctioned by the President as part of their role in ensuring national security.






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






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






9. 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.






10. 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.






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






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






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






14. 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.






15. 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.






16. The rights of the accused (and of prisoners) have been defined mostly through the _______________'s interpretation of the Bill of Rights.






17. 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 _________.






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






19. Upon conviction - the defendant is punished through a sentence passed by the judge and if convicted of more than one crime - then may be subject to a ___________ or concurrent sentence.






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






21. 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.






22. 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.






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






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






26. 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.






27. 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.






28. 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 __________.






29. The number of homeless people in the US has spiraled upwards in the last 2 decades so that the function of the police in dealing with them is shifting from one of containment and peacekeeping to the delivery of proactive strategies to deal with the _






30. 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






31. 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






32. Some legal experts believe that police discretion should be abolished because it is _______.






33. August Vollmer believed that policing standards needed to be improved and corruption stamped out. He advocated training and __________ for officers.






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






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






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






37. 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






38. 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.






39. The CIA is divided into 3 ____________ and 5 mission support offices (MSOs).






40. 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 ________.






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






42. Another word for uphold is _________. This is the result for most appellate court decisions whereby they confirm the decision of the lower court.






43. 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.






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






45. 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






46. 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.






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






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






49. Officers are commonly offered bribes to let suspects go or to turn a blind eye to ________ activities.






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